Report in Dawn, 25 Dec 2020PESHAWAR: One soldier was martyred while two terrorists were killed in a gunfight between the security forces and militants in volatile North Waziristan tribal district on Wednesday night. At least 10 terrorists were also injured in the gunfight. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said in a statement here on Thursday that one soldier embraced martyrdom while seven soldiers got injuries in the exchange of fire. Sources said…
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report in Dawn, December 25th, 2020CHAGAI: Workers of Saindak Copper-cum-Gold Project and local residents on Thursday staged separate protest sit-ins against alleged injustices by the Chinese management at and outside the project site. According to sources, the workers and local residents chanted slogans against Chinese company MCC Resource Development Limited (MRDL) management alleging that workers were being kept in prolonged quarantine, besides strict restrictions for coronavirus prevention had made lives of local residents miserable. The…
report in The News, Dec 25, 2020KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Thursday said a lot of forces were pressurising his party lawmakers who had tendered resignations and he knew who was doing all this. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of Malir Expressway, Bilawal said he should not be compelled to unmask before the nation all those elements one by one. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, provincial ministers, advisers and…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 24, 2020PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) launched the second phase of its anti-government campaign by holding a rally in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, with its leaders pledging that they would not rest until Prime Minister Imran Khan remained in power. The leaders of the 11-party alliance, in their addresses, lampooned Prime Minister Imran Khan over his “unprepared government” remarks, and insisted that the opposition was not “unprepared” to dislodge the…
report in Dawn, December 25th, 2020BAHAWALPUR: Pakistan Democratic Movement leader and PML-N former provincial law minister, MNA Rana Sanaullah, has said that the second phase of the movement would be launched from Bahawalpur with a protest rally on Jan 3, 2021. He was talking to media at the residence of former senator Saood Majid Chaudhry here on Thursday. Rana Sanaullah said PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz would lead the rally in the city while other…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 25th, 2020LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) secretary general Muhammad Ali Durrani called on PML-N President and National Assembly Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif in Kot Lakhpat jail on Thursday and conveyed him a message from party chief Sibghatullah Rashidi better known as the Pir of Pagaro, asking him to play his role in convincing the opposition to not to quit assemblies to “save the democratic system”. Mr Durrani had been…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, December 25th, 2020ISLAMABAD: A controversy on Thursday broke out between the National Assembly Secretariat and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz as the former issued letters to two PML-N lawmakers from Mansehra and Abbottabad, asking them to appear before Speaker Asad Qaiser for verification of their ‘resignations’ while the two lawmakers denied sending any resignation to the speaker. A similar letter was issued to PML-N MPA Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha, also from Abbottabad,…
report on TIMESOFINDIA.COM, Dec 25,2020 at 04.44 PM ISTNEW DELHI: China is slowly backing away from its multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) commitments in Pakistan amid concerns over Islamabad’s spiraling debt, series of corruption scandals and rising security costs, according to a report on Asia Times. With China drastically tightening its purse strings, several important CPEC projects are now either stalled or running way behind schedule. According to Asia Times, only 32 out…
by Li Yuan in The New York Times, Dec 25 2020 at 09.17 AM ISTNEW DELHI: In China, Jack Ma is synonymous with success. The English teacher turned internet entrepreneur is the country’s richest person. He founded Alibaba, the closest thing that Amazon has to a peer and rival. After Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, Ma was the first high-profile Chinese person he met with. That success has translated to a rock-star…
Report in Dawn, December 25th, 2020SWABI: The people of Pontya village blocked Swabi-Topi road for about three hours on Thursday, alleging that the demarcation of common land was not carried by the district administration despite repeated requests by them. The protesters reached Topi tehsil headquarters and marched to Safdar Chock where they blocked the road to all kinds of traffic. They chanted slogans against the officials of the relevant department, alleging that they enjoyed good…
Report in Dawn, December 25th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Key government ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said the party has been left with no option but to take to the streets in protest against the recent decision of the federal cabinet to approve the controversial National Census-2017. “What is the logic for us now to stay in the government? You (the government) have not implemented even a single point agreed with us,” said MQM Convener Khalid Maqbool…