report in The News, Dec 11, 2020SUKKUR: The First Additional Sessions Judge Mehar Ghulam Yaseen Kolachi on Thursday granted interim bail to 22 policemen including a DSP, five SIs and others in an FIR for allegedly killing two people in a fake encounter in 2018. The 22 policemen were released on an interim bail against a surety of Rs50,000 each and directed to join the trial. Back in Sept 2018, police had gunned down two…
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report in The Nation online, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:11 PMWeb DeskThe government has decided to formulate a strategy on various issues including dialogue with the opposition, according to the sources. In this regard, the Prime Minister has summoned Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar to Islamabad. Government team is trying to bring the opposition to the negotiating table so that PDM’s rally in Lahore, scheduled for December 13, can be called off in view of the…
report in The News, Dec 10, 2020LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Following the decision, taken at the PDM about submitting resignations to party leadership, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians started to submit their resignations to the leadership. Party sources said that PML-N National Assembly members Agha Rafiullah, Malik Muhammad Afzal Khokhar, Muhammad Bashir Virk, members of provincial assembly Azma Bukhari, Samiullah Khan, Sohaib Ahmad Bharat, Raheela Khadim Hussain, Akhtar Hussain Badshah, Muhammad Safdar Shakir, Bilal Farooq Tarar, Chaudhry Nasir…
by Malik Asad | Amir Wasim in Dawn, December 10th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Legal and constitutional experts in the country are found to have unanimous opinion that the opposition through the planned en masse resignations of their members from the assemblies cannot stop the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) from acquiring majority in the upper house of the parliament after the Senate elections in March 2021, because laws and the Constitution are silent on any specific requirement related…
by MANSOOR ALI in The Nation, Dec 10, 2020ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Wednesday announced holding anti-government long march towards Islamabad in the end of January. The decision was taken in the meeting of the steering committee held on Wednesday, which was given many tasks including finalisation of date for the long-march towards Islamabad. Talking to media persons after the meeting, media coordinator of PDM and ANP’s senior leader Mian Iftikhar Hussain…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 10th, 2020QUETTA: Three members of the Balochistan Assembly have decided to resign in accordance with the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement’s plan against the PTI government. They are former chief minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani, who was elected as an independent candidate in the 2018 polls, Mir Akhtar Hussain Langove of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, and Sham Lal, a minority MPA of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam.According to sources, Nawab Raisani took…
Report in Dawn, 10 Dec 2020CHITRAL: Hundreds of residents of Torkhow and Terich resumed their sit-in in Shagram village here on Wednesday to protest failure of the government to restore the Istaru bridge, which had collapsed last year when an overloaded mini-truck was crossing over it. The sit-in had been postponed after continuing for five days when the special assistant to chief minister, Wazir Zada, had promised to send steel makeshift bridge to Istaru within…
by Mehtab Haider in The News, Dec 10, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s financial account has turned negative of $1.33 billion because of over $300 million outflow from the capital market, heavy repayments of outstanding loans and dried up project financing from multilateral and bilateral creditors. The commercial banks withdrew around $850 million in the first four months, so the overall financial account has turned into negative. Despite thumping with joy over the Current Account Deficit (CAD) turning…
by Abid Mehdi in Dawn, Dec 10th, 2020SIALKOT: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the Constitution stipulated a no-confidence motion for the removal of the government and dared the opposition to do so. “If the opposition wants to move a no-confidence motion, they should come and do so in the assemblies,” he said, criticising the call for en masse resignations from assemblies by Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Talking to media here…
by Mian Abrar in Pakistan Today, Dec 10, 2020ISLAMABAD: Differences and mistrust between the parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) have forced the opposition alliance to postpone its previous decision to announce the en masse resignations of its lawmakers during its Lahore rally on December 13. Reportedly, the alliance meeting held on December 8 had to postpone the announcement of the resignations as the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari told the meeting that…
Report in Dawn, 10 Dec 2020ISLAMABAD: Only a day after announcing that lawmakers belonging to the constituent parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) will hand over their resignations to the heads of their parties by Dec 31, the alliance leadership went into another session here on Wednesday to further deliberate the matter in the light of the concerns shown by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) over the move. Before going to attend the luncheon…