report in Dawn, November 11th, 2020BAJAUR: Two students of the Governor Model School and College were wounded here on Tuesday when the police beat them up during a protest demonstration against the college’s management for not waiving off the fee of the last six months when the institution remained closed due to the Covid-19-induced lockdown. The incident occurred when scores of students, who have been protesting on the main Khar-Peshawar Road outside the Civil Colony…
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report in The News, Nov 11, 2020PESHAWAR: There is a sense of relief and achievement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that three major road projects in the province were recently adopted by the eighth meeting of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Joint Working Group on Transport Infrastructure. The virtual meeting in which secretary communication Zafar Hasan led the Pakistani side and China’s vice minister Dao Dongchang headed his government team, adopted the 320-kilometres long Peshawar-Dera Ismail Khan…
report in Dawn, November 11th, 2020GILGIT: Election campaign across Gilgit-Baltistan is in full swing as polls draw nearer and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and Federal Minister Murad Saeed have continued to address rallies in different parts of the region. The PPP and PML-N leaders criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan in their speeches while the minister and Special Assistant to Prime Minister Zulfi Bukhari defended him and held responsible the previous…
by Aamir Yasin in Dawn, November 11th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The PPP on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement giving Gilgit-Baltistan interim status of a parovince, saying this was given in 2009, by the PPP government in the centre. At a press conference, PPP Information Secretary Dr Nafisa Shah said her party’s ties to the people of GB go back three generations. She added the decision to attend the meeting of parliamentary party leaders chaired by…
report in The News, Nov 11, 2020KARACHI: Two surveys conducted by Gallup Pakistan and Pulse Consultant have shown that the upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan will be very closely contested between the PTI and PPP. However, both surveys put PTI ahead of the PPP, while the PML-N has been placed at the third position. The surveys show that PM Imran Khan is the most popular leader in GB followed by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Nawaz Sharif.…
Establishment not averse to inter-institutional dialogue ideaby Ansar Abbasi in The News, November 11, 2020ISLAMABAD: The establishment is not averse to the idea of the much-discussed inter-institutional dialogue if it is initiated to enable all institutions to learn from their past mistakes. A source with close links to the establishment told The News that the security establishment also realises that all institutions had made mistakes in the past and it is now time for everyone…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, November 11th, 2020• Army’s court of inquiry advises departmental proceedings, their disposal at GHQ• Bilawal hails ‘step to fortify institutions prestige’• Shibli wants action against Sindh police for ‘mutiny’• Nawaz says report is a cover-up to shield real culprits KARACHI: In a rare move, the Pakistan Army on Tuesday announced removal of officers of the premier Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, from their current assignments after finding them…
report in The News, Nov 11, 2020ISLAMABAD: Most political leaders Tuesday welcomed the court of inquiry recommendations about the removal of the Rangers and ISI officials responsible for the Karachi incident, though PML-N supremo rejected it outright. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif termed the report of the inquiry carried out by the army into the events leading up to and following the arrest of his son-in-law Capt (retd) Mohammad Safdar in Karachi a “cover-up”, saying…
by Tariq Saeed Birmani in Dawn, November 10th, 2020DERA GHAZI KHAN: Seraiki intellectuals and activists have supported the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM’s) struggle for the establishment of democratic, constitutional and parliamentary supremacy in the country. They vowed to participate in the PDM’s rally in Multan with their demand for the creation of a Seraiki province. The decision was taken at a consultative meeting by the Seraiki Loak Saanjh in Shadan Lund, some 50 km from…
by Naeem Sahoutara in Dawn, November 10th, 2020Karachi: Police have declared the first information report (FIR) registered against PML-N leader retired Capt Mohammad Safdar for ‘violating the sanctity’ of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi as fake in the charge sheet submitted to a local court on Monday. The investigation report concluded that neither the complainant, Waqas Khan, nephew of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Haleem Adil Sheikh, joined the investigation nor was the veracity…
Report in The Nation, Nov 10, 2020ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party yesterday said 40 percent of Karachi was Cantonment area and the PPP had never been in control of the Local Government of Karachi since 1979. In a statement, PPP leader Taj Haider said the local government had either been under the Jamat-e-Islami or an ethnic party. “No other city in this world has seen ethnic and linguistic tyranny backed by dictatorship on the scale…