report in Business recorder, Nov 17, 2020Pakistani and Russian paratroopers took part in a drill in which they did not use parachutes but instead practiced a fast-rope technique from helicopters that hovered high above the ground. As part of the joint counter-terrorism exercise DRUZHBA – V, the paratroopers practiced the tactic of parachute-free landing from domestically-made helicopters. Mi-17 helicopters the export version of Russia’s Mi-8s operational with the Pakistani Army aviation were involved in the…
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by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, November 17th, 2020ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Monday approved four major supplementary grants totalling Rs38 billion for security expenditures. It also approved Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) for the staff of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Presided over by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance & Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the meeting was attended by Minister for Industries & Production Hammad Azhar,…
report on Dawn.com,17 Nov 2020PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday levelled a host of allegations regarding irregularities in Gilgit-Baltistan’s elections, saying his party will use all its legal options against the “open and naked rigging” in the polls. Addressing a press conference in Gilgit a day after polls closed and unofficial results showed the PPP had won only three out of the 24 seats in the GB Legislative Assembly, Bilawal claimed that results were manipulated…
report in The News, Nov 17, 2020ISLAMABAD: The main opposition parties – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – Monday rejected the results of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) elections and warned of protest rallies. PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari joined the party sit-in against the alleged rigging in front of the deputy commissioner’s office in Gilgit city, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal announced a march on the Chief Election Commissioner’s (CEC) office in Islamabad…
by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, November 17th, 2020• Imran-led party bags 10 seats against PPP’s three and PML-N’s two• MWM secures one seat• Independent candidates emerge victorious in seven constituenciesGILGIT: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the single largest party in the elections for the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly by securing 10 seats, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) which got three seats and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) two seats. Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 17th, 2020• PPP gives call for protests against alleged rigging• Maryam says PTI failed to get ‘simple majority’ despite using full state power ISLAMABAD: Independent candidates winning nearly one-third of the total general seats of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) in Sunday’s hotly contested — but tainted with rigging allegations — elections have become key players in the formation of the government in the strategically located region. The complete…
by Ghulam Abbas in Pakistan Today,. Nov 17, 2020ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which won majority seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) election, has started consulting the independent candidates, who are the second largest group, in forming the government in GB, it could have up to 22 seats in the assembly by forming a coalition. PTI, which has won at least nine seats, already has the support of Majlis-e-Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM), which has won one seat at…
report in Dawn, November 17th, 2020LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is concerned to learn that independent election observers — including HRCP’s own team in four cases — were not allowed into polling stations in Gilgit city during the vote counting process. The Gilgit Union of Journalists has made a similar claim. Additionally, the HRCP team was not allowed to enter a polling station in Sherqila, Ghizer-1 (GBA-19). In at least two cases, the…
report in Times of India, Nov 17, 2020 at 12.58 PM ISTWASHINGTON: Barack Obama has said that he had ruled out involving Pakistan in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout because it was an “open secret” that certain elements inside Pakistan’s military, and especially its intelligence services, maintained links to the Taliban and perhaps even al-Qaida, sometimes using them as strategic assets against Afghanistan and India.Giving a blow-by-blow account of the Abbottabad raid by…
by Manzurul Haq in Dawn, November 16th, 2020LAHORE: Since the latest rebirth of the Ravi Riverfront Development Scheme, the PTI government has been touting it as a harbinger of a bright future of the country, especially for Lahore. A new company, the Ravi Urban Development Authority (Ruda), has been formed to deal with the project, signifying a new beginning. It has been hailed as a new dawn. A government spokesperson has likened the project to…
by Shakeel Ahmed in Dawn, November 16th, 2020MULTAN: The family of Malik Ishfaq Langrial who died of alleged police torture during a protest rally in Lahore on Nov 5 has no hope for justice.Langrial was the finance secretary of the Vehari chapter of the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI), which alleged that its office-bearer had died after being injured by a shell of teargas but the government claimed that he had died because of cardiac arrest.…