ISLAMABAD, Mar 2 (APP):Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal Friday said the conspiracies being hatched against the democratic government had been failed gradually.
All the decisions against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government were increasing graph and popularity of PML-N, he said talking to a private news channel.
The minister said the incumbent government would complete its constitutional tenure and the general elections would be held on time.
The Senate elections would be conducted on time in the country which would pave the ways to achieve milestone, he added.
He said completion of present government’ s constitutional tenure and holding of Senate elections on time, indicated that Pakistan was a sovereign, stable and democratic state. He added that such measures would enhance image of the country besides positive impact on national economy.
Ahsan Iqbal said after disqualification decision against former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, some elements thought that PML-N will be dispersed but they failed in their sinister design.
Conspiracies against democratic government failed: Ahsan
Lok Virsa to screen classic film “Talash”
ISLAMABAD, Mar 2 (APP):National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) Mandwa Film Club would organize screening of classic film “Talash” 1976 on Saturday at its media centre.
Film “Talash” was directed and produced by Pervaiz Malik.
Pervaiz Malik’s film titles ranged from Talash and Ehsaan to Doraha, Soghat, Anmol, Bushman, Pehchaan, Arman, Sachai, Pakeeza, Qurbani and Gumnam.
Many of his films celebrated silver and golden jubilees at Karachi and Lahore. He was honoured with several awards, including Pride of Performance by the president.
‘Talash’ was released in January 1976. The mid-seventies offered a boom for film business. Over hundred films were produced that year.
Pervaiz Malik was competing with director Nazar Shabab’s Shabana, Iqbal Yousaf’s remake of Godfather Andaata and actress Sangeeta’s directorial debut Society Girl.
Notwithstanding these box office winners, ‘Talash’ played well at the box office and won favourable press reviews.
With story and dialogue by Masroor Anwar and screenplay by Pervaiz Malik himself, this was age old ancient lost-and-found formula which must begin and conclude here with the song ‘Pyar Ki Aag’.
Apart from multi-star cast, composer Nisar Bazmi’s score was a major highlight of ‘Talash’ with top of the chart melodies: ‘Pyar ki aag nighaoon mey’, ‘Kuch mehangai ney luta’ and ‘Dekha jo mera jalwa’ All in all,
‘Talash’ brought mixed bag of average entertainment which was supposed to be in demand then.
Looking back, the film must be reviewed from what film goers wanted in January 1976-“Talash”.
No proposal under consideration to monitor Friday Sermons: Interior Ministry
ISLAMABAD, Mar 2 (APP):Spokesperson of Ministry of Interior has said that no proposal was under consideration to monitor Friday sermons.
The spokesperson however, clarified that a proposal was under consideration to constitute a consultative committee consist
of noted scholars to formulate rules and regulations for Friday sermons.
In a statement issued here by the Interior Ministry on Friday, he said that in a meeting of scholars held here today, it was agreed to fully focus on character building, and unity of nation and Ummah through the sermons.
NCHD striving hard for ensuring education to all
SARGODHA, Mar 2 (APP)::National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) Chairperson Razina Alam Khan Friday said that getting education was a basic right of every citizen and the NCHD was striving hard for the purpose.
Addressing an inaugurating ceremony for hundred per cent admissions campaign by the NCHD, the chairperson said:” It is our responsibility to ensure education to children as well as to motivate people for getting education.”
She said the government was taking solid measures to bring out of school children to educational institutions whereas the NCHD had set up various non-formal educational centres in this regard.
Opening ceremony of Makran Festival 2018 held
RAWALPINDI, Mar 2 (APP):The opening ceremony of the three-day Makran Festival 2018 was held at Kech Stadium, Turbat on Friday.
Commander Southern Command Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa was the chief guest, an Inter-Services Public Relations statement said.
The event was organised in connection with Balcoh Cultural Day in order to promote rich Baloch heritage.
Speaking on the occasion Commander Southern Command said overwhelming turnout of people at the stadium was testimony of zeal and enthusiasm of the people of Balochistan towards Pakistan.
He said development projects under Khushal Balochistan Programme for Makran division are carefully designed to cater for the needs of the people which will be inaugurated shortly.
He conveyed best wishes to all Balochs on the occasion of Baloch Cultural Day.
Earlier, the march in by players of various sports being played during the gala was the highlight of the opening ceremony. Different games of festivities including display of livestock was also appreciated by the audience.
Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa and local notables distributed prizes amongst winners of different games and livestock competition.
During the course of ceremony 118 laptops were also distributed amongst the deserving students of the region.
