Edit in The News,December 05, 2023Unidentified attackers opened fire on a passenger bus on Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) Chilas city this past Saturday, leaving at least nine dead and 25 injured. Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were also martyred in the attack. On Sunday, the police arrested six suspects following the gun attack on the Islamabad-bound bus in Chilas, which ploughed into a goods truck due to the driver’s acceleration, prompted by the…
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report in The News, Dec 04, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are holding consultations over several issues, including the situation in Afghanistan, said the Foreign Office in a statement issued on Sunday. FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the two countries are also exchanging visits in a bid to speed up the consultation process, adding that important US officials are visiting Pakistan over the coming days. Islamabad has continuously blamed Kabul for rising terrorist…
report in The News, Nov 25, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court IHC has been informed that Dr Fowzia will meet her incarcerated sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the United States in the first week of December, it emerged Friday. This will be the second meeting between the two sisters in the last 20 years. Earlier in May, Dr Fowzia met Aafia Siddiqui in Fort Worth prison. IHC Justice Sardar Aijaz Ishaq Khan took up the…
By Rana Ghulam Qadir in The News, Nov 22, 2023ISLAMABAD: The caretaker federal government has taken the final decision to remove IG Islamabad Police Dr Akbar Nasir Khan and Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon from their posts and there will be no further delay in this regard. Irfan Nawaz Memon is a Grade 19 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service while D. Akbar Nasir Khan is a Grade 20 officer of the Police Service. In…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will take up PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan’s intra-court appeal on Monday (today) against a single-judge bench’s decision that had approved his jail trial in the cipher case and the appointment of the judge for the special court of the Official Secrets Act. An IHC division bench, comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz, will hear the matter.…
by Mubarak Zeb Khan in Dawn, Nov15, 2023• Pakistan hosts first ministerial meeting with Afghanistan, Uzbekistan• Vows to increase trade, foreign investmentISLAMABAD: The first trilateral commerce ministers’ meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan took place on Tuesday, marking a significant stride towards fostering investment opportunities across various sectors. This initiative is anticipated to pave the way for an influx of foreign direct investment, bolster regional cooperation, and enhance connectivity. Commerce ministers of Pakistan Ejaz Gohar…
report in Dawn, November 15th, 2023• FM Jilani calls for collective action against terrorism• Azizi seeks release of thousands of Afghanistan-bound containers stuck at portISLAMABAD: The Taliban’s acting commerce minister met Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad this week, an Afghan embassy statement said on Tuesday, discussing trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland. The visit takes place less than a week…
Report in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023LAHORE: Iranian Ambassador Dr Reza Amiri Moghaddam has identified a lack of banking channel, behaviour of some bureaucrats both in Pakistan and Iran, and an international currency, as major hurdles to the promotion of trade between Tehran and Islamabad. “Besides the currency problem, other issues that need immediate attention are establishing a formal banking channel, the main trade infrastructure, for business transactions between Pakistan and Iran, and bringing a change…
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, October 18, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) Quaid Nawaz Sharif will approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC) today (Wednesday) through his counsel for procuring protective bail, undertaking to contest cases pending in the learned court/s subsequently. A PMLN legal team has been constituted under former law and justice minister Senator Azam Nazir Tarar that also includes Amjad Pervez, Advocate. The team has tweaked the…
report in Khaama Press online, Oct 3, 2023Pakistani police have detained more than a thousand Afghan migrants in the last two weeks, according to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. In a statement issued Tuesday, the embassy reported that some of these detainees lost their lives while in custody, and their bodies were discovered in hospitals and various other locations. The Taliban embassy emphasized that despite repeated promises from Pakistani authorities, the “arrest, harassment, and mistreatment”…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, September 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has once again asked the interim Afghan government to act against “individuals and entities that threaten Pakistan” and live up to its commitments with the international community. In her weekly press briefing on Friday, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said: “[I]t is their responsibility, their international responsibility, their bilateral responsibility and their trilateral responsibility as they have committed in the trilateral between Pakistan,…