Report in Dawn, October 26th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Residents of a village looted cash from a police team, besides beating them in Phulgran area and also got freed their relative allegedly involved in drug peddling, police said on Wednesday. Police said a four-member police team was patrolling the area of Sri Chowk where they got information that a grocery store in Athal Village was selling drugs. The police team reached the shop and arrested the shop owner…
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Report in Dawn, October 26th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan were killed in an encounter with the police in Prova tehsil here on Wednesday, an official claimed. He said on a tip-off about presence of TTP militants in Prova tehsil, the police launched a search and strike operation in the area. He said during the operation, militants opened fire on the policemen, who responded promptly. During exchange of fire, two…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a significant development, the Ministry of Interior has approved the issuance of a red warrant for prominent PTI leader and former federal minister for overseas Pakistanis, Zulfi Bukhari. The ministry directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to forward a formal request to the Interpol Secretariat in France, seeking the issuance of a red warrant for Bukhari. The move is part of efforts to arrest and extradite…
By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, October 26th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior formed a nine-member joint task force on Wednesday to investigate the issuance of over 12,000 passports to Afghan immigrants. The joint director general of the Intelligence Bureau is the convener of the task force, which also includes Grade-20 officers of Military Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence and Federal Investigation Agency, a notification seen by Dawn showed. Other members include the director general of the…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 26th, 2023QUETTA: Negotiations between the Balochistan government and the participants of a sit-in at Chaman remained fruitless on Wednesday as the All Parties Traders Alliance refused to call off the protest unless its demands were accepted. The demands include restoration of the permission to cross the Pak-Afghan border on production of the national identity card only. The government had announced earlier this month that no one would be allowed…
Bureau Report in Dawn, October 26th, 2023PESHAWAR: The police arrested three Afghan nationals for being involved in mobile phone snatching following an exchange of fire in separate actions on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Tuesday night. Officials said a mobile team of Pahari Pura police station signaled two men riding on a motorcycle to stop, but they opened fire on the personnel, who had to retaliate, forcing the criminals to flee. They said…
report in Daily Times, Oct 26, 2023A top Afghanistan diplomat said Wednesday that the Islamic Emirate – or the Taliban administration – had already issued a fatwa (decree) that launching attacks in “Pakistan is not jihad” (holy war). Hafiz Mohibullah Shakir, the acting consul general at the Afghan Consulate in Peshawar, told a private news channel the neighbouring country’s defence ministry had also made it clear that attacking Pakistan did not fall under jihad. The…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Oct 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not show any flexibility in its decision to deport all foreigners living in the country illegally despite pressure being exerted by certain countries to review the move. “We are sticking to our decision. There will not be any flexibility. All foreigners living in the country illegally will have to adhere to the October 31 deadline,” a senior government official while requesting anonymity told…
By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, October 26th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab caretaker government is likely to constitute a special medical board in case medical reports submitted to the Lahore High Court by PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif are contested, according to a committee that recommended the suspension of the PML-N leader’s sentence in the Al-Azizia case. The five-member body was formed by caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi to deliberate upon an application filed by the…
By Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 26th, 2023LAHORE: The PML-N and the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) have called for action against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his party’s then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for allegedly misusing Rs870 million state fund for hiring ‘trolls’ and ‘influencers’ for social media campaigns. On the other hand, the PTI has termed it a “malicious propaganda campaign” against the party by the vested interest, demanding investigation against then chief minister…
report in Daily Times, Oct 26, 2023Senior PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said he expected a meeting between party supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari would “hopefully” take place, after weeks of enduring veiled criticism from the PPP over election delays. Speaking in an interview with a private news channel , the senator was questioned about increasing criticism from the PPP for the treatment meted out to Nawaz on his…