report in The News, December 28, 2020TANK: In line with the demands of the local people, particularly the youth, the police are going to establish checkpoints in various parts of the district to check the smuggling of drugs. The youth in Tank, including members of All Bhittani Youth Movement, had launched a campaign, asking the government, particularly the police authorities to set up checkpoints in order to prevent the drug peddlers from operating in the…
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report in Dawn, December 28th, 2020KHYBER: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement chief Manzoor Pashteen has demanded an immediate release of party MNA Ali Wazir and several other PTM workers arrested by the police in different parts of the country. Police arrested Mr Wazir on Dec 17 in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the PTM in Karachi after a recent public meeting. They were accused of committing several offences, including hatching a…
by Ali Raza Rind in Dawn, December 27th, 2020CHAGAI: Employees of Saindak project and area residents continued their protest against the alleged strict restrictions imposed by Chinese firm the MCC Resource Development Limited (MRDL) for the third consecutive day on Saturday. The workers, after performing their duties, have been observing protest inside the Saindak Copper-cum-Gold Project, while the residents are staging a sit-in outside. Former provincial minister Sakhi Amanullah Notezai and local politician Arz Mohammad…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 27, 2020The Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday arrested a journalist in connection with a harassment case filed by a pro-Awami League councillor candidate in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna. The arrestee is KM Belal Hossain Shopon, 55, editor of weekly Somoy Asomoy, and also the president of Chatmohar Upazila Reporters Unity. Raj Ali, pro-AL councillor candidate of Chatmohar municipality’s ward-4, filed the case against the journalist under the Digital…
Report in Dawn, December 27th, 2020KARACHI: Families of Shia victims of ‘enforced disappearance’ staged a protest at Mazar-i-Quaid on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on Friday. Members of the affected families and leaders and supporters of the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons participated in the protest demonstration. Maulana Haider Abbas Zaidi, Maulana Aqeel Moosa, Allama Sadiq Jafari, Allama Mubashir Hassan, Naveed Abbas and others led the protesters.…
report on persecution.org, Dec 27, 2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that hundreds of Pakistani Christian families from Charar, a neighborhood in Lahore, have fled their homes after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to their neighborhood. Local sources report that the mob threatened the Christians after a faith-based social media post was published by a local pastor. “Pastor Raja Waris published a faith-based post on…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, December 27th, 2020GWADAR: Two people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb blast in the Panjgur area of Makran on Saturday. Police said the blast occurred in the parking area of Aftab Shaheed Football ground soon after a match had ended. Panjgur Deputy Commissioner Abdul Razzaq Sasoli said two people were killed on the spot in the explosion. “It was a powerful blast that rocked the district headquarters,”…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, December 27th, 2020ISLAMABAD: There is a general perception among the opposition parties that after facing a revolt-like situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has considered it better to skip the PPP-hosted gathering of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders at Larkana on Sunday (today) to avoid a similar situation in Sindh. Though officially both the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the JUI-F are…
Report in Dawn, December 27th, 2020DADU: Balochistan National Party leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal has dismissed reports of growing differences among Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders and said if Maulana Fazlur Rehman is not attending Benazir Bhutto’s anniversary he may be busy in other more important engagements but one cannot construe from it that there are rifts in the movement. He told a press conference in Bhan Syedabad town, en route to Larkana, on Saturday that…
by Ali Raza & Imtiaz Hussain in The News, Dec 27, 2020SUKKUR/LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that the political situation was getting clearer in the country and the invisible characters were retreating now. Speaking in Lahore before leaving for Sukkur and later addressing a PPP workers convention in Sukkur on Saturday, she said everyone, even the PTI [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf] parliamentarians knew it well that the future belonged to the PML-N…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 27th, 2020LAHORE: For the first time a member of the Sharif family disclosed that PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif might have been the prime minister of the country today instead of Imran Khan had he parted ways with his elder brother Nawaz Sharif (on the wish of the establishment). The disclosure came from none other than Nawaz’s daughter Maryam Nawaz in the backdrop of “renewed efforts” by the powers that…