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Report in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020ISLAMABAD: While giving his assessment of government performance, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said never should a new government come to power without homework and without getting briefings. “When I review my performance, we took three months only to understand [issues as] everything that we had been looking at from outside was altogether different after we came to power. “And then, I must also share, for one and a…

Report in Dawn, December 23rd, 2020ISLAMABAD: Two former chief ministers of Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri and Dr Abdul Malik Baloch have come on the radar of the National Accounta­bility Bureau (NAB) for alleged misuse of authority. A meeting of the NAB Executive Board presided over by its chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Tuesday approved inquiries against the two former chief ministers. Talking to Dawn, a senior NAB official said the inquiry against Mr Zehri and…

by Mehtab Haider in The News, Dec 23,2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the IMF are inching towards formal revival of the stalled Fund programme, as the government has decided to hike power tariff by 25-30 percent and to abolish up to Rs200 billion corporate sector income tax exemptions. The top political leadership has given go-ahead to the economic team to fulfill all the required prerequisites for revival of the stalled programme under $6 billion Extended Fund Facility…

by Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in The Guardian, Dec 22,2020 at 14.13 GMTA dissident Pakistani human rights activist living in exile in Canada has been found dead in Toronto after going missing. Karima Baloch, 37, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016 after her work as a human rights activist in the troubled Pakistan state of Balochistan had led to her being followed and threatened by the authorities. The first chair…

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, 22 Dec 2020• Asserts it is commission’s responsibility to conduct elections• Says last four to five Senate elections have been held in first week of March ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) broke its silence on Monday on a controversy over the date of Senate election 2021, asserting that it was the commission’s constitutional and legal responsibility to conduct polls for the upper house of parliament. The ECP…

by Asim Yasin & Muhammad Anis in The News, Dec 22, 2020ISLAMABAD: The steering committee of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Monday decided the schedule of protest in the second wave of agitation to oust the PTI government. According to PDM spokesman Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the second phase of movement will start with a public meeting in Mardan tomorrow (December 23). It would be followed by another public meeting in Larkana on December 27…

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, 22 Dec 2020QUETTA: Serious differences have emerged between Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and former Islamic Ideological Council chairman and senior party leader Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, with the latter levelling serious allegation against the party chief and rejecting the politics of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). Former MNA and senator Sherani, who also served as provincial chief of the JUI-F, is the second important leader after…

report in Dawn, 22 Dec 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has secured $1.7 billion (Pak Rupees 272 bn) debt relief agreements to help offset the financial headwinds sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Monday. The deal, following months of negotiations with creditors, will provide a moratorium on debt payments for large swathes of the current fiscal year and help ease the cash-strapped country’s massive financial obligations. “The Government of Pakistan has successfully negotiated and concluded…

by Arshad Aziz Malik in The News, December 22, 2020PESHAWAR: District Education Officer (DEO) Kohistan Upper Yasmeen has terminated the services of two newly appointed drivers due to pressure and threats from a PTI MPA and sent copies of his letter to the authorities concerned. The PTI MPA from Kohistan district had allegedly warned the female DEO of dire consequences if she did not withdraw the appointment orders of the drivers. She wrote that there…

report in Dawn, 22 Dec 2020KOHAT: The consumers have threatened that they will remove gas and electricity meters and deposit them in the offices of SNGPL and Pesco if the authorities do not resolve the issues of low gas pressure and prolonged power outages within 48 hours. The consumers in Jungle Khel union council said they were being subjected to 16 hours of electricity loadshedding. They said despite protests the matter was not resolved. The…