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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Death toll rises to 63 in Quetta bomb blast

QUETTA: The Quetta Civil Hospital was shaken by a bomb impact took after by terminating, which killed sixty-three individuals and harmed different on Monday.

Onlookers expressed that scores of legal advisors were harmed because of the impact. A charge followed after the impact occurred, bringing on rebellion and tumult all over. A few minutes before the impact had occurred, the dead collection of Bilal Anwar Kasi, the Balochistan Bar Association President who had been killed before in a terminating occurrence. Sources asserted that among the dead, generally were legal advisors since a few had been available inside the healing center when the impact had occurred.

Healing center sources put the quantity of harmed at more than thirty-five. The impact occurred at the outer door of the Emergency Department of the doctor's facility. An overwhelming unforeseen of police touched base on the scene and fixed the zone. Salvage groups touched base to help the harmed and move them to another healing center for restorative treatment. Crisis was forced over all healing centers in Quetta.

PM Nawaz Sharif denounced the bomb impact furthermore the homicide of Bilal Anwar Kasi. He guided the common government to capture the guilty parties behind the assaults instantly and convey them to book.

"Nobody will be permitted to bother the peace of the region," said Nawaz Sharif in an announcement. "The general population, arrangement and security strengths in Balochistan have given penances for the nation," he included. PM Nawaz additionally issued orders for the harmed to be given the best therapeutic treatment.

Previous president Asif Ali Zardari likewise denounced the bomb impact and communicated his anguish at the death toll in Quetta. Senator and Chief Minister of Balochistan additionally denounced the episode. Boss Minister of Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri additionally called for furnishing the harmed with best restorative offices.

Previous Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Malik termed it as the 'blackest day' ever.

One cameraman having a place with a private news divert additionally kicked the bucket in the impact while another cameraman having a place with another private news channel was fundamentally harmed. Previous Balochistan Bar President Baz Muhammad Kakar additionally kicked the bucket in the occurrence, as indicated by previous president of the Supreme Court Bar.

Cricket: Pakistan 148-7 against England

BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan were 148 for seven, requiring a further 195 races to achieve their triumph focus of 343, at tea on the fifth day of the third Test against England at Edgbaston on Sunday.

Yasir Shah was seven not out and Mohammad Amir 15 not out following an emotional second session saw Pakistan lose six wickets for 79 runs.

The four-match arrangement is level at 1-1.

At lunch on the fifth and last day, Pakistan were 69 for one, requiring 343 to win, after England had pronounced only four overs into Sunday's play on 445 for six.

However Azhar Ali was later released for 38 while Younis Khan likewise tailed him soon enough to the structure by scoring just 3 keeps running before falling prey to Anderson.

Hafeez, who made nothing in the principal innings, succumbed to only two on Sunday when he snared quick medium bowler Stuart Broad straight to long leg, where Chris Woakes committed no error with the normal catch on his Warwickshire home ground.

His way out finished a hopeless 50th Test for Hafeez, who additionally dropped an imperative slip catch to relief Joe Root on Saturday. It likewise implied the opener had made only 102 keeps running in six innings this arrangement.

As had happened in Pakistan's first innings when they shared a stand of 181 in a sum of 400, with Aslam denoting his arrival to Test cricket with 82 and Azhar's 139 his first century at this level outside Asia, the second-wicket couple confronted a modifying work.

PTI kicks off accountability campaign from Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) administrator Imran Khan on Sunday mounted the gathering's popular compartment at the end of the day to commence the responsibility development from Peshawar.

The PTI boss tended to the rally members before beginning the counter defilement battle, which is at present heading towards Attock.

He said that the foundations of the nation were devastated because of defilement.

"National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is giving spread to Ishaq Dar and Nawaz Sharif," asserted Imran Khan.

He said that debasement makes the rich wealthier and the poor poorer.

Imran promised that he would stay with the specialists till the responsibility of the executive.

"This is a trailer, the match is going to begin," said Imran.

In the mean time, Information and Broadcasting Minister Pervez Rashid took an agree at Imran Khan and said that the PTI boss has lost the motivation to lead a development.

‘Imran lied on offshore company, evaded tax, hid assets’

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday recorded a reference with the Speaker National Assembly looking for preclusion of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as Member of the National Assembly.

A declaration by the National Assembly Secretariat said an appointment of Members of National Assembly from the PML-N met the Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in his chamber in the Parliament House on Friday. The appointment individuals presented a reference under articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution for preclusion of Imran Khan from the National Assembly situate.

The reference said that Imran Khan does not meet the criteria set out in articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution, though, an excluded individual has no privilege to sit in the assembly.The reference said Imran Khan set up a seaward organization and he didn't proclaim his benefits in assignment papers. As indicated by the reference, the PTI administrator additionally did not proclaim his property outside the nation.

The designation included Talal Chaudhry, Danyal Aziz, Mohsin Nawaz Ranjha, Chaudhry Hamid Hameed, Nadeem Abbas, Syed Ashiq Hussain Shah, Muhammad Khan Daha and Mian Abdul Mannan.

The individuals from designation looked for the speaker's choice on preclusion of Imran Khan. In his comments, the speaker guaranteed the individuals that a choice on the reference will be taken by Constitution and rules.Later, conversing with media people, Danyal Aziz said Imran Khan is the originator of a seaward organization and utilized dark cash to secure resources outside the nation.

Director Privatizati10n Commission Muhammad Zubair said Imran Khan had acquired a level in England through a seaward organization in 1983 and kept this data undisclosed for a long time. "Never in assessment forms, Imran specified this level," he said.

He said that as per Imran Khan, his ex talented the house to him in Bani Gala in 2005 though blessing deeds are permitted just among blood relations.Talal Chaudhry said the PTI director had strayed from the proclamation of no matter how you look at it responsibility as his gathering had neglected to bring a talk truth while pronouncing resources in assignment papers," he said.

It is trusted that the PML-N initiative is utilizing such activities like submitting reference against Imran Khan as weight strategies to keep his gathering proceeding with dissent development against the legislature.

Important changes being made in sales tax system

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Nisar Muhammad has said that vital changes were being made in the arrangement of offers expense.

He said that business charge electronic framework was being made viable and examination of receipt would be brought out through electronic framework and as an aftereffect of this it would help FBR in getting yearly aggregate income target which had been altered at Rs3,621 billion.

