by Saleem Shahid | Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Caretaker Interior Minister Senator Sarfaraz Bugti on Friday resigned from the federal cabinet, sources told Dawn. In a related development, Balochistan caretaker Minister for Sports and Culture, Nawabzada Jamal Raisani and Adviser to the Chief Minister on Mines and Minerals, Mir Umair Muhammad Hasni, also resigned from the interim provincial cabinet on Friday. They said that Mr Bugti had submitted his resignation to…
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by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Special Court (Official Secrets Act) on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case, sources told Dawn. Only four members of the press corps were allowed to cover Wednesday’s proceedings inside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. Mr Khan’s legal team, however, disputed the impression, with Barrister Salman Safdar telling reporters after the trial that the court did not…
By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, November 28th, 2023WASHINGTON: More than 12,000 Afghan refugees have resettled in the United States and Britain, while thousands more are still waiting in Pakistan for a final approval for relocation, diplomatic sources have told Dawn. The sources reveal that both the US and the UK are actively considering the resettlement of Afghan nationals, providing a glimmer of hope amid the ongoing crisis. The US has so far identified 25,351 Afghan…
by Mushtaq Ghumman in Business Recoder, Oct 13,, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Military Intelligence of Armies of Pakistan and China are to establish hotline on counter terrorism through inking a formal pact, well informed sources told Business Recorder. Sharing the details, sources said, Defence Division on October 2, 2023 informed the Federal Cabinet presided caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar that General Headquarters (GHQ) proposed signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a counter terrorism Intelligence…
by DR Pant in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 30, 2023Prabin Mahara still remembers the last thing his wife Ganga told him before she went missing some five years ago. “She told me to not leave our daughter alone until she gets back,” Prabin recalls. “But she never came back.” Mahara, who is 29 and lives at Gauriganga Municipality’s ward 3 in Kailali, says his wife’s disappearance left him and their daughter, now eight years old,…