by Waseem Abbasi in The News, August 4, 2018 ISLAMABAD: US-Pakistan relations are heading towards a difficult phase under Pakistan’s new government as Imran Khan’s demand for relations based on equality will be met with staunch opposition from Trump administration. These were the views of noted US Muslim leader and philanthropist Frank Islam, who had previously worked with Obama administration on South Asia affairs. Frank shared these views in an email interview with The News.…
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by Baqir Sajjad SyedJ in Dawn, July 25th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018, which provided for domestically proscribing individuals and entities listed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), has lapsed in the absence of the National Assembly. An official, while responding to a query from Dawn about the status of the ordinance, said it was legally no more valid after getting lapsed. The ordinance, which mainly affected Hafiz Saeed-linked Jamaatud Dawa and…
report in The Nation, July 8, 2018 at 5:08 PM The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), on Sunday said that our country is more concerned about dams being built by a neighbouring country and less concerned about building dams itself. All the efforts to stop other countries from building dams have remained futile as international institutions and the world community is not supporting our stance, it said. “We should stop our…
A self-inflicted wound: Editorial in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2018. The decision came late on Wednesday night and by Thursday morning and Pakistan was on the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) grey list following a plenary meeting in Paris. The FATF cannot itself impose sanctions it does not have that power, but countries affiliated with it can and therein lies the danger. The FATF has decided that Pakistan has failed to curb the financing of…
By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2018. ISLAMABAD: The foreign office on Thursday ruled out chances of Pakistan being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force while restating the country would remain on the inter-governmental body’s ‘grey list’. The formal announcement, however, will be made by the FATF at the conclusion of their week-long deliberations in Paris on Friday (today) where finance minister Shamshad Akhter is representing the country’s case, said FO…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, June 21st, 2018 ISLAMABAD: In reaction to Dawn’s statement disclosing disruption in its distribution, journalists’ bodies, politicians and rights activists across the country have expressed concern over attempts to gag print and electronic media by way of physical intimidation, abduction and torture of dissenting journalists and blocking of news channels. The statement issued by the newspaper’s management on Tuesday said: “The distribution of Dawn newspaper, for the past month, is…
by Asad Hussain in Daily Times, June 15th 2018. The writer is a Quetta-based columnist and an independent researcher. The word democracy is derived from two Greek words: “Demos: meaning people and” Kratos “which means power. In general, it means the rule of the people, where they select their own representatives who then form a government based on the will of the people. However, in Pakistan, democracy seems to mean something else. Here parliamentarians take…
By Irfan Ghauri in The Express Tribune, June 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD .: Enlistment of Milli Muslim League (MML) deemed to be political offshoot of Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) remained pending with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as interior ministry on Monday apprised the election authorities that they are still waiting for reports from intelligence agencies about the group. MML lawyer told a four-member bench of ECP that no office-bearer of the party is under government watch…
report in Dawn, May 30th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Former military officials and diplomats appeared to reach a rare consensus on Tuesday, at a seminar on the 20th anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear tests, that while nuclear weapons may have prevented war with India they did not insulate the country from threats. The officials were participating in a seminar titled ‘Revisiting 20 Years of Nuclearisation of South Asia: Impact on Regional Politics and Security’, organised by the Strategic…
by Zahid Gishkori in the News, May 26, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global terror-financing watchdog, has alerted Pakistan to take concrete steps against groups allegedly linked to Hafiz Saeed to avert possible tough sanctions in June this year. Pakistan submitted its action plan with the FATF’s Asia Pacific group in a meeting held in Bangkok earlier this week but global body expressed its dissatisfaction, raising objections to take concrete steps…
EU mission airs inability to assess key election aspects in Pakistan
edit in Dawn, July 14th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Pakistan on Friday said it would not be able to thoroughly assess some key aspects of the electoral processes owing to delayed issuance of accreditations to them.In a statement issued on Friday, it said the mission had been operational in Islamabad since June 24. It was deployed after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) welcomed the presence of an…