On Monday, a total of 20 people from the Senate Secretariat and five people from the National Assembly were diagnosed with COVID-19—leading to the suspension of all sessions until November 9. Unfortunately, there seems to be no distinguishing factor in regards to the attitude towards the pandemic between political leadership and the public at large. Strict adherence to protocols could have prevented the suspension of vital political processes. This should serve as a reminder for…
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Fahd Husain in Dawn, November 5th, 2020As President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden prepare to climb the legal container in the United States, Pakistani politicians are converging on Gilgit-Baltistan to wage electoral war in their own battleground state. The weather report says today Washington DC will experience a high of 21 Celsius and a low of 10 Celsius. Gilgit today will have a high of 15 Celsius and a low of 4 Celsius.…
report in The News, Nov 5, 2020MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) central deputy secretary Maulana Muhammad Amjad Khan Wednesday said Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Multan meeting will be a referendum against the government on November 30. Talking to reporters and the party workers, he said the poor people are suffering more from PTI-led government that coronavirus. He said the JUI-F is fighting for the rights of the common man and the PTI-led government has allegedly failed…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 5, 2020ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Wednesday announced that it had referred a case of diverting funds worth Rs80 billion to the Nandipur power project against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Minister for Power Omar Ayub tweeted that he had directed the Power Division secretary to refer a case to the FIA against PML-N for diverting Rs80 billion, earmarked for Pakistan…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, November 5th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda is in hot water as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday submitted his affidavit in the Islamabad High Court in which he has given an undertaking that he never acquired the citizenship of any foreign state. ECP’s senior counsel Sanaullah Zahid submitted the affidavit to Justice Aamer Farooq of the IHC during the hearing of a petition seeking…
report in Dawn, November 5th, 2020MIRPURKHAS: A large number of growers held a demonstration in Sindhri taluka on Wednesday in protest against shortage of irrigation water in Saeedi Shakh. The protesters led by Arshad Arain, Mir Khan and Yar Mohammad Shar raised slogans against irrigation officers and condemned them for depriving their channel of water despite repeated complaints. They said that SDO concerned and other irrigation staff had deliberately stopped supply of water into the…
Report in Dawn, November 5th, 2020LAHORE: Protesting farmers and the Punjab government agreed to come to negotiating table after the former were baton-charged and arrested by police when they reached The Mall here on Wednesday and tried to block the road for traffic. “We decided to postpone our protest and go for talks when the government agreed to form a committee for discussing ways and means for implementing the recommendations we had submitted to the…
report in Dawn, November 5th, 2020SAHIWAL: The Pakistan Kisan Ittehad (PKI) and Kisan Board – farmers’ wing of Jamaat-i-Islamai (JI) – on Wednesday separately condemned the arrest of farmers in different districts of Punjab and demanded their immediate release. Both organisations, at separate press conferences held at Sahiwal and Chichawatni, threatened to give calls for sit-ins in all districts, if the arrested farmers were not freed. PKI district president Muhammad Hussain, told Dawn that around…
by Imran Gabol | Sajjad Abbas Niazi in Dawn, November 5th, 2020A bank manager was shot dead by its security guard allegedly over blasphemy allegations in Punjab’s Khushab district on Wednesday, police and relatives said. Malik Imran Hanif, the manager of the National Bank of Pakistan branch in Quaidabad tehsil of Khushab, was shifted to a local hospital after he was shot by the guard from a rifle. Due to his critical injuries, he was…
by Ishaq Tanoli in Dawn, November 5th, 2020KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday expressed serious resentment over the provincial authorities for the continuous detention of four men set free around seven months back by the order of the SHC in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. A two-judge bench headed by Justice K.K. Agha directed the home department and police to file a comprehensive report by Nov 26 regarding allegations…
report in Dawn, November 5th, 2020ISLAMABAD: Justice Maqbool Baqar of the Supreme Court has held Prime Minister Imran Khan, Law Minister Dr Farogh Naseem and Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) Chairman Mirza Shahzad Akbar liable under the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001 as well as the Nadra Ordinance for the institution in haste of the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. The prime minister is also liable to send the purported advice to President Arif…