Executive FBR communicated these perspectives amid exceptional meeting with The News on Saturday night. He said that FBR had started authoritative strides under the strategies given by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar amid Financial spending plan 2016-17. He said that amid current year FBR would need to gather 16 percent more against Rs3,114 billion income target and he guided all the field developments to attempt most extreme endeavors in such manner.

Imran’s political gamble

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's declaration of dispatching a development against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over Panama Papers is a political bet which, if lost, would ruin his odds in the following general decisions.

It's a bet for being a performance flight with a conviction that other restriction gatherings would participate in later. The PML-N procedure to counter Imran's turn is similarly imperative and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has as of now educated his gathering pioneers to this impact. Might this bring about a political turmoil and should government succeed in thwarting it which is being termed as "dharna part II"?

Imran has arranged a rally from his solid body electorate in Peshawar to Attock on Sunday took after by a rally from Rawalpindi to Islamabad on August 13 and "dharna" in Lahore for which he will report the last date amid his second rally.

In the mean time, the recently finished Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) faces the first and huge test over the references for exclusion of PM Nawaz, Imran and Jehangir Tareen. The ECP was finished with the administration resistance accord. In this way its choice would be ethically authoritative on all gatherings, however it was shocking to see Imran's reservation over the ECP as his own particular gathering supported its creation.

In any case, when the ECP takes up these references from August 17, Imran's PTI and Dr Tahir ul Qadri's PAT and Sheik Rasheed's one-man party, Awami Muslim League, would be in the city and political temperature would rise. In any case, why is it a political bet of Imran? It is a direct result of his performance flight and confusion in his own home. Evidently, Imran attempted to underplay his dissent plan and solo flight by asserting it's not a challenge development but rather an "awami rabita" (mass contact) crusade. Really he has plan to get on another compartment and begin another dharna, yet this time in Lahore.

It's a bet in light of the fact that if other resistance parties, especially the PPP and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), did not join Imran, it would be very troublesome for PTI and PAT to accomplish more than what they did in 2014. Both PTI and PAT have obviously not ascertained the time component — Eid falling in September and Ashura in October.

Imran would be restlessly sitting tight for the PPP's best course of action. The gathering high summon will look for guidelines from previous president Asif Ali Zardari. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has officially gone to Dubai for this reason. PPP sources say everything relies on upon how PML-N and Nawaz Sharif react and draw in the restriction and turn out with a bargain equation over Panama Papers.

It's a political bet for Imran on another check too. Imran has likewise alluded to moving the Supreme Court and has additionally consented to join the meeting of the advisory group on Terms of Reference (TORs) with the administration. It will be a do or kick the bucket circumstance for the PTI on the off chance that it loses case in the SC as annihilation at the most elevated court would likewise mean end of the development as all gatherings will undoubtedly acknowledge its last decision.

Imran has gone into a bet as he realizes that achievement in this battle would light up his odds in the following general races which, he considers, could be held before 2018. In this manner, he need to go hard and fast without understanding that early races sometimes fall short for his gathering which is in finished chaos as a result of inside disunity.

It is additionally genuine Imran realizes that in the event that he neglects to change over his crusade into a mass unsettling, he would be in an extremely troublesome position, yet he has bet "furnished" with a partitioned PTI. It would have been exceptional had held up till an official choice of the joint resistance as that could have applied additional weight on the legislature. Then, Imran could host gone for get-together decisions which would been the perfect time for propelling the development. In any case, given the current circumstance, races in the PTI before the following general decisions show up a slim chance and Imran is not prepared to go out on a limb.

Government's own particular goofs may bother the circumstance and make a political turmoil, yet where will Imran and his gathering stand on the off chance that it brought about any additional sacred activity. Early races don't support other standard gatherings like PPP, which has recently changed its central clergyman in Sindh in an offer to change gathering's observation and set some great case of good administration. PPP additionally goes for making advances in Punjab for which they require a couple of years.

On the off chance that early races suit any gathering at this stage, it is maybe the decision PML-N where its position is pretty much in place in Punjab and the late triumph in Azad Kashmir has likewise given it an edge.

Imran can get a major political support if PPP likewise joins his development at same stage and an amazing organization together like Pakistan National Alliance of 1977 is shaped, which wound up in military law. Because of gathering's inward issues, he has chosen to lead the development from Peshawar where his gathering is in a moderately better position in spite of solid reservations of some gathering MNA and MPAs against Chief Minister Pervez Khattack.

In this manner, it's a major political bet for Imran furthermore a test of Prime Minister Nawaz before the following general races, on time or before 2018. It's a bet of a pioneer who realizes that its maybe his last opportunity to annihilation his primary political adversary and solid man from Punjab.

It's a clash of nerves between maturing Imran and feeble Nawaz. While it's Nawaz's third term as PM and test for him to finish his first full term, it's additionally going to be a test of Imran's capacity to lead the gathering to some sort of triumph, coming up short which would likewise mean weight on him to stop as skipper after consecutive annihilations. (The essayist is the senior reporter and examiner of GEO, The News and jang)

Pakistan offers to arrange medical treatment for injured Kashmiris

PM says Pakistan prepared to mastermind treatment for Indian state terrorism casualties in any piece of world; requests that world group use impact over India

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said Pakistan needed to mastermind restorative treatment for the casualties of state mistreatment by the security powers in Indian held Kashmir (IHK).

He said Pakistan particularly fancied eye treatment of the casualties of pellet weapons from the best accessible medicinal offices anyplace on the planet on quick premise. He additionally called upon the worldwide group to practice its impact over India for empowering Pakistan to mastermind the therapeutic treatment of the casualties in the wake of continuous helpful emergency in the involved valley.

In an emphatic explanation here, the chief said being blinded has serious outcomes for the casualties and their families; a few casualties of the pellet weapons may never see light again. Still, he said, they are unfaltering; they are guided by the light of opportunity for the acknowledgment of their entitlement to self-determination. "Pakistan will keep on providing moral, political and conciliatory backing to them," said the PM.

"The greatness of the helpful emergency in IHK has constrained us to quickly pool our material and HR for treating the casualties," said the head administrator.

