report in Dawn, November 20th, 2020SUKKUR: An alert was sounded in the Jacobabad district jail and security in and around the prison was beefed up on Thursday when a number of prisoners defied orders of the jail police, held a noisy protest and climbed to the rooftop to register their indignation over several issues. Angry prisoners also damaged flower vases during the episode. No undertrial prisoner could be taken to courts for the scheduled hearing…
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report in Dawn, November 20th, 2020SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Two soldiers were martyred and one was wounded when unidentified assailants attacked a security forces’ convoy in South Waziristan tribal district on Thursday. Inter-Services Public Relations, the army’s media wing, confirmed the martyrdom of personnel in the attack, which occurred in Pash Ziarat area of Makeen subdivision in South Waziristan. Sources said the convoy was heading towards Makeen when terrorists fired rockets in the mountainous area. The attack…
by Numan Wahab in The News, N0v 20, 2020LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday convicted chief of the banned organisation Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed on charges of terror financing and awarded him 10-and-a-half year imprisonment. ATC judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta also sentenced Malik Zafar Iqbal, a close aide to Hafiz Saeed, along with Jamaat’s spokesperson Yahya Mujahid and Professor Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki. The court has convicted these JuD leaders in two different cases…
report in Dawn, November 20th, 2020KARACHI: Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Thursday claimed to have arrested four suspects linked with the banned Sindh Revolution Army (SRA) allegedly involved in recent grenade and cracker attacks on Rangers’ mobiles and checkpoints in Karachi and Ghotki.CTD DIG Omar Shahid Hamid said that the police along with a federal intelligence agency arrested the suspects identified as Sarang, alias Sohail; Bashir Ahmed; Anis Ahmed and Khawand Bux and recovered hand grenades…
report in Dawn, November 20th, 2020KARACHI: In order to make public outreach convenient to the people of Larkana and Sukkur, which is quite a volatile region when it comes to human rights violations, the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has decided to open its branch office in Sukkur at the women development department building where the complainants from northern Sindh will be catered to.This was announced at a press conference held by the SHRC at…
report in The News, N0v 20, 2020LAHORE:A large number of textbook publishers, printers and other related people staging a protest demonstration here on Thursday criticised the government for its Single National Curriculum policy. They warned of a country-wide protest if the government did not address their genuine concerns. The protest demonstration was held at Urdu Bazaar in which hundreds of people participated and expressed their anger over the upcoming Single National Curriculum, observing the same…
by Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2020.ISLAMABAD: Provinces have backed Sindh’s proposal for representation in the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) in line with the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) model. At present, all provinces have representation in Nepra. However, the federal government appoints members and chairman of Ogra and provinces have no say in it. Sindh has proposed that provinces should be given representation in Ogra as well. Following…
Report in Dawn, November 20th, 2020• Document on shared vision for peace issued• Accord on forming bodies to pursue security, peace-related matters• Ghani terms ceasefire vital for enduring peaceISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday assured the Afghan leadership of Pakistan’s full cooperation for reduction in violence in Afghanistan as he sought to fix bilateral ties that have for long been weighed down by mutual mistrust. Mr Khan both publicly extended this assurance and included…
By Ramsha Jahangir in Dawn, Nov 20, 2020A DAY after the government notified rules that define how social media will be governed in Pakistan, technology companies announced that the regulations would make it difficult for them to continue their operations in the country. The rules titled, “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules 2020,” have been framed under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (Peca). In a statement shared…
By Jamil Nagri in Dawn, November 20th, 2020GILGIT: As the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is set to form its government in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) with the inclusion of five independents in the party, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari claimed that the PTI government in Islamabad would be sent packing by January next year. “We have to send Imran Khan packing because he has failed on every front whether (it’s) Kashmir cause or Covid-19. This PTI…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 19th, 2020ISLAMABAD: After rejecting Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer for a dialogue on electoral reforms, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is now considering an option to present its own reforms in parliament in the form of a legislation. “Since we have decided to completely boycott all the activities under the present illegitimate government, there is no question of talking to it on any matter, including the election reforms,” declared…