report in The News, Oct 27, 2020ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid on Monday said the doors of the Prime Minister House were open to everyone for dialogue to resolve issues but not those falling within the purview of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Talking in Shahzeb Khanzada’s programme on Geo News, Sheikh Rashid said the time for dialogue or to mediate between the two parties had gone. Sheikh said he had predicted December…
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report in The News, Oct 27, 2020ISLAMABAD: While expressing his opinions, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah said it will be right that someone should come to play his mediation role in ending the confrontation between the government and opposition. He said those who have say in this regard, should mull over how to end this confrontation. He said that judiciary can play its role in this regard. He said that media along with…
by Tariq Butt in The News, Oct 27, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has decided to go on a solo flight, distancing itself from the escalating fracas between the federal government and the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), to maintain its separate identity. The battle lines between the government and opposition are clearly drawn. The PDM has within its fold 11 major and smaller political parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML_N) , the Pakistan People’s…
by Umair Zafar Malik i Te Express Tribune blogs, Oct 26, 2020The author is a Pakistani cardiologist currently working in the USSince the creation of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) last month, the political temperature in Pakistan has soared to levels not witnessed since the 2018 elections. The PDM rallies thus far have attracted decent crowds and the speeches – particularly Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the Gujranwala rally – have successfully captured the attention of…
report in Dawn, October 27th, 2020KURRAM: Four members of a family, a Frontier Corps soldier among them, were killed and two children injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a moving vehicle in Shalozan area of Kurram district here on Monday. The police said the victims were taking food for labourers working on an under-construction house in the area when they came under attack. As a result of firing, Eng Asad Ali, Yadullah, Ayan Haider…
report in Dawn, October 26th, 2020SUKKUR: Two terrorists linked to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were shot dead in an encounter with a joint police team of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sukkur and Karachi in Jaffarabad area here on Sunday, said police. Karachi CTD in-charge Chaudhry Sadfar told media persons that the action was taken on the basis of secret information. The TTP terrorists identified as Mohammad Anwar and Mujeebullah suffered serious wounds in…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, October 26th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has found fault with the utilisation of almost Rs3 trillion public funds by the power division, involving huge irregularities, mismanagement, misappropriation and embezzlement. In its report for the audit year 2019-20 that has been laid before the National Assembly after a delay of almost eight months, the AGP also put question marks over sustainability of the power sector under the current…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 26th, 2020• Nawaz says security establishment to account for country’s situation• Maryam raises issue of enforced disappearances• Fazl says ready to sit with establishment if it withdraws support to ‘selected’• Bilawal rejects reports of rift in allianceQUETTA: Despite repeated warnings by the Balochistan government in view of security threat, ban on mobile phone service and pillion riding, and a deadly blast on the outskirts of the provincial capital, the…
Report in The News, Oct 26, 2020LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said if the opposition parties resign from parliament and assemble on streets, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government cannot survive even for one day. If Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) seriously want to dislodge the government, which had destroyed every sector in the country, they must resign from the parliament and take to the streets. The JI will also…
Report in Dawn, October 26th, 2020PESHAWAR: Awami National Party provincial president Aimal Wali Khan has said that after the verdict of Supreme Court in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, President Arif Alvi should quit his office forthwith. “President Alvi has no moral justification to remain in presidency and he should resign after Supreme Court’s judgment in Justice Isa case,” he told a public meeting here on Sunday. On this occasion former MPA of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf…
report in Dawn, October 26th, 2020QUETTA: Three people were killed and over a dozen others injured in a bomb blast in the Hazarganji area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday. The blast occurred when the leaders of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) were addressing their third anti-government public meeting at Ayub Stadium, some 20km from the explosion site. A spokesman for the provincial government had warned the PDM leadership about the…