Considerably more horrifying is that medicinal services suppliers in IHK have not been permitted to treat the casualties appropriately. The Indian security powers have additionally been focusing on the doctor's facilities and ambulances giving medicinal services to the quiet and vulnerable guiltless dissenters, the executive included. He guided the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assemble the backing of global political administration, the helpful associations and common society through Pakistan missions abroad in applying impact over India to permit the Government of Pakistan for organizing the treatment of the casualties in IHK on compassionate grounds. The administration will mastermind the boarding, lodging, costs on medicinal treatment for the casualties, the executive coordinated.

Nawaz called upon the universal group to promptly orchestrate therapeutic treatment for the casualties in IHK, particularly for treatment of eye wounds coming about because of utilization of pellet weapons by the Indian powers. The head administrator passed on Pakistan's unequivocal backing in organizing the best accessible therapeutic offices anyplace on the planet to such harmed individuals.

Crashed Pak helicopter transported to Kabul

ISLAMABAD: Afghan powers transported the chopper, which had crashlanded in Logar, to Kabul on Friday as endeavors for the recuperation of the team proceeded.

Sources said that the chopper was relied upon to be given over to Pakistan through the Torkham outskirt crossing at some point today (Sunday), reported Geo News.

The Punjab government's helicopter, on the way to Russia for a normal redesign, crash-arrived in the unsettled Logar region in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.

"Formal and casual channels are being utilized to guarantee safe recuperation of the whole group," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in an announcement from his office.

Then, the Afghan barrier service said it had propelled a test into the occurrence. "We have dispatched an examination concerning the episode and the legislature has educated security powers to save no endeavors to secure the arrival of group individuals," the Afghan guard service said in an announcement.

The destiny of the travelers on board the flying machine was still indistinct, yet a Taliban administrator asserted the seven were "in safe hands" with the activists.

A senior Afghan Taliban leader, chatting on state of secrecy, told a news organization that the travelers — six Pakistanis and a Russian specialist — were in their guardianship and that transactions for their discharge were progressing. "They are being taken care of, being given tea, sustenance, everything," he said. "We are in contact with the Pakistani authorities. We passed on to them that they are in safe hands."

He included that it was of no utilization to look for assistance from the Afghan government or the US military on the grounds that the Taliban were in full control of the locale.

Bilawal saddened over deaths in Karachi rain-related incidents

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has communicated distress over the miserable passings in downpour related episodes including through electric shocks by fallen power wires in Sindh and asked the commonplace bureau and the chose delegates to stay alarm in their individual zones amid storm.

In a press explanation, PPP Chairman requested that the applicable powers guarantee that downpour water is depleted away inside briefest conceivable time.

He focused on that Federal government ought to likewise verify that its transmission power lines are kept up legitimately and secure the same from playing devastation amid downpours.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari brought up that unannounced burden shedding of long terms amid blustery season were making the life of individuals hopeless.

He said K-Electric's wastefulness dove verging on whole Karachi into murkiness while Hyderabad and Sukkur power supplies incurred most exceedingly bad conditions in their ranges.

PPP Chairman said that misfortunes in downpour related episodes could be turned away or minimized through appropriate arranging and prudent steps.

In any case, he welcomed to the general population in Thar Desert and Kohistan and trusted that dry spell will bolstered away in these downpour parched sloping and sand districts.

Musharraf’s bungalow saved from being confiscated

KARACHI: The principle private lodge of previous president Gen. (retd) Pervez Musharraf, situated in Army Housing Scheme Clifton, was spared from being appropriated after it was uncovered the house was possessed by his little girl Aaila Raza.

As indicated by the answer put together by Military Estate Office in District and Sessions Court on Friday, the cottage on Zamzama Street, Askari Villa Phase 6 is possessed by Aaila Raza, little girl of previous military ruler.

As indicated by sources, Defense Housing Authority (DHA) a week ago had affirmed three properties possessed by Pervez Musharraf and issued notification to Military Estate Officer for affirmation of two more properties including primary living arrangement at Army Housing.

The District and Sessions Judge South, after the exceptional court's orders, had issued a notification to Defense Housing Authority (DHA) for appropriation of Pervez Musharraf's property.

The notification conveyed to the DHA states that a report ought to be submitted inside three days after reallocation of three cottages and a plot claimed by Musharraf.

The properties, to be seized by court decision, was a house on Zamzama Street, two houses in DHA Phase 8 and a plot in Army Housing Scheme, Clifton.

Karachiites will choose their own mayor: Farooq Sattar

Karachi: MQM's named leader Waseem Akhtar would win the races with a substantial order, said Farooq Sattar on Friday.

Tending to an occasion held at the Pak Pharma and Health Care show at Expo Center, MQM pioneer Farooq

Sattar underlined the significance of the pharma division in progression and improvement of Pakistan.

In his announcement, he acknowledged Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah for indicating enthusiasm for commonplace issues

what's more, working with excitement.

Discussing the leader of Karachi, Sattar said that he would be one who'd be picked by the general population of Karachi.

"In rustic regions of Sindh, PPP have set their command, while MQM have been given

command in urban regions of the area. Nonetheless, MQM is not being given an equivalent part being developed assets," Dr. Farooq Sattar asserted.

Farooq Sattar further said that human rights ought to be considered while the Rangers' operation happens and peace must not be aggravated.

Pakistan seeks return of helicopter crash hostages from Afghan Taliban

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: Pakistan's executive said on Friday his administration is utilizing "formal and casual channels" to look for the arrival of seven travelers of a slammed helicopter Pakistani helicopter who were caught by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A Taliban administrator guaranteed the seven were "in safe hands" with the extremists.

The Pakistani government helicopter, on the way to Russia for a normal upgrade, crash-arrived in the Taliban-held Logar area in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.

"Formal and casual channels are being utilized to guarantee safe recuperation of the whole group," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in an announcement from his office.

Logar region has been progressively rebellious since the dispatch two years prior of a military operation in neighboring Pakistani tribal zones pushed numerous Taliban and associated warriors into Afghanistan.

On Friday, a senior Afghan Taliban leader, talking on state of namelessness, affirmed that the travelers - six Pakistanis and a Russian professional - were in their care and that arrangements for their discharge were continuous.

"They are being taken care of, being given tea, nourishment, everything," he said. "We are in contact with the Pakistani authorities. We passed on to them that they are in safe hands."

