by Ahmad Nabi in The Nation, Jan 2, 2021KHYBER/PESHAWAR – Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Friday that the diplomatic passport of Nawaz Sharif would stand cancelled on its expiry on February 16 as the government would not renew it. “Pakistan had no extradition treaty with Britain under which Nawaz Sharif could be brought back. However, efforts were underway on all fronts to get him repatriated to face corruption cases,” the minister said…
Posts published in “Pak Media Report”
report in The News, January 2, 2021ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday imposed Rs10 million fine on the interior secretary, defence secretary, SP (investigation), JIT in-charge, and Golra SHO over their failure to investigate a missing person’s case. IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said in the verdict that they jointly held responsible for their failure to provide due protection to Ghulam Qadir. The court said the state machinery is responsible in this case…
Report in The Nation, Jan 2, 2021LAHORE – Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Umar Sheikh was abruptly transferred from his position on Friday and posted as Punjab Constabulary Farooqabad Deputy Inspector General of Police/ Deputy Commandant. According to a notification, DIG Ghulam Mehmood Dogar was posted as Lahore CCPO. Dogar was serving as Deputy Inspector General of Police (Technical Procurement) at CPO, Punjab. The abrupt transfer was of the Lahore CCPO was a…
By Amir Wasim in Dawn, January 1st, 2021ISLAMABAD: The heads of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) will go into a huddle on the first day of the year 2021 (today) at Raiwind in an effort to come up with a united stance on the issue of en masse resignations and participation in the upcoming elections on a number of seats of the national and provincial assemblies and the Senate. PDM president and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam…
By Imran Ayub Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) reached out to its coalition partner in the centre Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Thursday to discuss the possibility of an alliance and bringing joint candidates in the upcoming by-elections in Sindh. The move came as an apparent reaction to the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) overture to the Muttahida on Wednesday. The PPP and MQM-P had agreed not to accept the results…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021ISLAMABAD: Employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) along with a large number of healthcare workers from across the country on Thursday removed all hurdles and reached D-Chowk and held a sit-in there. Traffic remained blocked in the area for around three hours. Later, the protesters announced that they will hold a sit-in in front of Parliament House if the presidential ordinance was not withdrawn by Jan 5.…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday announced it would contact the allies of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in the centre claiming that many of them were not happy with Prime Minister Imran Khan’s policies and needed “political support” to take major decision of quitting the coalition. Addressing a press conference at the camp office of Sindh education minister, the PPP central information secretary Syeda Nafisa Shah asked the…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Thursday accepted the plea of two Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) legislators that their resignations received by the assembly secretariat were “fake”. Through a ruling, the speaker declared that MNAs Murtaza Javed Abbasi from Abbottabad and Mohammad Sajjad from Mansehra “have disowned their resignations received by the National Assembly Secretariat on Dec 14, 2020, and also called the resignations fake, thus no further action…
report in The News, Jan 1, 2021LAHORE: PML-Q president Ch Shujaat Hussain has said the situation in the country has reached a point where it has never been before. In such a situation, the government and the opposition should understand their duty that they have to work in the interest of the country and people, he said and added the government should not respond to all the suggestions of the Opposition with rhetoric but should…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, January 1st, 2021LAHORE: A day before an important huddle of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in Jati Umra, Raiwind, to hammer out the issue of en mass resignations from the assemblies, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) secretary general Mohammad Ali Durrani called on PDM president Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Thursday night to convey to him a “message” about finding some other way instead of pursuing a collision course that may lead…
report in The Express Tribune, Jan 1, 2021Muhammad Ali Durrani, secretary general of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), has said that arrest of opposition leaders by the anti-corruption watchdog is hampering efforts to reach consensus with the opposition parties to bring down political confrontation in the country. The leader of PML-F, an ally of the PTI-led government in the Centre, made the statement while addressing a joint press conference with JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman…