report in Daily Times, Dec 29, 2023The caretaker federal government on Thursday released 34 more Baloch protesters who had been arrested during a police crackdown in Islamabad last week. A declaration stated that all detained Baloch protesters have been released on the advice of the negotiation committee constituted by Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar. It added that the arrested marchers were released after fulfilling the legal requirements. The PM’s negotiation team – headed by caretaker…
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by Saleem Shahid | Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Caretaker Interior Minister Senator Sarfaraz Bugti on Friday resigned from the federal cabinet, sources told Dawn. In a related development, Balochistan caretaker Minister for Sports and Culture, Nawabzada Jamal Raisani and Adviser to the Chief Minister on Mines and Minerals, Mir Umair Muhammad Hasni, also resigned from the interim provincial cabinet on Friday. They said that Mr Bugti had submitted his resignation to…
report in The News, Nov 19, 2023LAHORE : Tanzeem-e-Islami (TI) Ameer Shujauddin Shaikh has voiced concerns over the statement of Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar calling the Afghan government illegitimate. Addressing a meeting on Saturday, he said it is inappropriate and undiplomatic for a caretaker prime minister to declare Kabul an illegitimate regime. He said the PM should keep in mind that an international conspiracy is being hatched to divide Muslim states waging proxy war…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Oct 19th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Amid speculation that the caretaker government is thinking of initiating a reconciliation dialogue among all political stakeholders, caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi held separate meetings with leaders of the PPP and PML-N, on Wednesday. The meetings came a day after PTI leader Shafqat Mehmood, who also met Mr Solangi recently, revealed that he had floated the idea of a grand national reconciliation dialogue among all political…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 12th, 2023QUETTA: Caretaker Balochistan Information Minister Jan Achakzai has said that out of 250 madressahs in the province, 84 are being run by Afghan refugee clerics and around 8,500 students were studying there. “These 84 madressahs will be handed over to the local ulema for running them as the government has no plan to close these seminaries,” he said on Wednesday at a joint press conference with caretaker Home…
by Tahir Siddiqui in Dawn, October 7th, 2023KARACHI: A meeting of the Sindh Apex Committee, attended by caretaker Chief Minister retired Justice Maqbool Baqar and Chief of Army Staff Gen Syed Asim Munir, was informed on Friday that pockets where illegal Afghan nationals were concentrated in the province had been identified. The provincial government informed the meeting that an action plan to implement the federal government’s policy on illegal foreigners’ repatriation plan had been shared…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Sept 29, 2023• Defends action against Afghan refugeesISLAMABAD: Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani confirmed the arrest of around 200 alleged fighters of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by the Afghan government. The confirmation came after some media reports, citing unnamed Pakistani officials, said the Taliban regime in Kabul has captured suspected militants who had staged cross-border attacks in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference on Thursday after his return…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 19, 2023As part of a simultaneous movement demanding the resignation of the Awami League government and elections under a neutral caretaker government, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared a 15-day program from Tuesday till October 3. The party’s Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan announced the program schedule on Monday afternoon at the BNP chairperson’s office in Gulshan. BNP’s programs include-Rallies in Dhaka’s Keraniganj and Gazipur’s Tongi on TuesdayRoad…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Sept 12th, 2023• President holds another meeting with law minister on election process• PTI urges head of state to announce poll date as per his mandateISLAMABAD: As a degree of uncertainty prevails regarding the timing of the next general elections, President Arif Alvi on Monday continued efforts to convince the caretaker set-up to expedite the process, only to be informed once again that it was the prerogative of the…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Sept 11th, 2023• Minister says TTP using Afghanistan as launching padISLAMABAD: As Pakistan faces a surge in terrorist attacks, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Sunday downplayed the increase in militancy, saying there was no need for alarm as “a little surge [in terrorism] is not so big as to make us panic”. The statement by the interim minister came amid reports of almost daily skirmishes between the security…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad Vicar General Fr Abid Tanveer says that hundreds of Catholic Christians of Jaranwala waited in Christian Colony for caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi but he visited an area of a small community and ignored the Christian Colony. He said the biggest church of Jaranwala, Catholic Church, located in Christian Colony, was burnt and demolished in the riots and 200 houses were damaged in…