By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 17th, 2023QUETTA: Despite weeks-long protests by locals, traders and political parties, the government has started the implementation of new visa regime on the Chaman border crossing with Afghanistan. In November, the national apex committee, comprising civil and military officials, decided that only those with valid passports and visas would be allowed to cross the border. Earlier, Pakistanis and Afghans would cross the border upon showing either Pakistani or Afghan…
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By Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 17th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Rejecting international criticism on the government’s decision to expel “illegal” immigrants from the country, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Thursday that Pakistan did not need to provide any explanation on the issue as it was “our sovereign right to implement our immigration laws”. “Our decision to repatriate people who are in violation of our immigration laws, is a decision irrespective of any nationality.…
By Mushtaq Ghumman in Business Recorder, Nov 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan are likely to sign a framework on investment cooperation in the energy sector, specifically in the areas of solar, wind, hydro, and power transmission, sources in the SIFC told Business Recorder. The pact will be signed during the forthcoming visit of caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar. He was due to undertake visit to UAE on November 14,…
By Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn November 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has said he would administer the oath to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif if elected prime minister for the fourth time in the upcoming elections. In an interview with VOA Urdu, President Alvi said he would “comply with the constitutional requirements” of administering the oath to the elected prime minister. In April 2022, President Alvi excused to administer the oath to Mr Nawaz’s…
By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, November 17, 2023NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Thursday that the civil and military establishments, landlords and industrialists had occupied the country’s politics due to which the people did not enjoy fruits of true independence. “Pakistan came into existence in the name of Islam 75 years ago but the establishment, bureaucracy, landlords and industrialists have always created hurdles in the way of enforcing religion in…
Report in The News, November 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Thursday blasted the ‘guarantee’ of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and continuation of the family tradition of conspiring against democracy and the Constitution under the ‘London Agreement’. In a statement issued here, he alleged that Nawaz Sharif’s ‘fake political life’, introduced as a project in politics, was a collection of humiliating ‘deals and guarantees’. “PMLN’s humiliating journey is from ‘Vote ko izzat do [Give…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Nov 17, 2023ISLAMABAD – Incarcerated PTI senior leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser Thursday said that the nation wouldn’t accept the ‘selection plus’ as PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has already been declared as next prime minister by some quarters, months before the general elections. He said that “the reign of terror had been unleashed” on the PTI leaders and workers, saying that they could not be petrified…
Report in The Nation, Nov 17, 2023ABBOTTABAD/KARACHI – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing workers’ convention in Abbottabad on Thursday said that he is grateful to the Jiyalas of the Party for giving him such a grand and historic welcome on his tour of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…….. “I will never disappoint the people, will serve them day and night,” Bilawal vowed. He said that 70 percent of the country’s population consists of…
By Rashid Javed in Dawn, November 17th, 2023ABBOTTABAD: The nation must replace the old system of politics with a new one, where young people would be given the chance to steer the country towards progress and modernity, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday. Addressing a workers’ convention in Abbottabad, he urged the nation to give someone new a chance in the coming general elections instead of choosing the same prime minister “for the second…
By Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, November 17th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif was ready to dissolve the coalition government to go into polls following the ouster of PTI chief Imran Khan in a no-trust vote in April 2022, but claimed the decision was changed at the eleventh hour because “we did not want to give in” to purported threats. “Shehbaz Sharif was all set to resign…
By Mariana Baabar in The News, November 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reiterated on Thursday it had not sold any weapons to Ukraine or Russia. The allegations surfaced once again, this time in a BBC Urdu report, which claimed Pakistan sold weapons to two US arms firms, which were then sent onwards to Ukraine. The spokeswoman at the Foreign Office was asked during the weekly presser whether the BBC Urdu report indicated it was a fact that…