He included that it was no utilization looking for assistance from the Afghan government or U.S. military, on the grounds that the Taliban are in full control of the region.

The Pakistani government and military did not straightforwardly affirm direct chats with the Taliban, but rather authorities said they were doing everything conceivable.

"Endeavors are in top apparatus for early recuperation of the group and pilots of the chopper... Petitions for my dear companions safe return," tweeted Shahbaz Sharif, the head administrator's sibling and boss priest of the Punjab common government that works the helicopter.

The airplane had authorization to fly over Afghan air space on its approach to Uzbekistan assist north, said Nafees Zakaria, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry representative, on Thursday.

Pakistan's armed force boss had beforehand reached top U.S. leader in Afghanistan General John Nicholson requesting his global military coalition's assistance in recouping the men, Bajwa said on Thursday.

Imran terms reference against him as ‘blackmailing’

ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday termed reference against him by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as 'extorting'.

Conversing with columnists here Friday, Imran said that the decision gathering is recognizing his affirmed defilement following three years simply because it apprehensions Panama Paper's test, including that PML-N just needs him to stay quiet on the issue.

PTI executive said that he would take his responsibility crusade till the end regardless of PML-N's activities.

Imran Khan said that his gathering's hostile to government development would commence from August 7.

He said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police was free from political impact.

"Presently, just IG police will delegate or exchange authorities", Imran Khan further said.

PML-N presented a reference to the National Assembly against Imran Khan and gathering pioneer Jahangir Tareen today.

The reference was recorded looking for exclusion of the two pioneers for covering insights about seaward organizations and giving off base information of individual resources.

It was submitted to Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq.

PML-N files reference against Imran

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML N) has recorded a reference looking for exclusion of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan as part National Assembly.

The reference was recorded with the Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.

Tallal Chaudhry, MNA of the decision party wrote in the reference that Khan doesn't meet the criteria set out in article 62 and 63 of the constitution, while, an excluded individual has no privilege to sit in the gathering.

He assist said in the reference Imran Khan set up seaward organization and he didn't proclaim his advantages.

The speaker summoned the secretary national get together to review the reference.

The reference would be sent to NA secretariat for further activity after it is endorsed.

At least eleven killed as heavy rain lashes Karachi

KARACHI: At minimum eleven individuals passed on, salvage sources said Friday, in Karachi after overwhelming precipitation lashed the megapolis setting off a force breakdown in many parts.

The storm brought about stumbling of 400 feeders diving Korangi Crossing, North Karachi, New Karachi, Lyari, Old City Area, Saddar, Gulistan e Jauhar and a few different zones into obscurity.

Friday's downpour left seven individuals dead in the city, as per salvage sources, with the vast majority of them shocked as downpour water immersed various low-lying areas.

A representative for the K-Electric, the principle power supplier in the city, said power supply to 200 feeders was reestablished and that work was in advancement on outstanding feeders.

When the force supply was detached, the 72-inch width pipeline of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) burst, suspending water supply to the city of more than 20 million.

The KWSB representative charged that the pipeline burst after the K-Electric over and again disengaged power supply to various pumping stations.

In the mean time, Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah telephoned overseeing chief of the K-Electric and guided him to guarantee continuous force supply to the megapolis.

Prior, the overwhelming precipitation brought about gigantic movement growl ups crosswise over Karachi. Residents froze while attempting to creep forward on real avenues for a considerable length of time.

Heavy rain lashes Karachi

KARACHI: Heavy rain lashed a few sections of Karachi on Friday evening turning the climate lovely in the city.

The overwhelming precipitation hit Defense, Clifton, Saddar, Gushan-e-Maimar, Korangi, Shah Faisal Town, Gulistan-e-Johar, Malir, Gulishan-e-Hadeed and different ranges.

The downpour immersed some low-lying regions. Monstrous automobile overload was seen on significant lanes of the city.

Additionally, with the primary drop of downpour, numerous zones dove into obscurity as 250 feeders stumbled.

As indicated by K-Electric representative, supply from around 110 feeders has been reestablished while take a shot at other 140 was in advancement.

In the mean time, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah telephoned Managing Director K-Electric and guided him to guarantee continuous supply power supply.

He likewise guided DIG Traffic to embrace measures for smooth stream of movement.

Aside from Karachi, Badin, Golarchi, Hyderabad, Khairpur and some different urban communities of the region.

Sartaj appeals MSF to provide medical assistance to injured Kashmiris

ISLAMABAD: The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz has claimed Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) to promptly give medicinal help to a large number of harmed Kashmiris in Indian possessed Kashmir (IoK).

As per the announcement issued by service of outside undertakings, the Adviser has composed a letter to the International President of MSF highlighting the condition of therapeutic crisis in IoK that has created as a consequence of abominable Indian brutalities against unarmed and vulnerable regular folks.

The Adviser has asked for MSF to quickly give restorative help to a huge number of harmed in IOK.

He especially underscored the earnest need of eye specialists, as many individuals are experiencing serious eye wounds brought on by the utilization of pellet weapons on quiet nonconformists.

Fire destroys shopping center in Karachi

KARACHI: A flame broke out at a mall situated in Karachi's Defense territory on Friday night that inundated a few shops and blazed material worth millions, authorities and shop proprietors said.

The blast emitted late on Friday night at the second story of a strip mall in Defense Phase-1, as per flame detachment authorities. The flame has not yet been brought under control regardless of three hours of endeavors.

Eight flame tenders of the Clifton Cantonment Board and Karachi Municipal Corporation are occupied in endeavors to smother the blast. A snorkel has likewise been conveyed at the scene to put out the flame.

Fabric worth millions had been decreased to fiery remains in the wake of burst, said shop proprietors present at the spot. They likewise addressed firefighting capacity of concerned offices.

Imran terms reference against him as ‘blackmailing’

ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday termed reference against him by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as 'extorting'.

Conversing with columnists here Friday, Imran said that the decision gathering is distinguishing his claimed defilement following three years simply because it reasons for alarm Panama Paper's test, including that PML-N just needs him to stay noiseless on the issue.

PTI administrator said that he would take his responsibility battle till the end despite PML-N's activities.

Imran Khan said that his gathering's hostile to government development would commence from August 7.

He said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police was free from political impact.

