Report in The Nation, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:10 PMGovernment has decided to take action against militias of religious and political organizations as Ministry of Interior has asked provincial governments to take action against such groups. As per details, Interior Ministry has said that certain organization have established their militias which have even resorted to wear uniform/ ranks like formal Armed Forces/ Law Enforcement Agencies and depict themselves as military organizations, which is a gross…
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Report in The Nation, Dec 7, 2020 at 7:28 PMThe police have arrested four criminals including two accused of murder, recovered arms and narcotics during separate actions here on Monday. According to details, the police conducted search operations against anti-social elements at Musa Gate Chuhar Jamali, Belo Road near Darro and Singhara Stop Lakha Temuri. During separate actions two murderers Muhammad Raheem alias Gudda and Ibrahim Memon, Wali Muhammad and Allah Dino were arrested besides…
report in The Nation, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:33 AMThe Department of Auditor General of Pakistan on Monday has released a report, exposing irregularities worth millions of rupees in Billion Trees Afforestation project. According to the report, the project worth Rs14 billion was completed in Rs19 billion in six years instead of decided four years. The shutting of 516 closures out of 1468 caused loss of Rs10.84 crore to the national exchequer. Sapling costing Rs9…
Report in Dawn, Dec 7th, 2020KARACHI: The recently commissioned Pakistan Navy ship Tabuk departed from Port Aksaz, Turkey, on Sunday. Tabuk was on a visit to Turkey aimed at strengthening bilateral ties, enhancing naval collaboration and interoperability with the Turkish Navy. According to information received here, while at Aksaz, PNS Tabuk was extended a warm welcome by Turkish naval authorities. The commanding officer of PNS Tabuk called on Aksaz Naval Base Commander Rear Admiral I.…
report in the Nation, Dec 7, 2020MULTAN – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that Pakistan has unveiled the real face of India at international level by presenting dossier on its involvement in terrorism to the United Nations. He was talking to reporters before the oath taking ceremony of new body of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Women wing in Multan Sunday. Responding to a question, he said the border fencing at Pak-Afghan border is being…
by MANSOOR ALI in the Nation, Dec 7, 2020ISLAMABAD – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) plans to place the option of en-mass resignations on table at the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) meeting to be held in Islamabad on December 8. The JUI from the very first day is in the favour of en-mass resignations; however, it has failed to convince the rest of opposition parties for that. A close aide of Maulana Fazlur Rehman told The Nation…
report in the Nation, Dec 7, 2020ISLAMABAD – Senate Standing Committee on Interior Chairman Rehman Malik on Sunday urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to make public the names of people, seeking a National Reconciliation Ordinance-like deal, which he had been referring to in his speeches time and again. Malik dispelled the impression that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had ever signed an NRO, adding it was merely propaganda to defame the party leadership. He further said…
It is impossible to have a democracy within which there is no criticism and no attempt to put right what is wrong. Any government and any authority under it would usually recognise this. On Friday, the Islamabad High Court took up the Pakistan Bar Council’s petition against the TikTok ban, and in the process questioned the controversial new social media rules and asked the PTA to review them. The said rules have been rejected by…
by Yasser Latif Hamdani in Daily Times, Dec 7, 2020The biggest lie that we often tell ourselves is that religious minorities are equal citizens of this country. There is not even a pretense of equality beyond a single line in the Constitution’s Article 25(1) more conspicuous by how much it is flouted than its implementation. Our leaders say that minorities are better treated in Pakistan than in India. This is a joke that no one…
report in The News, Dec 6, 2020Karachi: Leaders of various political and religious parties, in a multi-party conference organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami’s District Malir chapter on Friday, unanimously condemned the retrenchment of 4,544 Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) workers and said the federal government had been taking away the livelihoods of thousands of households. JI district chief and labour leader Muhammad Islam presided over the conference held in Gulshan-e-Hadeed. District leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party,…
report in The News, Dec 6, 2020ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Ahead of the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s rally at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore on December 13, Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday vowed that he will never grant amnesty to the opposition. “The only thing they want is an NRO. I will leave the office of PM but will never betray the country by giving them an NRO,” he said in an interview to a private news channel. He said the…