TTP denies taking seven Punjab copter crew hostage

PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities stayed in guardianship of the Afghan Taliban for fourth sequential day on Sunday, while Pakistani Taliban on Sunday denied their contribution in shooting down the Punjab government transport helicopter that accident arrived in Afghanistan's eastern Logar region or taking the seven authorities prisoner, saying no activist gathering exists by the name of Hakimullah Mehsud.

Mohammad Khurassani, a representative of the restricted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), headed by Maulana Fazlullah Khorasani, on Sunday responded to a past case made by an indicated representative for somewhat known aggressor group, TTP Hakimullah Mehsud bunch, saying there is just TTP and that is driven by Maulana Fazlullah Khorasani.

An activist, Qari Saifullah had prior called an area of the Pakistani media and presented himself as a representative for TTP Hakimullah Mehsud bunch, guaranteeing their gathering had shot down the Pakistani helicopter in Afghanistan's Logar region and held all the seven authorities, one of them Russian pilot, prisoner.

He had even asserted that the Russian pilot was harmed and had been held at a sheltered spot in Afghanistan. The purported representative had cautioned to slaughter every one of the authorities in their ownership if what he said, Nato, the Afghan strengths or the Afghan Taliban utilized power to free the Pakistani authorities from their guardianship.

He asserted that a Pakistani aggressor officer, Adam Khan Kochi and his men were behind shooting down of the helicopter and were presently holding the Pakistani authorities. The TTP representative, Mohammad Khurassani, however denied these reports, saying Adam Khan Kochi is their authority yet he has no contribution in the helicopter occurrence.

"Adam Khan Kochi is our senior administrator however he was neither required in shooting down the Pakistani helicopter nor holding the seven authorities. This is totally false claim," the TTP representative said.

He rather debilitated columnists of genuine activity in the event that they didn't quit crediting false news stories to them. In the interim, the six Pakistani authorities and one Russian pilot stayed in guardianship of the Afghan Taliban for fourth sequential day as endeavors to secure their discharge couldn't prove to be fruitful.

There were reports that the a gathering of the Afghan Taliban had requested the arrival of their previous representative pioneer, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund and 100 other Taliban detainees in return for the Pakistani authorities and one Russian pilot.

Senior individuals from the Afghan Taliban, in any case, dismisses these reports, saying that none of their kin had made any interest. They said all the seven men were healthy and are being taken care of. The Taliban individuals said that their initiative had chosen to discharge them however chipping away at an arrangement when and where to free them so they stay safe.

There were additionally reports that Taliban were not willing to either hand them over Nato or the Afghan government. "Our top worry right now is their security," one Taliban part said.

The Punjab government transport helicopter MI-17 was making a beeline for Uzbekistan by means of Afghanistan for routine support when it crash-arrived in Afghanistan's Logar territory on Thursday. Since the territory is expressed to be under the control of the Afghan Taliban, subsequently their contenders in the zone instantly arrived and held prisoner the authorities locally available. They moved them to their mystery compound, accepted to be in same region, and amid introductory cross examination, they discovered them as Pakistanis.

Why is Quetta under attack?

When I met Dr Abdul Malik, previous boss clergyman, Balochistan, a week ago in Karachi, he was very worried over the rising impact of Afghans, especially in Quetta city, and expected that the common capital of Balochistan, has tumbled to Afghans and restricted registration on the same ground.

"Quetta is no more a city of the Baloch or Pashtoon. It has now been possessed by the Afghans and we are a minority," he let me know as he sponsored Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak that we should dispose of Afghans, sooner the better.

The peace circumstance has enhanced however unless common and military authority settle on real strategy choice, it can go from awful to more awful, he included. What happened in Quetta Monday, at the end of the day reminds that notwithstanding significant operation in Balochistan, 'all is not well," and the suicide assault on legal advisors group in which two cameramen of Aaj and Dawn news channels were likewise killed is a 'wake-up' call, for the common and military administration, as it by and by helped to remember the nearness of dread systems and their sleeper cells.