"Presently, just IG police will name or exchange authorities", Imran Khan further said.

PML-N presented a reference to the National Assembly against Imran Khan and gathering pioneer Jahangir Tareen today.

The reference was documented looking for exclusion of the two pioneers for covering insights about seaward organizations and giving wrong information of individual resources.

It was submitted to Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq.

FIA arrests blacklisted US national at Islamabad airport

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) captured a boycotted US national at Benazir International Airport for entering Pakistan after he was expelled five years prior for suspicious exercises.

As indicated by the media reports, Mathew US resident arrived at Benazir International Airport subsequent to entering incorrectly accreditations on landing card and was moved to migration cell by FIA.

The organization stopped a body of evidence against FIA faculty for giving him leeway at the airplane terminal and a lady authority of Pakistan Commission Houston who is in charge of issuance of visas.

The American national was ousted in 2011 for association in suspicious exercises and was included the boycott.

Mathew was later introduced in the court of legal judge for remand.

Pakistan offers medical treatment to victims of Indian held Kashmir

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday offered to orchestrate therapeutic treatment for casualties of state abuse by Indian security strengths in Occupied Kashmir on quick premise.

In an announcement, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the size of compassionate emergency in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) has constrained us to instantly pool our material and HR for treating the casualties.

The Prime Minster has called upon the worldwide group to push upon India for empowering Pakistan to orchestrate the restorative treatment of the casualties of pellet firearms who have lost their visual perceptions.

He has guided the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assemble backing of worldwide political administration, the compassionate associations and common society through Pakistan Missions Abroad in applying impact over India.

Nawaz Sharif said the medicinal services suppliers in Indian Occupied Kashmir are not being permitted to treat the casualties and Indian security powers are focusing on healing facilities and ambulances serving the exposed Kashmiris.

He included that the Government of Pakistan will mastermind the boarding, cabin and costs on the therapeutic treatment for the casualties.

Pakistan seeks safe return of crashed helicopter crew from Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said the legislature was utilizing "formal and casual channels" to look for the arrival of seven travelers of a slammed helicopter who were allegedly abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Punjab government helicopter, in transit to Russia for a standard update, crash-arrived in the unsettled Logar territory in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.

"Formal and casual channels are being utilized to guarantee safe recuperation of the whole team," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in an announcement from his office.

Head of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif additionally called Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday to demand his nation's assistance.

"Afghan President Ashraf Ghani guaranteed all conceivable help with this respect," tweeted ISPR representative Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa.

On Thursday, the armed force boss had reached top US leader in Afghanistan General John Nicholson requesting his global military coalition's assistance in recuperating the men.

"Afghan govt and ANA powers have likewise been reached for important help with recuperation of the group individuals while on its approach to Russia by means of Uzbekistan. Helicopter was going to Russia for upkeep. Gen Nicolson guaranteed all conceivable help in such manner," said a tweet from Lt-Gen Bajwa on Thursday night.

"Endeavors are in top apparatus for early recuperation of the team and pilots of the chopper… Prayers for my dear companions' sheltered return," tweeted Shahbaz Sharif, the central pastor of the Punjab commonplace government that works the helicopter.

Remote Office representative Nafees Zakaria said the airplane had authorization to fly over Afghan air space on its approach to Uzbekistan facilitate north to overhaul.

Prior today, the Foreign Office said it was all the while sitting tight for an answer from the Afghan government over the area of the slammed helicopter and the seven travelers on board.

The Foreign Office said the Afghan government had not given any data to Pakistan notwithstanding a slip of 24 hours into the episode.

In the interim, the Afghan resistance service said it had propelled a test into the occurrence.

"We have dispatched an examination concerning the incident...and the legislature has taught security strengths to save no endeavors to secure the arrival of the group individuals," the Afghan guard service said in an announcement.

Taliban say travelers 'in safe hands'

The destiny of the travelers on board the air ship was still hazy, yet a Taliban leader guaranteed the seven were "in safe hands" with the activists.

A senior Afghan Taliban administrator, talking on state of obscurity, told news office Reuters that the travelers — six Pakistanis and a Russian professional — were in their guardianship and that transactions for their discharge were continuous.

"They are being cared for, being given tea, sustenance, everything," he said.

"We are in contact with the Pakistani authorities. We passed on to them that they are in safe hands."

He included that it was no utilization looking for assistance from the Afghan government or US military, in light of the fact that the Taliban are in full control of the area.

The Pakistani government or military did not straightforwardly affirm direct converses with the Taliban or that the travelers were caught by the activists, yet authorities said they were doing everything conceivable.

Afghan media and authorities likewise reported that the seven individuals on board were abducted by the Taliban.

The neighborhood locale senator Hamidullah Hamid said seven individuals on board had been abducted by Taliban guerillas.

"They have been taken to an obscure area," he said.

The helicopter burst into flames after it slammed, said Logar's representative Salim Saleh.

Logar region has been progressively uncivilized since the dispatch two years prior of a military operation in neighboring Pakistani tribal regions pushed numerous Taliban aggressors into Afghanistan.

Helicopter transported to Kabul

As endeavors for the recuperation of group proceed with, Afghan powers transported the chopper, which had crash-arrived in Logar, to Kabul on Friday.

Sources educated that the chopper is relied upon to be given over to Pakistan through Torkham outskirt crossing at some point today.

At least seven killed as heavy rain lashes Karachi

KARACHI: At minimum seven individuals kicked the bucket, salvage sources said Friday, in Karachi after overwhelming precipitation lashed the megapolis setting off a force breakdown in many parts.

The storm brought about stumbling of 400 feeders diving Korangi Crossing, North Karachi, New Karachi, Lyari, Old City Area, Saddar, Gulistan e Jauhar and a few different ranges into dimness.

Friday's downpour left seven individuals dead in the city, as indicated by salvage sources, with the greater part of them shocked as downpour water immersed various low-lying territories.

A representative for the K-Electric, the primary force supplier in the city, said power supply to 200 feeders was reestablished and that work was in advancement on residual feeders.

When the force supply was detached, the 72-inch width pipeline of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) burst, suspending water supply to the city of more than 20 million.

The KWSB representative claimed that the pipeline burst after the K-Electric over and again disengaged power supply to various pumping stations.

