Sunday, November 26th, 2017
Interior ministry tasks Rangers Punjab DG to clear Faizabad until Dec 3
ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Interior ministry has issued notification on Sunday authorizing Punjab Director General (DG) of Pakistan Rangers Major General Azhar Naveed Hayat to clear Faizabad Interchange of protesters belonging to religious parties. The development has come in hours after Pakistan Rangers was given the lead of security operation in Faizabad today. It should be noted here that the ministry had issued a notification to deploy army troops in the capital to check violence and protests however, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa convened a meeting with Prime MinisterRead More
Faizabad sit-in: Law Minister Zahid Hamid resigns
ISLAMABAD, NOV 27 (DNA) – According to the state-run TV channel, Federal Minister for Law Zahid Hamid has resigned from his office on Monday. The government sources also informed that Federal Minister for Law Zahid Hamid has handed his resignation to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Zahid Hamid has reportedly said that he was resigning only to resolve the current crisis in the country. He further said that has firm belief in the finality of Prophethood (PBUH) and did not believe that anything he had done was wrong. Zahid Hamid’s resignationRead More
Faizabad crackdown: We can’t use force against our own people, says COAS
ISLAMABAD, NOV 26 (DNA) – The Pakistan Army will not participate in the crackdown on the Faizabad protesters but it will safeguard the government installations in the federal capital, it was decided at a meeting of the country’s top civilian and military leaders on Sunday. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired the meeting in Islamabad. It was attended by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Naveed Mukhtar, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. It was decided that troops would be deployedRead More
Uzbekistan’s Uzbekenergo increases electricity supplies to regions
TASHKENT, NOV 26 (DNA) – Uzbekistan’s energy company Uzbekenergo supplied 44.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to the regions in January-October 2017, which is by 3.1 billion kilowatt-hours more than in the same period of 2016, Ruzikul Raimov, deputy chairman of the company’s board, said. Raimov made the remarks during the event dedicated to the preparation for the autumn-winter season 2017-2018. Over the reporting period, 3,124 kilometers of power transmission lines and more than 1,000 transformer stations were modernized and reconstructed. Moreover, 406 kilometers of power transmission lines and 380 transformerRead More
Pakistan, Iran agree to enhance cooperation in public health sector
TEHRAN, NOV 26 (DNA) – Saira Afzal Tarar, Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulation and Co-ordination reached Tehran on a three day official visit this Friday to the Islamic Republic of Iran at the invitation of her counterpart Dr. Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashmi. Minister Tarar held meetings with the Iranian Health Minister Dr. Hashmi; Mr. Moohebati, President of Iran Health Insurance Organization (IHIO); Dr. Asghari, President Iran Food and Drug Administration and other Iranian officials from the health sector in which possibilities of cooperation between the two countries inRead More
PEMRA allows TV channels to resume transmission
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) said on Sunday it will “restore transmission of all television channels shortly. Hours after police and paramilitary forces launched a crackdown on protesters on Saturday, the media watchdog shut down transmission of all private news channels, accusing them of violating media regulations by airing live coverage of the operation. Furthermore, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) was ordered to block popular social media networking sites Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and video-sharing websites YouTube and Dailymotion.