Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party announced on Saturday that they have the plans to revisit the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. While speaking to reporters after the party meeting in Lahore, PML-N leaders Rana Sanaullah Khan and Ahsan Iqbal said that the party intends to implement the amendment in its spirits and wants to complete it by introducing further devolution of powers. “The 18th Amendment is…
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Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023QUETTA – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Saturday that if, God forbid, either the PML-N or the PTI comes to power as a result of February 8 general elections, they will destroy the country and the people through their politics of revenge. The PPP leader went on to say that it is not possible to run a similar campaign in 2024 as in the 2018…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023QUETTA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has called upon his political rival, Nawaz Sharif, to contest elections “on an ideology” and not with “the help of administration”. In a press conference in Quetta on Saturday, when Mr Bhutto-Zardari was asked about the PML-N leader, he said, “Mian Sahib, respect the vote, don’t disrespect the vote.” He said some people have “a misconception that political winds are in their favour”,…
by Syed Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Dec 3, 2023QUETTA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday asked PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to rely on his own strength and popularity in the next elections instead of backing the ‘powerful circles’ to ensure his party’s victory. “Even in Punjab, people rejected you [Nawaz],” Bilawal said while addressing a news conference in Quetta at the end of this three-day visit to the provincial capital of Balochistan. “Don’t…
Report in Dawn, Dec 3rd, 2023PESHAWAR: The security forces arrested a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan during an operation carried out in Mardan district on Saturday, official sources said. They said that during interrogation, the banned outfit’s member revealed about as huge cache of arms kept in the Khyber tribal district. They added that later the weapons were recovered from area. “The banned outfit’s militants had planned to carry out terror activities…
by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023GILGIT: At least nine people lost their lives and 21 passengers received injuries after an Islamabad-bound bus came under fire near Chilas in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday evening. Officials said unknown gunmen targeted the bus, operated by a local private company, from nearby hills which caused the vehicle to swerve into a goods truck, causing a head-on collision which also killed the truck driver. Police said…
by RAMEEZ KHAN in The Express Tribune, Dec 3, 2023LAHORE:Setting the strategy for the upcoming general elections, PML-N General Secretary Ahsan Iqbal and Punjab President Rana Sanaullah have announced that a candidate’s electability in his/her constituency comes first, overriding even loyalty and commitment to the party. The two leaders were talking to the media after a party meeting that took up the matter of awarding party tickets on Saturday. They also announced issuing a show-notice…
By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, Dec 03, 2023KARACHI: The PTI’s intra-party election could go either way for the party, with electoral and constitutional experts saying that the PTI’s fate as an enlisted party and its election symbol both hang in the balance until the ECP notifies the party’s intra-party poll results. As the PTI’s founding member Akbar S Babar raised objections to the process adopted by the party for its intra-party polls, and with…
Report in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Saturday received a sharp criticism from its opponents over its intra-party elections as a party dissident and one of the founding members, Akbar S. Babar, announced that he would challenge the whole process in a court of law. The leaders of the country’s mainstream parties, including the PML-N and PPP, also put question mark on the legitimacy of the intra-party elections conducted by the PTI on…
Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Information Secretary, Marriyum Aurangzeb expressed amazement on Saturday at the unconventional intra-party elections of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, which resulted in the unanimous ‘election’ of office bearers within a 15-minute timeframe. Talking to media on Saturday, she highlighted the unorthodox elements of PTI’s intra-party election process, such as the undisclosed venue, the lack of participating voters or seconders, proposers, the absence of a presiding…
Editorial in Pakistan Today, Dec 01, 2023The proposal to set up Performance Monitoring Units in loss-making electricity distribution companies under a serving brigadier, with representatives from the FIA and the Intelligence Bureau is debatable. The caretaker government may have the legal right to take a decision on this proposal, but it should not. The purpose of caretaker governments are twofold; one, to conduct elections; two, to keep the motor of government chugging away in the…