Report in Dawn, Sept 19th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Monday sternly rejected a report that claimed Pakistan sold arms and ammunition to Ukraine in order to secure a crucial bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Russia-Ukraine crisis began last year when President Vladimir Putin ordered the latter’s invasion on February 24. Separately, the IMF executive board approved a $3 billion bailout programme for Pakistan in July of this year, with the…
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report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023The visiting delegation of the CPN-UML raised the map issue with the leaders of the Communist Party of China during a meeting in Beijing on Monday. A high-level UML delegation led by the party’s General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel met with several CPC leaders as part of the exchange programme between the two Communist parties. “China should support Nepal’s new map [unveiled in May 2020],” Rajesh Rai, who is…
Report in The News, Sept 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: As the matter of the general elections in the country hangs in the balance with the political circles divided on the timing of the polls, President Arif Alvi is expected to announce the date for the electoral process anytime, sources privy to the development said on Monday. They said that the matter of the poll date was discussed in a meeting of President Alvi with the caretaker law…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Sept 12, 2023PESHAWAR: A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier embraced martyrdom and nine others, including three civilians, sustained injuries in a roadside explosion on the outskirts of Peshawar on Monday, police said. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for carrying out the attack. The FC convoy of Mohmand Rifles was on its way from Michni area of district Mohmand towards the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)…
by Mateen Haider in The Nation, Sept 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – President Arif Alvi who was expected to announce the date for the general elections deferred the announcement on Monday after meeting with federal law minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam. During the meeting, President Arif Alvi emphasised the need for upholding supremacy of the Constitution, saying that decisions should be taken in accordance with spirit of the Constitution. Caretaker Minister for Law and Justice Ahmed Irfan Aslam…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, Sept 5th, 2023ISLAMABAD: After finding the Election Commission unsympathetic to his request for an election date, President Arif Alvi emphasised the need to holding elections in 90 days, during a meeting with caretaker Federal Minister for Law and Justice Ahmed Irfan Aslam on Monday. President Alvi praised the caretaker prime minister’s resolve to act upon the apex court’s judgement on the matter. A statement issued by the President’s secretariat said…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 1, 2023Calls are growing from different quarters urging the government to request China for a map revision, after a new map released by the northern neighbour on Monday did not show the Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas inside Nepal. Nepal’s new map issued in May 2020 had included the three areas, which are currently under Indian control. Nepal government had issued the new map after India a…
report in Dawn, August 29th, 2023DADU: Two terror suspects were arrested in an action carried out by a team of the Counter Terrorism Department in Sikandarabad Colony, Kotri, in Jamshoro district, a spokesman for the Hyderabad CTD said on Monday. Identifying the suspects as Amin Solangi and Ayaz Khan, the spokesman claimed that explosives, detonators, ball-bearings, one 9mm pistol, one 30-bore pistol and bullets were seized from them. He said Solangi appeared to be associated…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, August 29th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Two personnel of the police’s elite force were martyred after terrorists attacked a patrol van near Darra Pezu town of Lakki Marwat on Monday. Three cops were also injured in the attack, according to officials. A team from Shaheed Haibat Ali Khan police station was on routine patrolling duty in the area when it came under attack, the officials said. Unidentified attackers, riding motorcycles, opened…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Assuring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) that the process to redraw the constituencies of national and provincial assemblies will be completed ‘as soon as possible’, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday promised their delegations in separate meetings that general polls would be conducted immediately after the constitutional exercise. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, who separately consulted Dr Farooq…
report in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Two persons were killed in a targeted attack in Miramshah area of the district on Monday morning, police sources said. Police sources said that Yunus Khan, a resident of Danday Darpakhel, and Abdul Nasir, a resident on Hamzoni Patikhel area, used to supply water to the security forces at a check-post. They added that the two persons were targeted in Spalga area and the killers escaped after the…