ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah stated in an interview that the assembly would be dissolved on the evening of August 9. Rana Sanaullah, a veteran of the ruling PML-N, emphatically declared that the elections would not be postponed for any particular reason or as part of a plot. The interior minister stated that “notifying new census will create more contentious issues” in response to the call for conducting elections over the new population count. In response to a query, a PML-N stalwart said that his party had not recommended Finance Minister Ishaq Dar for the position of interim prime minister. “Ishaq Dar, Senator Raza Rabbani, or any other politician from a political party can be named for the post of the caretaker PM,” he continued. “Nawaz Sharif will return back home one-and-half month before the election,” Sanaullah said....
ISLAMABAD: According to Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan, the political will, parliamentary support, and strong disciplinary action against the corrupt mafia within power distribution corporations are all necessary to put the power industry on the correct track. In response to a question from Samina Mumtaz Zehri, the minister emphasised that the new government would face a significant challenge in reviving the power sector, emphasising that it could only be achieved through political will and support from the Parliament as reliance on political backing alone would not be sufficient. This was said during question period in the Senate on Thursday. The minister emphasised that locations where the state’s authority was not fully established had a limited recovery of electricity bills, which raised questions about general governance. Additionally, he highlighted that the significant line losses were putting a substantial burden on the country’s economy....
ISLAMABAD: Qamar Zaman Kaira, the prime minister’s advisor on Gilgit Baltistan and Kashmir affairs, stated on Thursday that it would be impossible to postpone elections by requiring the creation of new parties in order to conduct a fresh “Census.” Speaking to the media, Kaira stated that the electoral reform process had already begun and that the election commission was hard at work getting ready to hold elections during the designated time and timeframe. In response to a query, he stated that postponing elections would not be good for the stability of the nation and that PML-N was likewise opposed to postponing the process at all costs. “The caretaker setup has a huge responsibility to run a country in an appropriate manner,” he added. Kaira said,...
ISLAMABAD: In a telephonic conversation with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Pakistan’s post-flood rehabilitation, food security for developing nations, and the Black Sea Grain Initiative were all topics of discussion. The Foreign Minister expressed his gratitude to the UN Secretary General for his vision and backing of Pakistan’s flood response on his Twitter account. He emphasised the difficulties developing nations confront in maintaining food security if supply chains are disrupted. The foreign minister discussed ways to restart the deadlocked Black Sea Grain Initiative while taking into account the concerns of all stakeholders. Bilawal Bhutto also addressed the recurring reprehensible and condemnable acts of desecration of the Holy Quran. He...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemns the desecration of the Holy Quran and dishonoring of the Pakistani flag in front of the Embassy of Pakistan in Copenhagen,...
ISLAMABAD: On the advice of the Ministry of Information Technology (IT), the federal cabinet approved the E-Safety Bill 2023 (E Safety Bill 2023) on Wednesday in order to safeguard user data and stop the unauthorised use of information systems. A thorough framework will be built by this law to guarantee the protection and unauthorised use of user data on all online services, online shopping, data supplied to different businesses, and social networking websites in Pakistan. Heinous crimes including internet harassment, cyberbullying, and blackmail would be successfully avoided when the measure is approved. Here, the cabinet met under the leadership of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. The federal cabinet also approved in principle...
ISLAMABAD: To evaluate the continuing rehabilitation and reconstruction of the flood-affected areas in the nation, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over the third meeting of the International Partners Support Group.To commemorate a year since Pakistan was devastated by severe floods that caused a great deal of damage, the Group met here on Tuesday. The Group was established following the Resilient Pakistan Conference in Geneva.The coalition government’s steadfast commitment to rebuilding better in accordance with the Resilient recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (4RF) Framework was repeated in the prime minister’s speech during the meeting, the prime minister said on Wednesday. “I appreciated all the international development donors, partners and friendly countries for their timely and generous assistance and assured...
Islamabad: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, whose name was floated as the interim prime minister, claims the discussions for the coveted position are “premature” and that the selection process has not even started. In an interview, he stated that the choice would be made by the leadership of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the coalition in power at the Centre. Party insiders were cited by mainstream media as suggesting that Dar had been chosen as the caretaker prime minister by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), a significant member of the current coalition. But thereafter, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also expressed hesitation to support the finance minister, in addition to political commentators who had previously criticised the idea. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif also shot down the speculations and said that no one close to the top PML-N...
BEIJING: China is ready to work with Pakistan to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, deepen exchanges and cooperation in...
New York: The UN passed a resolution titled “promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech” with Pakistan as a co-sponsor. The international community has been urged by the resolution to combat hate speech in all of its manifestations. At the UN headquarters in New York, it was unanimously approved with 44 nations voting in favour, 62 voting against, and 24 abstaining. According to a statement from Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN, “it also acknowledges with deep concern the general rise in instances of discrimination, intolerance, and violence, regardless of the actors, including cases motivated by Islamophobia in PP18, a proposal put forward by Pakistan, later joined by Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.” Pakistan, it added, also led efforts along with Malaysia and Egypt on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation...
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