In the interim, Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah telephoned overseeing chief of the K-Electric and guided him to guarantee continuous force supply to the megapolis.

Prior, the substantial downpour brought about gigantic movement growl ups crosswise over Karachi. Nationals froze while attempting to creep forward on real lanes for a considerable length of time.

PM, Army Chief discuss national security Home / National / PM, Army Chief discuss national security

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif approached Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the PM House on Thursday and traded sees on inner security of the nation other than national and local security circumstance. 

As indicated by the sources, the Army Chief and the Premier likewise talked about Indian monstrosities in the involved Kashmir. 

Motivation of the up and coming meeting of national security board of trustees additionally went under thought, the sources included. 

The COAS met PM Nawaz taking after his arrival from China's day long visit.

Hundreds of stray dogs poisoned in Karachi

KARACHI: Officials have harmed many canines in Karachi in the most recent push to check a populace of strays that assault a great many individuals every year in the abounding uber city of somewhere in the range of 20 million.

Assemblages of dead canines littered ranges of the city where civil specialists accumulated them for transfer.

"No less than 700 puppies have been killed just in two ranges of Karachi's south in the last couple of days," said Sattar Javed, a representative for the civil power.

Authorities assessed the citywide operation that began for the current week had separated a great many strays however did not have a full representing each of the six city areas.

The intermittent separating of canines utilizing poison tablets covered up as a part of chicken meat has drawn feedback from every living creature's common sense entitlement activists in Pakistan, yet another city official, Mohammad Zahid, said it was important on the grounds that packs of strays represented a danger to inhabitants.

A year ago, Karachi's Jinnah Hospital treated 6,500 individuals chomped by pooches and this year so far it has seen 3,700 cases, said Dr. Seemin Jamali, leader of the crisis room.

Pakistani chopper crash-lands in Afghanistan’s Logar province

KABUL: A Pakistani helicopter crash-arrived in Logar area of Afghanistan, Afghan media investigated Thursday.

As indicated by Afghan media reports, Taliban have arrested six individuals from the team after the helicopter made crisis landing.

Afghan Taliban likewise set on fire the chopper, in any case, a few media reported the copter burst into flames before its accident arrival.

The team of the plane incorporates five Pakistanis and a Russian national.

The helicopter has a place with Punjab government and it was in transit to Uzbekistan for upgrading, sources said.

In the interim, Foreign Office representative Nafees Zakaria has said that Pakistan has reached Afghan government over episode and getting more subtle elements.

The representative went ahead to say they came to know in regards to the accident arrival of the helicopter through media.

Pakistan had gotten authorization to utilize Afghan airspace for a copter having a place with Punjab government. The helicopter needed to go for updating.

U.S. designates Pakistan's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar as 'terrorist group'

ISLAMABAD: The United States has included the Pakistani activist outfit Jamaat-ur-Ahrar to its rundown of worldwide terrorists, activating assents against a gathering that has organized various assaults on regular citizens, religious minorities and warriors.

Jamaat-ur-Ahrar has asserted obligation regarding no less than five noteworthy assaults in Pakistan since December, including the Easter Sunday besieging in an open stop that killed 70 individuals in the eastern city of Lahore.

It is a chip group of the Pakistani Taliban development that has likewise announced unwaveringness to Islamic State's authority in the Middle East.

The gathering likewise guaranteed obligation regarding the slaughtering of two Pakistani representatives of the U.S. Department in the northwestern city of Peshawar toward the beginning of March.

Jamaat-ur-Ahrar has not yet remarked on the assignment.

The assignment, reported by the State Department in an announcement on Wednesday, implies any individual who bolsters Jamaat-ur-Ahrar could have their advantages solidified by the U.S. government.

As of late, Pakistan has additionally gotten serious about developments that objective its own nationals and foundations, including the Pakistani Taliban why should battling topple the administration and introduce a strict elucidation of Islamic law.

Most as of late, it propelled a paramilitary crackdown in Punjab, the nation's wealthiest and most crowded area, after the Easter shelling in Lahore, the commonplace capital.

Sindh CM presses for recovery of missing vehicles

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Thursday guided the Chief Secretary to recuperate every single missing vehicle having a place with the Sindh government.

As per subtle elements, Murad Ali Shah told the Chief Secretary that there were sixty vehicles having a place with the legislature, missing. He guided the Chief Secretary to acquire data with respect to the vehicles and recuperate them as quickly as time permits.

He likewise encouraged the Chief Secretary to sell every single defective auto.

"Secretary, DG and Project Director ought not approach me for occasions," said Murad Ali Shah. "Consider it a restriction on siestas. Presently we will work, work and just work," he expressed.

He asked everybody to recall the bearings of Quaid-e-Azam and actualize them.

Murad Ali Shah additionally expressed that he had expanded supports now consequently streets and structures ought not stay in a run down expressed any longer. He additionally guaranteed to utilize more instructors, specialists and paramedical staff.

China defends supply of nuclear reactors to Pakistan

BIEJING: Defending its atomic participation with its trusted associate Pakistan, China on Thursday said its supply of reactors to Islamabad were as per the standards of NSG and under the supervision of U.N's. atomic guard dog.

Invalidating a U.S. research organization report which said that China's atomic participation with Pakistan was in contradiction with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) standards, Chinese Foreign Ministry representative, Hua Chunying said China, Pakistan collaboration is as per the 48-part atomic club, which regulates worldwide atomic business.

"China has expressed on numerous events that the participation amongst China and Pakistan in the common atomic vitality area is totally for serene reason," Mrs. Hua said.

"Such participation is liable to the shields and supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and as per the NSG's standards and the worldwide commitments accepted by the two nations," the representative said.

Pak embassy starts cash disbursement at stranded workers

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan consulate in Saudi Arabia has begun paying Riyals 200 for each head to stranded Pakistani specialists at three camps of Saudi organizations where nourishment supply was impractical, Ambassador Manzoor ul Haq said on Thursday.

We have begun dispensing money among the laborers at three camps to be specific Siteen, Aljazeera and Taif having 300 and 200 people separately, the Ambassador told APP here from Riyadh Saudi Arabia over phone.

Envoy Manzoor ul Haq said the consulate was tenaciously attempting to guarantee continuous nourishment supply to the Pakistani laborers at 20 camps of the Saudi organizations.