National Assembly session starts
ISLAMABAD, Mar 02 (APP):The National Assembly session started at 10:42 hrs on Friday with the recitation of verses from
the Holy Quran and Naat e Rasool-e-Maqbool (PBUH).
Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq is chairing the session. The House is set to take
up agenda items including Calling Attention Notices , Legislative Business and Point of Orders.
Efforts for repatriated workers’ dues from Saudi Arabia gear up: Rashdi
ISLAMABAD, Mar 2 (APP):Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Pir Syed Saddar uddin Shah Rashdi on Friday said that Government has geared up efforts for recovery of out-standing salaries and end service benefits of repatriated Pakistani workers from Saudi Arabia.
He said after the four-day official visit to Saudi Arabia he has held a promising meeting with his Saudi counterpart Minister for Labour and Social Development Ali bin Nasir Alafees in Jeddah and discussed the payment process of out-standing salaries and end service benefits of repatriated Pakistani workers, said a press release issued here.
The minister said enhancement of manpower quota for Pakistan, accreditation of Pakistani Technical Institutes and work place safety assurance were also discussed. He further added that Saudi labour minister had assured an early resolution of out-standing and end service benefits issues as this matter relates to multinational workers, for which every country is pushing for.
It is worth mentioning that the four renowned companies M/S Binladin, M/S Oger, M/S Saad Trading and M/S Redico were declared defaulters resulting in the deprivation of thousands of workers from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and a number of Arab States of their jobs as well as salaries/end service benefits. M/S Binladin had paid all dues to the retrenched workers whereas the court cases against the remaining three companies are sub-judice as informed by the embassy.
The embassy of Pakistan further informed that labour department deputed a lawyer to plead the cases of repatriated workers. Besides, the representative of embassy also attends court hearings in order to pursue the cases. It was informed that lower court had decided the case in favour of workers and awarded fine of Saudi Riyals 3.9 million to M/S Saad Company, but the company management filed an appeal in higher court against the judgment, which is pending for adjudication.
Federal minister said that the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis & HRD and OPF have been vigorously pursuing the matter of recovering out-standing salaries and end service benefits from the defaulted Saudi companies and in this connection Pakistan Embassy and consulate General Jeddah have been directed to ensure proper pursuance in the court of law in addition to the efforts being made by the diplomatic channel for early resolution of the cases.
Hundreds protest arrest of undocumented immigrants in US
NEW YORK, Mar 1 (APP):Hundreds of American activists have rallied in San Francisco in the US state of California, to protest against recent arrests of undocumented immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service, according to television reports.
During Wednesday’s rally, scores of protesters chanted “Shut ICE down” and held banners reading “Stop ICE raid”.
The demonstration came after the US immigration agency announced the arrest of more than 150 undocumented immigrants in recent days in California.
Demonstrators argued that the community of immigrants is living in a state of fear following the three-day raids.
They said the anti-immigration policy of US President Donald Trump is aimed at ripping up families across the state.
According to California officials, as many as 800 people were expected to be detained by the federal immigration office.
The arrests came days after Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf issued a rare public warning that immigration raids were likely. ICE Director Thomas Homan on Wednesday called her “no better than a gang lookout.”
“We have come together today to show that the Northern California region stands together in denouncing the mass arrests that happened in the last three days,” Blanca Vazquez, a media spokesperson for the protest, told HuffPost.
Under the policies of the Trump administration, all undocumented people, not just those with criminal histories, have become targets for deportation.
ICE arrests increased by 40 percent during Trump’s first eight months in office, compared to the same period the previous year.
Since his inauguration, Trump has faced numerous protests and rallies condemning his divisive rhetoric and controversial immigration policy, including a travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations.
Meanwhile, large numbers of Americans say they think President Donald Trump’s policies have made things worse for African-Americans, Hispanics and Muslims, according to a new poll. And more than half say the president himself is a racist.
The new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 57 percent of Americans think Trump’s policies have been bad for Muslims, and 56 percent think they’ve been bad for Hispanics. Forty-seven percent, including three-quarters of blacks, think they’ve been bad for African-Americans.
Fifty-seven percent of all adults say they think Trump is a racist. The poll finds that 85 percent of Democrats consider Trump racist, but just 21 percent of Republicans agree.
Trump has rejected accusations of racism, telling reporters at one point, “I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
Marriyum felicitates Hindu community on the festive occasion of Holy
ISLAMABAD, March 1 (APP):Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Marriyum Aurangzeb felicitating the Hindu community on the festive occasion of Holy said that entire Pakistan joined them in rejoicing the advent of the festival of lights, colours and spring.
