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Negotiator dares Taliban for immediate ceasefire

report on The Frontier Post / November 4, 2020KABUL: Addressing Monday’s attack on Kabul University, Chief Negotiator Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai challenged the Taliban to end “brutal killing”, saying the group should agree to an “immediate ceasefire” if they really are committed to Afghan peace process. “If the Taliban are committed to ending brutal killing of the people, they must agree to an immediate ceasefire and cut short hands of the enemy from the throat of…

Missing Persons Commission disposed of 4,748 cases till October

REPORT in The Nation, Nov 4, 2020ISLAMABAD – Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (ColoED) has disposed of 4,748 cases of alleged disappearance from out of a total of 6,831 cases by Oct 31, 2020. According to the monthly-report issued by secretary CoIoED on Tuesday, some 6,786 cases were received by the Commission till September 2020. The total tally of cases increased to 6,831 by registration of 45 more cases in October. Commission disposed of…

Sarina asks Alvi why Isa is seen as ‘security threat’

by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, November 4th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Sarina Isa, the wife of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, has written a letter to President Arif Alvi in which she questioned how a judge can be considered a security threat even after putting aside his “personal safety concerns and showing resolve against terrorism”. In her three-page letter written on Tuesday, Mrs Isa wondered why recommendations of the 2017 Quetta Commission report on the previous year’s carnage in…

PDM constituent parties to review political situation on 8th

by Amir Wasim in Dawn, Nov 3, 2020ISLAMABAD: President of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has convened a crucial meeting of heads of the alliance’s constituent parties in Islamabad on Nov 8 to review the prevailing political situation in the country in the wake of allegations of treason and devise a strategy for the upcoming three public meetings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab. Sources told Dawn that the supreme leader of…

Govt to counter PDM’s ‘anti-state narrative’ with full force

Report in Dawn, November 3rd, 2020ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to counter opposition’s “anti-state narrative” with full force at every forum and expose the corruption cases being faced by the opposition members. Sources told Dawn that while presiding over a meeting of the PTI spokespersons who represent the party in TV talk shows, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday categorically stated that his government would not succumb to the pressure being exerted…

It’s not Zehri or Ayaz, it’s Nawaz: Gen Qadir gives reason for resigning from PML-N

by Ansar Abbasi in The News, Nov 3, 2020ISLAMABAD: Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch has said that he decided to quit the PML-N for the sole reason that Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s Quetta public meeting crossed the red lines by asking the army’s rank and file not to obey what Nawaz termed the ‘illegal’ and ‘unconstitutional’ orders of the army chief and DG ISI. Talking to The News on Monday,…

PA resolution demands disqualification of Ayaz Sadiq

report in Daily Times, Nov 3, 2020A resolution condemning PML-N leader and former National Assembly speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s controversial statement on the release of Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was submitted to the Punjab Assembly secretariat on Monday. PTI MPA Musarat Jamshed Cheema submitted the resolution that alleges Ayaz Sadiq made the statement to please former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and India. Not only did he go against the country’s Constitution but also…

PML-N nowhere close to breaking into factions: Maryam Nawaz

report in The Express Tribune, Nov 3, 2020LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz said on Monday that those talking about the PML-N breaking into factions of PML-M and PML-S have received “our message of unity”. “Shallow people have been making the same predictions for the past 30 years. This family is united and will remain united,” she said, while talking to the media outside an accountability court in Lahore – where she…

‘Departure of Qadir Baloch, others good omen for PML-N Balochistan’

by Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News,November 3, 2020ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has decided to fill the vacant slots of the provincial setup in Balochistan this week before the formal announcement of former Lt-Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch and his group for parting ways with the party. Abdul Qadir Baloch has given November 7 (Saturday) for making the announcement and determining future course of action of his group. He decided to relinquish the party and its office…

Circular debt of power sector touches Rs2.3tr, PAC told

by Asim Yasin in The News,Nov 3, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday was informed that that country’s circular debt of the power sector had reached at Rs2.3 trillion till now and the record increases witness in circular debt of Rs1.139 trillion, which is almost double in last two years of the PTI government.It was informed that an increase of Rs116 billion was witnessed in last three months, while in first six months…

Minorities demand early recovery of Christian girl

Report in Dawn, November 3rd, 2020KOHAT/KHYBER: The Pakistan Minority Rights Commission members held a protest demonstration in Kohat on Monday against the ‘forced conversion and marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl in Karachi, and demanded of the government to help recover her.The protesters said influential people were involved in the unethical act. The protest organised at the Catholic Church was addressed by father Rehmat Williams, president of minority wing southern KP, Sabir Sidddique, chairman of…