On Monday morning a group of students representing the Sindh Students Council (SSC) began a 100-hour hunger strike (to conclude on March 4) outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) demanding restoration of students’ unions and hostels at educational institutions. It is not a large bunch, as one would have expected it to be, but the enthusiasm with which they have set up the camp outside the club has garnered attention of the media. This is…
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a man in Gang area in Salazai tehsil in Bajaur tribal district on Tuesday. Locals said that unknown persons opened fire on Jan Badshah, a resident of Gang area in Salarzai tehsil. He received multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot. After his funeral prayer, the residents gathered and blocked the Khar-Munda road at Farsh point for traffic to protest the ongoing target-killing in Bajaur tribal district. Speaking to protesters,…
The district administration has imposed section-4 to acquire land for the 300 megawatts Balakot Hydropower project being built at a cost of Rs85 billion in the Kaghan valley by the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation. “We have already fulfilled the legal formalities to acquire over 1700 kanals of land for the project and this ongoing process will shortly be completed,” Deputy Commissioner Dr Qasim Ali Khan told a briefing here on Tuesday. A delegation of the…
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has disposed of 4976 cases upto February 28, 2020, as per monthly progress report released by the commission on cases of alleged enforced disappearances. The commission under the leadership of its Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal continued its efforts to trace the whereabouts of the missing persons. The chairman held two meetings with families who came from Balochistan. Consequently, efforts have been accelerated with special attention towards the…
Scores of people on Sunday staged protest against alleged failure of the administration in recovery of two kidnapped employees of a non-governmental organisation. Led by ex-member provincial assembly Sardar Fatahullah Khan Miankhel, the protesters blocked Dera-Tank road at Hathala sub-town for traffic for a few hours. The demonstrators were also chanting slogans against the district administration of South Waziristan for its failure to recover the kidnapped persons.report in The News,Mar1,2021 https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/797253-recovery-of-kidnapped-employees-demanded
The Supreme Court on Monday opined that the Senate polls can not be held through the open ballot. A five-member larger bench of the apex court — headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan and Justice Yahya Afridi — announced the verdict with a 4-1 majority. Justice Yahya Afridi disagreed with the opinion. The apex court ruled that the Election Commission…
Explosive device found near railway station in Rawalpindi. RAWALPINDI: An improvised explosive device (IED) was found near the railway station on Wednesday. A locally-made device, containing about 1kg of explosive material filled in a plastic bottle with a detonator, was described by bomb disposal experts as mobile device. It was lying adjacent to an under-construction building in the vicinity of Mithu Khan Ahata Saddar along Railway Road. The IED was spotted by the building contractor…
Police officers issued show-cause notices Deputy Inspector General of Police, Operations Afzaal Ahmed Kausar on Wednesday issued show cause notices to over two dozen police officers, including sub-divisional police officers and SHOs for being unable to make any progress in several murder cases, sources told Dawn. Officials of the capital police said, the DIG took the decision during a meeting held to review the progress on murder cases. The show cause notices were issued to…
Following the newly-enforced rotation policy by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf dispensation, the federal government has placed the services of first two police officers from Punjab at the disposal of Balochistan for a mandatory period of two years. Another police officer (BS-18) Rizwan Omer Gondal has been transferred to Balochistan with directions to take up his new assignment in the province. The BS-19 police officials placed at the disposal of Balochistan from Punjab included retired Capt Jawad…
Pakistan has sustained a staggering $38 billion economic losses due to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) decision to thrice placed the country on its grey list since 2008, says a new research paper published by an independent think-tank, Tabadlab. The findings of ‘Bearing the cost of global politics — the impact of FATF grey-listing on Pakistan’s economy’ by Dr Naafey Sardar come amid low chances of Pakistan exiting the grey list Thursday (today). The…
Asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC was made to pay GBP20,000 (amounting to Rs4.5 million) to the Sharifs in litigation costs this week as part of the costs owed by the company for withdrawing its claim to the family’s Avenfield apartments. The receipt of the payment by Broadsheet was confirmed by the legal representatives of the Sharif family. The development is the latest episode in the Broadsheet saga, in which the company made several attempts to…