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Woman confesses to killing 16-year-old sister in Karachi over ‘compromising pictures’

December 10, 2017 News Desk

Police on Sunday confirmed that an alleged incident of robberyreported in Karachi’s Malir area earlier this week was actually an act of murder where a 20-year-old young woman killed her younger sister, Aleena, with the help of her fiance. On December 6, it was reported that a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death and her sister, Alveena, was wounded when they allegedly resisted a robbery attempt in their home. However, addressing a press conference on Sunday, Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Korangi Nauman Siddiqui said that Alveena had confessed to slitting the…

5 PML-N lawmakers announce resignation protesting inaction against Rana Sanaullah

December 10, 2017 News Desk

Five PML-N lawmakers announced their resignations from public office during a Khatm-i-Nabuwwat conference organised by Pir Sialvi in Faisalabad on Sunday. The lawmakers belonging to Punjab’s Jhang, Chiniot, Faisalabad and Sargodha districts, include MNAs Dr Nisar Ahmad Jutt and Ghulam Bibi Bharwana; Punjab MPAs Maulana Rehmatullah, Nizam-ud-Din Sialvi — Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi’s son — and Khan Muhammad Baloch. They said they would step down from their positions in the assemblies due to government inaction against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. The Punjab law minister came under fire from various quarters…

World Community should stop Human Rights violation in IHK: Speakers of debate in Brussels

December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 News Desk

World Community should stop Human Right violation in IHK: Speakers of debate in Brussels Brussels: Speakers of a panel discussion in Brussels, the EU headquarters have urged World Community to play its role in order to stop severe human rights violations in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK). The debate titled, “The Victims of A Forgotten Conflict” was organized Kashmir Council EU and International Community for Human Development (ICHD) on the eve of International Human Rights Day at European Press Club in the capital of Belgium. Ms Anthea McIntyre, co-chair of the…

US will act if Pakistan does not destroy safe havens: CIA

December 4, 2017 News Desk

(Anwar Iqbal | Dawn) WASHINGTON: CIA Director Mike Pompeo has warned Pakistan that if it does not eliminate the alleged safe havens inside its territory, the United States will do “everything we can” to destroy them. As Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrives in Islamabad on Monday to persuade Pakistan to support the new US strategy for Afghanistan, the Trump administration is sending mixed signals to its estranged ally. The new strategy seeks Pakistan’s support to defeat the Taliban in the battlefield as Washington believes that only a defeat will force…

SC rejects use of foul language for Islamic cause

December 3, 2017 News Desk

Justice Mushir Aalam and Justice Faez Isa

(Nasir Iqbal | Dawn) ISLAMABAD: Against the backdrop of a 20-day-long Faizabad sit-in, the Supreme Court has ruled that no one could be allowed to use “filthy-abusive language” for the sake of politics in the guise of an Islamic cause. “Freedom of speech and expression as well as freedom of the press is enshrined as a fundamental right (Article 19 of the Constitution), but the same provision curtails it when it is used to undermine ‘the glory of Islam or the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan… or morality, or…

Investigators say attackers were misled about target in Peshawar

December 3, 2017 News Desk

(Manzoor Ali | Dawn) PESHAWAR: Police investigators probing the Friday attack on Peshawar’s Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) suspect that the planners of the attack apparently tricked the suicide bombers into believing that the facility was an intelligence agency’s office, it emerged on Saturday. Nine people, including eight students, were killed and 28 others injured when three terrorists stormed the provincial agriculture department-run training institute on Friday morning. All the three terrorists were also killed in a two-hour-long operation. A senior police official told Dawn that the planners had deliberately misled…

9 suspects arrested as police begin investigating Peshawar ATI terror attack

December 2, 2017 News Desk

(Ali Akbar | Hassan Farhan | Dawn) At least nine suspects were arrested during a pre-dawn search operation carried out by law-enforcement agencies on the outskirts of Peshawar on Saturday as police launched an investigation into yesterday’s terror attack on the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI). Three terrorists dressed in burqas stormed the ATI hostel situated near Peshawar’s University Road, killing nine people and injuring 37 others. The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. Both police and military officials said the attackers had been coordinating with handlers based in Afghanistan. The ATI today…

