by Aamir Yasin | Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, November 16th, 2020 • Dozens of policemen injured• Sit-in held at Faizabad Interchange over blasphemous caricaturesRAWALPINDI: Liaquat Bagh presented a scene of a battleground as police and stick-wielding activists of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) clashed throughout the day on Sunday. Riot police had to resort to teargas shelling against the stone-pelting protesters who had gathered on the call of TLP chief Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi to denounce the…
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Report in The News, Nov 16, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged as the single largest party in the hotly-contested Gilgit-Baltistan elections on Sunday, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results. Results showed that the PTI won on nine seats followed by independent candidates who won six seats, PPP won four seats, PML-N, JUI-F, MWM and Islami Tehreek Pakistan of Sajid Ali Naqvi got one seat each. According to the first unofficial complete result, the PPP’s Muhammad…
by Amir Wasim in Dawn, Nov 16, 2020• PPP, PML-N cry foul• Most voters, election staff observe SOPs ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was on the driving seat in the most hotly-contested elections ever held in strategically-located Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday, according to incomplete and unofficial results, with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) complaining about some irregularities and alleged rigging during the polling and counting process which mostly remained peaceful.…
by Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Nov 16, 2020ISLAMABAD: The polls and their outcome in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) have attracted attention of diplomatic community of the federal Capital to a great deal as they were monitoring the whole process of electioneering with fair amount of interest on regular basis. Well-placed diplomatic sources told The News here Sunday that the political sections of the foreign missions kept gathering details regarding the speeches made by different leaders…
by Helen Davidson in The Guardian, Nov 16 Nov 2020 at 04.47 ESTA Chinese citizen journalist detained since May for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is facing up to five years in jail after being formally indicted on charges of spreading false information. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, was arrested more than six months ago after reporting on the outbreak. She is being held in a detention facility in Shanghai. She was…
by Ansar Abbasi in The News, Nov 15, 2020ISLAMABAD: Former army chief General (R) Raheel Sharif says that he had never sought an extension as army chief, denying the PML-N’s claim that the party was victimized for not extending the tenure of the then top military commander. The issue of Raheel Sharif’s extension recently cropped up again after Lt Gen (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch said that he was told by the then Prime Minister Nawaz…
by Numan Wahab in The News, Nov 15, 2020LAHORE: Four District Police Officers (DPOs) of Gujarat have been accused of embezzling billions of rupees from the Police Martyr and Pension Funds and several other heads and transferred it as their own agricultural income into Pindi Bhattian bank accounts, The News has learnt. The information was given by Gujrat Police accountant Rizwan Asharf, who has now turned approver in the NAB Lahore reference against the four…
by Jamal Khurshid in The News, Nov 15, 2020Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has taken exception to the vague reports filed by the police department in different cases on behalf of the provincial police chief in which the court’s orders have not been complied with. The high court ordered that in future no compliance report must be signed on behalf of Sindh’s inspector general of police (IGP) by any officer except an additional IGP…
report in Dawn, November 15th, 2020BAJAUR: Awami National Party, district chapter, here has rejoined the All Bajaur Political Parties Alliance after leaving it over a month ago in protest against the Jamaat-i-Islami local leadership’s alleged undemocratic act during the oath-taking ceremony of the District Bar Association last month. The announcement to rejoin the alliance was made by party’s leadership during a meeting with the alliance’s leaders at the residence of ANP district president Gul Afzal…
report in The News, Nov 15, 2020Karachi: A judicial magistrate has overturned a report filed by police that absolved the K-Electric (KE) top management from the case of the death of a teenager due to electrocution during the last monsoon rains in Karachi. The District South judicial magistrate-VII ordered: “Let the case be registered. As the offence is exclusively triable by the court of sessions, let the record of the proceedings be respectfully submitted to…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 15, 2020LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) booked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Jahangir Tareen, his son Ali Tareen, and sons of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shehbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz and Suleiman Shehbaz, in separate cases pertaining to the sugar crisis and money laundering. According to FIA sources, the cases have provisions of betrayal of trust, fraud and deception included in the FIR. …….On October 23, it was…