By Awais Yousafzai in The News, October 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: The three-time prime minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, will return to Pakistan on October 21 after four years of self-exile in London with the status of a convicted criminal as he has been sentenced in two graft cases. The former premier will have to get the sentences awarded to him in two National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases suspended upon his return to the country by…
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by Zulqernain Tahir | Mansoor Malik in Dawn, Oct 15, 2023• Says ex-PM should think of contesting election only after serving out his jail term• PTI terms homecoming result of ‘a secret deal’• PML-N seeks permission for Minar-i-Pakistan rallyLAHORE: As less than a week is left in PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif’s return from a self-imposed four-year exile, senior PPP leaders have started questioning the ‘understanding’ they claim he has reached with the quarters concerned…
Report in Dawn, October 15th, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday said that his party would resist any attempt of keeping it out of politics. Addressing Mufti Mehmood Conference in provincial capital, he said that they wanted to proceed towards elections and strengthen democracy in the country. Without naming anyone, he said warned those, who were trying to “fraudulently keep them out of parliament.” “Today I am making this announcement that…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Amid reports of political wheeling and dealing to force more delay in holding the general elections, the PPP on Saturday reiterated its call for an immediate announcement of the polls schedule, asserting it was the sole means to steer the country out of the myriad of crises. PPP’s Faisal Karim Kundi’s statement in the wake of a recent meeting between JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PML-N…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Oct 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working with other Muslim countries, particularly the Arab world, to push for an immediate cessation of hostilities by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza Strip. As Israel warned 1.1 million Palestinians to move from north Gaza to the south, there have been concerns that it may be planning a major ground offensive. There have been fears of massacre and ethnic cleansing in the…
Reuters report, October 15, 2023KARACHI/LAHORE: Salma Faheem has not spoken to her husband, Mohammad, since June, when he dropped her and their three children off in his home village of Dalma in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) because he could no longer afford to have them living with him in Karachi. Now instead of living in one room in an urban slum with water on tap and a gas-powered cooker, Salma has to walk an hour every…
report in The News, Oct 14, 2023ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf said Friday there might be an understanding behind the return of Nawaz Sharif to the country. “Obviously, there must have been some understanding for the return of Nawaz Sharif to the country. Why he’s coming back now? Why he didn’t come back earlier,” he said in a response to a question by a journalist in an informal talk with a delegation of…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Oct 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Months after the death of former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, the All-Pakistan Muslim League (APML), once founded by him, has also ceased to exist following ‘internal disputes’. There were three claimants for the symbol of “eagle”, but none of them could prove they ever held any position in the party before a three-member bench of the ECP, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, Oct 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former chief minister of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that the upcoming general elections will not be considered ‘credible’ if Imran Khan was not allowed to contest. Talking to media persons outside an anti-terrorism court, where he was brought in a case pertaining to violence outside the judicial complex in Islamabad, ex-CM Elahi said any election without Mr Khan would not be accepted and such elections…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, October 14th, 2023PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday said that different political parties have different opinions regarding the general election, but the caretaker government will hold polls as soon as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announces the schedule. “Every political party registered with the ECP is entitled to file [nomination papers] for its candidate,” the caretaker PM said, while talking to media person about the caretaker government’s…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 14, 2023ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabian authorities disclosed that they have successfully retrieved over 12,000 Pakistani passports from Afghan nationals, Express News reported. This revelation has raised concerns about the performance of national institutions. According to reports, Riyadh authorities have notified Islamabad about this matter, shedding light on the acquisition of these fraudulent passports by Afghan citizens through various passport centers operating within Pakistan. In response, the Ministry of Interior has…