by Iqtidar Gilani in The Nation, Dec 13, 2020LAHORE – Parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Saturday dave final touches to the plan of holding public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan on Sunday (today), despite not getting government permission and warning of possible terrorist attack. The Punjab Government has imposed smart lockdown in the nearbly localities of the historic venue, whether to check spread of coronavirus or minimise the attendance of Opposition parties workers. Law enforcement…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 13, 2020KARACHI: In an attempt to mount pressure on the government, more legislators from Pakistan Peoples Party submitted their resignations to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday. A day before Pakistan Democratic Movement is all set to hold its grand power show in Lahore, Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah tendered his resignation to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The minister had earlier stated that the party was…
by Asim Yasin in The News,, Dec 13, 2020ISLAMABAD: Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar broke his silence on Saturday and confirmed that he has resigned from the position of spokesman for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. As the mystery shrouded on Friday over his resignation as spokesman for Bilawal, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar preferred to keep mum over the issue with neither denying nor confirming, but the PPP media cell was denying his…
by Tariq Butt in The News, Dec 13, 2020ISLAMABAD: The public meeting organised in Lahore on Sunday by the Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDM) will be the sixth power show of the 11-party opposition alliance since its formation 83 days ago. The public rally will mark the end of the first phase of its anti-government movement, which was unveiled on September 20 when the PDM was cobbled together. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had…
report in Dawn, Dec 13th, 2020QUETTA: The goods train service between Pakistan and Iran was suspended after unidentified attackers blew up the tracks near Mastung late on Saturday evening. The train service links Quetta with the Iranian city of Zahedan. Officials of Pakistan Railways while confirming the blast at the railway track said that an improvised explosive device was planted at the track at a railway crossing in Wali Khan area of Mastung district. A…
by Arshad Aziz Malik in The News, Dec 13. 2020PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has started an inquiry against Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), over the purchase of 62 kanal of government land at a meagre price in Bahawalpur. Chairman NAB Justice (r) Javed Iqbal has sent the case to NAB Peshawar for further inquiry. However, the spokesperson of Maulana Fazlur Rehman categorically rejected the latest allegations of…
report in The News, Dec 13, 2020KABUL: A series of rockets struck Kabul on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, officials said. “This morning, 10 rockets were fired from the Labe Jar neighbourhood of Kabul,” Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian told reporters. He said three rockets landed near Kabul airport and seven in residential areas, leaving one civilian dead and two wounded. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/757929-civilian-killed-in-kabul-attack
by Shakeel Anjum in The News, Dec 13, 2020ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to take immediate action against the people or groups involved in anti-state activities or instigating the public or institutions against the state, sources in the interior ministry confided to this correspondent. The circular transferring the federal cabinet’s right to take action against the people found involved in anti-state activities to the federal secretary was issued on Saturday – the non-working day. The…
report in The Nation, Dec 13, 2020MUZAFFARGARH – District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Hassan Iqbal sacked nine police employees over corruption and misuse of power whereas force retirement for a police official as well as various punishments were awarded to other employees. DPO conducted ‘Ardal room’ at police lines on Saturday to hear the inquiries against the police employees. Hassan Iqbal sacked nine police employees including two Hawaladars after allegations proved against them. Similarly, sentence…
by Xari Jalil in Dawn, Dec 13th, 2020LAHORE: A man was arrested for vandalising the statue of Sikh leader Maharaja Ranjit Singh, located in the Lahore Fort, on Friday and several have come forward to condemn the act. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of the Sikh empire spread across many parts of Pakistan, with Punjab being the main territory, parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and even southern parts of the country. His statue was unveiled…
report in The News, Dec 12, 2020MANSEHRA: The people took to the streets and blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) to traffic for over an hour on Friday against the appointment of non-locals at 4300 mega-watts Dasu Hydropower Project being executed in the district headquarters of Upper Kohistan. “The Wapda had signed an agreement with us when it acquired land for this mega energy project that labourers and non-technical staff would be inducted only from Kohistan…