by Hammad Sarfraz in The Express Tribune online, Nov 18, 2020KARACHI: The Lords Conduct Committee of the upper house of parliament in the United Kingdom has concluded that one of its members has breached the Code of Conduct and subsequently made the case for the first ever expulsion. “Lord Ahmed breached the Code of Conduct by failing to act on his personal honour,” said the report that was made public on Tuesday. According to the…
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by Fakhar Durrani in The News, Nov 18, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has claimed that the recent pre-elections surveys in Gilgit-Baltistan were part of the rigging process. These surveys were conducted by Gallup and Pulse and released by Geo/Jang Group. The accusations of the major opposition party are not new. The political parties in the past too attacked the messenger when the survey results were unfavourable to them but endorse and took support…
report in Dawn, November 18th, 2020QUETTA: Some government schoolteachers who have been sacked by the government in Kech continued their hunger strike on the second consecutive day on Tuesday. Members of the Government Teachers’ Association along with the sacked teachers have set up a hunger strike camp outside the Quetta Press Club. As many as 22 male and 15 female teachers are on hunger strike. www.dawn.com/news/1590938/sacked-govt-teachers-continue-hunger-strike
by Zulfiqar Ali in Dawn, November 18th, 2020PESHAWAR: The 2023 general elections may seem to be a long way off but already in evidence is a renewed effort on part of political parties to cultivate and lure ‘electables’ into their folds – a trend that certain political observers attribute to the rising political temperatures in the country and the possibility that elections may be held sooner than later. The phenomenon of weaning away electables –…
Report in Dawn, November 18th, 2020LAHORE: The Punjab cabinet meeting on Tuesday had an “unusual scene” when Chief Minister Usman Buzdar snubbed School Education Minister Murad Rass, telling him that he would no longer tolerate “indiscipline and insubordination” which happened right in the middle of the meeting. Sources said Murad earned the chief ministerial ire when he objected to the removal of Punjab School Education Department Secretary Sara Aslam, saying she was transferred a day…
Report in Dawn, November 18th, 2020SAHIWAL: The Punjab Women Protection Authority (PWPA) on Tuesday withdrew the appointment of a controversial PTI leader as the district coordinator. Mian Naveed Aslam, the district information secretary of the PTI, who was booked in a case for slapping a Pakistan Post woman officer at the GPO was posted in the authority on Oct 16. However, a notification was issued by the PWPA Director General Irshad Waheed on Tuesday to…
by Ansar Abbasi in The News,Nov 18,2020ISLAMABAD: A residential plot belonging to the prime minister’s brother-in-law was recently in the news and was cited as the main reason for the appointment of the Lahore CCPO. It was said that he had gotten the plot freed from the clutches of the ‘Qabza mafia’ (land-grabbers). However, what Prime Minister Imran Khan did not know then is that his brother-in-law’s plot in Lahore is still out of the…
report in The News,Nov 18,2020PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) provincial Information Secretary Samar Haroon Bilour on Tuesday said the opposition parties would hold its scheduled public rally in the provincial capital and threatened they would march on Islamabad if the government created a hurdle for them. Speaking at a news conference here, she said the component parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) had mobilized workers for the November 22 public gathering in Peshawar. “Our party…
report in The News,Nov 18,2020MANSEHRA: The district administration on Tuesday warned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to abide by its order of not holding the public meeting, or else it would be considered as breach of law. “In light of current alarming situation of coronavirus in the district where its positivity ratio has jumped to an highest ever of 9 percent, holding of public gathering may be an open initiative to spread this pandemic,” Dr…
Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 18th, 2020•Rules out talks with govt on election reforms•Forms five-member committee to prepare ‘Charter of Pakistan’ based on 12 principles•Terms GB polls ‘action replay’ of 2018 elections in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: The opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has rejected the government move to impose restrictions on public gatherings in the country in the wake of Covid-19 and announced that its remaining three public meetings will be held as already planned. “There…
by Shakeel Anjum in The News,Nov 18,2020ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) called off its sit-in at Faizabad Interchange Monday night after reaching an agreement with the federal government on expulsion of French ambassador and banning of all imports from France on the issue of publication of profane sketches in France. The agreement said that the French ambassador in Islamabad would be expelled from Pakistan in two, three months after getting final approval from the parliament,…