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by Tahir Niaz & SHAFQAT ALI in The Nation, Nov 13, 2020ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party have jointly asked the authorities concerned to ensure transparency in elections for Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly slated for November 15 (Sunday). According to the media wing of PML-N, in a joint declaration, both the parties warned the government that any possible rigging in the upcoming elections would have repercussions. The declaration came a day after…

by MANSOOR ALI in The Nation, Nov 13, 2020GILGIT – Many parties in Gilgit Baltistan (GB) have accused the GB Election Commission of issuing fake postal ballot papers to government employees. The candidates from GB constituency of Diamar 2 have claimed that the total number of government employees in the mentioned constituency was 700 and the GB Election Commission had issued 1,791 ballot papers for government employees. The political parties have also threatened the GB…

report in Dawn, November 13th, 2020KARACHI: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Amjad Khan Niazi visited the coastal areas of Turbat, Gwadar and Ormara on Thursday to review the operational preparedness and combat readiness of the Pakistan Navy units there. Upon his arrival at PNS Siddique Naval Air Station at Turbat, the naval chief was received by Commander Pakistan Fleet Rear Admiral Naveed Ashraf. He was briefed on the operations of the Naval Air Arm…

report in Dawn, November 13th, 2020PESHAWAR: A prominent rights group on Thursday asked Pakistan to immediately disclose the whereabouts of an activist who authorities acknowledged was being held on a treason charge months after his disappearance. Idris Khattak, who worked for both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, went missing along with his driver on Nov 13 last year. Later, his driver told his family that Mr Khattak was taken by unidentified men from his…

report in Dawn, November 13th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Talks between the capital administration and leaders of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have started over a protest planned by the latter against publication of blasphemous caricatures in France. Officers of the administration told Dawn on condition of anonymity that senior officers had approached the party leaders after they sought security cover for the protest rally scheduled to be held on November 15. Earlier, an application was submitted to the office…

report in Dawn, November 13th, 2020KARACHI: A local court on Thursday remanded in judicial custody a suspect detained in a case pertaining to alleged abduction of a teenage Christian girl, who has purportedly converted to Islam. Police claimed to have booked her ‘husband’ Syed Ali Azhar, his brothers — Syed Shariq Ali and Syed Mohsin Ali — along with his friend Danish Mehmood over their alleged involvement in the abduction of Arzoo on Oct 13.…

by Peerzada Salman in Dawn, November 13th, 2020KARACHI: A monograph titled The Gilgit-Baltistan Conundrum: Dilemmas of Political Integration by Sajjad Ahmed was launched at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) on Thursday evening. Director Institute of Historical and Social Research, Dr Jaffar Ahmed, whose institute has published the book, said the author had been working at the University of Karachi and came in contact with him a year and a half back. When Dr Ahmed…

report in The News, Nov 13, 2020RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday reiterated the Pakistan Army’s utmost support and commitment to the Kashmir cause and the people of Kashmir. He was talking to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider during a meeting here, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar said in a tweet. Matters of mutual interest,…

by Ansar Abbasi in The News, Nov 13, 2020ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz has finally softened her stance in favour of an inter-institutional dialogue and said that the PDM would be ready to talk to the same establishment, whose key players have been criticised by Nawaz Sharif during the recent weeks. In an interview with BBC Urdu, she though admitted that the establishment is in contact with PML-N leaders, did not disclose what is being discussed behind…

Report in The Express Tribune, Nov 13, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif had committed ‘high treason’ by targeting state institutions at the “behest of India”. “Nawaz has committed the highest treason by targeting military leadership which is tantamount to incite mutiny in the armed forces,” the premier said in an interview with a local TV channel Thursday night. “How all of a sudden Nawaz who was…