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by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, Jannuary 5th, 2021ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) plans to transform itself from a fringe radical group into a mainstream political party are slowly taking shape under a new leadership and the party has announced the setting up of a formal secretariat. The chehlum of Allama Khadim Rizvi, the leader of TLP who passed away in November last year, turned into a large gathering on Multan road in Lahore on Sunday…

Report in Dawn, Jannuary 5th, 2021LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), an ally of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, has asked the Buzdar administration to restore free Wi-Fi facility in Punjab. “Why did Punjab shut the free Wi-Fi facility [for the public]. At a time when Covid-19 is on the rise, closing Wi-Fi facility at the hospitals, educational institutions, railways and bus stations and recreational spots is highly unwise. It [the government] should restore it forthwith,”…

Report in The Nation, January 05, 2021Peshawar – Another two leaders of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) were remanded in police custody for four days here on Monday. Last month, PTM’s Member National Assembly Ali Wazir had also been arrested from Peshawar and later handed over to Sindh police. On Monday, the police arrested PTM member Abdul Haq from University Road. Also, another PTM leader Dr Said Alam Mahsud was arrested from his home located in…

report in THE NEWS,January 5th, 2021QUETTA: “All the male members of my family have been killed and there is no male member left to carry my brother’s body to the graveyard, offer prayers and to lower him in the grave,” said a sniffling Masooma in an emotionally-choked voice. Masooma Yaqoob Ali, a Haraza woman of Balochistan, whose brother Muhammad Sadiq was brutally killed by an extremist organisation Dolat-e-Islamia in district Mach of Balochistan on Sunday…

report in Daily Times, January 5th, 2021The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday once again expressed concern over the “deteriorating law and order situation” in the capital after a lawyer was allegedly abducted from his home by unidentified individuals before being released two days later. Advocate Hammad Saeed Dar, who was taken away from his home in the early hours of Saturday, appeared in the court to detail the ordeal he allegedly went through. The…

Report IN The Frontier Post / January 5, 2021ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday agreed to further extend cooperation with each other to eradicate the menace of drugs from both the countries. The agreement reached between the two countries during a meeting between Minister for Narcotics Control Brig (R) Ijaz Ahmad and Iranian delegation headed by Chief of Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Police Brigadier-General Majid Karimi, said a news release. Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan Seyed Mohammad…

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, January 4th, 2021• IS claims responsibility• Victims belong to Shia Hazara community• PM orders FC to bring killers to justice• Attack triggers protests QUETTA: Eleven coal miners belonging to the Shia Hazara community sleeping in their room were held at gunpoint, blindfolded and trussed up before being executed by unidentified attackers in the Mach coal field area in the early hours of Sunday morning, official sources said. The gruesome attack…

Report in The Nation, January 04, 2021ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approached social media platforms for removal of trailers regarding a sacrilegious movie titled “Lady of Heaven”. In a statement issued here yesterday, the PTA said, keeping in view different reports regarding release of the movie titled “Lady of Heaven” and its sacrilegious content, it has directed social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter etc. for immediate blocking of all content…

report in The Frontier Post / January 4, 2021ISLAMABAD (APP): The Supreme Court of Pakistan fixed the hearing of the Daniel Pearl murder case for January 5. Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed constituted a three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya Afridi would hear the Sindh government and the appeal of Daniel Pearl’s parents against the Sindh High Court’s judgment. The bench will hear the…

report in The News, Jan 4, 2021Islamabad: A large number of students staged a protest demonstration in front of the National Press Club (NCP) here against the killing of 21-year old Usama Nadeem by personnel of the Islamabad Police on Saturday. A large number of students, who gathered in front of NCP, demanded exemplary punishment to the culprits involved in the killing of Usama in mid of the federal capital in wee hours of Saturday.…