by Tariq Naqash in Dawn, August 4th, 2022MUZAFFARABAD: A sitting member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet was arrested by police on Wednesday moments after the Shariat Appellate bench of the AJK High Court slapped him with rigorous life imprisonment and Rs1 million fine in a nearly two decades old murder case. Minister for Higher Education Malik Zaffar Iqbal, who had returned from LA-8, Kotli-I on PTI ticket, was nominated in this case…
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APP report in Daily Times, Aug 4, 2022The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the biggest advocate of Hindutva ideology and is highly critical of secular policies such as freedom of expression, and the right to freedom of religion and practices for the last eight years. This approach towards Hindu nationalist policies are resulting in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom which negatively impact non-Hindu religious communities including…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, July 03, 2022stanISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has found unequivocal support from party stalwarts at a time when he has been facing criticism from within the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) amid speculations of ex-financial czar Ishaq Dar’s return to Pakistan to replace him. The support for the incumbent finance minister has come from Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, saying that his…
Report n Dawn, July 3rd, 2022ISLAMABAD: Supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf attend the rally in Parade Ground along with their children, on Saturday night.—Twitter /PTISPOfficial• PTI chief asks judges why no suo motu action taken against ‘crooks’ of incumbent govt• Claims ‘umpires’ are with govt in upcoming Punjab by-polls; vows to sweep elections against all odds ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday urged the ‘institutions’ to act against the incumbent government, before…
Report in Dawn, July 3rd, 2022ISLAMABAD: Two persons were taken into custody after weapons were recovered from them at the venue of PTI’s public gathering at Parade Ground here on Saturday, police said. Moreover, another person was arrested from behind the main stage of the venue where he was spotted acting suspiciously. The two persons were arrested separately when they were entering the venue from the main entrance. During search, 30-bore pistols were recovered from…
By Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press, 02 Jul 2022 at 11:03 PMThe proliferation of new counterfeit dollars on the market is causing concern among many business owners and money exchange dealers in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, in the south of Afghanistan. According to these money exchange dealers, several people have attempted to trade newly manufactured counterfeit money in the market over the past two months. Counterfeit money, according to the money exchange dealers,…
IT all seems too little, too late for Balochistan, where the people have this summer paid a steep price for state neglect and apathy while a merciless monsoon continued to rob them of life and what little property they ever had. The numbers paint a telling picture of human misery: as of Monday afternoon, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority put the death toll at 136, with 70 more injured since June 1. The authority further…
by Ali Raza Rind in Dawn, July 28th, 2022KHARAN: Family members of “missing persons” Aslam Mengal and Shah Fahad Baloch took out a rally on Wednesday to demand their safe and immediate release. The protesters, including women and children, marched on several roads and later staged a demonstration and chanted slogans in favour of their demands outside the Kharan Press Club. Mr Mengal’s sister told journalists he had been picked up by plain-clothes armed men…
PARWAN: Ahmad Khan Ahmadzai, the former police commander of Bagram district of Parwan province, and two of his family members have been detained by Islamic Emirate forces, relatives claimed. The family claimed that Ahmadzai, his son, and his nephew, were arrested over one week ago. “I opened the door, they tied my hands, when my father came out, they arrested him and then my brother,” said Bahram, 14, son of Ahmadzai. “If he was responsible…
Is it any coincidence that the people who were not seen or heard from in years are suddenly appearing again like the mummies from the casket in horror movies? Speaking of which, this purana Pakistan is a horror movie. And I believe that is just an understatement. Ishaq Dar, the former finance minister of Pakistan, has announced that he will be returning to Pakistan next month. He had left his country citing bad health for…
IT is scarcely an understatement to say that in Pakistan, the fundamental right to a fair trial, as provided for under Article 10A of the Constitution, is honoured more in the breach than the observance. On Monday, the Supreme Court rightly observed that the burden is on the bench to ascertain from the “facts and circumstances of the case … whether this indispensable right was afforded or not”. The two-judge bench had taken up a…