report in The News, Dec 4th, 2020NOWSHERA: The Awami National Party (ANP) secretary-general and spokesman for the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) said on Thursday anti-governmental protest would be staged across the country on Friday (today). The senior nationalist politician said in statement leaders and workers in districts had been directed to brave the government coercive tactics and take part in the demonstrations. He was critical of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government for registering cases against the…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 4, 2020LAHORE: The PML-N has geared up for the December 13 rally to be held under the banner of PDM in Lahore and started implementing its plan of holding workers’ convention throughout the city with the first two held on Thursday. A preparatory meeting for the scheduled rally was held at the PML-N’s Lahore secretariat, which was presided over by party vice-president Maryam Nawaz and attended by senior party…
report in Dawn, Dec 4, 2020RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Democratic Alliance local leaders on Thursday announced their decision to start protest demonstration twice a week in every district starting from Sunday. Addressing the press conference, Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) District President Dr Ziaur Rehman, and PML-N Division President Malik Ibrar and PPP City President Babar Jadoon thanked the workers who made the public meetings of PDM successful. PML-N leader Malik Ibrar said that the public meetings were against poverty,…
report in Dawn, Dec 4, 2020HYDERABAD: A protest rally was brought out here on Thursday from Old Campus to the local press club under the aegis of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh for the recovery of missing persons. The rally was led by writer Taj Joyo, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan coordinator Imdad Chandio, Aqsa Dayo, Dhani Bux Solangi, Sakina Khatoon, Rehmat Khatoon, Ms Shahzadi and others. The protesters said that in many cases,…
Report in The Nation, Dec 4th, 2020ISLAMABAD – Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi was yesterday conferred with the “Legion of Merit” of the Turkish Armed Forces by Turkish Naval Forces Commander Admiral Adnan Ozbal during his official visit to Turkey. The naval chief also called on minister of national defence, Turkish armed forces commander, Turkish naval forces commander and the President of Defence Industries, says a press release issued by…
by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 4, 2020ISLAMABAD: The controversial provision empowering the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to detain an accused for 90 days came on the radar of the Supreme Court when on Thursday Justice Umar Ata Bandial described the clause as cruel and an injustice. “To detain an accused for 90 days on physical remand in every reference is cruel and an injustice,” regretted Justice Bandial who summoned NAB prosecutor general Syed Asghar…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 4, 2020QUETTA: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has announced plans to link Pakistan with Afghanistan through railway by laying a track from Chaman to Spin Boldak, the first Afghan town near the Pak-Afghan border. He disclosed this while speaking at a press conference after arriving in Quetta on a two-day visit on Thursday. He said that in the first phase Pakistan would lay around 11km-long railway track from…
PTI report in Times of India online, Dec 3, 2020, at 02.47 PM ISTLAHORE: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded 15 years jail term to Yahya Mujahid, spokesperson of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD), in a terror financing case.Mujahid was last month awarded a collective imprisonment of 32 years in two terror financing cases by the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC). Besides Mujahid, the ATC Lahore on Wednesday also awarded 15 years imprisonment to…
report in Dawn, December 3rd, 2020LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday convicted three leaders of the bannned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in another a case of terror financing. Announcing the guilty verdict in a case registered in 2019, Presiding Judge Ijaz Ahmad Buttar handed down sentence of 15 years and half month imprisonment to Zafar Iqbal and Yahya Mujahid each, while JuD leader Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki was jailed for six months. All the convicts were present…
report in Dawn, December 3rd, 2020CHARSADDA: The Counter-Terrorism Department and the police in a joint operation arrested a terrorist affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan here on Wednesday. The operation was conducted in the jurisdiction of Saro Kallay police station. SP investigations Darwesh Khan told a press conference that on a tip-off that a wanted terrorist, Zakir alias Yasir, was present in the limits of Saro Kallay police station, the personnel of the police and…
report in Dawn, December 3rd, 2020HYDERABAD: Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) has warned that the United States may try to undermine Pakistan socio-economically and politically by fanning sectarianism in the country. MWM secretary general Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri said at a press conference at local press club on Wednesday that America wanted to destabilise the entire region and contain China. He said that Pakistan badly needed stability because of its geopolitical position as balance of power…