by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 31st, 2023• Omar Ayub alleges ‘status quo forces’ resorting to underhanded tactics• Barrister Gohar says ECP failed to perform its constitutional dutiesISLAMABAD: The PTI decried on Saturday the rejection of the nomination papers of several of its election candidates, including Murad Saeed and Sahibzada Sibghatullah. PTI’s Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan has branded these rejections as “politically motivated”, accusing the “forces of status quo” of resorting to underhanded tactics…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 17th, 2023QUETTA: Hundreds of political workers, human rights defenders and members of civil society along with the family of Balach Mola Bakhsh after a long journey reached Kohlu, where a complete strike was observed on the call of Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) to protest against his alleged extrajudicial killing on Saturday. The BYC leaders had decided to travel from Quetta to Islamabad along with other protesters to stage a…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Dec 03, 2023ISLAMABAD: Leaders of two major political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN), exchanged barbs on Saturday, with the former accusing the latter of plans to abolish the 18th Amendment after coming to power and the latter blaming the former for unnecessary criticism to win over anti-PMLN votes. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Saturday whether it was in Pakistan or in…
Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party announced on Saturday that they have the plans to revisit the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. While speaking to reporters after the party meeting in Lahore, PML-N leaders Rana Sanaullah Khan and Ahsan Iqbal said that the party intends to implement the amendment in its spirits and wants to complete it by introducing further devolution of powers. “The 18th Amendment is…
Report in Dawn, Dec 3rd, 2023PESHAWAR: The security forces arrested a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan during an operation carried out in Mardan district on Saturday, official sources said. They said that during interrogation, the banned outfit’s member revealed about as huge cache of arms kept in the Khyber tribal district. They added that later the weapons were recovered from area. “The banned outfit’s militants had planned to carry out terror activities…
by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023GILGIT: At least nine people lost their lives and 21 passengers received injuries after an Islamabad-bound bus came under fire near Chilas in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday evening. Officials said unknown gunmen targeted the bus, operated by a local private company, from nearby hills which caused the vehicle to swerve into a goods truck, causing a head-on collision which also killed the truck driver. Police said…
Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Information Secretary, Marriyum Aurangzeb expressed amazement on Saturday at the unconventional intra-party elections of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, which resulted in the unanimous ‘election’ of office bearers within a 15-minute timeframe. Talking to media on Saturday, she highlighted the unorthodox elements of PTI’s intra-party election process, such as the undisclosed venue, the lack of participating voters or seconders, proposers, the absence of a presiding…
By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, November 29, 2023KARACHI: PTI senior leader and lawyer Barrister Ali Zafar has said that in a meeting with Imran Khan one person has been agreed on as someone who can contest the PTI’s intra-party polls in Imran’s place. The name of the person will be announced as soon as all legal compulsions are finalized, and the party could hold the intra-party election on Saturday or Sunday. Speaking to host…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Nov 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: A three-member Combined Investigation Team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Rawalpindi, continued on Saturday interrogation of former prime minister Imran Khan in the £190 million National Crime Agency (NCA) UK case after getting his physical remand. According to sources, during investigation, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman was asked questions about different documents related to £190 million NCA (UK) and Al-Qadir Trust University. The accountability court…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Nov 19th, 2023QUETTA: Five people, including three Levies personnel, were injured in two armed attacks in Chagai and Pishin districts of Balochistan on Saturday. Three Levies personnel sustained injuries in an attack by unidentified gunmen at a check post on the Quetta-Taftan highway in Chagai. Officials said a group of armed men raided a pickup in the Gazan area near Dalbandin and indiscriminately fired at the Levies personnel on duty…