Report in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has stopped judges of the district and sessions courts from issuing orders for the arrest of any person inside courtrooms. An office order issued from the Member Inspection Team (MIT) of the IHC stated: “Chief Justice of this court has been pleased to further direct the learned District and Sessions Judges to advise all the judicial officers under their administrative control that no verbal…
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by Javaid-ur-Rahman in the Nation, Dec 17, 2020ISLAMABAD – Since the government is making strategy to deal with threat of en-masse resignations, the opposition believes that the government is ‘indecisive and frightened’ to summon the National Assembly session. The government, without sharing any reasons with the opposition, has not summoned the National Assembly session for the last two months. The threats of en-bloc resignations and no-confidence motion have frightened the government to delay in calling…
Report in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020LAKKI MARWAT: A police constable was martyred when unknown miscreants attacked Wanda Mir Alam checkpost on Darra Tang-Chashma road here late on Tuesday night. Officials said the police posted at the checkpost were attacked when they returned from patrolling in the border area. They said constable Mohammad Rafiq, who was in the police patrol car, received bullets and died instantly. They said a villager Hasti Khan, who worked at the…
by Amir Wasim in dawn, 17 Dec 2020ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties on Wednesday submitted a requisition notice to the Senate Secretariat seeking a session of the upper house of parliament to take up a number of crucial political matters, including a resolution against alleged human rights violations being committed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the government’s “crackdown” on the opposition workers during the PDM public meetings in various cities of the country. According…
Report in Dawn, 17 Dec 2020PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Democratic Movement’s spokesman and Awami National Party’s general secretary on Wednesday rejected the government’s decision to hold Senate elections in February next year and warned the government that such a move would not only be a violation of the Constitution, but it would be tantamount to undermining the parliament. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that holding of Senate elections before completion…
by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, 17 Dec 2020LAHORE: PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says the PPP is ready to sacrifice its Sindh government to oust the ‘selected’ rulers. “We are ready to sacrifice our Sindh government if and when needed in the struggle for getting rid of the selected rulers,” he said while talking to the media here on Wednesday. He said Imran Khan would have to resign by Jan 31 otherwise the Pakistan Democratic…
Report in Dawn, 17 Dec 2020LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has submitted details of the moveable and immoveable assets owned by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif before an accountability court in a reference of 34-year-old illegal land allotment wherein he had been declared an absconder for not joining the proceedings. The NAB in its report says that Mr Sharif owns multiple pieces of agricultural land including 936 kanal 10 marla, 299 kanal 12 marla…
by Shazia Hasan in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020KARACHI: Minority rights and a look at the history and future of human rights in Pakistan were the main topic of the discussion during an online interactive dialogue titled ‘Human Rights Vision 2020 & Beyond’ on Wednesday. The event was organised by Ziauddin University (ZU) in connection with the International Human Rights Day. Highlighting the issue of minorities, former federal law minister Barrister Shahida Jamil spoke about the…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 17, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the country remains “determined” to tackle the scourge of terrorism and the government is “moving forward” in fulfilling the commitment to the nation. The premier’s tweet comes on the 6th anniversary of the horrifying Army Public School attack in 2014. At least 144 people, mostly children, were killed in the attack. “The nation came together with a resolve to take…
Report in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020KARACHI: Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday lodged two separate cases of a cracker attack on a Rangers vehicle on University Road on Tuesday and an attempt to blow up the car of a Chinese national in Clifton and launched investigations into the incidents as an outlawed nationalist group had claimed responsibility for both attacks. Four people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were injured in the cracker attack on a moving…
Report in Dawn, Dec 17th, 2020PESHAWAR: Police arrested MNA Ali Wazir here on Wednesday in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi after a recent public meeting. They have been accused of committing several offences, including hatching a criminal conspiracy and passing derogatory remarks against state institutions. Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohammad Ali Gandapur told Dawn that Mr Wazir had been arrested…