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Nawaz prioritises accountability over power

report in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday said his party was not in pursuit of power, but gave priority to the accountability of those people who were responsible for implicating him in “fabricated” cases that led to his ouster as the prime minister in 2017. “This [accountability] is necessary so that the truth can be known to the people and justice can prevail,” he said while addressing a…

Imran to be indicted in jail for contempt next week

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A four-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will be going to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail to char­g­e­-­sheet PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan and former central leader of the party Fawad Chaudhry in contempt cases on Dec 13. Announcing its verdict on Nov 30, an ECP bench headed by member from Sindh Nisar Ahmed Durrani had referred to the Oct 11 order requiring Mr Khan’s…

Police in Karnali launch campaign against drugs

by Tripti Shahi in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 15, 2023As cases of drug addiction and smuggling shoot up in Karnali Province, police have launched a campaign under the banner ‘Lantern Campaign Against Drugs’. The Karnali Province Police Office in Birendranagar kicked off the anti-drugs drive from Thursday. The campaign will be launched in all 10 districts of Karnali, the country’s biggest and remotest province. Police said that as part of the drive, a coordination desk…

Report in The News, October 13, 2023

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said any leader, be it Imran Khan, Asif Ali Zardari, or Nawaz Sharif, will have to seek legal remedy to their cases. In an interview with WE (World Echo) News on Thursday, a digital media platform, he dismissed the impression that the PMLN leader Nawaz Sharif’s decision to get back home was part of any deal with the interim government, APP reports. “The caretaker government has ‘no soft corner’…

Police file 11 cases against 700 BNP, Jamaat men in 5 days:

Report in Prothom Alo, 12 Oct 2023The police have filed 11 cases against at least 700 members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami in Jashore within just five days. They have already arrested a total of 77 BNP and Jamaat men in connection with the cases. Adding to the concern, there are a significant number of anonymous individuals among the accused. The police claimed to have filed the cases on specific charges,…

CII demands special court to try Jaranwala culprits

report in The Express Tribune, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz reiterated on Wednesday the CII’s demand for the establishment of special courts to expeditiously hear cases related to crimes like the Jaranwala incident and punish the perpetrators. Addressing a press conference after the 234th special session of the CII, titled ‘Interfaith Harmony: State and Society’s Responsibilities’, he urged the public not to take the law into their own…

NAB moves to greet returning Nawaz with three old cases

by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, September 28th, 2023LAHORE: With the PML-N’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif sche­duled to arrive in Pakistan in less than a month, the National Acco­u­ntability Bureau (NAB) is set to reopen three cases against him linked to alleged illegal plot allotments and land acquisitions in Lahore, as well as a questionable share transfer in Chaudhry Sugar Mills. This move by NAB is based on a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down…

Bushra Bibi moves LHC against her possible arrest

report in The News,Sept 05, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday seeking to preempt her possible arrest and details of all the cases including undisclosed FIRs registered against her. Filed through Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Mohal, her petition contended that after ‘illegal’ removal of her husband from the office of the prime minister, the political victimisation against her, her husband and other…

Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Criticize Delay in Their Immigration Cases

By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, Aug 31, 2023 at 9:30 PMAfghan immigrants in Pakistan criticized the delay of their immigration cases. Immigrants from Afghanistan said that the Pakistani military has mistreated them for the past two years and that their future is uncertain. This situation has caused some immigrants to commit suicide. Maryam Sadat, a citizen of Afghanistan, committed suicide on Wednesday in Islamabad. “Three of our young people have lost their lives in the…

JMB still active, but its chief out of radar

by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 19, 2023On August 17, 2005, militants blasted bombs in 63 districts of the country simultaneously within a span of 30 minutes. Around 18 years have passed since that incident but the trial of the cases is not over yet. On the contrary, the activities of the banned outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the militant group responsible for the attack, have not stopped. Although somewhat cornered, the JMB is…

Ex-PM warns of fresh conflict if courts handle conflict-era cases

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,August 18, 2023Former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, one of the ideologues of the Maoist insurgency, has warned of another conflict if the regular courts started to look into conflict-era cases. In his response to the Supreme Court in a case related to the use of child soldiers in the insurgency, the former vice-chair of the Maoist party said the regular court processes cannot ensure transitional justice and therefore…