Report in Dawn, November 22nd, 2020LAHORE: Rebel PML-N MPA Chaudhry Ashraf Ali Ansari and his elder brother Chaudhry Younas Ansari called on Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at his office on Saturday and condemned the “treacherous narrative of the opposition”. The PML-N has already expelled Ashraf Ansari and four other MPAs, who were frequently meeting the chief minister at his office in violation of party discipline. Ansari had planned a parallel rally in Gujranwala to counter…
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“It is my daughter’s rukhsati (wedding) today (Wednesday). My joy knows no bounds. My conscience is clear. I’ve done something to deserve this blessed day,” says Raja Zahoor, a local leader of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from Rawalpindi. The good deed he is referring to is his participation in a protest rally followed by a sit-in at Faizabad to demand that the French ambassador be kicked out from Islamabad and all ties with France be severed.…
by Ansar Abbasi in the News, Nov 22, 2020 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is not inclined to go for a no-confidence move against either Prime Minister Imran Khan or Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. A senior PDM leader confided to The News that although Asif Ali Zardari was pressing for this move, others in the PDM are reluctant to go for it because they believe that such a step would not succeed without…
report in The News, Nov 21, 2020Karachi: The anti-terrorism courts’ administrative judge on Friday sent four suspected militants associated with the banned Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) on remand in police custody for 10 days. The suspects — Sarang, alias Sohail Mirani; Basheer Ahmed Sher; Anees Ahmed and Khawand Bakhsh, alias Saleem Sindhi — were presented by the Counter Terrorism Department in court on charges of possessing illicit weapons and explosives. On Thursday, Sindh’s Counter Terrorism…
report in The News, Nov 21, 2020ISLAMABAD: Sugar mills feared a halt in production within a week due to limited supply of sugarcane, indicating a reversal in recent recovery in large scale manufacturing, it was learnt on Friday. Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) said farmers are demanding high sugarcane prices compared to the price of Rs200 per 40 kilograms notified by the provincial governments. “Owing to the current scarce supply of sugarcane, it is feared…
Report in Dawn, November 21st, 2020SWABI: The people of Bamkhel union council here on Friday staged a demonstration to protest registration of FIR against Ihsanul Haq Bamkhelvi, the president of the Swabi Union of Journalists. After the Friday prayers, the people gathered in the main bazaar and marched to the Karnal Sher Khan Chowk, covering a distance of 6km while holding placards inscribed with different slogans. Ihsanul Haq was arrested three days ago when an…
by Imran Gabol in Dawn, November 21st, 2020A doctor belonging to the Ahmadi community was shot dead while his father and two uncles were injured when a teenage boy opened fire on them in their home in Punjab’s Nankana Sahib district on Friday. Police said the Ahmadi family were offering prayers on Friday afternoon at their house in Murh Balochan area of Nankana when they heard a knock on the door. One of the family…
report in The Frontier Post / Nov 21, 2020ISLAMABAD (APP): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday sought comments from Ministry of Defense in a petition seeking to remove the name of Lt. Gen (reted) Asad Durrani from the exit control list (ECL). The court remarked that the ministry had already stopped the pension and incentives of Durrani as punishment then why it still wanted his name on exit control list (ECL). Justice Mohsin Akhter…
by Jamal Khurshid in The News, Nov 21, 2020Karachi: The Sindh High Court has directed the IG prisons to submit a list of the undertrial prisoners (UTPs) along with the nature of their offence, the duration of their detention and any remission they earned during their incarceration. The direction came on a petition seeking speedy trials of all UTPs and the release of all prisoners who had served the maximum sentences during the pendency of…
Report in Dawn, November 21st, 2020LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Friday handed down six-year imprisonment to another senior leader of Jamatud Dawa (JuD) in a terror financing case. Announcing the verdict in FIR No. 26, Presiding Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta sentenced Muhammad Ashraf for the imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs10,000. The other day, the court had convicted JuD Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and its leaders, including Malik Zafar Iqbal, Yahya Mujahid and…
report in The Frontier Post / Nov 21, 2020KABUL (TOLOnews): The Taliban has staged attacks on the centers of at least 50 districts in 16 provinces of the country following the signing of the peace deal with the US in Doha in February and most of these attacks happened in the last two months after the start of the negotiations in Qatar on September 12, sources from various provinces Thursday. The sources said that in…