by Murtaza Ali Shah in the News, Dec 31, 2020LONDON: The Government of Pakistan has announced that it will cancel former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s passport in a month-and-a-half – on February 16 when his current passport expires – indicating that his passport will not be renewed. On Wednesday, Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said: “We have decided to cancel NawazSharif’s passport on February 16.” Also, Adviser to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan,…
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report on American Military News, Dec 31, 2020Two senior administration officials close to President Donald Trump told Axios on Wednesday that the president recently received an intelligence briefing with not-yet corroborated claims China offered bounties to attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and he plans to declassify that intelligence soon. The officials said national security adviser Robert O’Brien briefed Trump on the preliminary intelligence on Dec. 17. Axios reported they did not receive any intelligence documents,…
by Khalid Mehmood in The Express Tribune, Dec 30, 2020A day after 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, Khawaja Asif, in an assets beyond means…
report in The News, Dec 30, 2020WANA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Dost Muhammad Khan has flayed the move by certain quarters to demand the division of the historical South Waziristan tribal district into Mehsud and Wazir districts. Talking to journalists here, he stated that historically South Waziristan had remained the main bastion and centre of the Mehsuds since ages and its division along the tribal lines would amount to the division of the “Motherland”. He furnished…
report in The News, Dec 30, 2020WANA: Tension gripped the area when tribal lashkar demolished two fort-like houses in the presence of police force and district administration in Azam Warsak in Wana tehsil in South Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday. The locals said that the police force and the armed tribal Lashkar men of Zalikhel tribe had taken position against each other and the situation could take an ugly turn. They said that the Zalikhel…
report in Pakistan Today, Dec 30, 2020KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, raising objection to the federal cabinet’s decision of approving the National Census 2017. The decision of approving the census was made by the federal cabinet on December 22. The chief minister stated in the letter: “In pursuance of Part II of the Federal Legislative List and Schedule IV of the Constitution of…
by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, 30 Dec 2020ISLAMABAD: Former JUI-F leader Maulana Mohammad Sheerani Khan on Tuesday announced the formation of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam to be called JUI-Pakistan and said the policy of the new party would be to isolate Maulana Fazlur Rehman through ‘power of truth’. The expelled members of the JUI-F held a meeting at the residence of Maulana Sheerani in the Barakahu area of Islamabad along with their…
by Mehtab Haider in The News, Dec 30, 2020ISLAMABAD: Former chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi has made a startling disclosure that $150 billion owned by Pakistani businessmen are stashed in foreign bank accounts, earning meagre profits because of lower interest rates. “Pakistanis own $150 billion lying in foreign bank accounts and are earning peanuts in the wake of lower interest rates. Now the time has come in the wake of a changed…
report in Pakistan Today, Dec 30, 2020LAHORE: The Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) has failed miserably in achieving its revenue targets, Pakistan Today learnt on Tuesday. According to the details, the MCL, having 22 sources of revenue, had set a revenue target of Rs1121.8 million by December 20 this year. In the first six months of the current year, the MCL was able to collect only Rs79.5 million while around 71 per cent of the total…
report in Dawn, 30 Dec 2020MUZAFFARGARH: A group of people tortured two boys on the direction of a panchayat (village jury) which declared them guilty of stealing flour from a grinding mill. The video of brutal torture and pleadings of the boys to let them go went viral on social media prompting police to take action against the grinding mill owner. Sources said Abdul Ghaffar alleged that the two boys stole 40 kilogramme flour from…
report in Dawn, Dec 30th, 2020KHUZDAR: Fifteen people, including two security personnel, were injured on Tuesday in a grenade attack on a vehicle of the Frontier Corps in Surab town of Kalat division. Police said that two suspects riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade at the FC vehicle parked in the city area of Surab and escaped from the scene. “As result of the explosion, two FC soldiers and 13 civilians suffered injuries,” a…