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Army chief to brief senators on ‘national security’ tomorrow

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 News Desk

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), Maj Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza, will brief the Senate Committee of the Whole House on the national security situation in the country during an in-camera session on Tuesday (tomorrow). Through a notice, the Senate Secretariat on Sunday informed all the senators about the extraordinary meeting, to be presided over by Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani. It will be after six years that the military leadership will be coming to the Parliament House for…

Kashmir Council EU condemns a terrorist attack on a church in Quetta, Pakistan

December 17, 2017 News Desk

Chairman Kashmir Council Eu Ali Raza Syed

Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed has expressed grave concerns on a deadly attack in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province. At least eight people were killed and above 40 injured in a suicide attack on a Church on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road on Sunday afternoon. In a statement Mr Ali Raza Syed said, this is a brutal and inhuman act and we strongly condemn it. He added, violence and terrorism is not acceptable in any shape. Such attacks are assaults on sense of connection and shared humanity, tolerance,…

Pakistan-born woman tried to use bitcoin to aid IS, say prosecutors

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 News Desk

NEW YORK: A suburban New York hospital technician accused of using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money meant for the militant Islamic State (IS) group was arrested on charges of money laundering in support of a foreign terrorist organisation and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday. Federal prosecutors in New York’s Suffolk County claimed in court papers that Zoobia Shahnaz, 27, used fraudulent credit cards and loans to accumulate $85,000, which she attempted to transfer to IS before attempting to go to Syria to join it. Prosecutors said that…

China calls for independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 News Desk

China has officially stated that it supports the establishment of an independent state of Palestine based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. “China understands the concerns of Islamic countries on the status of Jerusalem, supports the resolution of the status of Jerusalem in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions and international consensus,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said. He made the remarks during his regular press briefing in Beijing while responding to a question about the adoption of a joint statement by the Organisation of…

Catholics singing Christmas carols detained in Indian state

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017 News Desk

NEW DELHI: Indian police detained dozens of Catholics singing Christmas carols for allegedly trying to convert people, officials said on Friday, as fears grow over religious freedom in the South Asian nation. Police said 32 people were detained for trying to convert people to Christianity in the Madhya Pradesh state late Thursday, with a leading Catholic association condemning the accusations as “laughable”. When a group of priests went to the police station to enquire about the detentions, their parked car was torched, allegedly by a mob belonging to a right-wing…

Israeli troops kill four Palestinians, wound 160

December 16, 2017 News Desk

JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces detain a man in Old City on Friday.—AFP

GAZA: Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians and wounded 150 others with live fire on Friday, medical officials said, as protests over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital entered a second week. Most of the casualties were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the fortified fence. Medics said two protesters, one of them wheelchair-bound, were killed and 150 wounded. In the occupied West Bank, another area where Palestinians are seeking statehood along with adjacent East…

Imran Khan free of Panama-like suspicion: SC judge

December 16, 2017 News Desk

ISLAMABAD: Justice Faisal Arab, who was a member of the three-judge Supreme Court bench that exonerated the PTI chairman on Friday, observed in his additional note that Imran Khan did not incorporate offshore company Niazi Services Limited (NSL) to park assets acquired through embezzlement, bribery or tax evasion to keep them hidden from the public eye. Comparing the case of Imran Khan with that of the Panama Papers case in which Nawaz Sharif was disqualified as prime minister, Justice Arab observed that Mr Khan’s case was that of acquisition of an…

SC to announce verdict on Imran Khan, Jehangir Tareen’s disqualification tomorrow

December 14, 2017 News Desk

The Supreme Court on Friday will announce its verdict on a petition seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan and secretary-general Jahangir Tareen, DawnNews reported on Thursday evening. The verdict, which had been reserved by the bench on November 14, is expected to be read out at 2pm tomorrow afternoon by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar. Justices Nisar, Faisal Arab and Umar Ata Bandial had comprised the three-member bench which heard the case. The petitions filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi on Nov 2 last year sought the two PTI…

PLAN ‘United States of Europe’ by 2025- Is that truly possible?