In a message issued here Thursday she said that Islam enjoined its followers to respect the minorities
and they also had been guaranteed equal rights by the constitution.
The minister said that mutual tolerance, cultural diversity and national unity were the beautiful
colours of the mosaic of Pakistan. She said that all the minorities, including Hindus, were rendering invaluable
services for progress, solidarity and prosperity of the country.
Imran did great cruelty by speaking lies day and night: CM
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LAHORE, March 01 (APP):Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz
Sharif has said that Imran Niazi has done a great cruelty
by consistently telling lies and wasting precious time
of the nation.
Addressing a press conference here at Model Town on Thursday,
he said it was an enmity with the nation that youth was
turned towards lies and mendacity.
Imran speaks lies without any fear, levels allegations and indulges in falsehood
but feels no shame over it, he added.
Shehbaz said if Imran continued to speak lies, being a former cricket
player, then the people would also talk about allegations of
ball tempering which was a matter of concern and against the
national dignity.
Everything could be sacrificed over national honour but an
effort was being made to ruin it by spate of lies. Imran Niazi
has levelled a new allegation against me by creating a mythological character
like Faisal Subhan, he added.
“A TV channel has also played its part in this regard.
I took immediate notice of it and made it clear that ‘put up
and shut up.’ I again repeat this thing to Imran Niazi that ‘put
up and shut up.’ It means that either you show proof or hold
your tongue. I filed a suit against this TV channel in the
UK and hired the services of a law company there. Filing a
case in the UK does not mean that I do not trust my courts but
the system of deciding defamation cases is time-consuming here,
that is why I have taken legal action in the UK,” he said.
The chief minister said that Imran Niazi levels an
allegation and then does not give its reply, nor repeat it,
but levels another allegation.
He first alleged that 70 billion
rupees were spent on Lahore Metro Bus Project. “We
contradicted it and challenged it. We said that thirty
billion rupees were spent on metro, bus project and that thing
could be checked from any forum but Imran Niazi continued to
harp on about seventy billion rupees. I contacted Transparency International (TI)
and held a meeting with its board members. Former justice Nasira Iqbal was included
in the board members whose
son is in the PTI today. Imran Khan was invited there but
he did not turn up. Then TI checked all the record and gave
a decision that 30 billion rupees were spent on it.”
He said: “Niazi Sahib leveled second allegation with regard
to Javed Sadiq along with his colleagues in a press conference
and claimed that Javed Sadiq is my front man and leveled
an allegation of 27 billion rupees corruption against me”.
He added: “I sent a notice to him and the reply is still awaited.
Javed Sadiq has military background and I had good relations
with him and this is no crime indeed. Rs 27 billion is a huge
amount and if there is a corruption of 27 pennies then it
would be a crime. Khan Sahib did not reply to my notice, as
well.
He said, “Khan Sahib alleged that I gave an offer of
ten billion rupees bribe to him in Panama Case. I again sent
him a notice and filed a defamation suit but there is no
reply to it. During the proceedings of these cases, neither
Khan Sahib turned up nor his lawyer Babar Awan appeared before
the court. Babar Awan is such a character of loot and corruption
who has been made responsible for corruption in Nandi Pur
Project by Judge Rehmat Hussain Jafri.
Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the nation cannot be transformed according to sayings of Iqbal and Jinnah when allegations are leveled and reply are not given and when summons are issued by the courts, then one does not appear before it.
The CM said this trend should be changed by pitying the nation when one has no sense of sorrow over baseless allegations and falsehood and he remains absent from the courts.
“Khan Sahib has developed another character in shape of a person with the name of Subhan in his tirade of lies and falsehood. I requested the Chief Justice Supreme Court to constitute a full bench to investigate the matter during my address to public meeting in Pattoki to make the things
crystal clear. I again request the CJ SCP to either constitute a full bench by himself or constitute it under the headship of CJ LHC. This full bench should investigate all the allegations leveled against me. If this bench gives its decision against me and allegations are proved as true then I shall leave politics and beg mercy from the nation. If Khan Sahib is proved a liar, then he should join some seminary to get training”, he said.
Shehbaz said that Khan Sahib promised on October 30, 2011 that he will never speak lies. After the passage of two years, Khan Sahib swore seven times, including the one that he would
never tell lies, but he is continuously telling lies. “I have given a list of his five allegations and falsehood and the truth cannot be gleaned except by the judges”, he added.
Khan Sahib used to claim in 2013 that he would make Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a role model province and the electricity generated there will be provided to rest of Pakistan, as well. Despite the fact
that there is a capacity to generate thousands of megawatts hydropower generation in KP, but he boasts of producing 74 megawatt electricity only. An 80-megawatts electricity generation plant is out of order despite passage of five years now. He (Imran) could not get it repaired and the claim of
producing 74 megawatt is a pack of lies, the CM said.
