by Tariq Saeed Birmani | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 18th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA: Police conducted a crackdown and detained “at least 20 participants, including women”, who joined the long march against the alleged “extra-judicial killings” by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Turbat, Balochistan, as it entered the city on Sunday. According to details, the long march of the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC), led by Mohammad Asif Laghari and originating from Balochistan, was intercepted…
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by Imran Ayub in Dawn, December 17th, 2023KARACHI: Despite its reservations about a level playing field in the lead-up to general elections, PPP has announced on Saturday that it will launch the election campaign on December 27 — the 16th death anniversary of former party leader and prime minster Benazir Bhutto. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Bilawal House on Saturday, a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan released the schedule…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 17, 2023KARACHI / LAHORE / PESHAWAR: The political heat in the country picked up steam further after the ECP announced the election schedule with major political parties readying to plunge into the fray and designating ground zero for the poll campaign. The electoral battles began to take shape as bigwigs of parties spent a busy Saturday, highlighting their priorities after coming to power, convening ’emergency sessions’, naming candidates for…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 17th, 2023QUETTA: Hundreds of political workers, human rights defenders and members of civil society along with the family of Balach Mola Bakhsh after a long journey reached Kohlu, where a complete strike was observed on the call of Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) to protest against his alleged extrajudicial killing on Saturday. The BYC leaders had decided to travel from Quetta to Islamabad along with other protesters to stage a…
report in Dawn, December 17th, 2023UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged a UN panel to find out how the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is acquiring modern weaponry to carry out terrorist attacks in the country. Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative Usman Jadoon highlighted the alarming trend during a UN Security Council open debate on the threat posed by the diversion, illicit trafficking, and misuse of small arms and light weapons. He argued that terrorist groups like TTP…
report in The News, Dec 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman will visit Kabul in the coming days on the special invitation of Afghan government, it has been learnt. The invitation was officially handed over by the Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan, Sardar Ahmed Khan Shakib, in a meeting at Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s residence in Islamabad on Saturday. The two dignitaries discussed the Pak-Afghan relations, recent wave of terrorism in Pakistan and…
Report in Dawn, December 16th, 2023LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has asked the caretaker government and the Election Commission of Pakistan to ensure elections are held on the stipulated date of Feb 8 as any further delay would lead the country towards anarchy. He issued the warning while addressing a workers’ convention in Khazana Kotkay area here on Friday. JI workers from across Jandol subdivision attended the event. Mr Haq declared neither democracy nor…
Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 16, 2023— Denounces arrest of Marwat, ill-treatment with Shaoib Shaheen— Urges SC to put a halt on ongoing spree of forcing PTI leaders to change loyalties ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Core Committee reiterated its demand that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should immediately announce election schedule and speed up its preparations to ensure holding of free, fair and transparent general elections on February 8, 2024 in any circumstances. PTI…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Dec 16th, 2023LAHORE: Buoyed by the Supreme Court’s decision, followed by the announcement of the general elections schedule, most political parties on Friday unanimously proclaimed that a “major conspiracy to delay the polls” has failed. PTI, however, refused to join the celebrations, with party leaders continuing to question the biases of bureaucrats to be appointed as poll officers. In a post on X, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif wrote: “The SC’s…
by Saleem Shahid | Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Caretaker Interior Minister Senator Sarfaraz Bugti on Friday resigned from the federal cabinet, sources told Dawn. In a related development, Balochistan caretaker Minister for Sports and Culture, Nawabzada Jamal Raisani and Adviser to the Chief Minister on Mines and Minerals, Mir Umair Muhammad Hasni, also resigned from the interim provincial cabinet on Friday. They said that Mr Bugti had submitted his resignation to…
by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 16th, 2023• Apex court opens its doors after working hours, live-streams proceedings as ECP boss seeks halt to stay order on appointment of poll staff• SC regrets LHC judge acted in ‘haste’; questions ‘bona fide’ nature of PTI’s plea, hints at contempt action against lawyer who petitioned high court ISLAMABAD: A visibly disturbed Supreme Court bench suspended the Dec 13 Lahore High Court (LHC) order staying the appointment of…