Three commanders among eight TTP terrorists killed in NW operationsreport in The Express Tribune, Mar 7, 2021Security forces conducted two intelligence-based operations (IBOs) on Saturday, killing at least eight terrorists including three commanders of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan tribal district, military said. “These terrorists remained involved in terrorist activities against security forces, law enforcement agencies and locals of the area since 2009 including IED attacks, firing, target killing, kidnapping for ransom…
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Protest demonstrations and rallies were held at Mardan on Saturday by different organisations against the ‘Aurat March’ scheduled to be held on March 8 (Monday). Representatives of Markazi Tanzeem-i-Tajraan, the Youth Parliament and Jamaat-i-Islami participated in the agitation. The protesters were led by traders’ body president Zahir Shah and JI local leader Ibrahim Biland. The protesters reached the Mardan Press Club, where they blocked the Shamsi Road for several hours, calling for cancellation of the…
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has sought from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) details of bank accounts of 150 police officers of Sindh police, mainly SHOs, it emerged on Saturday. Sources told Dawn that NAB had written a letter titled ‘request for general search of bank accounts-inquiry against Sindh police officers and others’ to the SBP on Feb 25. The anti-graft body has asked the central bank to collect details from the financial institutions…
The University of Peshawar has instructed the students to start observing the dress code introduced by the university some eight years ago. Two separate notifications were issued to this effect on Friday. The first notification is a mere repetition of a similar one issued in March 2013 wherein the female students had been asked to wear white shalwar and kameez of a colour of their choice as well as a white overall and a chest…
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday announced that newly elected Senator Yousaf Raza Gilani will be the candidate for Senate chairman and that they will get him elected on the slot. Speaking alongside Yousaf Raza Gilani, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that whatever injustice or suppression they had gone through, it has been proved that democracy is the best revenge. “Everyone has seen the result of no-confidence in the government’s policies,” he…
A petition has been filed with the Election Commission of Pakistan seeking the disqualification of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Petitioner Pervez Hussain, a citizen, stated that Yousaf Raza Gilani was allegedly involved in fraud, and sought his disqualification under articles 62 and 63 of the constitution. “Yousaf Raza Gilani asked me to give money to Khuram Rasool for LPG quota,” the petitioner claimed, adding that despite receiving…
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has decided to elevate his daughter and party’s Vice-President Maryam Nawaz Sharif to the post of vice-chairperson or senior vice president, according to the party sources. The decision has been taken at a time when Maryam’s cousin and also party’s Vice-President Hamza Shahbaz has been granted bail by the Lahore High Court in a money-laundering case. According to sources, the general council of the party will…
Given the hectic lobbying by the competing parliamentary parties and the purported political wheeling and dealing, upsets are not being ruled out in Wednesday’s Senate elections. The smallest change could tip the scales in favour of the side that makes gains over and above what it deserves according to its numerical strength in the electoral college. Frenzied developments are taking place among certain sections of the electoral college. Some ruling coalition voters have openly made…
With the entire nation’s eyes fixed on the crucial Senate elections, Prime Minister Imran Khan had another busy day on Tuesday, meeting over 50 legislators in the Parliament House to drum up support for the government’s candidate from Islamabad, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is contesting against Dr Shaikh as a joint candidate of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). Government sources told Dawn that the prime minister gave…
Surfacing on Tuesday of a video clip showing Ali Haider Gilani, the son of the opposition’s joint candidate for a Senate seat Yousuf Raza Gilani, telling some unidentified Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers about techniques of wasting their votes added to the existing hype over the Senate election taking place on Wednesday (today). Hours after the video clip was posted on the official Twitter account of the ruling PTI and went viral on main and social…
About 850 union council polio officers, whose contracts expired on Feb 28, continued their protest outside the office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) here on Tuesday. During negotiations, WHO country director Dr Palitha Mahipala refused to give assurance that the officers would be rehired. These officers had been hired by the WHO to manage anti-polio drives at the union council for years. In November last year, the officers had also protested in the capital…