The Federal and Punjab governments have set up 5,000 megawatt electricity generation plants from their own resources and work is in progress speedily on another project. These electricity projects
have been completed with transparency and speed, he said.
He said that Niazi Sahib leveled allegations against me with regard to Multan Metro Bus. It is enough with reference to Multan Metro that no investigation team of the Chinese Commission has ever come to Pakistan. The press release issued by Chinese Security Commission and Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan issued on August 30, 2017 proved allegation of Imran Niazi as incorrect. The Chinese Security Commission clearly stated in the press release that CSRC has never held any investigation of any official or private Pakistani citizen. The press release further stated that Yabeat Chinese Company has no connection with Multan Metro.
Niazi Sahib said that a person with the name of Subhan gave interview to Chinese delegation; although according to the press release, no Chinese delegation visited Pakistan nor held any interview.
The SECP said that no institution with the name of Capital Engineering and Construction Company is registered with us and no unknown person can be investigated as the person is unavailable; then how investigation could be held, he said.
The Chinese foreign office spokesman has also contradicted allegations with regard to Multan Metro; the Chinese company was fined 600,000 yen and was blacklisted, as well. The company
CEO was also fined 300,000 yen and this Yabeat Company also begged pardon openly, the CM said and added “I ask Khan Sahib what else he needed which I should show to him as a proof?”
There is a court of Allah Almighty where there is a system of reward and punishment and it would be decided there.
There is a public court and it will also decide. The forum of Supreme Court and High Court is also there, he said and added:” I am knocking the door of this forum again so as to make things crystal clear”.
He said that corruption is not a problem of Niazi Sahib, because if it were his problem, then he would not remain silent on mega scandal of Nandipur corruption. A judge of the apex court has held Babar Awan responsible for corruption in this scandal. Has he ever taken name of Babar Awan? He speaks against corruption but a corrupt is sitting in his lap which is a cruel joke with the nation.
The Punjab Chief Minister said during the tenure of Musharraf, who is termed as savior by Khan Sahib, dacoity was made over the mineral resources of Chiniot. “We won the fight against it in the
courts and saved billions of rupees,” he added.
He said that reserves to the tune of 400 billion rupees have been discovered in Chiniot in first phase and work on second phase has also started. He added that fake company of brother of
Secretary to Musharraf was given contract of discovering mineral resources in Chiniot. “If we had not
taken timely action then, the national treasure of billion of rupees would have been looted. Has Niazi Sahib ever raised a voice about it?”, he added.
He said 40 billion rupees dacoity was made in EOBI and Zafar Gondal was the responsible person who was brother of former Federal Minister Nazar Gondal. The people who made a dacoity on billion of rupees of the nation are in the custody of PTI. Zafar Gondal was also jailed for this corruption. This corrupt is sitting in the lap of Khan Sahib.
The CM added NICL is another corruption scandal in which lands worth billions of rupees were looted. These lands were purchased for a peanut. Khan Sahib never spoke about this scandal.
Zardari Sahib has deposited 60 million dollars of this poor nation in Swiss Bank and the whole nation knows that two Prime Ministers have been made scapegoats in this case. Swiss Bank asked to write a letter for the return of this money and the Supreme Court asked the then Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani to write a letter but he did not do so and was, therefore, removed from the post over contempt of court. The second Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf showed loyalty to save the corruption of his leader and made contempt of court, he said.
The CM said that Niazi Sahib ruined Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Peshawar is dug out in name of metro bus. He added that the Asian Development Bank is giving 85 per cent funds for Peshawar metro bus project.
It appears Khan Sahib is addicted to speaking lies. Khan Sahib you should remember that nation will hold accountability of you for your lies in next elections.
The Punjab government has set up state-of-the-art hospital in Swat from its own resources. KP government is unable to run this hospital and is saying that Punjab government should be contacted for non-salary budget. Punjab government and people have given a gift of this hospital to you but you are unable to run it. Instead of claiming to run canals of milk and honey in KPK, it would have been better
if practical steps are taken there, Shehbaz said.
“The court door has been knocked again to constitute a full bench to investigate all the allegations against me and appearing before this bench to clarify myself would be an honour for me. If I could appear before NAB on false allegations, then there is no harm to appear before the bench of apex court,” he said.
He added that wasting time is great enmity with the nation. “Today, I am here to give reply to allegations of Khan Sahib.
It would have been much better if I would be spending my time in some public welfare projects.