December 14, 2017December 14, 2017 News Desk

The Chairman of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) Mr. Martin Schulz on Dec. 7, 2017 tweeted, “I want a new constitutional treaty to establish the United States of Europe. A Europe that is no threat to its member states, but a beneficial addition.” Mr. Martin Schulz has introduced a new vision, ‘United States of Europe’ by 2025, under a single constitutional treaty. It also worth mentioning here that the states, who disagree with the federal constitution, under Martin Schulz’s proposal, would automatically have to leave the EU. “This constitutional treaty…

Police pick up 70 addicts during anti-narcotics crackdown in Quetta

December 12, 2017 News Desk

Police claimed to have taken into custody more than 70 drug addicts and six narcotics dealers from Quetta’s main nullah on Tuesday. Abdullah Afridi, a senior police officer, told DawnNews that police also destroyed several safe havens established by peddlers inside the nullah during the operation. Two female addicts were among the 70 taken into custody from the nullah, which police said had been serving as a shelter for both dealers and addicts. Afridi said the arrested addicts would be handed over to a rehabilitation centre. “Their rehabilitation is our top priority”, he added.…

SC continues to press NAB on what new evidence merits reopening Hudaibya reference

December 12, 2017 News Desk

The Supreme Court on Tuesday continued to press the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on why the apex court should allow for the Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya Paper Mills reference to be reopened. A three-judge SC bench — comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel — was hearing the appeal against a 2014 decision of the Lahore High Court to quash the reference. At the outset of the hearing, Justice Alam asked the NAB prosecutor to satisfy the court on reasons as to why the bureau waited…

PTI to move high court against decision to try Imran Khan in anti-terrorism court

December 12, 2017 News Desk

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday reiterated that cases concerning the storming of the state-run broadcaster’s offices during the 2014 sit-in do not qualify as terrorism cases. An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had on Monday rejected PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s request to transfer the ongoing 2014 Pakistan Television (PTV) attack case to a civil court. In 2014, Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Tahirul Qadri staged a major rally in Islamabad against alleged rigging in the 2013 election and the Model Town tragedy, which had seen as many as 14 people…

An Inspiring journey, A girl on Wheel chair

December 12, 2017December 12, 2017 News Desk

By Dr Muhammad Kamran from Netherlands Ms Mumtaz Jamal was born as a normal child in a remote of area of Orakzai Agency in tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. At the age of one year she got infected by the polio virus which made the lower part of her body completely paralyzed. Her backbone was also affected by the fatal disease. As a result, her life was restricted to a wheelchair. As a very realistic child, she accepted her physical limitations and decided to live with it but her…

Terrorism eradicated from Pakistan, says Ahsan Iqbal

December 10, 2017December 10, 2017 News Desk

NAROWAL: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday said the backbone of terrorism has been broken and the people of Pakistan have now been living in peace. Speaking to media here, Iqbal said in the past over 25 people had been falling prey to terrorism in the country, who have now been living in peace. “Previously, there existed up to 22-hour load-shedding in the country, now the people have uninterrupted power supply for 22 hours a day,” he noted. Taking exception to opponents, the minister said those making speeches can only…

Three in One: A Norwegian Pakistani a physician, a tent pegging player and now Norway’s Weightlifting Champion

December 10, 2017December 10, 2017 News Desk

Oslo (Bureau Report) It is very difficult to be specialized in more than one fields but there are some people having such God gifted ability of learning every art of life. The 27 years Old Norwegian Pakistan Dr Zubair Akram who is a medical practitioner, is also Norwegian National team player of tent pegging and finally became national weightlifting champion of Norway. By securing a gold medal in a recent powerlifting national championship in Norway, he became first Norwegian Pakistani who won the weightlifting championship in the category of 83-kilo.…