ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is considering approaching the Supreme Court over the issue of Dawn’s story about a high-level national security meeting. “We have completed our basic homework and will approach the Supreme Court urging it to take notice of the government’s motives behind leaking the conversation of an important security meeting to the media to malign the armed forces,” a PTI leader said. However, the senior party leadership would take the final…
Posts published in “Day: November 17, 2016”
ISLAMABAD: In what may be called a major setback for Indian ambitions to join the nuclear trade cartel, consensus continued to elude the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) at its last meeting in Vienna held for considering admission of non-NPT countries. Although last week’s meeting was meant to discuss the technical, legal and political matters relating to non-NPT members’ (India and Pakistan) accession to the NSG, the Indian case took the spotlight because of US pressure…
ISLAMABAD: The day seven Pakistani soldiers died in unprovoked shelling by India troops along the Line of Control (LoC), 11 Indian servicemen were also killed in retaliatory fire from the Pakistani side of the de facto border, revealed army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday. “So far, 40 to 44 Indian soldiers have been killed in skirmishes,” the army chief said in an informal chat with journalists at the Presidency where he was attending a…
MUZAFFARABAD: Incessant Indian shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC) in AJK’s Bhimber district has forced more than 80 traumatised families to leave their homes in forward areas and take shelter in safe places. According to details provided by the Bhimber administration, hundreds of people living in Khairoowal, Munawwar, Balewal, Iftikharabad, Patni and Gakhari villages of Barnala tehsil in Chammb Sector have been displaced by unprovoked Indian shelling that has been repeatedly targeting the…
MIRPUR (AJK)-The governments of Pakistan and AJK took stock of the situation caused by the frequent unprovoked Indian firing in AJK, and decided to compensate the families of martyrs and other affectees of the Indian aggression. The high level meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan and Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit/Baltistan Barjees Tahir in AJK’s capital city of Muzaffarabad late Tuesday. The meeting was also attended by Joint Secretary Ministry…
ISLAMABAD: Some lawmakers expressed concern on Wednesday over the possible use of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) by China to enhance trade with India. During a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development, some lawmakers were of the view that China was investing in the CPEC project to explore new vistas of trade with different countries right from neighbouring India to Central Asian states and Europe. Chairman of the committee Syed Tahir…
LAHORE: An associate professor of a local college on Tuesday was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Lahore. According to police and rescue officials, the incident occurred in Iqbal Town area where unidentified gunmen riding two motorbikes fired shots on Professor Rao Altaf’s car. The professor, who was associated with Government College of Science, died on the spot, suffering several bullet wounds. The police have started investigation into the incident to determine whether the attack…
KARACHI: A former adviser to slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto mysteriously went missing from near his residence in Gulistan-e-Jauhar locality late Monday night. Police officials have begun investigations to ascertain if it was a case of kidnapping or some agency had taken him into custody. Mushtaq Bhutto was a resident of Baseer Apartments in Block 17 in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. The family claimed that Bhutto was standing near his house when unidentified persons came in a SUV…
GHALANAI: The political administration along with the personnel of security forces and elders demolished six houses of most wanted militants during a search operation in Qandharai area of Safi tehsil here on Tuesday. Officials said the militants were involved in 91 attacks of improvised explosive devices across the agency, 38 of which were carried out in Safi tehsil. They said that the security men, tribesmen and volunteers of peace committee were killed in these attacks.…
BUNER: Unknown assailants shot dead an official of the bomb disposal unit in Gogai Kanda area of Buner here on Tuesday morning. The deceased, Nasir Khan, was going to duty in Daggar from his native town of Shalbandai on his motorbike when unknown assailants opened fire on him near Gogai Kanda, killing him on the spot. The attackers managed to escape after the incident. His body was taken to DHQ hospital, Daggar, and after autopsy…
The writer is an author and journalist. THE targets may be different but the perpetrators of the two deadly attacks carried out in Balochistan in the space of one month are the same. The responsibility of the carnage at the shrine in Khuzdar as well as the slaughter of police cadets in Quetta have been claimed by the militant Islamic State group and its affiliates. In August this year, militants wiped out almost an entire…