report in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2020KOHAT: The police seized a big cache of weapons and related spare parts which were being smuggled in a truck from Parachinar to Peshawar and Punjab via Kohat and arrested three smugglers at Gulshanabad here on Thursday. The weapons included 75 12-bore repeaters, 10 shotguns and spare parts of various arms. DSP headquarters Ijaz Khan Abazai told a press conference that they had information from the Intelligence Bureau about an…
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report in The News, Dec 11, 2020MIRANSHAH: All Employees Coordination Council, North Waziristan chapter, on Thursday asked the authorities to release all the government employees arrested for inter-tribal disputes in the district recently. In a meeting held here with AECC president Malik Jalaluddin in the chair, the participants urged the authorities to set free the detained government employees as they had nothing to do with the tribal disputes. The meeting expressed anguish over the arrest…
report in The News, Dec 11, 2020LAKKI MARWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) provincial head Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan on Thursday said that more than Rs500 billion was in the possession of the federal government against the hydro-power royalties. He said the resource-rich southern districts have been deprived of their rights. He was addressing a sit-in for the rights of Lakki Marwat at Town Complex Tajazai. Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan said that unfortunately the rulers sitting in Islamabad…
report in Daily Times, Dec11, 2020PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has approached an Islamabad accountability court against seizure of her father Nawaz Sharif’s property in the Toshakhana reference, reported ARY News. She filed an application in the court on behalf of her father. After an initial hearing, Judge Syed Asghar Ali issued notices to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and others to submit their response to the application by December 16. Sharif’s seized house in…
by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2020ISLAMABAD: In a major setback to gas-starved consumers, Pakistan could not get even a single bid for three LNG (liquefied natural gas) cargoes meant for the first half of January and attracted the highest price for the second half of the month mainly because of delayed tenders amid rising international prices. Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) had issued tenders for six cargoes for delivery between Jan 8 and Feb…
Legislators are sending resignations in large number, Maryam leads rally ahead of PDM show in Lahore
by Iqtidar Gilani in the Nation, Dec 11, 2020LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice-President Maryam Nawaz led a rally from Gajjumatta to Data Darbar on Thursday as part of mobilisation drive ahead of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) power show at Minar-e-Pakistan. Daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif left Jati Umra in the afternoon. She led a caravan of dozens of vehicles from Gajjumatta to Data Darbar and addressed charged workers at different points…
report in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2020MULTAN: The association of the vendors providing the public address system protested the arrest of their colleagues ahead of the public gathering of the Pakistan Democratic Movement in Lahore on Dec 13. Association chairman Mustafa Heera and other office bearers told reporters that the Gulgashat police arrested association’s founder Muhammad Musharraf Javed Qureshi and his two employees. Demanding the immediate release of the arrested people, they said the public gathering…
by Waseem Ashraf Butt in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2020GUJRAT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from Gujrat have demanded an equal share in the uplift projects and administrative affairs of the district as compared to their party’s coalition partner, the PML-Q, in an informal meeting with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. The CM arrived in the Dinga town to condole the sad demise of former caretaker Punjab CM Mian Afzal Hayat with his family. The deceased was the…
by Shahab Omer in Pakistan Today, Dec 11, 2020LAHORE: As the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is preparing for its December 13 jalsa in Lahore, the Punjab Police has also formulated its strategy for the rally, Pakistan Today learnt on Thursday. Some of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders who were already nominated in various cases would be arrested before the PDM rally and the entrances to the provincial capital would also be closed a day…
report in Daily Times, Dec11, 2020An alleged facilitator of terrorists, Nadir Ali alias Pathan, was arrested by Malir police on Thursday during a raid in Karachi. The Malir police officials conducted a raid on a tip-off and claimed to arrest Nadir Ali alias Pathan who had allegedly facilitated terrorists to carry out grenade attacks. The raiding team also recovered weapon, grenade bomb and half a kilogram of explosive material from his possession. Police said that…
by SHAHID RAO in The Nation, Dec11, 2020ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday raised the question that how the confessional statements of an accused could be relied upon if those were not given voluntarily. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam conducted hearing of the appeals of Sindh government and Daniel Pearl’s parents against the SHC verdict to acquit Daniel Pearl’s alleged murderers. During the hearing, Justice Sardar…