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Report in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020LAHORE: A day after the public meeting of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) at Minar-i-Pakistan, the Lahore police launched a crackdown on service providers for the event. The police high-ups assigned a task to the divisional SPs to identify and arrest those who managed chairs and other goods for the public meeting of the PDM and take legal action against them. Similarly, the district government was also assigned the same…

by Amir Wasim in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, who surprisingly resigned as official spokesperson for party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari last week, is expected to have a meeting with the latter on Tuesday (today), Dawn has learnt. Sources said Mr Bhutto-Zardari had personally approached Mr Khokhar and invited him for the meeting in an effort to sort out “differences” between the two on some unknown matters. Sources close…

Report in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020SUKKUR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari may declare that the time to talk to Imran Khan is over but one of his party’s senior leaders, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, believes it is better “a leader should talk to a leader”. He was speaking to media persons outside accountability court on Monday. The court, seized with a reference filed by National Accountability Bureau against him and 17 other co-accused on…

by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday declared Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally at Minar-i-Pakistan a ‘flop power show’ and said the opposition’s three-month-old anti-government movement was buried in Lahore on Sunday. He lashed out at the opposition for staging public meetings and endangering people’s lives amid the more lethal second wave of the coronavirus. He made these remarks during a meeting with his spokespersons at the…

report in Daily Times, Dec 15th, 2020CTDThe Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department said on Tuesday that it had foiled a possible militant attack on the Islamabad Stock Exchange after the arrest of three terrorists involved in the Rawalpindi bomb blast. A statement issued by the CTD said the militants admitted to carrying out four terrorist attacks in the country and planned to bomb the Islamabad Stock Exchange. It said militant organisations operating from Afghanistan had provided financial…

by Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have arrested three members of a banned outfit who were allegedly planning to target Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) and had earlier been involved in four of the five terrorist attacks in the garrison city since Jan 2020. A spokesman for the CTD Punjab in a press release said the terrorists were planning to carry out a bomb blast at…

by Kashif Abbasi in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Single National Curriculum (SNC), which generated a national debate earlier in the year, is all set to be implemented in the coming academic session and the government has ordered the publication of textbooks for the purpose. “The SNC has been prepared and now provincial governments have been requested to get the books published as per their requirements,” Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood told Dawn on Monday.…

report in The Nation, Dec 15th, 2020MULTAN – Adviser to the Prime Minister on political affairs Malik Amir Dogar Monday said Multan would be made the provincial capital of South Punjab in future and exemplary development and progress would be made in the area. Addressing a meeting held in connection with discussion of new development projects for Multan city, Malik Amir Dogar said the federal as well as provincial governments would be requested for special…

by Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, Dec 15, 2020ISLAMABAD: A commission of inquiry formed in July this year to probe into a sudden shortage of petrol in the country has noted that one of the reasons behind the crisis was a lack of coordination among the departments working under the Petroleum Division. This is revealed in a report of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) led inquiry panel. The commission has submitted its report to…

by Khalid Mustafa in The News, Dec 15th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The government continues to find itself in hot waters in terms of LNG availability in the first 20 days of January 2021, as by Monday the LNG trading companies offered bids up to $19.8 per MMBTU equivalent to 40 percent of Brent against its urgent tenders floated on Friday last. After failure to attract bids from international companies for the first 20 days of January, the…