report on EconomyNext, Dec 8, 2023 at 6:38 pmSri Lanka will seek more information on foreign ships visiting the island nation, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said, following geopolitical concerns and questions raised over permitting Chinese research ships to dock in the Indian Ocean Island nation’s ports and do surveys. After the visit of two research ships within 14 months, China has sought approval from Sri Lankan authorities for another research ship early next year. India,…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 6, 2023Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai on Tuesday said that the provincial government was mulling imposing a ban on Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), whose chief was arrested by the police from Chaman a day earlier. Chaman Deputy Commissioner Raja Athar Abbas had said that Manzoor Pashteen was apprehended after armed men from his vehicle allegedly opened fire at a police vehicle. However, the PTM leaders have accused law…
by Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, Nov 26th, 2023LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former information minister and senior PML-N leader Marriyum Aurangzeb in a terror case registered against her last year. Neither Ms Aurangzeb nor her lawyer appeared before the court as Judge Abher Gul Khan resumed the hearing of the case. At the previous hearing, the judge had issued bailable arrest warrants for Ms Aurangzeb and ex-MNA Javed…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press Online, October 27, 2023The security official in Kabul says that based on initial information, an explosion occurred on Thursday evening, resulting in 4 casualties in the 18th district of Kabul city. The security official has announced in a press release that the death toll from this explosion is 2 people, with 9 others wounded. An investigative team has been dispatched to the scene to determine the cause of the…
by Syed Irfan Raza | Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 18th, 2023ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Almost a week after President Arif Alvi urged stakeholders to end bitterness to pave the way for democracy, the PTI on Tuesday proposed a ‘Grand National Reconciliation Dialogue’ among all stakeholders, while its leaders separately called on the president and the caretaker information minister. According to a statement by the President House, PTI leaders Raoof Hassan and Barrister Umair called on…
by Syed Irfan Raza | Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 18th, 2023ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Almost a week after President Arif Alvi urged stakeholders to end bitterness to pave the way for democracy, the PTI on Tuesday proposed a ‘Grand National Reconciliation Dialogue’ among all stakeholders, while its leaders separately called on the president and the caretaker information minister. According to a statement by the President House, PTI leaders Raoof Hassan and Barrister Umair called on…
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 Tehseen Raza | Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 14th, 2023• Calls for unified approach to handle country’s problems; broadsides PDM for abandoning ‘charter of economy’MUZAFFARGARH / LAHORE: In a thinly-veiled criticism of former coalition partner PML-N, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Wednesday that no one knew when the general elections would be held, but a “certain party” already had such information. “No one knows when the elections are supposed to be held, not…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a joint press conference called after President Alvi made startling claims about two recently adopted laws, interim Law Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam and Information Minister Murtaza Solangi rebuffed the president’s stance that he was unaware whether the bills had been returned or not. Giving their legal and constitutional position on the two bills, Mr Aslam said the government had not received any of the two bills from the…
report in The Express Tribune, Aug 20, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to investigate the claims made by party’s counsel Sher Afzal Khan Marwat regarding the existence of individuals within the party’s core committee and legal team who are “jeopardising his security by leaking sensitive party information to adversaries”. “…the traitors in the Khan legal team and the PTI Core Committee have put my life in danger. The presence of the traitors in the…