by Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2020.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to seek rollover of a $3 billion Chinese trade finance facility that it has actually used to repay maturing debt and is not in a financial position to return the money when the facility expires after six months. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has fully tapped the $3 billion or 20 billion Chinese yuan in the additional trade finance facility available…
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Report in Dawn, November 1st, 2020LAHORE: Senior PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq has asserted that he stands by what he recently said in the National Assembly but his remarks have been misinterpreted. “I regret the way my political statement, meant for this incompetent government, has been misinterpreted and linked to the Pakistan Army,” he said while talking to the media after hosting Maulana Fazlur Rehman, president of the newly formed opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM),…
report in Daily Times, Nov 1, 2020Interior Minister Ijaz Ahmed Shah on Saturday said that the federal government has received several petitions seeking charges under Article 6 of the Constitution against former National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq. Article 6 defines the crime of high treason. Addressing a ceremony in Nankana Sahib, Shah said the petitions, received in Islamabad and Lahore, have been sent for legal review. Shah’s statement comes a day after Information Minister Shibli…
report in The News, Nov 1, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) on Friday suffered massive setbacks in Balochistan and Punjab with some of its important leaders quitting the party, while others slamming the recent speeches of the party leaders, particularly Nawaz Sharif and Ayaz Sadiq. Former federal minister and acting president of PML-N Balochistan chapter Lieutenant General (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch has announced to quit the party and convened meeting of his political group…
report in The Nation, Oct 30, 2020Multan – President of PDM and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman here on Thursday asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to declare the 2018 elections null and void and hold fresh polls in the country instead. “Neither will we hold talks nor are in favour of any dialogue. Our only demand is fresh polls in the country,” he said while addressing a news conference at Jamia Qasimul Uloom.…
report in The News, Oct 30, 2020ISLAMABAD: The government came under sharp criticism from its own parliamentarians in the National Assembly for recent increase in prices of 94 medicines, saying that decisions taken by non-elected people were being imposed on masses. The PTI members including Khawaja Shiraz Mahmood, Noor Alarm Afridi and Riaz Fatyana raised the issue of increase in medicines prices on a calling attention notice. “The Parliament should take initiative and decide withdrawal…
by Fakhar Durrani in The News, Oct 30, 2020ISLAMABAD: The PTI-led government’s proposal of abolishing 71,000 vacant posts in various ministries and departments working under the federal government is yet to be implemented as the federal cabinet hasn’t officially approved the summary despite the passage of almost three months. To implement the government’s austerity drive and bring reforms in government departments, Prime Minister Imran Khan had constituted a task force on austerity and government restructuring,…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2020LAHORE: The PML-N has accused the Imran Khan government of pressurising its leaders ahead of Gilgit-Baltistan polls to change loyalties and openly violating the code of conduct to influence the election there this month. “We have strong reservations on the code of conduct violations and the use of the federal government’s machinery for the Nov 15 polls in Gilgit-Baltistan and want the Supreme Court Gilgit-Baltistan and the election commission to…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Bar Council and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists have rejected the investigation team announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan to probe the abduction of Karachi-based Geo News journalist Ali Imran Syed. The organisations claim that the team in question consists of personnel with links to state agencies who are allegedly “culpable” in similar past activities. Last Friday, Mr Syed left his house…
Report in Dawn, October 30th, 2020NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Unidentified armed men killed a policeman after he was forcibly taken away along with other worshippers from a mosque in Jailor area of North Waziristan tribal district on Wednesday evening. Sources said a group of masked men entered the mosque and took away a policeman, Safeer Rehman, and few other worshippers. The body of the policeman was found dumped in a deserted area on Thursday, while the other…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 30th, 2020QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution moved by the opposition leader with the support of treasury benches against a move to hand over islands in Balochistan and Sindh to the federal government through a presidential ordinance and demanded withdrawal of the ordinance without delay. The resolution was presented in the house by Opposition Leader Advocate Malik Sikander Khan on the private members day. Speaking on…