report in the Express Tribune, Sept 13, 2018 Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman warned the Imran Khan led-government on Wednesday to refrain from confrontation with madrassas otherwise ‘its days will be numbered’. “Opposition of religious seminaries is akin to opposition of religion”, Fazl said while talking to reporters in Islamabad. “There’s still time for the government to retreat from its decisions.” He warned that if the government chooses to do otherwise, then “we’ll force…
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By Khaama Press – Wed Sep 12 2018, 4:37 pm The local authorities in southeastern Paktia province are saying at least 35 militants including a number of Pakistani militants have been killed during the operations in this province. The operations are being conducted as part of Thunder-2 operations and the casualties on the militants were inflicted in Zurmat and in the outskirts of Gardez city. The Commander of Thunder Corps Rohullah Khalil Oghli said at…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, September 13th, 2018 WASHINGTON: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said that the decision to suspend military aid to Pakistan was not taken lightly as the Trump administration was fully aware of the consequences of taking such an action against a nuclear weapons state. In his address to a Washington think-tank — the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies — earlier this week, Mr Bolton also said that…
report in The Nation, September 10, 2018 ISLAMABAD – The law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) have arrested 16,022 persons on charges of their involvement in terrorist activities in the country during last five years, of which 2525 were convicted and awarded punishment. The year-wise data of persons arrested on charges of terrorism, issued by Interior Division, showed on Sunday that in Punjab 10,993 were nabbed during last five years, out of which 1,419 persons were arrested in…
US aid cut : edit in Dawn, September 3rd, 2018 The US has delivered an object lesson in how not to conduct diplomacy.Mere days ahead of a short visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pakistan, the US Department of Defence has announced a permanent aid cut to Pakistan of $300m. The move has surely been coordinated across the Trump administration and now what remains to be seen is if Secretary Pompeo will…
Reuters report in The Times of India online, Sept 2, 2018 WASHINGTON: The US military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that had been suspended over Islamabad’s perceived failure to take decisive action against terrorists, in a new blow to deteriorating ties. The so-called Coalition Support Funds were part of a broader suspension in aid to Pakistan announced by President Donald Trump at the start of…
MANY who listened to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden speech on Aug 19 would not have failed to note the striking similarities in his address and the Quaid-i-Azam’s oft-quoted speech of Aug 11, 1947. That’s not really surprising, given that Khan described Jinnah as his role model, one who practised politics with a mission. Both speeches expressed deep concern at the prevalence of corruption and the absence of justice for the poor. They also spoke…
The writer, a Strategic and Political analyst, teaches international politics in NUML Islamabad Currently the world is sharply divided over how to define ‘Islamists’. Different schools of thought have their own meanings for this word. According to some, Islamists are fundamentalists who want to impose a system of Islamic laws on Muslim and non-Muslim populations alike. Others define Islamists as individuals who believe in having an Islamic system of governance in the country but wish…
by Tamim Hamid in Tolo News, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:24 PM The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said Pakistan’s military establishment planned and provided the necessary aid to Taliban insurgents to carry out the coordinated attack on Ghazni city earlier this month. According to the MoI, foreign militants were also among those killed in the Ghazni battle, but Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul has hit out over the claims and said these claims are…
by Habib Raja in The Express Tribune blogs, August 11th, 2018. The author is pursuing his PhD in political science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University. The results have apparently shown that, by and large, Pakistan does not vote Islamist. The 2018 Elections are over, giving a healthy but controversial victory to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). These elections were, according to many independent correspondents, one of the “dirtiest” in living memory, mainly due to the…
Pak SC rejects govt plea against JuD ‘welfare work’
by Syed Sabeehul Hussnain in The Nation, Sept 13, 2018 ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the federal government’s plea against the Lahore High Court order, which allowed the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and its subsidiary Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) to continue their welfare activities. JuD’s network includes 300 seminaries and schools, hospitals, a publishing house and ambulance services. The JuD and FIF alone have about 50,000 volunteers and hundreds of other paid workers, according to…