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report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021LAHORE: Officials of two Turkish contractors protested against the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) on Thursday for not returning their machinery to them and withholding, what they claim, Rs3 billion dues. Protesters gathered in front of the workshops at Saggian and Ferozepur Road where they arrived to take over offices and the machinery from the LWMC. “Following orders from the Lahore High Court that the machinery and workshops of Albayrak…

report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021CHAGAI: Member of the National Assembly and Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) leader Mir Mohammad Hashim Notezai has condemned the crackdown on smuggling of Iranian petrol and diesel by the provincial government, saying it is the only source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of families living in undeveloped and far-flung border areas of Balochistan. In a statement issued here on Thursday, Mr Notezai said most of the people in these…

by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, January 1st, 2021ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Thursday took notice of the tragic incident of vandalising and burning of the shrine of a Hindu saint in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The CJP ordered the KP chief secretary and the inspector general as well as Dr Shoaib Suddle, the head of a commission on minorities’ rights, to visit the site and submit a comprehensive report by Jan…

Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021LAHORE: After the recent attack on a Hindu temple in Karak, members of civil society have condemned such incidents of religious intolerance. In a statement issued by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and Peoples Commission for Minorities Rights (PCMR) condemned demolition of Krishna Dawara temple in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by a mob. The statement written jointly by I.A Rehman of PCMR and Peter Jacob representing CSJ said…

REPORT in Dawn, Jan 1st, 2021KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday issued notices to the provincial and jail authorities on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against them for not releasing four men after their conviction order was set aside in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Petitioners Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil through their lawyers contended that the SHC had set aside the conviction…

Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2021KARAK: Police arrested 31 people including district leaders of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) here on Thursday for vandalising and demolishing the shrine of a Hindu saint in Teri area of the district. Police officials told Dawn that JUI-F senior leader Rehmat Salam Khattak was also among the arrested persons. He was arrested from his residence in Chokara area of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil. He served as provincial general secretary of PML-N before joining…

by Jamal Shahid in Dawn, January 1st, 2021ISLAMABAD: Convinced that police have mishandled the case, a parliamentary committee on Thursday ordered a fresh inquiry into the abduction of a minor Christian girl in Faisalabad. The 13-year old was freed five months after Muslim men allegedly abducted, forcibly converted her to Islam, and then one of them married her. A meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights was held under the chairmanship of Senator…

report in Dawn 31,2020ISLAMABAD: The US warned on Wednesday it would not allow a man who was convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl to evade justice after a high court ordered his release. The warning from acting US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen comes days after the Sindh High Court overturned a government detention order that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in…

by Amir Wasim in Dawn, December 31st, 2020ISLAMABAD: Hitting back at Prime Minister Imran Khan over his threat to the opposition leaders regarding registration of cases against them for maligning the army, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz has declared that the party will present in the court all the videos of Mr Khan available on social media showing him talking against the army to implicate him as well on the same charge. Speaking…

report in Daily Times, Dec 31, 2020Senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday vowed that if his party came to power, it would “file a treason case against Imran Khan Niazi for bargaining away Kashmir”. Addressing a gathering of party workers at Kashmir House Islamabad on the occasion of the PML-N Kashmir’s founding day, Iqbal said after the formation of Pakistan, India had “occupied the land of our Kashmiri brothers and sisters” but the United…