Ex-Trump aide Flynn pleads guilty to lying about Russia links

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News Desk

(AFP/Dawn) Donald Trump’s former top adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over his contacts with Russia, in a dramatic escalation of the probe into possible collusion between the president’s campaign team and Moscow. The 58-year-old retired three-star Army general is the most senior figure indicted in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election. Flynn’s admission that he had secret discussions in December 2016 with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak ─ with direction from top Trump…

Lahore sit-in called off after 7 days; Jalali to resign from Tehreek-i-Labbaik

December 2, 2017 News Desk

(Umar Farooq/Dawn) Dr Ashraf Asif Jalali-led faction of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY), which had been holding a sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly for the past week, concluded their protest around midnight on Friday, December 1 after the government convinced them to withdraw their main demand — the resignation of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah from his post. The Lahore sit-in had been launched by the Jalali-led faction of the political party following reports of a police operation against the participants of the Faizabad sit-in on the morning of November 25th. The…

First academic collaboration between Estonia and Pakistan approved

December 1, 2017December 1, 2017 News Desk

Tallinn, First academic collaboration between Pakistan and Estonian Universities included Erasmus plus International Credit Mobility Funds has been signed and approved by the parties. This was stated by President of Pakistan Estonia Association (PEA) Dr. Yar Muhammad Mughal. Dr Mughal is also Assistant Professor at University of Tartu, Estonia (Europe). He said, this will create a bridge between Estonian and Pakistani Universities. According to him, the collaboration was developed between University of Tartu Narva College and National University Science of Technology (NUST), School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), Islamabad…

Norwegian Islamic Centres admire excellence pilgrimage services of Iraq’s Embassy in Oslo

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 News Desk

Oslo, Norwegian Islamic Centres based in Oslo, the capital of the country highly appreciated the excellence services of Iraq’s embassy staff for preparing visa and other documents for travel of the pilgrims during the recent “Arabein e Husssaini” in Iraq. In a letter Hujja ul Islam Wal Muslimeen Dr Syed Zawar Hussain Naqavi addressing the Ambassador of Iraq to Norway said, I significantly appreciate the staff of consular section of the embassy on behalf of the Norwegian Islamic Centres Oslo. The embassy staff not only completed visa process without any…

Pakistan’s Embassy in Norway disappoints over a story carried by a Norwegian newspaper

November 28, 2017 News Desk

Pakistan Embassy Norway reaction on AftenPosten Story

Pakistan’s Embassy in Norway has expressed its disappointment over a news story carried by a reputable Norwegian newspaper as saying it can create misconception in the society. The report appeared in Daily Aftenposten on 26th November said, thousands of used Pakistani passports, waste and other documents were left behind at the embassy’s previous premises as the embassy moved out to another place in August 2017. Reacting over the report, Pakistan’s Ambassor to Norway Ms Riffat Masood sent a letter the news Editor of the newspaper. The letter said, It is…

The new era of Pakistan foreign diplomacy through social media

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 News Desk

It is notorious that social media has been of good practice among developed countries, while the developing countries do struggle to adapt to innovation but they are slowly adhering to the social media platforms in diplomatic and cultural affairs in order to establish their presence to influence foreign public. The struggle to adopt contemporary practices is much challenging to the nations where bureaucracy has deep root into the system. It’s not the dilemma of developing countries only we can have the example of european countries such as Germany where people…

Instigating Political instability in Pakistan

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 News Desk

Warsaw: Islamabad sit-In protest has finally come to an end after a week long fierce clashes and standoff between Pakistani ruling political party and followers of TLY (Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah). The govt. has finally accepted following demands in return to end Sit in: Remove Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid from his position immediately. “Tehreek-i-Labaik will issue no fatwa[religious decree] of any kind against him.” The report prepared by Raja Zafarul Haq-led committee will be made public within 30 days and whoever is named in the report for being responsible for…

DG Punjab Rangers distributes cash among protesters

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 News Desk

Major General Azhar Naveed | DG Punjab Rangers Distributes Cash Among Tehreek e Labaik Members

Pakistan Rangers Punjab DG Maj-Gen Azhar Naveed handed envelopes with a token Rs1000 as travel fare to members of a religious group Tehreek e Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, who were recently released from detention after the agreement held between Government and leadership of Tehreek e Labaik Ya Rasool Allah. “Aren’t we also with you?” says Maj-Gen Azhar Naveed when told by a Tehreek-e-Labbaik’s member that his party was with Pakistan Army.