Monday, November 28th, 2022
No-trust motion against Pervez Elahi: Punjab opposition faces legal challenges
LAHORE: The Punjab opposition is facing legal and constitutional issues to bring in-house change and topple Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi’sgovernment. The opposition parties are making strategies to foil the PTI plan of dissolving the provincial assemblies as announced by former prime minister Imran Khan to force fresh elections. On November 26, PTI Chairman and ex-premier Imran Khan surprised many by announcing that his party had decided they would not remain a part of the corrupt political system, and quit all the assemblies. Reacting to his announcement, Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervez Elahi saidRead More
In farewell meeting, PM Shehbaz thanks COAS Bajwa for tackling Pakistan’s ‘crises’
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday praised outgoing Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa for efficiently dealing with the ‘crises’ in the country during his six-year-long tenure. COAS Bajwa is set to retire on November 29 (tomorrow) and will hand over the “baton of command” to Gen Asim Munir, who was appointed to succeed him last week. As he gets ready to bid farewell to arms after serving as COAS from 2016-2022, General Bajwa met PM Shehbaz and President Arif Alvi today. During the meeting, PM Shehbaz lauded the outgoing chief’s servicesRead More
Political game heats up as PTI approves dissolution of Punjab, KP assemblies
ISLAMABAD, NOV 28: As the government and opposition in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mull strategies to emerge victorious amid the ongoing political crisis, PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry said Monday that the party’s leadership has approved the dissolution of assemblies in both provinces. “As you all know, we are quitting the assemblies. Therefore, the [party’s senior leadership] has approved the decision to dissolve the assemblies,” Chaudhry told journalists in Lahore. As he called off the long march to Islamabad last week, PTI Chairman Imran Khan announced that his partyRead More
Protest emerges as a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar
Protest on the soccer pitch has proven to be a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar, exposing double standards in the Gulf state’s position as well as that of its critics. Qatar embraced protest when it supported Qatari policies, such as the Gulf state’s increasingly assertive denunciation of double standards in Western criticism of discrimination against LGBT people or its refusal to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in the absence of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, protesters and foreign media quickly encountered the limits of Qatari tolerance and notionsRead More
Asad blames govt’s flawed short term cosmetic measures for destroying industries
Questions SC’s silence over lodging dozen of FIRs against Swati DNA ISLAMABAD, NOV 28: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Secretary General Asad Umar lashed out at the imported government for destroying the industries in short span of six months due to its flawed short term cosmetic measures. In a statement on Monday, PTI Secretary General said that the imported government ruined the IT industry, which was growing at more than 30%, now with zero growth. Asad Umar stated that he met two guys one from the IT sector and another fromRead More
Azam Swati cases: Imran asks SC if Article 14 ‘only applicable to powerful of the state’
ISLAMABAD, NOV 28: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday questioned the applicability of Article 14 of the Constitution — which refers to the “Inviolability of dignity of man” — as he decried the alleged torture, “video leak” and rearrest of party senator Azam Swati. Addressing the Supreme Court in a tweet, the former premier asked if the provision was “only applicable to the powerful of the State”. Imran and other PTI leaders have been lamenting the alleged custodial torture of Swati along with the leak of an objectionable video, purportedly of the senator with hisRead More