report in Dawn, December 17th, 2023UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged a UN panel to find out how the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is acquiring modern weaponry to carry out terrorist attacks in the country. Pakistan’s Deputy Permanent Representative Usman Jadoon highlighted the alarming trend during a UN Security Council open debate on the threat posed by the diversion, illicit trafficking, and misuse of small arms and light weapons. He argued that terrorist groups like TTP…
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report in TOLOnews, Dec 16, 2023 at 8:57 PMThe Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Emirate for the first time said that in the past one year, nearly forty members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been arrested and imprisoned across the country. The spokesman of the ministry, Abdul Mateen Qani, told TOLOnews that Kabul wants good interactions with neighboring countries and will never allow Afghanistan’s soil to be used against other countries, including neighboring…
report in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2023BATTAGRAM: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that incompetent and corrupt leaders have failed to revive economy and restore peace in the country. Speaking at a public gathering here on Thursday, he said that after remaining in power, both Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and member parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement had no justification to seek votes from people. He claimed that JI always strived for enforcing a corruption-free and merit-based system in…
report in The News, Dec 15, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that Pakistan was punished by imposing a Ladla just for taking revenge from him as he had put the country on the road to progress. In his maiden televised ‘address to the nation’ after ending four years of exile, Nawaz said: “It was necessary to remove and punish me to bring a ladla (blue-eyed boy) but what…
By Ali Raza in The News, December 14, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz (PMLN) supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday he did not want revenge from anyone for what had happened to him but it was necessary to bring to account the culprits. The games with the country would not stop if no one was held accountable, he said. Addressing the party leaders and participants in the 8th meeting of PMLN…
By Amjad Safi in The News, December 14, 2023PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Wednesday demanded an inquiry into the negotiations with militants and bringing them back to the country without taking parliament and people into confidence. Addressing the members of Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) here, Bilawal said such elements should be exposed before the nation and held accountable for betraying the martyrs. PPP provincial president Syed Mohammad Shah Bacha,…
report in The News, December 14, 2023ISLAMABAD: Aleema Khan, the sister of former PTI chairman, has said that they seem to be sitting in some other country and not their own. Talking to the media outside the Adiala Jail, Aleema said she did not see justice being done in the cipher case trial. She said cubicles had been made in the courtroom, and she couldn’t comprehend what fear had caused this state of affairs. Aleema…
report in Dawn, December 12th, 2023AROUND 200 Afghan special forces personnel, stranded in Pakistan while awaiting relocation to the UK, are facing deportation back to the country they escaped from in 2021, according to BBC. The report says the personnel, trained and funded by the UK, fled to Pakistan after the Afghan Taliban took over Kabul. The fears for the Afghan commandos come as it was revealed the government also rejected calls from senior British…
by Mubashir Hassan in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Friday renewed his demand for accountability of former military generals and judges for ruining the country by ousting his government in 2017. Addressing the party’s parliamentary board which is finalising the tickets for the February 8 general elections, Sharif said: “We do not want to come into power to roam around in luxury cars…
Report in The Daily Star, Dec 08, 2023Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Mantytskiy yesterday said they are against any “illegal actions” – sanctions or others – taken by America or other western countries against a country. “We are against any illegal actions … We will be against any sanctions or steps here,” he said at an event titled “Talks with Ambassadors”, organised by the Swadhinata Sangbadik Forum at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka, reports…
Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023QUETTA – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Saturday that if, God forbid, either the PML-N or the PTI comes to power as a result of February 8 general elections, they will destroy the country and the people through their politics of revenge. The PPP leader went on to say that it is not possible to run a similar campaign in 2024 as in the 2018…