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Will soon reveal the reason to not join federal cabinet: Nisar

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Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, while speaking in a jalsa in his constituency on Friday, said he will soon reveal the reason he did not join Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s cabinet. Nisar’s portfolio has been transferred to Ahsan Iqbal in Prime Minister Abbasi’s cabinet, which took oath today (Friday). Reports of Nisar’s misgivings with other PML-N leaders had emerged last month, following which he had announced he would hold a press conference to clear the air. He finally spoke last week, after postponing the talk twice, to…

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Pakistan urges comprehensive political plan for Afghan peace

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday hoped that the ongoing US review would result in a comprehensive political strategy to promote reconciliation and peace in Afghanistan and the region amid reports that the Trump Administration is in a fix to evolve a workable plan. As the US administration is finalising its plan for Afghanistan and South Asia, a US delegation led by Ambassador Alice G Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, held talks with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua at the Foreign Office. The US delegation is currently on tour…

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Eight killed in rain related incidents in Islamabad, K-P

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PESHAWAR: Heavy downpour on Wednesday flooded parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa (K-P), upper Punjab and the federal capital, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens. With these casualties, the total death toll in Pakistan due to current monsoon rains rose to 105. Three children reportedly died in Islamabad after roof of a house collapsed at the Allah Ditta Brick Kiln near Benazir Chowk at the capital’s Tarnol area. In another related incident, a girl was killed and four other members of her family sustained injuries in the suburbs of Jhelum on Wednesday.…

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New cabinet takes oath: Khawaja Asif foreign minister, Ahsan Iqbal interior minister

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Members of the new cabinet took oath at a ceremony organised at the Presidency in Islamabad on Friday morning. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to 44 members of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s cabinet comprising mostly old faces but with some reshuffled portfolios. The cabinet comprises 28 federal ministers and 18 state ministers. The names of the cabinet members and their portfolios were finalised by PM Abbasi after six-hour-long consultations with his predecessor Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Murree on Thursday. Khawaja Muhammad Asif, earlier the defence…

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Karachi’s influential prisoners are living the dream

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  KARACHI: Suspected murderers, rapists and terrorists are inmates of the Central Jail, Karachi. Or, they are supposed to be. Around 40 convicted and under-trial prisoners have been living a life of luxury at various public and private hospitals in blatant violation of prison department laws. Infamous convicts, like the murderers of university student Shahzeb Khan and A-Level student Suleman Lashari, have been living in private wards of hospitals that they have turned into their homes away from home. Some prisoners have even been ‘admitted’ to private hospitals for months at…

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Asma Jahangir censures SC

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ISLAMABAD: Rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir has questioned the role of the Supreme Court in the Panamagate case, and its recent verdict disqualifying the ex-prime minister from his office. Speaking at a meet the press programme on Thursday, the former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) censured the apex court’s judgment in the case. “I do not support Nawaz Sharif and I have never voted for the PML-N, but I support the rule of law and the principles. And I think voices should be raised when the highest…

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Former AGP’s conviction suspended

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ISLAMABAD: The sacked auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) Akhtar Buland Rana, who was convicted of concealing his Canadian nationality, was released on bail on Thursday. Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Faizan Haider Gillani suspended the verdict of senior civil judge Mohammad Shabbir and issued notice to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for September 19. The ADSJ released the AGP on Rs200,000 surety bonds. A senior civil judge had convicted Mr Rana under section 6(c) of the Passport Act 1974 for concealing his Canadian nationality and awarded him six-months of…

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Corps commander, governor pledge to ensure durable peace in Karachi

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KARACHI: The military establishment on Thursday hinted that the Karachi operation, which is going to complete four years next month, was not going to end anytime soon as the new corps commander of the city in a meeting with the Sindh governor vowed to continue the exercise “till its logical end”. During a meeting at Governor House Governor Mohammed Zubair and Corps Commander Karachi Lt-Gen Shahid Baig Mirza discussed efforts that were afoot to make peace in the city sustainable and lasting, after the sacrifices of many security and law…

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Footprints: when sacrifice is insufficient

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KARACHI: Outside the Garden Headquarters of the Sindh police, I meet Muhammad Hamza. He has come to file a document required to be recruited as a constable in the law enforcement agency. The 21-year-old graduate does not want to be a constable, and would prefer the position of an officer, but there is no choice. Hamza lost his father, constable Muhammad Afzal, last month in an armed attack on a police vehicle in Korangi. Two other policemen also died while doing their duty on one of the city’s busiest roads.…

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Petition filed in IHC to put Nawaz Sharif, his children and others on Exit Control List

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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday accepted for hearing a petition calling for the names of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members to be added to the Exit Control List (ECL), and will hold its first hearing of the case on Monday. The petition, filed by lawyer Raees Abdulwahid, asks that the names of Nawaz Sharif, his children, Hassan, Hussain and Maryam, son-in-law Capt Safdar, and former finance minister Ishaq Dar be placed on the ECL and their accounts frozen. The petition comes days after the…

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Musharraf conditionally readies to return Pakistan, Says SG of APML

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All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary General Dr Muhammad Amjad here Wednesdaywhile addressing a press conference said that party Chairman, General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is ready to face accountability and we request judges of Supreme Court to form a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe assets of Gen Musharraf. With Iftikhar Chaudhry heading Supreme Court of Pakistan, public lost faith in judiciary and some controversial decisions were pronounced. After apex Supreme Court rendered judgment in panama case, faith in judiciary has gone restored and Gen Musharraf is ready to face a…

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What brings PTI chief to a remote town?

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SAHIWAL: At a time when Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf faced the media onslaught after ‘startling revelations’ by its MNA Ms Ayesha Gulalai on Tuesday evening, the party chairman who skipped the all-important National Assembly session the same day, travelled all the way to Pakpattan in the dark of night. Mr Khan has been a regular visitor to the ancient town for the last two years. The visits, however, are kept private. Escorted by his personal guards, Khan usually visits the town at night, pays homage to saint Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar by visiting…

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COAS, Afghan envoy discuss border management in wake of Herat attack

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A day after a deadly attack on a mosque in Herat province, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal has discussed security situation and border management with army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, a statement issued by the army’s media wing said. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the envoy, who called on the chief of army staff (COAS) at the General Headquarters, Rawalpindi on Wednesday also shared matters of mutual interest. Gen Qamar also expressed his grief over loss of innocent lives in the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.…

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PTI issues ‘legal’ notice to Gulalai, demands apology for allegations

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The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday issued a “legal notice” to former party member Ayesha Gulalai, demanding she apologise for her allegations against PTI Chairman Imran Khan a day earlier and resign from the National Assembly, or pay Rs30 million in damages to the aggrieved parties. The legal notice was served by Advocate Ahsan Jawed on behalf of the party’s central media coordinator Jawed Bader. The notice presents two options to Gulalai ─ to either tender an “unconditional apology” to Khan and the PTI for her “baseless and indecent allegations” in a…

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‘Cabinet to take oath in one or two days,’ PM Abbasi says

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Incumbent Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in a press conference on Wednesday said that the government’s incoming cabinet would take oath in a couple of days. “Consultations are underway and the cabinet will hopefully take oath in one to two days,” Abbasi said while speaking to journalists in Murree, following a high-level PML-N meeting chaired by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif. When asked about the PML-N’s candidate for the upcoming by-poll for the NA-120 constituency ─ a seat left vacant after Nawaz’s disqualification ─ Abbasi said that there was still time left…

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