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UN agencies call for protection of children, families seeking safety in Pakistan

by Amin Ahmed in Dawn, November 4th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Three UN agencies have expressed their deep concern over the safety and well-being of children and families affected by the ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’ and alarmed at the potential consequences of this plan’s implementation. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and Unicef, the UN Children’s Fund, continue to appeal to the international community to increase support for hosting vulnerable children and families and…

Law enforcers will decide whether to handcuff Nawaz: PM Kakar

Report in Dawn, Sept 14th, 2023KARACHI: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said on Wednesday that the decision to handcuff PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif upon his return to the country lay with law enforcement agencies, who would make the decision according to the applicable legal provisions, Dawn.com reported. In Feb 2020, the then government had declared him an absconder, and later in the same year, an accountability court had declared him a proclaimed offender in…

Network of hostile intelligence agencies’ involved in recent incidents of blasphemy: Punjab IG

report in Dawn,Aug 29, 2023Punjab Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar on Monday said the police have unearthed a “network of hostile intelligence agencies” that were allegedly involved in the recent incidents of blasphemy across the country. On August 16, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches and attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local assistant commissioner in Jaranwala. According to estimates…

Bara peace rally calls for effective clampdown on militants

by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, August 13th, 2023KHYBER: A large rally for peace was staged in Bara tehsil here on Saturday with the speakers urging security agencies to show seriousness in addressing terrorism in the tribal district. They demanded an effective crackdown on militant groups in the region. The rally was organised under the auspices of the Bara Siyasi Ittehad and addressed by Senator Mushtaq Ahmad of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Shahbuddin Khan of the Pakistan Muslim…

Pilgrims suffer due to Hajj mismanagement

by Mamun Abdullah in Dhaka Tribune, June 8, 2023Thousands of Hajj pilgrims have been suffering due to blunders in coordination between the authorities and Hajj agencies. Pilgrims complained that the Hajj mismanagement was particularly infuriating, considering the massive increases in expenses for the pilgrimage this year. Bangladesh took far longer to fill its Hajj quota this year as many found the new charges related to the pilgrimage to be prohibitively expensive. On the first day…

‘Terror hit-list’ includes Maryam, Sanaullah among political, military leaders

By Zarmeen Zehra in The News, May 20, 2023The names of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz are on a “hit-list” of terrorist outfits which are planning to launch attacks on leaders of the armed forces, intelligence agencies and politicians. The attacks are being planned by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its faction Jamaat-ul-Ahraar (JuA), which are also planning to target government officials. Furthermore, they also…

Killing of army officials :Police have no clue of Major (retd) Jalil’s whereabouts

report in Prothom Alo, May 16, 2023Law enforcement agencies including the police do not have any specific information about the whereabouts of Major (retd) Abdul Jalil, the main accused in the Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda murder case. It has been confirmed that he is alive. It is learned that he used to live in an apartment in Siddheshwari of the capital a couple of years ago. Nobody has any information as to where he lives…

OIC Secretariat Has ‘Grave Concerns’ on Afghan Female UN Workers Ban

By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews, April 07, 2023 at 8:17 PMThe General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on the interim Afghan government to revisit its decision regarding barring Afghan female staff of the UN agencies in Afghanistan from working. He also expressed “grave concerns” over the ban, saying that the new “edict will intensify the successive restrictive measures imposed on women and girls, including banning them from governmental organizations.” The ban…

UN to cut food aid for Rohingyas due to ‘fund shortfall’

report in Prothom Alo, Feb 20, 2023The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement, reports news agencies Reuters and AFP. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape an army crackdown the UN said was carried…

Agencies expose K-P’s ‘toothless’ reality

by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Dec 20, 2022 PISLAMABAD: A highly critical report, prepared by security agencies, painted a bleak picture of the anti-terrorism mechanism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, saying on Monday that the province’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) lacked capacity to fight terrorism. The report, presented to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during the national security review meeting, warned that because of an acute shortage of staff and resources, the CTD would not be able to…