While it is still untimely to say who could be behind this most ruthless assault on legal counselors, media and normal men in Quetta, armed force boss General Raheel Sharif's announcement is of generally centrality. "It was an assault on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC," he said in Quetta. In addition huge is the way that legal counselors and writers, two vital mainstays of common society turn into the significant casualties. Why armed force boss' evaluation and explanation is of such a hugeness? It ought to be found in the setting of his late visit to China, amid which he had met Chinese common and military administration and guaranteed security of the CPEC.

Thus, the central knows significance and essentialness of this impact and has given particular requests, not just to split down the gatherings behind the assault additionally guarantee wellbeing and security of the city and the region.

It absolutely demonstrates the challenges while in transit to guaranteeing assurance of CPEC. Pakistan needs to face solid difficulties ahead and it would not be simple. China likewise knows the hugeness of this "passageway" and security challenges confronted with Pakistan. Interestingly, it has additionally turned into an imperative player in Afghanistan and was a piece of the four-country transactions with Afghan Taliban, as far back as the first round of talks were held in Murree.

Before, China did not turn into a dynamic player in determining Pakistan-Afghanistan and Taliban relations. It has additionally opened entryway for transactions with the Taliban and is likewise assuming its part in looking for the arrival of Pakistani resigned armed force officers and a Russian who were held prisoner after Punjab government helicopter made an accident arrival in the Taliban controlled region in Afghanistan.

Accordingly, China must be worried over this late assault in Quetta, especially in the city, which has its noteworthiness on account of CPEC. Be that as it may, it was an assault on CPEC, as well as an assault on Pakistan's future, an assault on common society, as the majority of those executed were legal counselors and media people other than paramedical staff of the doctor's facility.

It was horrifying as the terrorist picked healing center for the suicide assault, in an offer to bring about more agonies to regular individuals. In the most recent two months, there have been steady assaults on the police and paramilitary strengths. Be that as it may, after a long while the aggressors have focused on the experts like legal counselors and media, other than regular men.

Pakistan's respectful and military authority is very much aware of the difficulties ahead and needs to take probably the most uncommon strides to counteract such assaults in future, in Balochistan as well as in different parts of the nation.

Balochistan has its own particular criticalness, as a result of CPEC as well as because of the creating port in Gawadar. Head administrator Nawaz Sharif as of late termed it one of the best ports on the planet and CPEC the fate of Pakistan.

In this way, when the armed force boss said, "Quetta assault is an assault on CPEC," he unmistakably showed the conceivable contribution of a remote hand and has officially requested a focused on operation. Taking after the capture of a serving Indian Naval officer, Kulbushan Yadev and the murdering of Taliban Ameer Mullah Mansoor in an automaton assault close Iranian fringe, had cautioned the security offices of the conceivable invasion in Balochistan.

There had been partisan killings previously, however the circumstance enhanced later when the security offices guaranteed accomplishment against smaller than normal insurrection by Baloch separatist gatherings. Albeit nobody has asserted obligation of Monday's assault, the example of the assault shows the conceivable contribution of a banned fanatic gatherings, some of whom have affirmed joins with RAW.

While the enormous operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan and its neighboring zones are liable to finish by end of the year, it gives the idea that Balochistan has gotten to be "hotbed of terrorists," having a place with separatist and fanatic gatherings connected with International dread systems like al-Qaeda and Taliban. Circumstance in the area deteriorated in the wake of executing of Mullah Mansoor in an automaton assault while he was professedly originating from Iran.

In the event that youngsters were the prime focus in the assault on Army Public School, Peshawar on December 16, 2014, legal counselors and columnists went under assault Monday. It was one of the most noticeably bad assaults on attorneys as of late and it came a month after the hijacking and recuperation of the child of the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court.

In this manner, Pakistan political initiative including government, restriction and military administration need to meet the challenge at hand to counter yet another assault on its regular folks and on Pakistan's future financial request.

The assault is by and by an indication of government obligation to authorize with full compel its National Action Plan, its 22 indicates or resuscitate the same arrangement keeping in mind the end goal to dispose of rising radicalism and difficulties ahead in the wake of quick pace of CPEC. Activity must talk louder than the voice of concern. On the off chance that from one viewpoint Balochistan needs a political answer for long standing issues confronted by its kin, it must be free of a wide range of dread systems, before it turn into another North Waziristan.

