report in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023SHEIKHUPURA: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has said that on February 8 the people of Pakistan will have to choose between those who are committed to strengthening the nation and those who attacked their own country on May 9. “These elections are no ordinary elections. You must come to vote with passion. When you cast your vote, you must see what the leader has done in the past,” Shehbaz…
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report in The Nation, Dec 7, 2023ISLAMABAD – Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said Wednesday that the nation should not have any doubts about the general elections to be held on February 8, 2024. “I have no doubt about it… The concerns are often associated with our political system. We have a history of our own,” he remarked in an interview with Independent Urdu. The prime minister expressed the hope that the elections would…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Nov 17, 2023ISLAMABAD – Incarcerated PTI senior leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser Thursday said that the nation wouldn’t accept the ‘selection plus’ as PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has already been declared as next prime minister by some quarters, months before the general elections. He said that “the reign of terror had been unleashed” on the PTI leaders and workers, saying that they could not be petrified…
report in Dailu Mirror, Nov 6, 2023The approval rating of the Government fell from 21% in June 2023 to 9% in October 2023 according to the latest round of the Gallup style ‘Mood of the Nation’ poll of Verité Research. The survey showed that satisfaction with the state of the nation also dropped by half to 6%, from 12% in June 2023. The economic confidence score also fell from negative (-) 44 in June to…
report in Daily Mirror online, Aug 9, 2023The implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution should be done in a way that suits the nation’s growth and future, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. Addressing parliament, he said achieving this requires a consensus among all parliament members through comprehensive and open-minded deliberations. President Wickremesinghe highlighted that the 13th Amendment, which oversees the decentralization of power to provincial councils, holds the utmost legal significance in the…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Mar 21, 2023 at 3:58 PMThe Ministry of Interior said more than 100 abduction incidents were recorded in the nation in 1401 (the solar year), and close to 200 people were arrested in connection with these incidents. The Interior Ministry’s spokeswoman, Abdul Nafi Takour, said during a press conference that nearly 12,000 criminal incidents were recorded in the country in the past one year. Thirteen suspects have been killed as…
Editorial in Dawn, February 1st, 2023A RECKONING is called for, a reckoning unlike that which this nation has ever seen. It must happen now — or, as surely as night follows day, more bestial acts of violence like that which took place in Peshawar on Monday will continue to claim the lives of innocent Pakistanis. And it must come from those who sowed the seeds of a disastrous policy that is once again reaping a…
report on ECNOMYNEXT online, Jan 11, 2023 at 6:19 pm– A top United States security officials met Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe and discussed maritime matters, the president’s office said, amid rising worries over Chinese activities in the Indian Ocean surrounded by the island nation. Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, the US Senior Director for South Asia for National Security Council met President Wickremesinghe and said that the U.S. values Sri Lanka’s partnership and is keen…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh, in ToloNews, Dec 28, 2022 at 8:28 PMThe United Nations Security Council in a statement on Wednesday called for full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan. The UNSC said that the suspension of women’s work in Afghanistan would have a significant and immediate impact on humanitarian operations in the country. “These restrictions contradict the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan people as well as the…
By Muhammad Anis & agencies in The News, Dec 23, 2022ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday declared the writ of the state will be established at all costs and no one will be allowed to derail the hard-earned gains of war on terror achieved through unparalleled sacrifices of the nation and valiant armed forces. The prime minister met officers and soldiers who were injured during the CTD complex Bannu operation at the CMH…
There shall be no appeasement to terror. The resolute words came from Army Chief General Asim Munir, as he visited the forward positions on the western front in the tribal areas. The reaffirmation that the military would not tolerate non-state actors, and the fissures of terror shall be nipped in the bud, was of utmost importance. It has come from the new military leadership at a time when unscrupulous elements are raising their ugly heads…