He said that a course of action of cooked sustenance for 700 laborers was additionally made on need premise on Wednesday.

He said discretionary endeavors were in advancement to pressurize the organizations by the Saudi Arabian government to give duty and unpaid debts to the stranded Pakistanis.

The Ambassador said amid his visit to the Song camp on Wednesday where 800 Pakistanis are dwelling he met the specialists and enquired about their prosperity.

He said that the international safe haven's Consul General and Deputy Head of Mission additionally went by Jeddah and Damam camps facilitating 1 000 and 1 300 laborers separately to direct the circumstance.

He said larger part of the specialists were living without their families.

He said endeavors were being made in accordance with the mandates of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help the ostracize Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia.

It might be reviewed here that around 8 000 Pakistani exiles supposedly are in Saudi Arabia who have not been paid pay rates for most recent seven months by their host organizations.

Likewise their work grants have not been reestablished.

Muzaffargarh: Husband, in-laws force wife to drink acid

MUZAFFARGARH: A wedded lady was professedly compelled to drink corrosive by her significant other and in-laws for returning home late.

As per the police, Shabana Mai, inhabitant of Baily wala in Tehsil Jatoi went to go to the memorial service of her nephew at her family's home and returned late because of which her significant other, Arif, alongside his relatives constrained her to drink corrosive according to discipline.

Accordingly, her condition crumbled and she was at first taken to Tehsil headquarter clinic and afterward was moved to Nishtar Hospital in Multan for restorative treatment.

Police have enlisted a body of evidence against the spouse and in-laws of the casualty yet no capture has been made regarding the case.

Consistently in Pakistan, numerous ladies are subjected to corrosive assaults either to refuse propositions to be engaged or on suspicion of treachery.

China joins Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan in security alliance

BEIJING: China is to set up an against terrorism partnership with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, state media said on Thursday, as it tries to help coordination with neighbors to handle what it says is a developing household aggressor danger.

Tooth Fenghui, an individual from the effective Central Military Commission which controls China's military, facilitated a meeting with his partners on Wednesday in Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang area, where authorities say they are doing combating Islamist aggressors.

The four nations perceived the genuine risk of terrorism and radicalism to territorial soundness, the authority Xinhua news office said, and they consented to set up a "four-nation component" for knowledge sharing and preparing.

"All gatherings reaffirmed they will participate to react to these powers, and defend all part nations' peace and steadiness," Xinhua said.

Afghan armed force head of general staff, General Qadam Shah Shaheem, Pakistani armed force boss General Raheel Sharif, and the Chief of General Staff of the Tajikistan military, Major General E. A. Cobidrzoda, partook in the discussions, the news organization said.

The meeting comes after China's guard serve this week said thanks to Afghanistan's Shaheem for backing in battling the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) an Islamist gathering that China says needs to set up a different state in Xinjiang.

China did not expand on the help it got.

China has for quite some time been worried that flimsiness in Afghanistan will overflow into savagery inclined Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur individuals, where several individuals have kicked the bucket as of late in agitation Beijing accuses for fanatics.

The United States and the United Nations have recorded ETIM as a terrorist bunch, however a few specialists have scrutinized its cohesiveness and say China's arrangements in Xinjiang have added to turmoil.

China denies that its strategies stir pressure in Xinjiang or spur Uighurs to join Islamic State activists, however it recognizes some have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the gathering.

China is likewise working with Pakistan and the United States to intermediary peace converses with end a Taliban insurrection that has seethed for a long time in Afghanistan.

That exertion never got past exploratory talks and seemed to separate totally when Taliban pioneer Mullah Akhtar Mansour was executed in a U.S. ramble strike in Pakistan in May.

Sources in the Taliban told Reuters that a Taliban designation went to China in July, however Chinese authorities have not affirmed it.

Sindh CM presses for recovery of missing vehicles

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Thursday guided the Chief Secretary to recoup every missing vehicle having a place with the Sindh government.

As indicated by points of interest, Murad Ali Shah told the Chief Secretary that there were sixty vehicles having a place with the administration, missing. He guided the Chief Secretary to get data in regards to the vehicles and recoup them as quickly as time permits.

He additionally asked the Chief Secretary to unload every single flawed auto.

"Secretary, DG and Project Director ought not approach me for occasions," said Murad Ali Shah. "Consider it a restriction on siestas. Presently we will work, work and just work," he expressed.

He asked everybody to recall the headings of Quaid-e-Azam and execute them.

Murad Ali Shah additionally expressed that he had expanded subsidizes now thus streets and structures ought not stay in a weather beaten expressed any longer. He additionally guaranteed to utilize more educators, specialists and paramedical staff.

People know who is involved in the politics of anarchy: PM Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the masses were completely mindful with reference to who enjoys the legislative issues of disorder and who works for the improvement of the general population.

Tending to PML-N's parliamentary meeting, the Prime Minister said that they ought to be appreciative that God hosted favored his get-together such a great amount in the late decisions.

"Not just have we won persuading triumphs in Gilgit Baltistan, yet we have additionally secured enormous constituent wins in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, nearby bodies races and additionally cantonment races," he said.

Nawaz said that when his administration came in force in 2013, it needed to adapt to three noteworthy difficulties which included resuscitating the economy, handling the threat of terrorism and managing the vitality emergency in the nation.

PM Nawaz said that when contrasted with three years prior, Pakistan was improving now because of the enhanced economy of the nation.

"It is extremely joy that I am reporting that we will say goodbye to the IMF program this year," he said.

Nawaz Sharif likewise lashed out at previous president and armed force boss General (r) Musharraf when he said that no electric ventures had been set up in the nine years. He demanded that Musharraf and his supporters ought to be conveyed to the parliament and made to account for themselves in the matter of why they didn't embrace even a solitary vitality venture around then?

Nawaz commended the endeavors of Paksitan armed force, police and the country in cutting down terrorism and militancy in the nation. He additionally communicated his joy at the enhanced peace circumstances of Karachi and said that financial specialists were currently returning to the city.

Residents of a locality in Mirpurkhas foil kidnapping bid

MIRPURKHAS: Residents of an area thwarted a hijacking offer on Thursday by catching one of the two suspects and giving him over to the police. As indicated by the police, the occurrence happened at the city's Gulshan-e-Haider state where two suspected hijackers attempted to abduct a 10 year-old.

