Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 21, 2020ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday said that low standard of education at colleges and universities is a big problem in the country. In a tweet, Fawad said: “Engineers’ jobs are not a big problem. Our problem is the low standard of education in colleges and universities”. He said that he had been asking the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to bring at least…
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Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 21, 2020KARACHI: The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming continues on its current path, researchers have warned. Nearly 63 million people could be forced from their homes by 2050 in the region as rising seas and rivers swallow villages, and drought-hit land no longer supports crops, said ActionAid…
by MANSOOR ALI in the Nation, dec 21, 2020ISLAMABAD – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief and head of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has decided not to appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation team if any notice was served on him.A close aide of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, on the condition of anonymity, told The Nation here on Sunday that the JUI-F chief would never appear before the NAB’s team as his…
by Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, Dec 13, 2020ISLAMABAD: China has again bailed out Pakistan as it agrees to immediately provide $1.5 billion financing line to repay the $2 billion Saudi Arabia debt, sources told The Express Tribune. Out of $2 billion, Pakistan is now set to return the $1 billion on coming Monday, said the sources in the finance ministry and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The remaining $1 billion is due…
report in The Nation, December 21, 2020PESHAWAR – Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ghani Subhan was gunned down by unknown terrorists here on Sunday. The martyred ASI was posted at Mathra Police Station and was on leave. According to details, the deceased was heading back home after offering Isha prayers on Dora Road that he came under attack by unknown bike riders who opened indiscriminate fire at him. As a result the deceased succumbed to his injuries…
report in Dawn, December 21st, 2020KARACHI: A soldier was martyred during an operation against terrorists in Awaran district of Balochistan. The Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement on Sunday that security forces conducted a search and clearance operation in Jatt Bazaar near Awaran on receipt of information about the presence of terrorists and their facilitators in the area. “Due to intense exchange of fire with terrorists during operation, Lance Naik Muhammad Iqbal was injured…
report in Dawn,21 Dec 2020BAJAUR: The security forces claimed on Sunday to have foiled a terror bid by recovering two suicide jackets during an intelligence-based operation in Barang tehsil of Bajaur tribal district, official sources said. They said the suicide jackets were recovered from a remote locality during a search operation late in the evening. On a tip-off, a contingent of security forces was moved to the area, the officials said, adding at the behest…
report in Dawn,21 Dec 2020LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan here on Sunday warned the government of march on Islamabad if any change in the blasphemy law and national policy on Palestine was made. Addressing a workers convention in Talash here, he said his party would never allow the government to cross the red lines of amending blasphemy laws and recognising Israel. Mr Ahmad said that mafias surrounded the government that had…
report in Dawn,20 Dec 2020DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police registered a case against 19 workers of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) for organising a protest against the arrest of MNA from South Waziristan Ali Wazir here on Saturday. An official said a case had been registered against them for protesting and blocking the road outside the press club. https://www.dawn.com/news/1596770/ptm-workers-booked
report in Dawn, December 21st, 2020QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) secretary general Senator Dr Jahanzeb Jamaldini has deplored that despite promises made by the district administration, the party’s kidnapped leader Jan Mohammad Gurgnari has not been recovered. He threatened that BNP-M activists would block highways linking Balochistan with rest of the country if Mr Gurgnari was not recovered in 48 hours. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr Jamaldini said that “there is…
Report in Dawn, December 21st, 2020PESHAWAR: Over 4,000 personnel of Levies and Khasadar forces in seven merged districts of erstwhile Fata have completed the first phase of police training. The police department in collaboration with Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, imparted training to the personnel of Khasadar and Levies. Officials said that with the completion of the first phase of training, integration of Khasadar and Levies personnel had also completed. The four-month training…