LAHORE: As many as 15 senior police officers got new assignments on Tuesday and only two of them were transferred and posted on the sole ‘discretion’ of the Punjab Inspector General of Police. The Punjab police department issued a notification, making province-wide reshuffle in the senior hierarchy. A majority of the police officers was appointed as district police officers. The interesting factor behind the fresh reshuffle was that IG Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera was still not…
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Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has made up his mind to step down from the party office and he is likely to tender his resignation to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the next couple of days, Pakistan Today has learnt. A close aide to Wattoo told Pakistan Today that the decision was taken amid media reports that the PPP leadership was considering to replace him with some other…
The writer is Editor of Balochistan Voices; Balochistan’s premier English-Language online newspaper. Couple of weeks ago it was discovered through social media that a textbook taught in Punjab contains hate material against Baloch people. Sociology of Pakistan a textbook taught at intermediate level in Punjab and written by Abdul Hamid Taga and Abdul Aziz Taga was the source of the controversy. Amongst other definitions of the word Baloch, this book also stated that Baloch are…
LAHORE: An all-parties conference convened by Jamaat-i-Islami and attended by powerful religious groups asked the government on Tuesday to retract an “un-Islamic” law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence. The Women’s Protection Act, passed by Punjab Assembly last month, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence. It also calls for the creation of a toll-free abuse reporting hot line, women’s shelters and district-level panels to investigate reports of…
LAHORE: Religious parties warned the government on Tuesday of a nationwide protest movement if the controversial women’s protection act of Punjab was not withdrawn by March 27. Describing the Protection of Women Against Violence Act as ‘un-Islamic’, the religious groups convened another meeting on April 2 in Islamabad to decide their future course of action. Representatives of more than 35 religious parties huddled in Mansoora, Lahore, for an All-Pakistan Ulema Conference organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami…
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif ratified on Tuesday the death sentences of 13 men convicted by military courts of involvement in acts of terrorism. One of the convicts was sentenced for his involvement in the killing of 10 foreign hikers and their Pakistani guide. All of the condemned, except one, were affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and were involved in acts of terrorism, including the killing of foreign tourists at Nanga Parbat,…
The district police chief for Duab district of the restive Nuristan province was killed in militants ambush earlier today, local officials said. Acting provincial governor for Nuristan province Hafiz Abdul Qayum confirmed the report and said the district police chief was killed in an ambush in eastern Laghman province. He said Enayatullah was on his way to his house when the militants ambushed him in Alingar district, leaving the police chief dead and his driver…
Khanshin district has reportedly fallen to Taliban control in Helmand KHAAMA PRESS – Tue Mar 15 2016
Heavy clashes continue in Khanshin district of southern Helmand province amid reports the control of the district has fallen to the control of the Taliban militants. A security official speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the Taliban militants have overrun some security posts which were providing security to the district administrative compound. The official further added that clashes still continue between the Taliban militants and the security forces after the control of the…
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, on Tuesday evening delivered his three-monthly report to the UN Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan and said deteriorating security and an increasingly vocal political opposition has placed increased pressure on the government in the past three months. He said the government’s peace efforts gained regional momentum through the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) on the Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Process, “but the commitment of the…
KABUL — As NATO’s secretary general was meeting with Afghan leaders here Tuesday, Taliban fighters were seizing further territory in southern Afghanistan during a bloody fight with Afghan troops. The NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg, praised Afghan security forces during a news conference with President Ashraf Ghani, but the loss in Helmand province was a blow to the government’s troubled efforts against the insurgency. The Khanashin district in Helmand fell to the Taliban after insurgents had…
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: Pakistani officials threatened to expel Afghanistan’s Taliban from bases in Pakistan if they did not join peace talks this month, but the militants rebuffed their traditional patron, two officials said, casting doubt on how much influence Islamabad retains over them. After the secret meetings with Pakistani officials about two weeks ago, the Taliban’s Supreme Council met at an undisclosed location and voted to reject the talks scheduled for early March with the Afghan government,…