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by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, November 9th, 2020GILGIT: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz alleged on Sunday that the government had planned to rig Gilgit-Baltistan elections. “If the elections are rigged, we will not accept results,” she warned while addressing a public meeting organised by her party in Chilas, Diamer district. Ms Nawaz said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “days are numbered as his fake government is about to go home”. She appealed to…

by Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, Nov 9, 2020RAWALPINDI: The Gilgit-Baltistan administration has sought more than 2,000 extra police personnel from Punjab Constabulary to strengthen security during the upcoming general elections to be held in the region on Nov 15. According to sources, the personnel to be sent to GB will be equipped with antiriot equipment and they will also ensure implementation of preventive measures against Covid-19. Electioneering in the region is in full swing by…

by Amir Wasim in Dawn, Nov 9, 2020• 51,109 women among 126,997 new voters registered since 2015• Gender gap high in Diamer, Shigar, Nagar and Skardu districts• Hunza only district with a drop in gender gapISLAMABAD: While the voters’ list for 2020 elections in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) reflects the remarkable achievement of registering 126,997 new voters — a 21 per cent increase — since 2015, women’s representation has declined with the result that gender gap in…

by Khalid Hasnain in Dawn, November 9th, 2020LAHORE: A number of workers, civil society members and parliamentarians took out a protest rally on Sunday against massive price hike, rising unemployment and other issues people have been facing since the PTI-led government took over in August 2018. The protesters including a number of women gathered at the GPO intersection under the banner of Haqooq-i-Khalq movement. They, while carrying placards and banners inscribed with various demands, chanted…

by Dr. Nadeem Jan in The Frontier Post / Nov 9, 2020No two opinions that we are in the grip of one of the harshest inflation which has made a decent living for many a dream, mainly due to decades long bartered economy and partly to the Corona pandemic. The shockwaves of rising staple food prices, electricity, fuel has made life challenging even for the middle class let alone the poor. Creating opportunities for enabling…

report on Times of India online, Nov9, 2020 at 08.18 PM ISTISLAMABAD : Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special advisor made a derogatory remark against a renowned political commentator in the country by terming her a “filthy thing” and further disparaged people with liberal ideology as ‘libtards’.While the US President Donald Trump’s tweets during the tense election process were flagged, this tweet, however, has not been flagged by the microblogging site Twitter as of now,…

by Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor in The Guardian, Nov 9, 2020 at 15.11 GMTThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has been urged by an international alliance of parliamentarians to accept a complaint alleging genocide by China against its Uighur Muslim minority. The complaint, backed by more than 60 parliamentarians from 16 countries, says the Chinese government may be committing crimes amounting to genocide and other crimes against humanity against the Uighur and other…

POLITICAL rhetoric is entering a danger zone. With rallies and jalsas taking place every day, all leaders have ample opportunity to scale up their tempo by going after their opponents. Now the government has also ratcheted up its war of words against the opposition alliance PDM and Prime Minister Imran Khan is himself leading the charge. First in Swat and then in Hafizabad on Saturday, the prime minister addressed political rallies thinly disguised as the…

Report in Dawn, November 9th, 2020PESHAWAR: Wrangling on whether Awami National Party or Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl should host the upcoming Pakistan Democratic Movement’s rally in Peshawar has led to a compromise over the two political parties jointly hosting the united opposition’s anti-government protest in the provincial capital. Among the political leaders from the joint opposition, Maulana Fazl Rehman of JUI-F, Maryam Nawaz of PML-N, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari of PPP, Mahmood Khan Achakzai of PkMAP, Aftab Sherpao of…

THE recent police action against farmers in Lahore following which a protester died was appalling. While the administration hopes that such a measure would act as a deterrent, in reality it could add vigour to the farmers’ campaign. The season of protests is well under way and as usual the law enforcers are being watched closely for evidence of the intent of those in power. How the police and other security personnel deal with demonstrators…