Siasat Wala Blog

LAHORE: The police on Saturday pasted proclamation notice outside former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s residence over his perpetual absence from trial proceedings in an illegal land allotment case. An accountability court had issued a proclamation against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in an illegal land allotment case, last month. The DIG Operations Lahore said that Nawaz has been declared proclaimed offender by the court and the notice has been posted outside his house on the orders of the NAB court. He said that the police will present its report before the court on November 26. Read more: Non-bailable arrest warrants issued for Nawaz Sharif in land allotment case Sharif is facing accusations of illegal allotment of land as the then Punjab CM to Mir Shakilur Rehman. On March 12, the National Accountability Bureau had apprehended Mir Shakilur Rahman in a case pertaining to the illegal exemption of 54 plots in Lahore. It is pertinent to mention here that Nawaz is currentl...

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has said that the progress has been made on all four projects of the federal government including Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) under Karachi package, ARY News reported on Saturday. Asad Umar, while addressing a press conference along with Sindh Governor Imran Ismail today, said that the progress details of Karachi package will be presented before Prime Minister Imran Khan soon.  “We want to find out a permanent solution for maintaining the cleanliness of the main nullahs [of Karachi]. It is important to remove encroachments from nullah besides providing an alternative plan. The work for removing encroachments from nullah is continued in Karachi’s Mehmoodabad.” Asad Umar said that the Sindh government is taking part in the anti-encroachment operation. He said that the provincial government had announced the allocation of Rs700 billion funds for the metropolis. He questioned the government for not spending the funds...

ISLAMABAD: The United States (US)  has expressed pleasure over Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent visit to Afghanistan. The US State Department in its statement said it is pleasing to see Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Kabul to underscore Pakistan’s commitment to peace and to further cooperation with Afghanistan on security, refugees, trade, and regional connectivity. The statement further said that Pakistan-Afghanistan cooperation contributes to the entire region’s stability. On the other hand, the European Union has also welcomed the Pakistani premier’s visit to Kabul and said that Islamabad can play its pivotal role in the solution of the Afghan conflict. Read more: US appreciates Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace process On November 19, PM Khan visited Kabul at the invitation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and discussed matters related to mutual affairs. Prime Minister Imran Khan had assured that Pakistan would fully support to end violence and establish durable p...

LAHORE: With an aim to further improve the law and order situation in the province, the Punjab government has decided to recruit 10,300 policemen, ARY News reports. The recruitment would be done in Punjab police and Baloch Levies, for which Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar has given approval. Vowing to recruit the policemen on merit, CM Buzdar said that 10,300 constables would be recruited in the Punjab police and 378 in Baloch Levies. The provincial government is taking every possible step to ensure law and order in Punjab, he said and added that the recruitment will help in improving the law and order situation in tribal areas of Rajanpur and DG Khan. Read more: Punjab govt lifts ban on recruitment in police Earlier this year, the Punjab government had lifted the ban on recruitments in the police department. According to details, the provincial govt had decided to recruit 300 policemen in the first phase. The move comes after Punjab Standing Committee on Finance approved a s...

KARACHI: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast first spell of winter rainfall in Karachi, ARY News reported on Saturday. The met office has predicted light rain or drizzle in the port city between November 23 to 25 after a westerly weather system will enter in Karachi on Sunday (Nov 22). Under the influence of this weather system the outskirts of Karachi will likely to receive light rainfall, according to the weather forecast. The westerly wave likely to bring drizzle for other areas, the met office said. The met office in a weather report predicted mostly cold and dry weather in most parts of the country on Saturday (today) and intense cold weather in mountainous regions while, fog is likely in few plain areas of Punjab during morning hours. Moreover, apart of cloudy weather in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir, light rainfall and snowfall is expected at few places. The PMD recorded minimum temperature at Kalam and Leh with minus 12 Celsius,...

KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday framed charges against former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal and other accused in illegal land allotment reference, ARY News reported. Former Director-General of the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) Iftikhar Qaimkhani, Fazalur Rehman, Mumtaz Haider, Nazir Zardari, Syed Nishat Ali, Mohammad Dawood, Mohammad Rafique, Mohammad Irfan and Mohammad Yaqoob are among the co-accused in the case. All accused pleaded not guilty and said in the court that they will contest the charges against them in the reference. The court issued notices to the witnesses of the accountability reference, and adjourned further hearing of the case till December 05. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), in the reference charged Mustafa Kamal and others of illegally allotting 137 plots on 5,500 acres of land near Sea View. He even gave permission to a private construction firm to construct a multi-storey building in the area, the bureau said in its chargesheet...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has expressed happiness over the start of construction work at the site of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust (SKMT) Karachi. In a tweet on Saturday, PM Imran said that SKMT Karachi will be the biggest cancer hospital in the country and it would be equipped with the latest machines. I have this great feeling watching construction start on SKMT Karachi. InshaAllah, it will be the biggest cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as being equipped with the latest machines. pic.twitter.com/e5TY3eF8aa — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2020 The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust is acting as a model institution to alleviate the suffering of patients with cancer through the application of modern methods of curative and palliative therapy irrespective of their ability to pay, the education of health care professionals and the public and perform research into the causes and treatment of cancer. The post SKMT Karachi will be country’s biggest cancer ho...