by Ali Hazrat Bacha in Dawn, Dec 18, 2023PESHAWAR: PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari has urged party leaders to step up their campaign for general elections despite his “pessimism” about the exercise being free and fair, sources have told Dawn. This was conveyed to PPP leaders during meetings at Peshawar’s Governor House. Mr Zardari, who arrived in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial capital for a day-long visit on Saturday evening, spent his time in the governor’s official…
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By Baharam Khan, Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Dec 12, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed doubt whether the main opposition Jatiya Party would keep its word and stay in the electoral race. The Awami League president also reiterated that “party independents” would be running to make the election more participatory, sources said. After the cabinet meeting yesterday, the premier had an unscheduled discussion with her colleagues on AL leaders running as independents…
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 Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Dec 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sent a clear message to the Afghan Taliban government that any future attacks having links to the neighbouring country would evoke a strong response, sources familiar with the development have said. Sources said the warning was conveyed through diplomatic channels after the recent attack in Bannu carried out by an Afghan national. This was the 16th suicide attack carried out by a national…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Nov 24, 2023ISLAMABAD: The much-discussed 7th March 2022 cipher, received by the Foreign Ministry from the-then Pakistani ambassador to the US, was never declassified, sources said. The PTI and its legal team claim that the cipher was declassified. However, sources in the FIA, which had probed the cipher case and gone through the cabinet meetings record, said the cipher was never declassified. It has been disclosed that the question…
report in Dawn, November 15th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Former MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir was arrested in Dera Ismail Khan, sources said here on Tuesday. He was picked when he was coming to Dera from Quetta in a private car. According to the sources, PTM leader Ali Wazir was arrested near the Darazinda tribal subdivision. He was arrested by the Daraban police. When contacted, Daraban SHO denied having arrested Mr Wazir. However,…
by Rameez Khan in The Expres Tribune, Oct 19, 2023LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will make the awaited announcement regarding the election date upon the arrival of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, party sources claimed on Wednesday — lending weight to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s assertions that polls were being delayed “for the arrival of one person”. With the former premier’s arrival just around the corner, the PML-N is abuzz with the last-minute arrangements…
report in The News online, Sept 21, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif rushed back to London merely after 48 hours to hold “important consultations” with his elder brother and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, sources told Geo News Thursday. The party’s chief organiser Maryam Nawaz has also left for the UK capital where she is expected to stay for a week. “Shehbaz Sharif is coming back to London with an important message…
By Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Sept 1, 2023ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi would likely defy the opinions of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the law ministry as he was contemplating announcing the date for the next general elections, sources familiar with the development told The Express Tribune on Thursday. According to the sources, the president might make the announcement soon as he had completed consultations with his legal aides. The sources expected…
By Arfa Feroz Zake & Awaid Yousafzai in The News, August 30, 2023A special court established under the Official Secrets Act Wednesday extended Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s judicial remand by 14 days in the case pertaining to the missing cipher — a classified state document, sources told Geo News. The court’s decision, issued by Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, came after its hearing took place at the Attock District Jail following approval by the…
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…