Report in Dawn, October 30th, 2020THATTA: Activists of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, writers and members of civil society took out a big rally here on Thursday in protest against promulgation of presidential ordinance on islands and coast. The protesters led by PFF chairman Mohammad Ali Shah, nationalist leaders Nawaz Khan Zaunr and Yasmin Shah, historian Gul Mohammad Kalmati and others marched on roads from Edhi Centre to local press club where they staged a sit-in and…
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by Rameez Khan in The Express Tribune, Oct 30, 2020LAHORE: Defending PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq’s controversial remarks that had, at the very least, given the Indian media an opportunity to question the defence capabilities of Pakistan, party General Secretary Ahsan Iqbal said that there was nothing illogical about Ayaz’s statement, explaining that “a weak economy translates into a weak defence”. To a question about Ayaz’s statement at a news conference in Lahore on Thursday, Ahsan…
by Naveed Butt | Zulfiqar Ahmad Business Recorder, October 30th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday introduced ‘The China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Bill, 2020’ and ‘The Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Bill, 2020’ in National Assembly….. The statement of objects and reasons of ‘The China Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Bill, 2020’, says: “No Suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the authority, the chairperson, member, executive director operations, executive director research, employees, officers, experts, consultants…
Report in The News, October 29th, 2020MIRANSHAH: People hailing from different clans of the Khadikhel and Machikhel tribes again took positions and continued exchanging sporadic fire the previous night over the land dispute in Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal district, sources said on Wednesday. The Khadikhel tribe, the sources said, also blocked the Miranshah-Bannu road and suspended the vehicular traffic for hours in protest against the rival tribe who, according to them, had…
Report in Dawn, October 29th, 2020KOHAT: The local residents on Wednesday staged a protest sit-in at Syab, where huge oil and gas reserves have been found, against the OGDCL for not carrying out the promised development projects and ignoring them in provision of jobs. The elders vowed to continue the protest unless they were provided their due share in jobs and the development funds. They said the company at the time of purchasing their land…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Oct 29, 2020ISLAMABAD – As the International Internet Day is being marked today (October 29) globally, the government data shows that cyber and online crimes has increased largely in Pakistan in the last couple of years. According to an official document of the Ministry of Interior, the number of complaints about online crime being lodged with the Cyber Crime Wing of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has increased more than…
report in The News, Oct 29, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is ranked at the 9th position among countries where journalists are murdered and their killers go free, according to the Global Impunity Index of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which does this ranking in order to bring under spotlight the countries performing at their worst in prosecuting the cases of slain journalists. The report further pointed out three countries,again Pakistan included, where “corruption, weak institutions, and…
report in The News, Oct 29, 2020ISLAMABAD: The campaign of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) elections on November 15 has so far been non-existent, mainly because of the absence in the region of its frontline national leaders. The PML-N had swept the previous 2015 polls in Gilgit-Baltistan, writes Tariq Butt. The party’s campaign is likely to kick off when PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz visits the area. The absence…
Report in Dawn, October 29th, 2020GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court on Wednesday rejected an application seeking postponement of upcoming general elections in the region. Mohammad, a local resident, had submitted an application with court to order postponement of the polls as roads remained block after snowfall in winter season in upper parts of the region besides threat of increasing Covid-19 cases. After hearing arguments of both the sides, a divisional bench comprising Chief Judge of…
After the regrouping of banned TTP in Afghanistan, the incidents of terrorism are on the rise in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Baluchistan. In the past three days, explosives devices have been exploded by terrorists, one in Quetta on Sunday and the other on Tuesday in Peshawar. The explosion of time device at a seminary in Peshawar city killed 8 students and wounded more than hundred, some of them are in critical condition. Ironically, the stereotype reaction…
The writer is the former chairman of the HEC, and president of the Network of Academies of Science of OIC Countries (NASIC).Pakistan was on the brink of becoming a failed state when Prime Minister Imran Khan took over. The courts had been compromised; the bureaucracy too has been similarly corrupted, making it very difficult for the present government to implement projects of national importance. NAB and other agencies had cronies appointed as heads so that…