by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, September 18th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The campaign to register overseas Pakistanis for internet-voting in the upcoming by-polls evoked a lukewarm response, with only 7,419 expatriates out of the total 632,000 registering to avail the facility offered to them for the first time in the country’s electoral history. The process of registration of overseas Pakistanis from the 37 constituencies where by-elections are to be held on Oct 14 had started on…
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report in ToloNews, Sept 16, 2018 at 1:44 PM Anas Haqqani, the youngest son of the feared Haqqani terror network’s founder is among hundreds of prisoners whom the Taliban is demanding be released as part of an upcoming round of talks with the United States, four Taliban officials told NBC News. “This meeting with the US authorities would either help pave the way for more meaningful talks or stop them forever,” a Taliban commander in…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Sept 17, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior will discuss on Monday (today) the issue of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and Pakistan’s plan to get out of its grey list. According to the agenda of the meeting, the committee chaired by Senator Rehman Malik of the Pakistan Peoples Party will examine the details of the FATF’s demands and allegations against Pakistan. The committee will also consider…
Report in The News, Sept 16, 2018 Karachi: The US-Pakistan relationship is broken and there’s a disconnect between the two countries. These views were expressed by Moeed Yusuf, associate vice-president, Asia Centre, US Institute for Peace, Washington DC, while addressing a gathering at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA) on Saturday evening. He put the onus of this situation on the Afghanistan issue. “The relationship is broken not because there’s no conversation but because…
AFP report in Dawn, September 15th, 2018 KABUL: The Afghan conflict could overtake Syria as the deadliest conflict in the world this year, analysts say, as violence surges 17 years after the US-led invasion. The grim assessment contrasts sharply with the consistently upbeat public view of the conflict from Nato’s Resolute Support mission in Kabul, and underscores the growing sense of hopelessness in the war-torn country. It suggests that US President Donald Trump’s much-vaunted strategy…
report in the Express Tribune, Sept 13, 2018 Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman warned the Imran Khan led-government on Wednesday to refrain from confrontation with madrassas otherwise ‘its days will be numbered’. “Opposition of religious seminaries is akin to opposition of religion”, Fazl said while talking to reporters in Islamabad. “There’s still time for the government to retreat from its decisions.” He warned that if the government chooses to do otherwise, then “we’ll force…
by Syed Sabeehul Hussnain in The Nation, Sept 13, 2018 ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the federal government’s plea against the Lahore High Court order, which allowed the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and its subsidiary Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) to continue their welfare activities. JuD’s network includes 300 seminaries and schools, hospitals, a publishing house and ambulance services. The JuD and FIF alone have about 50,000 volunteers and hundreds of other paid workers, according to…
(The writer is a PhD student at the University of Oxford and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has also worked as a civil servant in Pakistan) Two Pakistanis waited for their Uber ride thousands of miles away from home in New York City. This was inarguably one of the most forgettable moments in their lives. Yet, this same moment was about to acquire unparalleled significance. As my friend and…
The writer holds the degree in engineering from NED University The Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan is passing through a perilous period of attention and scorn. There is a relentless campaign by religious extremists, who are bent on harassing and targeting Ahmadis. This is not a new phenomenon for the Ahmadiyya Community, however, in the recent past this drive has intensified many fold. I am pleased that this newspaper, Daily Times, has covered many such incidents…
Report in Dawn, September 10th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The PTI-led government will face issues in asserting democratic supremacy in the country in addition to the usual governance and service-delivery challenges, think tank Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI) has said in a new book. The book titled Pakistan: Mapping the Policy Agenda (2018-2023) provides an insight into several policy challenges and fleeting opportunities that the new Pakistan government confronts. The book has been published in collaboration with German…
Freedom of press on the decline in Pakistan, warns CPJ
Report in Dawn, September 13th, 2018 KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: The climate for press freedom in Pakistan has been deteriorating, even as overall violence against and murder of journalists decline, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Wednesday. In a special report compiled after recording testimonies of journalists in various cities of the country, the CPJ said that journalists, including freelancers, had “painted a picture of a media under siege”. The contents of the report appear to…