by Behram Baloch | Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dawn, Nov 4th, 2023• Two army men martyred in Lakki operation, one in D.I. Khan blast• Five civilians also fall victim to IED blast• ISPR reaffirms pledge to eliminate terrorists GWADAR / DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least 17 soldiers were martyred in different incidents in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including a militant attack in Gwadar, a remote-controlled bomb explosion in Dera Ismail Khan and a security operation…
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report in The News, November 04, 2023RAWALPINDI: A terror attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has been thwarted and all the personnel and assets are safe, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Saturday. “On 04 November, 2023, in the early hours of the day, Mianwali Training Air Base of Pakistan Air Force came under a failed terrorist attack which, Alhumdolliah, due to the swift and…
By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, November 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a controversial move, the Senate on Thursday extended the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, for another 120 days. A resolution to this effect was moved in the house by Law Minister Ahmad Irfan Aslam. Earlier, the minister laid in the Senate the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, (Ordinance No. I of 2023), as required by clause (2) of Article 89 of the Constitution. The extension…
Report in Dawn, November 3rd, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: A youth allegedly involved in a blasphemy case was shot dead on Thursday in Makdoompur Pahuran town in Khanewal district. Police said Umair Ali was arrested after he uttered some offensive words and showed disrespect to certain religious figures. When he was released on bail, he left the town. Ali returned home a couple of days ago and was sitting outside his house in Makdoompur Pahuran when…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 1, 2023The Interim government of Afghanistan has condemned the mass expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan, calling it “inhumane.” They have warned that if the Pakistani government does not address this issue, they will be forced to take action in response. Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban administration, in his latest statements regarding Pakistan, has issued a warning and…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:02 PMWith the arrival of the November 1 deadline for Afghan migrants to leave Pakistan, some lawyers say that the interim government should be limited to just advancing the daily affairs of the country. The analysts said that the interim government should not make decisions that are controversial. “In Pakistan’s law when an interim prime minister come into power, they cannot do things like this, this is…
By Saleem Jadoon in Pakistan Today, Nov 2, 2023ISLAMABAD/SWAT/KARACHI: The government on Wednesday initiated a nationwide operation to deport the illegal foreign nationals including Afghans following expiry of the deadline set for repatriation voluntarily. The Interior Ministry, for the first time in country’s history, has issued instructions to all provinces to deport illegal foreigners under the Foreign Act 1946. The caretaker government has warned of strict legal action if any Pakistani is found to be…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023The government on Wednesday began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them illegal Afghans refugees, in all parts of the country after a midnight deadline for them to leave the country expired. The removal of the people to temporary holding centres began a day earlier than previously announced. Moreover, the interior ministry said 140,322 people had already left voluntarily. Afghans made up the bulk of those to have…
by Khalid Mehmood in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023ISLAMABAD: A sinister plot to disrupt the deportation of illegal Afghan nationals from Pakistan has come to light, endangering the efforts of the caretaker government to ensure a lawful and peaceful repatriation process. The caretaker government of Pakistan, in line with the rule of law, deployed law enforcement personnel to various holding camps across the country after the deadline for illegal Afghan residents to voluntarily leave…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, Nov 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court gave nod to accountability courts to continue proceedings on corruption references, Islamabad’s accountability court on Wednesday summoned former president and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and Ijaz Ahmed Khan, a former secretary to the Sindh government, in the Thatta water supply case. The case was among dozens of references transferred from accountability courts because of the amendments made in the National…
by Jahanzeb Abbasi in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has filed an amended petition in the Supreme Court, seeking the court’s intervention to ensure that the general elections are held within 90 days of the dissolution of the National Assembly, as per the Constitution. The petition contended that the elections in Punjab could not be held as ordered by the Supreme Court on May 14. The petition also challenged the…