Friday, October 23rd, 2020
WB vows to support Pakistan
Ibrar Khan ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has said the government has devised a mechanism for cash transfer to support 16 million deserving families during testing times. He was speaking at a virtual meeting with Managing Director, World Bank Axel Van Trotsenburg and Vice President Hartwing Schafer. The Adviser on Finance appreciated the role of World Bank in extending assistance to Pakistan to provide much-needed fiscal space to fight COVID-19 pandemic effectively. The World Bank appreciated reform agenda of the present Government andRead More
Qureshi urges UN to exert itself on Kashmir
is deplorable that universal ideals of UN Charter are continuously being violated and defied with impunity nowhere more egregiously than in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Naveed Miraj ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has urged the United Nations to exercise its legal and political authority to ensure full implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir. He was addressing a ceremony in connection with the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in Islamabad today (Friday). The Foreign Minister said it is deplorable that universal ideals of UN CharterRead More
Prolonged detention unfair, says SC
The top court took notice of prolonged detentions and delays in the NAB’s cases during a hearing — presided over by a three-member bench led by Justice Umar Ata Bandial AGENCIES ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday termed the prolonged detention of the accused in cases filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as “unfair”, asking the anti-graft watchdog to explain why there were delays in such cases. The top court took notice of prolonged detentions and delays in the NAB’s cases during a hearing — presided over by aRead More
Nawaz upset over PML Leaders meeting with Shahbaz
News Desk ISLAMABAD: A secret meeting of three senior PML-N leaders with Shahbaz Sharif on the “request” of a senior representative of the ‘establishment’ has “upset” former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The publication, citing informed sources, said Nawaz was unhappy when he was told that top party leaders Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal and Rana Tanvir Hussain had met Shahbaz while he was in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on the “request of a senior representative of the establishment”. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Advisor on Accountability and InteriorRead More
PM not our target: Maryam Nawaz
Abid Raza LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said Friday Prime Minister Imran Khan “is just a pawn and not our target”, noting decisively that the incumbent, PTI-led government would be sent packing before the start of 2021. Speaking to the media after meeting Baloch students staging a sit-in at Lahore’s Charing Cross, Maryam said students “are the future of Pakistan” but those from “Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, [erstwhile] FATA, and Balochistan” have to protest after 600 of their reserved seats were taken away.
Nawaz will be in Pakistan’s jail by January 15: Shibli Faraz
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23 (DNA): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz has on Friday said former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be in Pakistan’s jail by January 15. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Shibli Faraz said efforts are underway to bring back Nawaz Sharif from London so that he faces his cases and answers for his assets. He said the government will not only punish the corrupt elements but will also recover the looted national wealth. The minister said the video footage of the arrest of Captain (retired)Read More