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by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, November 22nd, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday rejected as “unsubstantiated” Delhi’s allegations linking Pakistan to the purported botched terrorist attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Chargé d’Affaires was summoned to the FO to reject the allegations that were initially levelled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and on Saturday repeated by the Ministry of External Affairs when Pakistani Cd’A in Delhi was called for registering protest…

by Salis Bin Perwaiz in the News, Nov 22, 2020Karachi: District Malir police personnel claimed on Saturday they had arrested three notorious criminals of the banned Lashker-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) on charges of their involvement in a number of target killings and other heinous crimes, including escaping from the Central Prison Karachi. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Irfan Ali Bahadur of District Malir said that responding to intelligence information that some notorious terrorists belonging to a banned…

report in the News, Nov 22, 2020Karachi: Residents of Scheme 33 staged a protest on Friday against police officials of the Sohrab Goth police station for arresting their loved one after an allegedly fake police encounter. The protesters included family members of two suspects, Shan Ahmed and Omar Hayar, whom the Sohrab Goth police claimed to have arrested after an exchange of fire. The protest was held outside the SSP office. The protesters claimed that…

report in the News, Nov 22, 2020 Islamabad: Talks between Pakistan and the IMF to restart a $6b loan programme have stalled over Prime Minister Imran Khan’s refusal to introduce unpopular measures, say senior government officials. Formal discussions to release a tranche of funding have been pushed back over concerns from Islamabad that instituting the reforms tied to the loan would provoke a backlash from the hard-hit middle class. An IMF team that was expected…

Report in The Nation, Nov 22, 2020 LAHORE – Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has termed the prime minister’s claim to put the economy on track contrary to ground realities. It seemed the PM’s aides were misleading him or he himself lacked ability to understand plight of the masses, he said in a statement issued from Mansoora on Saturday. Poverty, unemployment, inflation were the trademarks of the PTI government, said the Senator, adding thousands had…

by Zulfiqar Ali in Dawn, November 22nd, 2020PESHAWAR: As the Pakistan Democratic Movement will hold its power show here today (Sunday), chief of the opposition’s alliance Maulana Fazlur Rehman has asked the military establishment to ‘withdraw its support to the puppet’ PTI government. “Americans have sent Donald Trump home and our Trump, too, will be shown the door soon,” Mr Fazl told reporters here on Saturday without naming Prime Minister Imran Khan. The PDM chief…

Report in the News, Nov 22, 2020ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday said the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) was playing “reckless” politics with people’s safety, which in the past had been calling for a strict lockdown due to COVID-19. The prime minister’s remarks came a day ahead of scheduled public gathering of 11-member coalition of opposition parties in Peshawar today where the COVID-19 positivity rate has reached above 13 percent. “The same PDM (members) who…

report in the News, Nov 22, 2020Karachi: Commenting on reports which claim that efforts are afoot to forge a grand alliance of Muhajir political groups, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that the Muhajir community does not need any grand alliance as they are already united in the form of the MQM-P. He made this statement while talking to the party’s general workers meeting in a park in Bahadurabad. Siddiqui…

Shahbaz Rana in the Express Tribune, Nov 22, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has so far secured $800 million worth of debt freeze deals from 14 members of the richest club of G-20 countries, as it still awaits ratification by remaining six countries including Saudi Arabia and Japan involving $1 billion transactions. Pakistan along with 76 other poor African countries had qualified for the G-20 debt relief initiative, announced in April this year for May-December 2020 period, to…

report in Dawn, November 22nd, 2020HYDERABAD: Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Riaz (JSM-R) chairman Riaz Chandio on Saturday criticised the fashion in which he and his senior party colleague were taken to the Rangers’ headquarters in Qasimabad earlier in the day and the way his licensed weapons were checked by the personnel.Speaking at a press conference along with the party’s vice chairman Nawaz Shah Badahi, he said he and Mr Badahi were “detained for about three hours” at…