QUETTA: The local administration launched a special campaign against encroachments and profiteering in Taftan, a town at the Pakistan-Iran border, and the nearby town of Dalbandin on Sunday. Encroachments erected near the border were demolished. The government has built a market near the border in Taftan and allotted shops to traders. But the shopkeepers have raised encroachments in front of their shops, creating hurdle for visitors. Taking notice of the situation, Balochistan Chief Secretary Saifullah…
Posts published in January 2017
WASHINGTON: The US government has announced sanctions against seven Pakistani entities allegedly associated with the country’s missile programme, says an official notification. The notification by the US Department of Commerce said that the entities added to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) list “have been determined by the US government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States”. All seven have been placed on the entity list under…
the writer is editorial adviser to the paper If there’s one buzzword that encapsulates Chinese politics in 2016 and the year ahead, it has to be He Xin, or “the core”. Last January, the Communist Party’s leadership for the first time publicly urged its 88 million members to embrace the “consciousness of the core”. Then in November, the party’s central committee bestowed the designation “core of the party centre” on President Xi Jinping No other…
Shenzhen mayor Xu Qin, who has a strong technology background and no political baggage, has been elevated to lead the Communist Party in the hi-tech hub. Xu replaced Ma Xingrui as city party chief on Saturday, a day after Ma was named acting governor of Guangdong to replace Zhu Xiaodan, a brief report by the China News Service said. The decision was made in a meeting by the city’s leadership and cadres, the report said.…
KARACHI: The city’s two jails are reported to be the most overcrowded among the 25 prisons of Sindh as both house close to three times the inmates than their actual capacity, it emerged here on Saturday. A report prepared by the prisons department for the home ministry shows the Central Prison Karachi (CPK), the second-oldest jail after Hyderabad, built in 1899, houses 6,174 prisoners against the authorised capacity for 2,400 inmates. The CPK inmates include…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Saeed Ghani has alleged that party leader Samina Khalid Ghurki is being politically victimized by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led Punjab government. In a statement issued here on Saturday, Saeed Ghani said that the Punjab government was using police force to terrorize PPP leader Samina Ghurki which was worst example of political victimization and against the democratic norms. He alleged that hands of Punjab government were stained…
Over 95pc women in 17 constituencies didn’t vote in 2013 Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, January 1st, 2017
ISLAMABAD: Over 95 per cent of registered women voters in at least 17 National Assembly constituencies did not cast their votes in the 2013 general elections. A document prepared by the Election Commission of Pakistan, available with Dawn, reveals that turnout of women voters was less than one per cent in five of these constituencies. According to disaggregated voters’ data, only one woman out of the total 138,910 registered in NA-33 (Upper Dir) had exercised…
PESHAWAR – Awami National Party (ANP) local leader Raheem Barkzai was killed in firing on his vehicle here on Saturday. Another man injured in firing. Police managed to arrest three attackers. Police said that armed men ambushed vehicle of ANP leader Raheem Barkzai in Mithra locality of the provincial capital Peshawar. Raheem Barkzai died on the spot in firing while another sustained wounds who was rushed to hospital for treatment. The police after arresting the…
MARDAN – Former prime minister and senior leader of Pakistan Peoples’ Party Raja Pervez Ashraf on Saturday called for extending tenure of special military courts to root out militancy and extremism from the country. He was talking to media persons in Mardan, after expressing condolence with Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Senator Khanzada Khan on the demise of his brother-in-law. The former prime minister said that security forces had rendered enormous sacrifices in the war against…
KHYBER AGENCY – After expiry of the deadline, all Pakistani citizens would be required to produce their passports while entering Afghanistan or moving back into Pakistan from January 1st, 2017. A statement issued here on Saturday, however, stated that local tribesmen would be exempted from the new border management restrictions and would be allowed to move in or out of Afghanistan after presenting their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) only. Earlier, Pakistani security forces had…
RAWALPINDI – Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday conveyed wishes on telephone to the Afghan civil and military leadership for the new year and pledged to work for peace in the region. “The COAS called Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and Army Chief General Qadam Shah Raheem on telephone, conveyed best wishes for 2017 and pledged to work for peace in the region,” Director General Inter…