report in Daily Times, Dec 31,A mob vandalised the samadhi (shrine) of a Hindu saint and subsequently set it on fire in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, a private TV channel reported. “More than a thousand people led by some local elders of a religious party held a protest and demanded the removal of the Hindu place of worship,” a local resident present at the site during the violence told the TV…
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report in in Dawn, December 31st, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) formally handed over 14 state-of-the-art indigenously developed fourth generation JF-17 Thunder Block-III — dual carrier fighter jets equipped with a long-range superior radar system and advance firing capability — to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) at a simple ceremony on Wednesday. Terming the aircraft’s inclusion in the national fleet a ‘significant milestone’ in the country’s history, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar…
report in in Dawn, December 31st, 2020LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Wednesday showed serious displeasure over the inefficiency of the police in arresting the suspects despite dismissal of bail. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi was hearing a petition, at the Lahore registry, against Sargodha police for not arresting a suspect even after seven months of the bail rejection. Sargodha district police officer (DPO) told the…
by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, December 31st, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony on Wednesday removed Mufti Muneebur Rehman from the post of chairman of Ruet-i-Hilal Committee and replaced him with Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad, Khateeb of Badshahi Masjid, Lahore. The ministry also notified new members of the committee, which include 14 clerics and religious scholars belonging to the four mainstream schools of thought in the country, namely Brelvi, Deobandi, Shia and…
report in Daily Times, Dec 31, 2020Rubbishing the opposition’s politicking on steps proposed under “security apparatus” for Gwadar city, Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Wednesday assured that no strategy would be enforced there without consultation and against people’s desire. The chief minister, in a video statement, said that outside Gwadar City, there were some areas which could not be humanely checked or controlled owing to their inaccessibility, so a “temporary fencing mechanism” was proposed…
Sources says PML-N will also contest Senate polls, by-election PML-N lawmakers refuse to validate assembly resignationsA day after the PPP announced that they will partake in the Senate elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz announced to call on Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday. The meeting will discuss the situation after the ARREST OF FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER and the acting PML-N leader of the opposition in the National Assembly,…
report in the News, Dec 31, 2020ISLAMABAD: PML-N lawmakers have refused to validate their resignations, sources informed Geo News on Wednesday, in what comes as a major twist in the Opposition-led anti-government campaign under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) banner. Appearing at the National Assembly Secretariat, MNAs Murtaza Javed Abbasi and Muhammad Sajjad Awan said their resignation letters were fake and refused to validate them, the sources said. “We had sent our resignations to the…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 31st, 2020ISLAMABAD: In a clear indication that the government is in no mood to renew the diplomatic passport of Nawaz Sharif that is close to expiry date, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday said the former prime minister’s passport would be cancelled on Feb 16 next year. He was talking to reporters during his second visit to the Capital Development Authority. The minister, who has been saying…
by Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Centre has set up a committee with the view to remove “discrepancies” in the next population census after a ministerial body recommended accepting disputed results of the 6th national headcount in the “larger national interest” and hold the next census ahead of schedule. Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar constituted a five-member committee with the objective that the next census is not only “accurate…
by Azfar-ul-Ashfaque in Dawn, December 31st, 2020KARACHI: The issue of the controversial National Census 2017 has brought the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan closer as both the parties held a meeting on Wednesday and decided not to accept the results of the population count that took place three years ago. The MQM-P is part of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led ruling coalition at the centre but its federal minister Aminul Haque did not endorse…
by Mehtab Haider in the News, Dec 31, 2020ISLAMABAD: In order to comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) conditions, the government has bound the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and all branches of commercial banks by enforcing the amended Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorist (CFT) laws. Earlier, these regulations were enforced on the National Savings Scheme (NSS) centers or branches only, but now the scope of regulations have been extended…