report in Dawn, November 23rd, 2020SWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the PTI government is the most incompetent one in the history of the country as it has increased the miseries of people manifold. He was addressing a public meeting at Grassy Ground here on Sunday. JI provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Bakhtiar Maani, Abdul Wase, Hamidul Haq, Mohammad Amin and other leaders also attended the gathering. The JI chief said that…
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by Mahboob Ali Yousafzai & Essa Khankhel in The News, Nov 23, 2020MINGORA: Asking Prime Minister Imran Khan to quit, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) head Sirajul Haq on Sunday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was the worst, incapable and corrupt in the history of the country. Addressing a public gathering at the Grassy Ground in Mingora town of Swat district, Sirajul Haq said that Imran Khan promised not to tell a lie to the nation. “However, the…
by Zulfiqar Ali in Dawn, November 23rd, 2020• People defy ban on Peshawar show despite pandemic, security warning• Fazl asks establishment to stop backing ‘illegitimate’ govt• Maryam leaves venue when learns about grandmother’s deathPESHAWAR: In a renewed attack on the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders on Sunday sought an end to the ‘puppet rule’, warning that actions and policies of the government based on a ‘stolen mandate’ were akin…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, November 23rd, 2020• Says opposition will be responsible for consequences• NCOC reports 2,665 new cases, 59 deathsISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said the government would be compelled to enforce complete lockdown if the opposition did not desist from holding public gatherings at a time when the country was reeling under the impact of Covid-19. During the last 24 hours, the highest number of positive cases was reported…
by Tehreem Husain in the Express Tribune, Nov 23, 2020The global economy has witnessed four waves of debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three waves resulted in a financial crisis in many emerging and developing economies. According to World Bank report “Global Waves of Debt” published in 2019, the latest global debt wave since 2010 has caused the largest, fastest and most broad-based increase in debt in emerging and developing economies. Taken…
report in The News, Nov 23, 2020ISLAMABAD: Owing to the growing number of coronavirus cases in the country over the past few weeks, the Punjab government has decided that it will not allow the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to hold public meetings in Lahore and Multan, sources told Geo News. As per sources, a government spokesperson said that there has been a recent surge in the number of reported COVID-19 positive cases in both the…
By Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 23rd, 2020ISLAMABAD: A possible diplomatic row between Pakistan and France was averted when federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari on Sunday removed her controversial tweet about French President Emmanuel Macron after the authorities in Paris strongly reacted to it and the website issued a clarification about its article on the basis of which the minister had made the comment.France’s foreign ministry “condemned” the minister’s remarks and called…
report in the Express Tribune, Nov 23, 2020GILGIT: Syed Sohail Abbas, a PTI candidate, has won the Gilgit-III constituency of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Legislative Assembly in an election that was delayed for one week due to the death of the ruling PTI’s former candidate Jafar Shah. According to the unofficial results received from all the 77 polling stations of the constituency, Syed Sohail Abbas bagged 6,873 votes while the runner-up, an independent candidate Dr Muhammad…
(Jaffrelot is professor of Indian politics and sociology at King’s India Institute. Ganesh is a student of politics and governance at Sciences Po Paris)its lowest point since the 1962 war, border infrastructure has come under intense scrutiny. The construction of several dams along the Yarlung (Brahmaputra) river on the Chinese side has been a repeated cause for concern for Indian officials and the local people, whose livelihoods and security depend on the river. The Brahmaputra…
by Atika Rehman in Dawn, November 22nd, 2020THE United Kingdom government is faced with a difficult choice as it plays sheriff in the battle between Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif: should it side with an incumbent prime minister who is desperate to secure deportation orders for a former premier whose party is one of the largest political forces in Pakistan?Senior officials in Pakistan are using both diplomatic and non-diplomatic avenues to convey their demand to…
by Rustom Shah Mohmand in The Frontier Post / Nov 22, 2020Pakistan’s Prime Minister paid a day long visit– his first as Prime Minister– to Kabul on Thursday. He held wide ranging talks with his Afghan counterpart, President Ashraf Ghani, against the backdrop of increased violence along the border between the two countries and increased attacks inside Afghanistan by both the Taliban and Daesh. A further element of uncertainty has been added to the rapidly…