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Sirajul Haq asks political parties to hold dialogue on civil supremacy

report in The News, Nov 14, 2020LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has asked the political parties to initiate a dialogue among themselves on wide-ranging electoral and political reforms for establishing a transparent and accountable election system and effective governance system to improve the quality of future polls and governments in the country. He presented an 11-point charter of demands at a press conference at Mansoora on Friday for establishment of civilian supremacy, transparent polls,…

PBC wants IG ‘kidnap’ probe report made public

Report in Dawn, November 14th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The vice chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), Abid Saqi, on Friday urged the federal government to make public the report of the Court of Inquiry regarding the unfortunate incident in which the inspector general of police, Sindh, was “abducted”. He also called for disclosure of names of officials of different agencies against whom departmental action had been taken. Mr Saqi emphasised that publication of the report and…

Nasir Butt, Saleem Raza placed on ‘most wanted’ terrorists list

report in daily Times, Nov14, 2020The Federal Investigation Agency has placed the main characters in the video scandal of dismissed judge Arshad Malik – PML-N’s Nasir Butt and Mian Saleem Raza – on the list of “most wanted” terrorists in the country. The decision of declaring both leaders of the PMLN the most wanted terrorists came months after an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad dismissed the FIA’s plea seeking to try all accused in the judge…

CTD arrests two men over sectarian killings

report in The News, Nov 14, 2020The Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh police on Friday arrested two men on charges of involvement in sectarian violence and killings in Karachi.According to CTD in-charge Mazhar Mashwani, the arrests were made during a joint raid conducted in the SITE area in collaboration with an intelligence agency. Arms and ammunitions were said to have been found on the two men identified as Agha Hassan and Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi.…

Two alleged hitmen of banned outfit held

Report in Dawn, November 14th, 2020KARACHI: Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Friday claimed to have arrested two members of a banned outfit allegedly involved in targeted killings in the metropolis.“The CTD police along with the personnel of a sensitive institution carried out an action in a SITE locality on Thursday night and detained two suspects identified as Syed Mohammed Ali Raza and Aga Hasan,” claimed officer Mazhar Mashwani. The officer believed that their two accomplices namely…

As GB votes, locals want share of Chinese investment boom

Report in Dawn, November 14th, 2020GAHKUCH: As night falls on a remote mountain road in a northern area of Pakistan, Ijazul Haq, 22, is keeping his grocery store open longer than usual, hoping to cash in on a frenzied electoral campaign that has brought the nation’s interest upon this otherwise neglected region.Political parties are trying to sway voters in Gilgit-Baltistan. The country’s top politicians have turned up here to stump, vowing to build multibillion-dollar infrastructure…

Nawaz again assails those who ‘brought PM to power’

by Fazal Khaliq in Dawn, November 14th, 2020SWAT: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is mere a ‘puppet’ playing in the hands of some elements and those pulling his strings would have to answer. Addressing a PML-N pub­lic gathering at Grassy Gro­und here on Friday via video link, Mr Sharif said these elements would be made accountable one day for their injustices inflicted on the people…

Pakistan to seek $2.7b Chinese loan

by Shahbaz Rana in the Express Tribune, Nov 14, 2020ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday decided to seek $2.7 billion in loan from China for the construction of package-I of the Mainline-1 project of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) amid the Ministry of Finance’s emphasis on making the project bankable to address debt sustainability concerns. The sixth meeting of the financing committee on ML-1 project decided that Pakistan would initially request China to sanction only $2.73 billion…

GB court stops ministers, MNAs from canvassing

Report in Dawn, November 14th, 2020GILGIT: Just 16 hours before close of the poll campaign, the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court stopped the public office-holders, including ministers and MNAs, from participating in the election campaign.Pakistan Peoples Party had challenged the Nov 6 order of the Chief Court of Gilgit-Baltistan in which federal minister for Kashmir affairs and MNAs were ordered to leave GB within three days. Amjad Hussain advocate represented PPP while Munir Ahmed advocate presented…

Fazl alleges pre-poll rigging

Report in Dawn, November 14th, 2020DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday alleged record pre-poll rigging in Gilgit-Baltistan.Mr Fazl told a presser at his residence here that additional ballot papers had been issued in the name of government employees with the objective of rigging. “The issuance of more than 1,000 ballot papers in place of 700 besides the display of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s pictures on wheat sacks is pre-poll rigging,”…

PDM to decide on dialogue with ‘establishment’: Bilawal

report in the Express Tribune, Nov 14, 2020A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz expressed openness about the idea of negotiating with the “establishment”, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that the issue will be decided through the forum of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) – an alliance of 11 opposition parties to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government. In an interview with the BBC Urdu, Maryam said her party…