report in Daily Times, Oct 24, 2020PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s stance that there is a ‘state above the state’ in Pakistan has been proven true through the Karachi incident. Referring to her husband Capt (r) Safdar’s arrest in Karachi early Monday morning, she said, “”What happened in Karachi has shown who is actually running the government,” Maryam said while speaking to media during her visit to…
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Report in The News, Oct 24, 2020 WANA: Unidentified assailants shot dead a police constable in line of his duty in Wana in South Waziristan tribal district on Friday. Muhammad Ishaq Khan Dotani, a police constable, was performing his duty in Wana bazaar when unidentified persons opened fire on him. Muhammad Ishaq sustained bullet injuries. He was rushed to Wana hospital where the doctors referred him to Dera Ismail Khan due to his critical condition.…
The police arrested two terrorists in Lower Dir on Friday. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from them during the operation in the Maidan area. Terrorists were involved in various activities and craved police. According to Dir police, a joint operation was conducted by police and intelligence agencies in the Maidan area of Lower Dir district. During the operation, two terrorists were arrested; arms and ammunition were recovered from their custody. SPCTD Malakand Zahir Shah…
by Asim Yasin in The News, Oct 24, 2020 ISLAMABAD: Addressing a corner meeting in Balgar, Gilgit Baltistan, during the election campaign 2020, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, “We have to protect Gilgit Baltistan from the destruction which Imran Khan has done to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. “This is not only the election campaign but also a struggle for your rights continued for many years. Now in the last phase, Islamabad will…
by Asim Yasin in The News, Oct 24, 2020ISLAMABAD: Addressing a corner meeting in Balgar, Gilgit Baltistan, during the election campaign 2020, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, “We have to protect Gilgit Baltistan from the destruction which Imran Khan has done to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. “This is not only the election campaign but also a struggle for your rights continued for many years. Now in the last phase, Islamabad will have…
By Sachin Parashar in Times of India, Oct 24, 2020 Even while acknowledging “significant progress” made by Pakistan in addressing issues related to terror-financing and money laundering, the global terror watchdog, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on Friday decided to keep the country on its ‘grey’, or ‘increased monitoring’, list. This was mainly due to Pakistan’s failure to address six items, one of which relates to action against UNSC proscribed terrorists like Masood Azhar, in…
report on The Nation, October 23, 2020 at 9:43 PMWeb DeskThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced on Friday that Pakistan shall continue to remain in its “increased monitoring list.” FATF President Dr Marcus Pleyer said that the forum has decided that Pakistan “needs to do more” when it comes to achieving the targets set as per the requirements stated by the task force. It was acknowledged that Pakistan successfully met 21 out of the…
by Atika Rehman in Dawn, September 9th, 2019 LONDON: Those who violate media freedom should be shamed and punished through international coordination and sanctions, according to a hard-hitting report by the UK government’s influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The report, which refers to evolving physical, virtual and financial threats faced globally by journalists, urges the Foreign Office to support journalists by setting out 10 key recommendations. These include asking the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to…
Report in The Express Tribune, Sept 8, 2019 The United States (US) said on Saturday that it continues to support a direct dialogue between Pakistan and India regarding the escalating tensions in the Indian-occupied valley. Acting Assistant Secretary Alice Wells took to social media to state that the US would continue to support dialogue between the two nuclear-armed neighbours – “on Kashmir and other issues of concern”. She said this decision was stressed in Deputy…
by Muhammad Anis in The News, September 5, 2019 RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor said on Wednesday that there is no policy of ‘no first use’ of strategic capability saying that use of nuclear capability is political but the nation should have the trust that Pakistan has that capability. He maintained that no solution to the Kashmir issue less than right to self-determination of Kashmiris was acceptable to Pakistan…
PESHAWAR: The Sikh community has urged the government to stop forced conversions of the girls belonging to minority groups through proper legislation to remove the sense of insecurity among them. Anmol Singh, a representative of the Sikh community, in a statement on Wednesday, alleged that the girls belonging to Sikh and Hindu communities were forced to convert to Islam, mostly in Singh province, but the government was yet to stop this practice. “Our community is…