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Man goes missing

report in Dawn, 08 Dec 2020SUKKUR: Relatives of a man allegedly taken away by a police team held a protest demonstration outside Khanpur Mahar police station in Ghotki district after they failed to find him at any police station of the town. They told the media that their community member, Wahid Bux Pitafi alias Dholio, was taken away by a team of special police led by Ghotki ASP but they were not being informed about…

Protest held for release of missing student activists

report in Dawn, 08 Dec 2020HYDERABAD: Activists of the Progressive Youth Alliance Hyderabad staged a protest on Monday outside the local press club for the release of student rights’ activists Amar Fayyaz and Sarwech Noohani. Fayyaz’s wife Sapna Amar, comrade Ali Essa, Sarmad Siyal and others said that Amar was picked up on Nov 8 in Jamshoro by occupants of two double cabin vehicles. Three police mobiles were also there when he was picked up,…

Fazlur Rehman slams govt over banning Ansar-ul-Islam ahead of Lahore Jalsa

report in The News, Dec 8, 2020LAHORE: PDM’s president and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has condemned the PTI government for banning his party’s youth volunteers wing, Ansar-ul-Islam, ahead of the vital PDM public meeting in Lahore on December 13, terming the move frustration and confusion in government circles. In a statement Monday, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the notification by interior ministry was mala fide and a stigma on the face of the PTI government…

‘Obedient Khan’: Maryam coins new name for PM Imran

report in The express tribune, dec 8, 2020LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz has once again predicted that the days of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government were numbered as PDM, the all-opposition alliance, was set to hold its latest power show in Lahore despite repeated government warnings. She said this while addressing multiple corner meetings in the Punjab capital organised on Monday to mobilise party workers and supporters ahead of the 11-party opposition…

Maryam mobilizes workers ahead of PDM power show

by Hassaan Ahmed in Daily Times, Dec 8, 2020Four constituencies of Lahore accorded a warm welcome to PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Monday where she addressed reception camps to mobilise the public for the December 13 Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) final public gathering at historic Minar-e-Pakistan. Making brief stopovers in different areas, she addressed four constituencies where she was warmly welcomed by the PML-N workers. She started her rally from Quaid-e-Azam interchange at Ring Road…

Consensus in PDM on resignations: PML-N leader

by Amjad Mahmood | Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, 08 Dec 2020LAHORE: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announced on Monday that it would hold its Lahore rally as per plan on Dec 13 where former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will make his ‘decisive’ speech. “The Dec 13 rally will be held at all costs and people from across the country will participate in it, while Nawaz Sharif will deliver his decisive speech on the occasion,” PML-N…

PDM unlikely to go for option of en masse resignations

by MANSOOR ALI in The Nation, Dec 8, 2020ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) unlikely to go straight for the option of en-mass resignations from the Assemblies and will exhaust other options before resignations. The sources within the PDM confirmed that many parties were in favour of the resignations but few parties were still reluctant to use the option of resignations and wanted to pursue other options in the first phase. The source further…

PPP yet to decide on en masse resignations: Murtaza

report in Daily Times, Dec 8, 2020The Sindh government Spokesman Murtaza Wahab has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has not yet decided regarding tendering resignations from the assemblies. “We have not yet decided regarding resignations,” Murtaza Wahab said, adding that the matter would be taken up during the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting of the PPP, which is yet to be convened. The remarks from Murtaza Wahab has cast aspersions over any decision regarding…

Some PTI members ready to resign: PPP

Report in The Nation, Dec 8, 2020ISLAMABAD – Secretary Information Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Dr Nafisa Shah yesterday said the federal government’s days were numbered. In a statement, she said the constitution allowed the rights to protest and freedom of expression and the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) will not allow the rulers to usurp these constitutional rights. Shah said the prime minister was afraid of people as he knew that soon the masses would bring…

Siraj asks opposition to quit assemblies

Report in Dawn, 08 Dec 2020LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq said here on Monday that lawmakers of opposition parties should resign from the parliament. Addressing a news conference at Timergara Press Club, he said JI would also think about resigning from the parliament if Pakistan Democratic Movement did so. He said the death of seven patients at a Peshawar hospital proved incompetency and inefficiency of the PTI government. He said that JI had planned…

Maryam asks MPs to stay put in face of ‘pressure for changing loyalty’

by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, December 7th, 2020LAHORE: Claiming that her party’s lawmakers are being pressurised to change loyalties, PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz Sharif has called upon all opposition parliamentarians to stand up to the pressure [of the establishment] for the sake of their own honour when the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) goes for en masse resignations in its Dec 8 summit. Accusing Prime Minister Imran Khan of being too obedient to the establishment, she…