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By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan has dared the opposition alliance to table a no-confidence motion in Parliament to oust him, criticising his call for mass resignations from the legislature to compel him to call a fast election. Khan said he did not backtrack from conducting a national dialogue to get the country out of several crises. The 11-party opposition alliance declared on Tuesday that by the end of this month, their legislators would resign en masse from the Parliament to paralyse the government and compel Prime Minister Khan to call a fast vote. The decision was…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: The Pakistani authorities’ failure to reduce severe overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of COVID-19 has left tens of thousands of prisoners dangerously exposed as infections and fatalities once again rise across the country, said a new report from Amnesty International and Justice Project Pakistan. Prisoners of the Pandemic – The Right to Health and COVID-19 in Pakistan’s detention facilities examines the response of the Pakistani government and judiciary to the challenges of COVID-19 in prisons between March and July 2020. Despite the authorities’ stated objective of reducing Pakistan’s prison population to prevent the spread…

[First published by the Gatestone Institute] by Lawrence A. Franklin China’s Communist Party (CCP) seems to be implementing a multidimensional strategy in the Caribbean, reaping economic, political and potentially military gains a few miles offshore the United States. China’s ultimate objective of its Caribbean strategy may well be to confront the US, not only with its presence near the mainland US, but also with a situation analogous to America’s military presence in the region of the South China Sea. There, China created new islands in the sea, pledged not to militarize them, then went and militarized them. It is important to…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: UN human rights experts have raised questions about the scourge of enforced disappearances and torture in Pakistan, calling on the Government to fulfil its human rights responsibilities by conducting timely, comprehensive and unbiased investigations into such actions. The experts highlighted the government’s inability to thoroughly investigate the case of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who was taken into custody on 13 November 2019 and held incommunicado for more than seven months. The authorities recognised his detention in June of this year but he appears to be stripped of his most fundamental rights. They urged Pakistan,…

National News Desk Islamabad: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmaker on Tuesday submitted his resignation to party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari after the opposition alliance-Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) asked opposition lawmakers to hand over resignations to party leaders to use them at the appropriate time. Local media reports said on Thursday that Ali Haider Gilani, who was elected MPA from the Punjab PP-211 constituency, wrote in his resignation letter: “Today in order to further the democratic struggle in Pakistan, I hereby tender my resignation to you, to be used at your will.” The son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf…

By Editor Foreign Affairs Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the U.S. State Department’s arbitrary and selective assessment under a U.S. domestic legislation on religious freedom. “The designation of Pakistan as a “country of particular concern” is completely against the realities on the ground and raises serious doubts about the credibility of the exercise. Such subjective designations do not contribute towards promoting the cause of religious freedom worldwide. Pakistan and the U.S. have been constructively engaging on the subject at the bilateral level, a fact regrettably overlooked by the U.S,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office stated on Wednesday. If added that Pakistani society…

First published by the Gatestone Institute by Bassam Tawil At a time when Arab journalists from the Gulf are visiting Israel and saying that they are looking forward to working with their Israeli colleagues, Palestinians are continuing to incite hatred against the Israeli media and threaten Israeli journalists. While the Arabs in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are working toward normalizing their relations with Israel, the Palestinians are continuing to threaten anyone who wants to make peace with Israelis. The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PIJ), a group dominated by loyalists of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, is furious because two Israeli (Jewish) correspondents visited the Palestinian cities of Ramallah…

By Special Correspondent ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Interfaith and Peace Council organized a round-table discussion for the promotion of interfaith and intra-faith dialogue and understanding today. The event was supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Pakistan. Religious leaders from all Islamic Sects and religious minorities in Pakistan, faith-based organizations, civil society organizations, human rights and legal professionals as well as academics participated in the roundtable. The discussion aimed to seek common ground between participants in order to promote religious harmony and tolerance. Following the one-day discussion, participants committed to continue working together. They vowed to work for all constitutional…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan’s economy is plunging into new lows every day with inflation at an all-time high.Pakistan experienced a 12-year high inflation rate of 14.6% in January, which is among the highest in the world.Food prices in the country have been spiralling out of control. Food inflation was 16.6% in October. Pakistan’s government has gone on a panic-buying spree to push down prices.Pakistan’s currency has weakened by 160 Pakistani rupees to one dollar, becoming one of the worst-performing currencies in the country. “Naya Pakistan” turns out to be a nightmare for Imran Khan, who has taken the…

National News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has set the price of the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor in the heart of the city at Rs 80,56,000 and Rs 1,500,000, respectively. In September, the provincial government decided to purchase their ancestral houses in order to conserve historic buildings that are in dilapidated condition and under threat of demolition. The two buildings, located in the heart of the northern city of Pakistan, have been declared a national heritage site. Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar, following a report from the Communications and Works…