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Opposition’s attack on judiciary, army tantamount to instigating a coup within institutions

Report in The Nation, Nov 8, 2020LAHORE/HAFIZABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday emphatically stated that the corrupt elements would be brought to justice and the plundered amount would be recovered from their possession. The prime minister was addressing a mammoth public gathering in Hafizabad after breaking ground of the Hafizabad University and a 400-bed District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) for the city. …. The Prime Minister regretted that a person sitting in London is…

PPP files plea against GB court’s order on Bilawal

by Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 8th, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Appellate Cou­rt of Gilgit-Baltistan aga­inst the order of the chief court asking party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to leave the region within 72 hours for violating the code of conduct for elections. “We have filed the petition in the Supreme Appe­llate Court today and it has fixed the hearing on Mon­day (tomorrow),” said Sena­tor Mustafa…

Re-election to UNHRC: op-ed by Irshad Ahmad in The News, Nov 7,2020

The writer is a Peshawar-based lawyerIn the middle of October this year, Pakistan was re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which works globally for the promotion and protection of human rights and also to address human rights violations around the world. Pakistan was elected for the fifth time since the establishment of the 47-member UNHRC in 2006, winning a seat after receiving 163 votes in the 193-member General Assembly of…

Blood of farmer leader will not go waste: Pervaiz Elahi

report in The News, Nov 7,2020LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that the blood of farmer leader Ashfaq Langrial will not go waste, whosoever responsible for that must be taken to task. Expressing condolence over the demise of farmer leader Ashfaq Langrial, Pervaiz Elahi in a statement issued on Friday said that the government work is to sort out matters and provide relief to the people. All governments in the past always…

Fazl all set to form unanimous narrative for Opposition

by Mansoor Ali in The Nation, Nov 7, 2020ISLAMABAD – Jamiat Ulema e Islam (JUI) Chief and head of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman is all set to form unanimous narrative for the Opposition parties in the upcoming meeting of PDM. A close aide of JUI Chief told The Nation that the Sunday’s meeting of PDM which will be headed by Maulana Fazl Rehman will form a complete strategy and narrative for giving…

Bilawal says Nawaz’s speech ‘shocked’ him

by Hassan Sheerazi in Dawn, November 7th, 2020KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday said he was ‘shocked’ when he heard Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo Nawaz Sharif naming the military leadership in his address at the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s rally in Gujranwala for allegedly orchestrating his ouster from office. The PML-N supremo, who had thrice served as the prime minister, would not have taken the names of General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Gen…

Pakistan may return $2b Saudi Arabian loan

by Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune., Nov 7, 2020,ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may return $2 billion Saudi Arabian loan and is looking for various options to secure more lending aimed at retaining gross official foreign exchange reserves at their current level of over $12 billion, Ministry of Finance sources told The Express Tribune. The second tranche of $1 billion of Saudi loan is maturing next month and there is likelihood that the government will return the…

PPP warns of street protests if GB elections ‘rigged’

by Asim Yasin in The News, Nov 7, 2020ISLAMABAD: Raising the questions on transparency in upcoming Gilgit Baltistan (GB) election, the Pakistan People’s Party on Friday warned of street protest in Gilgit Baltistan and Islamabad if election rigged. Accusing the Chief Election Commissioner Gilgit Baltistan of facilitating the federal government for rigging the upcoming elections, the PPP questioned why the Chief Election Commissioner Gilgit Baltistan did not check the role of the federal ministers and…

Ulema at Friday sermons pledge to stand by armed forces

report in The News, Nov 7,2020ISLAMABAD: Eminent Ulema in Pakistan during their Friday sermons appealed to the nation to forge unity and discourage statements by some quarters aimed at maligning the state institutions, particularly the armed forces of Pakistan. Maulana Zahid Qasmi from Gol Masjid Faisalabad said the enemy states are taking advantage of the propaganda against the armed forces, which is not in our country’s interest. He said the country’s prestigious institutions must not…

Shortage of senior police officers in country

By Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, 07 Nov 2020LAHORE: Police departments in all provinces lack human resources, especially the senior command, making it hard for the understaffed and under-equipped police force to materialise the reforms to provide relief to the masses. Dawn has learned that followed by Punjab, the three other provinces are facing the shortage of officers of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSPs) in almost all ranks, especially in the rank of BS-19. A…

CTD kills two terrorists in DG Khan, recovers arms

report in The News, Nov 7,2020LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has foiled a big terrorism plan by killing two members of al-Qaeda group in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Dera Ghazi Khan district. The CTD also recovered arms, ammunition and explosives from the killed terrorists. A CTD team in DG Khan had received information that four members of AQIS (Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent) were present at Choti Bala Road in the limits of Sakhi Sarwar police…