by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, 16 Dec 2020LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has ruled out talks with the government at least until Imran Khan is holding the office of the prime minister. “As far as a puppet is working as the prime minister how can dialogue be held (with the government),” he told the media here on Tuesday outside the Kot Lakhpat jail, where he had gone to condole with incarcerated PML-N…
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report in The News, dec 16, 2020ISLAMABAD: According to a latest survey conducted by Ipsos, four in five (77 percent) Pakistanis continue to worry that the country is heading in the wrong direction for the last one year. In the fourth quarter of 2019, 79 percent respondents had declared that the country was heading in wrong direction. The survey participated by over a thousand respondents from all parts of the country shows that seven in…
by SHAHID RAO in The Nation, December 16th, 2020ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan yesterday questioned about the link between the murder and the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal in Pakistan. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam conducted hearing of the appeals of Sindh government and the parents of Daniel Pearl against the SHC verdict to acquit the alleged murderers of Daniel Pearl.…
Report in Dawn, 16 Dec 2020ISLAMABAD: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Lateef Afridi on Tuesday said that with the exclusion of three dissenting judges, the hearing by the present six-judge bench in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa review case would invariably give rise to the perception that dissident judicial voices were being silenced. In a written submission before the Supreme Court, the SCBA president argued that hearing by judges in lesser number…
Report in The Nation, December 16th, 2020MUZAFFARGARH – Social Welfare department in a stunning revelation through its eye-opening report drafted on human rights violations of six months disclosed on Tuesday that 18 amongst 140 children were sexually abused after kidnapping across South Punjab region. A total of 140 children were abducted during March to August of 2020 from different under-developed districts of the region, said Deputy Director Social Welfare and Baitul Mal Shoeb Raza while…
by Ishaq Tanoli in Dawn, 16 Dec 2020KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday convicted four police officers for conducting defective investigation into a staged encounter, in which a man was killed, and framing another man in a false case. The SHC observed that all the facts and evidence indicated that the deceased and the man arrested by the police were framed in false cases and they had no criminal record. The bench comprising Justice…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, 16 Dec 2020KARACHI: Four people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were wounded in a cracker attack on a moving Rangers mobile near the Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre on University Road on Tuesday a couple of hours after a Chinese man survived an attempt to bomb his vehicle in Clifton. An outlawed militant organisation has claimed responsibility for both the attacks. Officials and witnesses said that two men on a motorbike hurled…
Report in Dawn, 16 Dec 2020RAWALPINDI: Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Nawaf Saeed Al Malkiy on Tuesday called on Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), they discussed matters of mutual interest, regional security situation and bilateral defence relations between the two brotherly countries. The ambassador reaffirmed full support of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan’s position on all matters, especially on regional issues. High Commissioner of Sri Lanka…
report in The News, Dec 16, 2020Karachi: The Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) arrested a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and five other suspects for their alleged involvement in kidnapping a builder for ransom. A builder, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, was kidnapped by seven men — four in police uniform on a phone mobile van bearing registration number BDP-149 and three in a Honda Civic car — on December 2 from Mughal Hazara Goth within the Gulistan-e-Jauhar…
report in The News, Dec 16, 2020LONDON: Britain’s most circulated tabloid newspaper, The Sun, has published a story based on exclusive revelations by The News in a report on 6 November 2020, stating Pakistan rejected a deportation flight carrying around three dozen illegal immigrants from London to Islamabad amid a diplomatic row over former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The News published the report after credible intelligence sources from both sides confided to this correspondent in…
by Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, Dec 16, 2020LONDON: British Home Secretary Priti Patel has written to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser on accountability Shahzad Akbar pointing out that the UK government is subject to international law in the case of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently residing in London and who the Pakistani government wants sent back from London. The Home Secretary, according to a trusted source, has confirmed that the…