By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Jan 5 GILGIT: Chairman of the Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) has taken suo motu notice of the killing of a father and son protesting against delay in payment of compensation to Gojal residents from firing by the police. The court issued notices to the G-B chief secretary and police chief to submit their reports to the court on the action taken against police officials responsible for…
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By Ahmad Hassan in Dawn, Jan 5 ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) said on Wednesday it had almost completed its work of preparing recommendations for new terms of engagement with the US in the war on terror. But it said it was undecided about how to deal with the impact of possible stoppage or suspension of foreign aid. Talking to reporters after an in-camera meeting of the 17-member committee, its…
By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Jan 5 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may face international isolation on the economic front if drastic steps are taken during the reviewing of bilateral terms with the United States, the country’s finance minister cautioned on Thursday. The warning from Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh came at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, which on Thursday finalised its draft recommendations for its review of ties with the US.…
THAT the Pakistan media does not present a correct or complete account of what goes on in India is known and also understandable. But if anyone tries to probe what it chooses to report and what it does not, the findings will throw considerable light on its preferences and biases. Generally speaking, anything that shows the Indian government to be in the wrong, or reveals how the politicians in power there are made accountable is…
BEIJING, Jan 4: China said on Wednesday that seven people killed in a hostage rescue operation in the Xinjiang region had been trying to leave the country to wage `holy war` a claim disputed by an exile group. The incident last week was the latest reported confrontation in the region home to roughly nine million mostly Muslim Uighurs since three attacks in July left dozens dead. The Xinjiang government said `terrorists` kidnapped two people on…