Karachi: After allowing the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to stage a rally from Numaish Chowrangi that caused traffic chaos on MA Jinnah Road and several other busy arteries in business hub of the city on Thursday, the Sindh government accepted the religious party’s demand to transfer the murder case of its provincial secretary general, Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, to a military court. Thousands of workers attended the rally on MA Jinnah Road, showing their anger at…
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stayed the execution of two members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) till September 8. They had been awarded death sentence by a military court for committing the heinous offences and acts of terrorism.A two-member bench suspended the sentence. Justice Syed Afsar Shah and Justice Muhammad Ishtiaq Ibrahim were on the bench. A notice was issued to the federal government directing it to submit record of the cases on…
TURBAT – Security forces arrested seven suspected militants during a search action in different areas of Turbat on Thursday. According to FC spokesperson, search action was conducted on the tip off in the adjacent area of Turbat City and arrested seven suspects belonging to the outlawed organisation. Spokesman for the Frontier Corps (FC), added that weapons were also recovered from their possession. Balochistan has been experiencing incidents of violence and targeted killings since more than…
Dostum criticize Ashraf GhaniThe First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum harshly criticized President Ghani during a gathering in Kabul following a deadlock in the Government of National Unity by CEO Abdullah’s remarks. According to a video released online by Enayatullah Babar Farahmand, the Chief of Staff of the Office of the First Vice President, Gen. Dostum is seen as accusing President Ghani of allocating his authorities to himself. Gen. Dostum further adds that President…
The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has released the latest video of the American and Canadian hostages in a bid to force the Afghan government prevent imposing death sentence on Anas Haqqani. A Taliban source told Reuters Wednesday that the timing of the release was aimed at pressuring the Afghan government not to execute Anas Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the feared Haqqani network. The Canadian man Joshua Boyle and his American wife…
Just how many Afghans — registered and undocumented — are there in Pakistan? While there were 1.7 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan, according to a 2005 count, the actual number of undocumented Afghans residing in this country has been open to conjecture. Officially, we are told there are 1m here. But according to the Fata Analysis and Strategy Team (Fast), an intelligence and information collation and analysis wing under the Fata Secretariat Law &…
It is in Pakistan’s supreme national interest to develop normal, working relations with India. Pakistan cannot feel secure with most of its neighbours at odds with it. Better relations with India are also needed to divert maximum resources for the social and economic uplift of the masses. Expansion of trade between the neigbours can curb inflation and create more jobs. While wars between the two countries have failed to resolve the issue of Kashmir, better…
A former head of the government agency responsible for the protection of state secrets in China has been sacked from the nation’s top political advisory body for a “serious violation of discipline”. Xia Yong, who was also a former member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee, has been formally removed from his post, the advisory body said in a statement, but no details were given of the alleged offence. Xia is the latest senior…
Leverage in China has soared to alarming levels, with overall debt swelling to more than twice the size of the economy at the end of last year, a leading government-backed think tank said. The amount owed by governments, non-financial businesses and households climbed nearly 11 percentage points over the year to 228 per cent of GDP, or 154 trillion yuan (HK$179 trillion), the National Institution for Finance and Development (NIFD) said in a report on…
Leaders of 10 provinces and municipalities have pledged to find jobs for redundant 58,000 military officers, the first batch affected by President Xi Jinping’s plan announced last year reduce the People’s Liberation Army by 300,000 troops. In a rare move, the People’s Liberation Army Daily on Thursday published a full-page special report made up of promises from party chiefs, deputy governors and mayors, as well as officials in charge of personnel affairs in the municipalities…
ISLAMABAD: The army on Thursday put up a strong defence of Pakistan’s achievements in the fight against terrorism, dismissing the oft-repeated allegations that the country’s approach to eliminating terrorist groups is selective. At a news briefing in Rawalpindi, the military’s chief spokesperson also for the first time gave a rare insight into how security agencies thwarted attempts by the Islamic State or Da’ish to make inroads in the country. But the main thrust of Inter-Services…