Afghanistan says no ban imposed on Pak currency

ISLAMABAD: In the fallout of choice made by an Afghan area to force prohibition on conveying all remote monetary standards, Pakistan on Monday raised this issue with Kabul's represetative in Pakistan whereby affirmations were given that there was no Pakistan particular confinement and rupee was effectively convertible in all parts of the nation.

Clergyman for Finance Ishaq Dar made phone call to Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal and raised Islamabad's worries over these records. Them two examined the reported prohibition on the holding of Pakistani rupee in Afghanistan amid their discussion.

"The Afghan government has forced no such confinement on the holding of Pakistani coin and it is unreservedly convertible like different monetary forms," said the envoy. There were media reports that the police head of Kandahar territory in Afghanistan has banned the utilization of Pakistani cash in the key southern region.

The Afghan area had forced limitations for conveying remote coinage in theircountry including Pakistani rupee that brought about worries among Pakistani government hovers for embracing oppressive state of mind towards Islamabad.

Ensuing to the telephonic discussion with Dar, the Afghan minister issued an announcement in which he expressed, "For illumination, according to our Central Bank's law, customary exchanges in all outside coinage, aside from our own money - the Afghani, are not permitted; it is presently all the more entirely upheld. Be that as it may, no outside cash regardless is prohibited to be openly convertible in our cash trade advertises anyplace in our nation. This is basically the same practice in each other nation and certain media reports with a specific diverse depiction are consequently deceptive." Ishaq Dar valued the illumination and communicated trust that it will encourage the business exercises between the two nations.

Lawyers observe countrywide protest, one-week mourning today

ISLAMABAD: Lawyers will today (Tuesday) watch a countrywide challenge with one-week grieving in the wake of the death of Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) President Bilal Anwar Kasi and Quetta Civil Hosspital shelling in which 70 individuals were killed and handfuls harmed.

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), the peak body of the lawful organization, firmly denounced the death of Bilal Anwar Kasi and the Civil Hospital bombing.Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem, Vice-Chairman, and Abdul Fayaz, Chairman Executive Committee of Pakistan Bar Council, emphatically censured the death of Bilal Anwar Kasi and the healing center besieging.

Various legal counselors, including previous president Balochistan Bar Association Baz Muhammad Kakar, were killed in the bombing.They made a speak to the attorneys to watch a countrywide strike on Tuesday (today) and one-week grieving.

Other than watching the strike and grieving, the legal advisors will hold dissent gatherings in their saloons and wear dark groups on their arms to denounce the incident.Deploring what they called the utter disappointment of the elected and commonplace governments in keeping up peace in the area and securing the basic individuals, they requested that the administration capture the guilty parties and convey them to book at the most punctual.

The PBC communicated solidarity with the deprived families and underlined the requirement for advancing an idiot proof viable system for enhancing the peace situation.Bilal Anwar Kasi was gunned down on Monday in an evident focused on killing episode in Quetta.

As indicated by police, the auto of the legal advisor went under assault on the Manno Jan Road in the city. The attackers were riding a motorbike and couldn't be recognized immediately.Meanwhile, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) reported a week-long grieving. The Lahore High Court (LHC) legal counselors reported a challenge today (Tuesday) to denounce the assault.

"This is not only an assault on legal advisors; this is an assault on all residents," Barrister Ali Zafar, President Supreme Court Bar Association, told a question and answer session in Lahore.He emphatically denounced the unfortunate occurrence and requested that the administration capture the guilty parties required in the assault.

He said the legitimate organization dependably remained by the popularity based strengths battling for the essential privileges of residents and consequently they were assaulted. "These assaults won't debilitate us yet makes us much more grounded," Ali Zafar said.

The SCBA additionally declared to offer burial service petitions in absentia of the saints on the premises of the Supreme Court.Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali likewise emphatically denounced the death of Bilal Anwar Kasi and the clinic bombarding.

