By Mehtab Haider in The News, Nov 22, 2023ISLAMABAD: With the possibility of granting an extension in the GSP Plus status for all beneficiaries, including Pakistan, from 2023 to 2027, the European Union (EU) has asked Islamabad to continue its legislative reforms and implement them in order to achieve tangible improvements. The EU’s joint staff report on Pakistan’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP) Plus for the period from 2020 to 2022 states that as defined…
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report in The News, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: All eyes are on the courts during this week as the Supreme Court (SC) and Islamabad High Court (IHC) are set to hear most important cases from today (Monday). IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb will hear the appeal against the sentence of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on November 21 (Tuesday) in the special bench of the IHC. Nawaz Sharif spent 10…
By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews Online, Nov 14, 2023 at 8:35 PMInternational Crisis Group’s expert Ibraheem Bahiss, in a “Q and A” released by ICG stated that Pakistan’s policy to deport Afghan refugees “could bring further trouble to the region,” notwithstanding Islamabad’s efforts to justify itself on security grounds. According to Bahiss, despite the immediate outcry from the UN and other international bodies, Islamabad seems intent on forcing all undocumented Afghans back to their home…
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Nov 13, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former three-time prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has become the most sought-after leader by senior diplomats posted in Islamabad. About 60 diplomats, including ambassadors and high commissioners, are looking for an interaction with him after he returned from abroad following four years of exile, and received by people with fair amount of enthusiasm. The envoys are keen to ascertain PMLN supremo’s…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews Online, Nov 06, 2023 at 8:52 PMSher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the meeting on the “Future Economic Development of Afghanistan” warned Islamabad to treat Afghan immigrants appropriately and not to force Afghans to react against their actions. Stanikzai said that the reaction of Afghans has been recorded in history and now Afghanistan has a strong defense force and plenty of weapons. Stanikzai also criticized…
AFP report, Nov 6, 2023KABUL: Thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan have been forcibly returned to their country since November 1 “in very poor condition,” Taliban authorities said on Sunday, contradicting Islamabad, which said most have returned voluntarily. More than 200,000 people have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan, Pakistani border officials said, the vast majority since an October 3 ultimatum given to the 1.7 million Afghans Islamabad said were living illegally in the country. Pakistan…
report in The Express Tribune, November 5th, 2023.Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in Islamabad on Saturday, confirmed the former PTI leader’s wife. Hiba Chaudhry took to X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon to announce that her husband was arrested, adding that his whereabouts were “unknown”. Fawad’s brother, Faisal Chaudhry, also confirmed the news. Hearing a plea filed against the former information minister’s arrest and seeking his recovery, the magistrate of the Kohsar police station,…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, Nov 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: A day after the Supreme Court gave nod to accountability courts to continue proceedings on corruption references, Islamabad’s accountability court on Wednesday summoned former president and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari and Ijaz Ahmed Khan, a former secretary to the Sindh government, in the Thatta water supply case. The case was among dozens of references transferred from accountability courts because of the amendments made in the National…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press, October 31, 2023In Pakistan, schools teaching Afghan children have started closing their doors as families go into hiding to avoid deportation before the looming deadline set by Islamabad. The Pakistani government has initiated an extensive crackdown on the estimated 1.7 million Afghans residing in the country without legal status, and it has given them until Wednesday to leave or face mass arrests. This development is particularly distressing for…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: n Tuesday, two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, will be in Islamabad, using Constitution Avenue as they separately appear before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as accused individuals. Constitution Avenue, situated in the capital’s Red Zone, is adorned with various key buildings, including Parliament, the Prime Minister’s House, the Supreme Court, the Foreign Office, the…