by Ali Hazrat Bacha in Dawn, Dec 18, 2023PESHAWAR: PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari has urged party leaders to step up their campaign for general elections despite his “pessimism” about the exercise being free and fair, sources have told Dawn. This was conveyed to PPP leaders during meetings at Peshawar’s Governor House. Mr Zardari, who arrived in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial capital for a day-long visit on Saturday evening, spent his time in the governor’s official…
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Report in Dawn, Nov 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PML-N said on Monday no proposal to alter the 18th amendment to the Constitution was being considered by the party. This stance was adopted by party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb and Senator Irfan Siddiqui following the publication of a report in Dawn that the PML-N’s manifesto committee had received several proposals to redo the amendment in question. In a statement, Ms Aurangzeb said that the PML-N had always pursued…
report in Dawn, Oct 2, 2023LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) late on Saturday night offloaded eight alleged beggars in the disguise of Umrah pilgrims from a Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound flight at Multan airport, reports Dawn.com. According to a statement issued by FIA immigration officer Tariq Mehmood, it transpired during the immigration that the group was travelling to Saudi Arabia for the “purpose of begging”. The agency said the group handed over an amount…
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…
Report in Dawn, August 28th, 2023KARACHI: PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah has expressed doubts over the return of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan in October, Dawn.com has reported. On Friday, after meeting his brother in London, former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said after consultations with the party’s senior leadership, it had been decided that Mr Nawaz “will return to Pakistan in October”. Speaking with DawnNewsTV on Saturday regarding Mr Nawaz’s homecoming, the PPP leader…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, August 23rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The controversy which started from President Arif Alvi’s tweet regarding the ‘dubious’ assent to two bills transformed into a crisis after it emerged that bureaucrats were hesitant to be posted to the Presidency, sources told Dawn. The president is said to be facing a virtual “revolt-like situation” as senior bureaucrats were unwilling to take up the post of the president’s principal secretary (PS), sources said on…
by Irfan Aslam in Dawn, August 18th, 2023“WE were all still sleeping when the announcements were made in mosque loudspeakers at about 5am, inciting the people against us (Christians). As soon as we heard the announcements, we ran for our lives,” Parveen Bibi tells Dawn in between sobs. Her house was situated behind the Catholic Church — one of the oldest churches in the Christian Colony of Jaranwala — in a dingy street. Now this…
Editorial in Dawn, March 11th, 2023THE riverine areas where the borders of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan meet have long been a haven for criminal gangs, and frequent armed operations by the state have failed to permanently dislodge the outlaws from their redoubts. Yet another operation is being planned, this time by the Sindh government, to address the problem of criminal gangs in the upper reaches of the province. The Sindh cabinet on Thursday decided that…