by Ali Hussain in Business Recorder, August 31st, 2023ISLAMABAD: A senior US diplomat on Wednesday reached out to the caretaker government to discuss deepening Pakistan-US partnership and cooperation on issues of mutual concern, including economic stability and continued engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Acting Deputy Secretary of State and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland telephoned interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani to congratulate him on assuming the office as well as…
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by Mateen Haider in The Nation, Aug 31, 2023ISLAMABAD – Saudi Prime Minister and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has postponed his upcoming visit to Pakistan due to unknown reasons. Earlier, the diplomatic sources had said that the Saudi Crown Prince was planning a visit to Pakistan on 10th of September ahead of his visit to India to attend the G-20 summit. Now the Saudi Crown Prince has also cancelled his visit to India and…
report in The News,August 30, 2023WASHINGTON: The United States (US) State Department said Tuesday that Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland underscored the importance of free, fair and timely general elections in Pakistan in a telephonic conversation with interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani. “Acting Deputy Secretary Nuland and Foreign Minister Jilani discussed the importance of timely, free and fair elections in a manner consistent with Pakistan’s laws and constitution,” according to State Department…
by Syed Sheheryar Raza Zaidi in Dawn, August 29th, 2023The writer is a lawyer.AMONG the many existential crises Pakistan faces, the plight of its minorities and the downtrodden seems to be the least of the state’s worries. In all the perceived concern for Pakistan’s economic plight and the fundamentals of its Constitution, the people of Pakistan — that is, its constituents — have been left at the mercy of mobs, religious fanatics and feudal lords.…
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 28th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: Caretaker Federal Minister for National Heritage and Culture Jamal Shah says that every Pakistani should discourage extremism and condemn the incidents like those of Jaranwala. Talking to the media after visiting the burnt churches and houses of the Christian localities in Jaranwala on Sunday, he termed it a legal and moral duty of all citizens to protect the minority communities as Islam also taught peace and love.…
Report in Dawn, August 28th, 2023PESHAWAR: The law enforcement agencies claimed to have arrested a member of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and his two facilitators allegedly involved in attack on former lawmaker of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Liaquat Ali Khan. The provincial head of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Additional Inspector General Shaukat Abbas, said that Asadullah, the suspected TTP member, was arrested in an intelligence-based operation carried out by the department in collaboration with other security agencies.…
Report in Dawn, August 28th, 2023KARACHI: PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah has expressed doubts over the return of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan in October, Dawn.com has reported. On Friday, after meeting his brother in London, former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said after consultations with the party’s senior leadership, it had been decided that Mr Nawaz “will return to Pakistan in October”. Speaking with DawnNewsTV on Saturday regarding Mr Nawaz’s homecoming, the PPP leader…
edit in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2023.A recent report by Sahil, a non-profit organisation that advocates for children’s protection, has revealed harrowing details about child sexual abuse (CSA) in Pakistan. On average, 12 children suffered sexual abuse every day in Pakistan from January to June 2023. As many as 4,253 cases of child abuse were reported in 2022, half of which were of sexual abuse. These figures are just the tip of the iceberg.…
by Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in Dawn, August 27th, 2023The writer is a former foreign secretary of PakistanJARANWALA, a small town near Lahore, has shot into prominence, but for the wrong reasons. What happened there on Aug 16, 2023 represents another low in our history of communal intolerance, with local community leaders and law-enforcement authorities appearing totally helpless in preventing the mob from targeting dozens of Christian families, their houses and churches. For a country whose…