report in The News, December 20, 2023PESHAWAR: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Tuesday said the higher judiciary should play its role in holding fair, free and transparent general elections to provide a capable leadership to the country. “We have petitioned the Peshawar and Lahore high courts to hold elections under the supervision of the judiciary, as we believe deputy commissioners and local administrations are not impartial,” he said while talking to reporters on…
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Report in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2023LAHORE: PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday said if old politicians continued to fight using old methods, they would not be able to find solutions to the country’s problems. “I want to bury traditional politics and take the country in a new direction,” said the former foreign minister speaking at a gathering in connection with the golden jubilee celebration of the 1973 Constitution by the Lahore High Court Bar Association.…
By Faizan Bangash in The News, December 20, 2023LAHORE: Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the Lahore High Court and Supreme Court are the crime scenes of the murder of Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The PPP leader said it was perpetrated by late Gen Ziaul Haq and the coterie of judges of the Lahore High Court, the Supreme Court along with lawyers, politicians and bureaucrats who acted as facilitators. Bilawal was addressing a…
Report in The Nation, Dec 20, 2023LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif asserted on Tuesday that the country was flourishing in 2017 but a ‘selected’ prime minister was installed the following year through electoral manipulation. Speaking at a parliamentary board meeting in Lahore, the former prime minister expressed concern that the nation had paid a heavy price due to the selection of an undeserving individual for the prime ministerial position. Nawaz…
report in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.LAHORE: Former Prime Minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif expressed his disappointment over the current state of affairs in Pakistan on Tuesday, attributing it to self-inflicted mistakes rather than external factors. Speaking at a parliamentary board meeting in Lahore, Sharif acknowledged that the nation’s predicament was a result of domestic errors. “It’s not India or the United States; we are in this position due to our own…
Report in Dawn, December 20th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday lashed out at judges for legitimising military dictators and taking action against elected prime ministers. “Judges garland the ones (military dictators) who break the Constitution, rather they legitimise their rule. When the parliament is dissolved and the prime minister is sent to jail, they (judges) endorse these actions,” Mr Sharif said while addressing the ticket aspirants from Faisalabad at the party secretariat in…
by Syed Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.QUETTA: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday reiterated that under existing laws, the government has the authority to ban and terminate individuals or entities, clarifying that the government operates within the framework of law, neither portraying itself as villains nor heroes of human rights. He underscored the importance of upholding the rule of law, rejecting any attempts to justify violence under the guise…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2023WASHINGTON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir engaged with US scholars and foreign policy experts in Washington on Tuesday on the last leg of his week-long visit to the United States. The meeting covered the regional security situation in South Asia and economic stability in Pakistan, which some of the participants thought was linked to political stability and security in the country. On Monday, the army…
by Imran Gabol in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2023LAHORE: Thousands of people joined the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) marchers on Tuesday as they reached Taunsa Sharif on Tuesday, protesting against alleged extrajudicial killings. The marchers plan to spend the night in Taunsa Sharif and will decide whether to continue their long march to Islamabad on Wednesday. Previously, the protesters held a sit-in in DG Khan and blocked Globe Square, demanding transport for their onward journey. Their…
report in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2023.KATLANG: Lashing out at those silent over the atrocities being faced by the Palestinian people, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday maintained that international organisations, including the UN, were controlling Pakistan’s politics. “International human rights organisations make our decisions, rendering our own Constitution and laws ineffective,” Fazl said while addressing an event in the Babuzai area of Katlang tehsil in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district. The JUI-F chief regretted…
By Aftab Ahmed & Imtiaz Hussain in The News, Dec 18, 2023HYDERABAD/ SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) secretary general Sindh chapter Rashid Mahmood Soomro said he has applied to the party ticket to contest the election against PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, adding the final decision will be taken by the party. Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Sukkur, the JUI-F leader said as to how the PPP will run its election campaign in…