by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 9th, 2023• Interior minister highlights ‘general threat’ to politicians, but ‘specific alert’ for FazlISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti emphasised the government’s readiness to ensure peaceful general elections but at the same time acknowledged the terrorist threats faced by political leaders in the run-up to the February polls. Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, Mr Bugti highlighted a general threat to political figures, with a specific…
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By Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The capital police approached Interpol for assistance in the arrest of former adviser to the prime minister on interior and accountability, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, in a case registered against him at Secretariat police station under various criminal charges, police sources said on Friday. Sources said the investigators of the case, registered under sections 420, 468, 471, 385, 396, 389, 500 and 506 of Pakistan Penal Code, made…
report in The News, Dec 09, 2023QUETTA: Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi on Friday said there was no substance in former PTI chairman Imran Khan’s accusations with regard to illegal immigrants who returned to their countries voluntarily. “The accusations by the PTI former chairman in his tweet are baseless. About 0.5 million illegal immigrants have left the country voluntarily and none of them was forced out of the country,”…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 8, 2023Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, currently in jail, criticized the deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan on Thursday. “1.5 million refugees are not much of a burden for a nation of 250 million people. There is a fear of a permanent rift in the long-standing relationship between the two countries, considering the way Afghan refugees are being expelled,” Imran Khan wrote on his social media…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, Dec 09, 2023PESHAWAR: As many as 243 attacks were carried out on police force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the current year, with 46 happening alone in Dera Ismail Khan district. According to the statistics collected by the Counter-Terrorism Department, after DI Khan most attacks on police, 37, were reported in Peshawar and 31 in Khyber district during the current year. Over 100 policemen were martyred alone in Peshawar…
by Javid ur Rahman in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023ISLAMABAD – The top election body has rejected Akbar S. Babar’s appeal for the re-conduct of the recently conducted intra-party elections of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The ECP’s five-member bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja announced this decision after hearing the case. The bench heard a series of petitions filed by PTI founding members Akbar S. Babar, Tahir Nawaz, Noreen Farooq, and others,…
Report in Dawn, December 9th, 2023KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday claimed to have arrested a suspected militant belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). A CTD spokesperson identified the suspect as Izaman Asfandyar Khan and claimed that he was the chief of the TTP in Matta, Swat. He was also involved in an attack on the residence of former federal minister Afzal Lala in Matta. The CTD said he was involved in multiple…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI’s recently-held intra-party elections were thrust into uncertainty on Friday after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the party a notice on a plea seeking to have the polls declared null and void. A five-member bench, presided over by the chief election commissioner, held a preliminary hearing on 14 applications, seeking nullification of PTI’s intra-party elections. In the hearing, estranged PTI founding member Akbar S…
by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, December 9th, 2023KHYBER: Security forces carried out heavy bombardments on the hideouts of suspected terrorists in Tirah Valley of Khyber district on Friday, according to local sources. Separately, five terrorists were killed during an intelligence-based operation in Tank district. There was no official statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media affairs department, on the operation in the valley. However, sources told Dawn that the alleged hideouts were pounded…
by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Chairman the Implementation of Minority Rights Forum, Samuel Makson Payara, on Friday moved a fresh application before the Supreme Court seeking early fixation of Aug 16 tragic Jaranwala incident case in which 20 churches and over a dozen homes belonging to the Christian community were damaged. A two-page application reminded that at the last hearing on Sept 8, a three-judge Supreme Court bench, comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan,…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin, a key figure in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, announced on Friday that he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, marking another setback for the Imran Khan-led party ahead of the general election. Mr Tarin, who was one of the heads of PTI’s manifesto committees, said he has also decided to resign as a member of the Senate. In a…