He offered his sincere sympathies to the dispossessed families and appealed to God for rapid recuperation of those harmed in the incident.He was sure that the elected and commonplace governments would investigate every possibility to convey the guilty parties to equity.

In the mean time, the Pakistan Bar Council in an upgraded official statement reported a three-day complete strike in all courts of Pakistan, including the Supreme Court.

The PBC asked for the Chief Justice of Pakistan not to hold the Supreme Court for three days and in this regard every one of the legal advisors, particularly the legal advisors of the Supreme Court, were asked for to intentionally blacklist all court procedures for three days as the subject episode was an immediate assault on legal counselors.

It called upon the elected and Balochistan governments to report pay for the martyred and harmed legal advisors in the main stage by giving Rs2 million for each martyred legal counselor and Rs1 million for the harmed legal counselors.

In the second stage, the PBC requested, Rs5 million be paid per martyred legal advisor and Rs2.5 million for every harmed legal counselor.

Security on high alert in Sindh after Quetta bomb blast

KARACHI: IG Sindh Allah Dino Khawaja issued a security high alarm crosswise over Sindh after a bomb impact on Monday morning in Civil Hospital Quetta guaranteed more than fifty lives.

IG Sindh requested all SHOs to increment watching in their separate ranges and be cautious with respect to any suspicious action or people that get reported. He likewise trained cops to stay in contact with other security organizations to encourage and enhance the trading of data among themselves.

Advertisement Khawaja issued mandates to build snap checking furthermore set up registration at the passage and way out purposes of the area. He called upon locale wide SSPs and SDPOs to guarantee legitimate upkeep of peace in their individual zones.

Early Monday morning a blast shook Quetta Civil Hospital, killing more than 50 individuals and harming no less than 20. Balochistan Bar Association president Bilal Kasi was gunned down in Quetta that day and the bomb impact happened at the Quetta Civil Hospital after his body was acquired. Thus, the dominant part of the individuals who kicked the bucket in the assault were attorneys who had touched base to offer their regards to Mr Kasi.

PM Nawaz Sharif, CM and Governor Balochistan, Shahbaz Sharif, Imran Khan and Bilawal Bhutto, among others, firmly censured the bomb impact.

8 kg explosive materials were used in bomb blast: Police

QUETTA: Police on Monday asserted that eight kilograms of hazardous materials were utilized as a part of the Quetta Civil Hospital bomb impact that brought about the passing of more than fifty individuals and harmed upwards of fifty-six.

IG Police Ahsan Mahboob went by the doctor's facility alongside Chief Secretary Saifullah Chatha to assess the harm that had been perpetrated. Addressing media work force, Ahsan Mahboob said that police were all the while completing examination concerning the bomb impact assault.

"I will have the capacity to unveiled some data identified with the bomb impact in a hour or 90 minutes," he said.

Police uncovered that eight kilograms of dangerous material alongside metal balls were additionally utilized as a part of the bomb impact assault. Boss Minister Sanaullah Zehri had guaranteed that the impact was a suicide assault and that Indian insight organization RAW was behind terrorist exercises in Balochistan.

Imran, Bilawal condemn Quetta bomb blast

QUETTA: PTI boss Imran Khan and PPP executive Bilawal Bhutto Zardari both denounced the appalling bomb impact in Lahore which occurred on Monday and killed forty individuals.

In a tweet, the PTI executive denounced the bomb impact and brought up that even in war times, healing centers were exempted from being focused on purposely.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) August 8, 2016

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari marked the administration's counter terrorism technique as a 'joke'. In a tweet message, Bilawal said that as a casualty of terrorism, he felt sickened how the administration had made a joke of the issue.

— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) August 8, 2016

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif likewise lamented the loss of such a large number of guiltless lives and said that 'each penance implies that we have more prominent obligation to destroy the beast of terrorism with restored resolve'.

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) August 8, 2016

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) August 8, 2016

A bomb impact inside the Quetta Civil Hospital on Monday killed more than forty individuals and harmed upwards of twenty. Prior amid the day, Balochistan Bar Association Bilal Anwar Kasi was gunned around unidentified aggressors in Quetta.

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