AP report in Times of India online, Dec 28, 2020 at 01.37 PM ISTNeha loved the hymns that filled her church with music. But she lost the chance to sing them last year when, at the age of 14, she was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam and married to a 45-year-old man with children twice her age. She tells her story in a voice so low it occasionally fades away. She all but disappears…
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by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, December 28th, 2020ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan is fighting its case in the European Union against the Indian move to get Basmati rice registered as its product, the commodity is still not registered as a local product in the country. Laws require that before applying for registration of any product at the international market it has to be protected under the geographical indication (GI) laws of that country. However, there are no…
report in The Nation, | December 28, 2020 at 4:48 PMWeb DeskBuilding firm ties, in terms of friendship and enhanced partnership with iron brother China will remain top priority of Pakistan’s foreign policy in the year 2021, says the leading diplomat of country. Speaking to media in a briefing, Shah Mehmood Qureshi highlighted that iron brother China has been ‘a permanent special part’ of Pakistan’s foreign policy. “China is our great friend. We already have…
by Faraz Khan in The News, December 28, 2020The year 2020 has not been good for the citizens of Karachi in terms of peace, as the city suffered several acts of terrorism after the activation of sleeper cells of different militant organisations, while the law enforcement agencies are yet to solve these cases and bring the groups behind all the violence to justice. The brazen attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) aiming to hurt…
by Waseem Ahmad Shah in Dawn, December 28th, 2020A recent incident of marriage of an 11-year-old girl to an adult man in Upper Chitral district has once again brought into focus the law prohibiting child marriages in the country especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On a complaint filed by father of the minor girl on Dec 22, the Chitral police arrested seven persons, including the bridegroom, a nikah khwan, and five witnesses to the nikkah (marriage contract).…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 28th, 2020ISLAMABAD: There are as many as 12 National Assembly constituencies in three provinces of the country where the percentage of women voters is less than 41 per cent. Six of such constituencies are in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, four in Sindh and two in Balochistan. A thorough analysis of the constituency-wise data of voters posted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on its website shows that the situation…
report in The Nation, Dec 28, 2020ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said the government has very little left to spend on the people because the half of revenue collections is being used for debt repayment. In a Facebook post, the Prime Minister said he is well aware of the needs of the people but when corrupt rule the country, the entire system under which peoples’ needs should be served is destroyed. He…
by Tariq Butt in The News, December 28, 2020ISLAMABAD: By chucking four dissidents from the party, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has followed in the footsteps of other political forces, which have been resorting to such extreme actions to quell rebellion. All the dissenters driven out of the JUI-F have been its senior leaders for decades. Some of them have been quite uneasy over Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s policies since long but they have been deliberately silent…
by Syed Irfan Raza | Mansoor Malik in Dawn, December 28th, 2020ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Government ministers on Sunday said that Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders were criticising national institutions to save their wealth earned through corruption, but Prime Minister Imran Khan would never give them the National Reconciliation Ordinance-type concessions. Reacting to speeches made by opposition leaders at a public meeting held in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh to observe the 13th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir…
by Rizwan Shehzad in the express tribune, Dec 28, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has unearthed that roughly $7 million was spent on two government-owned historical buildings located in the US capitol’s embassy row for repair and renovation but the end result is that one building is in a dilapidated condition while the other could collapse any moment. A recently published piece in The Washington Post stated that Massachusetts Avenue is the most…
report in The News, Dec 28, 2020LARKANA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said the Imran Khan-led government could be toppled but an ‘out-of-the-box strategy’ will have to be adopted to remove him from power. He was among various political leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), who addressed a public gathering at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh to commemorate the 13th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Sunday. The ailing…