ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (APP): US Ambassador Donald Blome called on Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi in Karachi during the ongoing Multinational Exercise AMAN 23, on Monday.
During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, regional maritime security and bilateral collaboration were discussed, a news release received here said.
The dignitaries renewed the resolve to enhance maritime cooperation and defence collaboration between the two countries.
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (APP): PML-N’s Senator Irfan-ul-Haque Siddiqui on Monday asked National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to constitute a special committee of both houses of Parliament for devising a consensus strategy to cope with the menaces of terrorism and extremism.
Participating in a debate on the law and order situation in the joint sitting of the parliament, he said intolerance and parochialism were anti-democratic norms.
He said the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government led by Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had tried its best to eliminate terrorism from the country.
The most affected province, he added, was Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which ruled the province for a decade did nothing to eliminate terrorism. The PTI government even did not brief the Senate or any institution as it was not serious about rooting out the menace.
The National Action Plan (NAP) was also not implemented in KP, he added. The PTI government settled over 5,000 TTP-affiliated persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said during the last PML-N government (2013-18), a committee was constituted to hold negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the committee formed by the TTP for the purpose surprisingly included PTI Chairman Imran Khan, besides Maulana Samiul Haq and Professor Ibrahim.
Imran Khan did not turn up for the talks and nominated Rustam Shah Mohmand to represent him, he added.
He said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif himself visited Bani Gala to brief Imran Khan on the talks.
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (APP): Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Jawad Sohrab Malik on Monday met with Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Mehmat Pacaci, here, and signed the condolence book.
The SAPM expressed solidarity with the brothers and sisters of Türkiye in the wake of widespread damage and loss of lives caused by calamitous earthquakes.
He also reiterated the resolve of PM Shehbaz Sharif for the people of Turkiye that “not to spare any effort to reach to our brothers in their hour of need”.
Condoled with H.E. Amb. Dr. Mehmet Paçacı, Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan, discussing the latest repercussions of the disaster. We reiterate our Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's @CMShehbaz resolve not to spare any effort to reach our brethren in their hour of grief and need. pic.twitter.com/Tk20pb7oKK
— Jawad Sohrab (@JawadSohrab) February 13, 2023
Penning down his remarks in the Condolence Book, the SAPM said: “The catastrophic earthquakes have not only jolted the Southern Turkiye, but the hearts of the 220 million people of Pakistan also and filled them with such a pain that would never go away.
With mourning heart we as a nation pray Allah Almighty for granting eternal peace to the souls of martyrs of these earthquakes, bestow consolation, comfort and strength upon the families forever changed by grief and loss and shower. His countless blessings upon those who have survived and heal their memories of trauma and devastation. May they have the courage to face the long road of rebuilding ahead. Ameen!’”
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