By Malik Asad In Dawn, December 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has indicated that ordinary individuals or hackers could be responsible for the recent audio leaks involving politicians, judges and their relatives, among others. The claim was made in a report, submitted to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) via the Ministry of Defence, during a hearing last week. According to the report, “there are various tools which provide the capability of audio recording from…
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report in Pakistan Today, Oct 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: Calling deposed prime minister Imran Khan an “irresponsible leader”, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Farrukh Habib on Monday announced parting ways with the former ruling party and joining the Jahangir Tareen-led Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP). Addressing a press conference along with IPP leaders in Islamabad, Farrukh termed Imran Khan responsible for the May 9 riots, saying the latter kept “promoting violence and brainwashing youth”. “Imran Khan did not act responsibly.…
by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a fact-finding report over the occurrence of blasphemy cases in Sargodha district, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has pointed out the misuse of mosque loudspeakers and pulpit to press for FIRs against the Christian community and instigate violence against them. The HRCP fact-finding mission report titled, ‘Mob violence and the social ostracisation of the Christian community in Sargodha’ released here on Friday, demanded the…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, August 16, 2023As the Taliban marked the two-year anniversary of its rule, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry explicitly labelled the fall of Kabul as a military and political “failure” of the United States. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, August 15, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that Afghanistan has been stable for two years, and the future of this country is now back in the…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 19, 2023The Department of Forests in May agreed to give permission to the New Butwal-Bardaghat Transmission Line Project Office to cut 5,822 trees inside national and community forests in Nawalparasi (Susta West). The department’s move was in line with a Cabinet decision of December last year. On May 16, the project office submitted a request with the Department of Forests for signing an agreement, and subsequently…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023Nepali politicians are in the habit of lying to cover their tracks or to spoil the reputation of their counterparts from other parties. They get away with it most of the time but sometimes these lies are so egregious they badly backfire. Take the latest jibes of CPN-UML chair and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli aimed at Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. On Saturday, Oli…