Posts published in “Day: October 12, 2016”

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has called for an immediate inquiry and punitive action against those responsible for leaking the details of a meeting between the civilian and the military leaderships last week. “Reporters cannot be held accountable for publishing stories relating to sensitive leaks when the source is either the civilian or the military leadership or others attending these meeting,” stated PTI leader Dr Shireen Mazari in a statement posted on her Twitter account on…

KARACHI: The name of Dawn journalist Cyril Almeida has been put on the Exit Control List, officials said on Monday night. It is not immediately known why his name has been placed on the ECL, but it is widely believed that the government restriction on his travel came following the publication of the story titled “Act against militants or face international isolation, civilians tell military” in the Oct 6 edition of Dawn.http://www.dawn.com/news/1289412/dawn-journalist-on-ecl  

IN response to a news report headlined “Act against militants or face international isolation, civilians tell military” published in Dawn on Thursday, Oct 6, the Office of the Prime Minister has issued yet another statement, strongly denying the contents and rejecting it as a fabrication. This is the third contradiction issued by the PM Office, the first one and then its revised and stronger version being released on Oct 6. Following a meeting of the…

Amid rising tensions between Pakistan and India following the alleged “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control (LoC), India’s Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has stated that the entire stretch of 3,323-kilometre-long border between the two countries would be “completely sealed” by December 2018, for which a time-bound action plan would be formulated. Indian government is all set to fend off its border at the states that border Pakistan: Indian-held Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.…

The Pakistani delegation in the US working on increasing discussion about the Kashmir issue faced the same questions Pakistani officials always do in media briefings; whether there is any truth to the allegations of Pakistan allowing terrorists to use Pakistani soil to conduct attacks in the region. Mushahid Hussain’s answer perfectly represented the official stance, but as usual, missed the big point; that no one can believe that a country that has one of the…

As expected, it did not take long for Dawn to be termed as a ‘traitor’ for highlighting a story on the issues that have already been covered numerous times by the international media. While there is a possibility that some of the events as portrayed by the newspaper might be inaccurate or exaggerated, the issues discussed do not deserve the backlash that has been witnessed following the publishing of the news. Unconfirmed sources suggest that…

MUZAFFARBAD – Former AJK prime minister and Head of Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has announced to cross the Line of Control (LOC) at three places to express solidarity with the people of Indian occupied Kashmir next month. “We will cross the LoC from the three areas of AJK on November 24 simultaneously and peacefully under the flag of AJK,” he announced this at a press conference here on Sunday. Attique Ahmed Khan said…

WASHINGTON: There’s no role for militancy in policy-making and non-state actors cannot be allowed to operate from the Pakistani territory, says a parliamentary delegation from Pakistan, which completed its five-day visit to the US capital on Saturday. In a briefing to Pakistani, and later an Indian, journalists at the end of their visit, the prime minister’s special envoys on Kashmir also said that the United States was doing “positive pushing and prodding” for reducing tensions…

ISLAMABAD: The government is yet to make good on the promise it made last week during a multiparty conference of parliamentary leaders to reconstitute the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. The move was agreed upon by the entire political leadership and the government, and the decision was made public through a resolution unanimously passed at the Oct 3 conference. However, since then, the government is keeping mum on the subject. Even during the two-day joint…

KASUR: Hakim Ali of Wallaywala village knows the trouble wartime brings, especially for residents of villages bordering the Line of Control between India and Pakistan. The tiny village, barely a kilometre away from the ominous razor wire and electrified fence, is home to hundreds of small-scale farmers whose livelihood mainly depends on rearing livestock. The 70-year-old recalls the evacuations and losses suffered in both previous wars fought along the border. “War brings bloodshed and nothing…