The suspects had gotten the kid and were en route out of the region when the kid shouted and pulled in consideration. Occupants of the territory figured out how to catch one of the two assistants while the other escaped. Individuals subjected the suspected ruffian to ambush then gave him over to the police.

Nawaz calls for joint efforts to combat regional challenges in SAARC meeting

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif additionally went to the SAARC inside priests meeting on Thursday and called for joint endeavors to confront provincial difficulties.

"It is a honor for Pakistan to have the SAARC inside clergymen gathering," he said. "Vital issues concerning the locale will be talked about and thought in this gathering," he said.

Nawaz said that since numerous decades, Pakistan was attempting to advance peace in the district. The Prime Minister additionally said amid his address that individuals from the SAARC must unite to battle the difficulties they are confronted with.

"SAARC is presently playing a more dynamic and consolidated part than before," he said.

Nawaz Sharif likewise said that Pakistan was finding a way to guarantee the preservation of vitality. The PM said that Pakistan was additionally for advancing ties between countries in the locale.

Prior, government Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had likewise tended to the meeting.

"I trust that SAARC individuals keep on playing a dynamic part in acting against medications and keeps advancing peace in the district," he said. "It is our desire to see that SAARC turns into a fruitful association," he included.

Chaudhry Nisar said that the area was confronted with innumerable difficulties and that a joint procedure ought to be made by SAARC individuals to face them.

"The locale is confronted with difficulties, for example, government evasion and human trafficking," said Nisar.

Valuing the endeavors of every single inside pastor of SAARC nations, Nisar said that it was vital to note what amount had been accomplished and what more could be accomplished still.

Nisar likewise said that work on the proposition set forth in the SAARC inside pastors gathering would begin soon.

Qandeel murder case: Polygraph tests of suspects conducted

MULTAN: Polygraph tests of Qandeel Baloch's cousin Haq Nawaz and cabbie Abdul Basit, were directed on Thursday.

As indicated by subtle elements, police directed the polygraph tests of killed model Qandeel Baloch's cousin Haq Nawaz and cab driver Abdul Basit, both suspects in the prominent homicide case. Police have additionally seized the vehicle of Basit for further examination. In the interim, suspect Haq Nawaz will be introduced at the court tomorrow.

Police uncovered that the Qandeel Baloch murder case examination was in its last stage. Haq Nawaz and Abdul Basit's polygraph tests were directed from the Punjab Science Laboratory in Lahore. After their tests were directed, both suspects were given back to the police for further examination.

Sources inside the police uncovered that the examination would be given last touches after Qandeel Baloch's DNA report is gotten. A while later, the challan would be submitted at the court.

Qandeel Baloch was a conspicuous online networking identity and model whose intense Facebook posts touched off discussion in Pakistan. While some despised her shenanigans, others commended her for breaking social taboos. In July, Qandeel was discovered killed before her sibling admitted to executing her by choking her to death.

Wife allegedly burns her husband to death

New Karachi: A 37-year old man was burned alive by his wife on Thursday, in Bilal Town.

According to police, deceased Muhammad Suhail, who lived in FB area block 16, went to meet his wife in order to resolve a dispute when his wife, along with her family, allegedly set him ablaze by throwing dousing him with petrol and then burning him alive at her house in Bilal Town, New Karachi.

Suhail’s sister said that the couple was married for 15 years and had four daughters together yet his wife used to fight with him a lot on minor issues.

"This time when she left her husband’s home and went to her mother’s place, Suhail went there in order to reconcile with her and meet his children when this incident occurred," she said.

In a statement given by Suhail’s wife, Suhail was mentally ill and used to beat her up and torture her. According

to her, he was the one who set himself on fire. She said he lit himself on fire, after dousing himself with petrol.

A case has been registered in which five people have been named. The deceased’s wife, father-in- law and a relative were

arrested, while raids are being conducted to arrest more suspects involved in the alleged murder, said the investigative officer.

Sargodha: Boy, girl found dead inside car

SARGODHA: Two college understudies were discovered dead in an auto on Thursday, at Satellite Town.

As per police, the 23 year-old understudy of Sarghoda University, went to her companion's home however didn't return home. Then, the police sought after which her dead body was discovered lying in the storage compartment of an auto which was stopped in a carport in Satellite Town piece D.

The kid's condition was not steady henceforth he was moved to a clinic, where he at last kicked the bucket. Sub monitor Aman Ullah said that the bodies had been taken to a doctor's facility for after death. Both had perhaps kicked the bucket of carbon dioxide harming since gas was exuding from their mouths when police discovered them.

It is being guessed that the couple passed on of an obvious suicide. Evidently, both understudies needed to get hitched yet their families did not permit it because of which they chose to take their own lives.

There's a difference between terrorism and struggle for freedom: Nisar

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said amid the SAARC inside clergymen meeting that there existed a distinction amongst terrorism and battling for flexibility.

In a clear reference to the Kashmir abominations being submitted by the Indian powers, Nisar said that subjecting pure youngsters and regular people to torment and strike went under the ambit of terrorism.

He additionally said that six many years of assertions have created nothing of substance. The opportunity has already come and gone that gainful talks and transactions be directed to determine question.

India's Interior Minister Rajnath Singh additionally touched base in Islamabad to go to the SAARC inside pastors meeting. PM Nawaz Sharif had additionally taken an interest in the meeting prior and had encouraged individuals from the SAARC stage to battle the difficulties confronted by the district together.

People know who is involved in the politics of anarchy: PM Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the masses were completely mindful in the matter of who enjoys the governmental issues of rebellion and who works for the advancement of the general population.

Tending to PML-N's parliamentary meeting, the Prime Minister said that they ought to be grateful that God hosted favored his get-together such a great amount in the late races.

"Not just have we won persuading triumphs in Gilgit Baltistan, yet we have likewise secured huge discretionary wins in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, neighborhood bodies decisions and in addition cantonment races," he said.

Nawaz said that when his administration came in force in 2013, it needed to adapt to three noteworthy difficulties which included resuscitating the economy, handling the threat of terrorism and managing the vitality emergency in the nation.

PM Nawaz said that when contrasted with three years prior, Pakistan was improving now because of the enhanced economy of the nation.

"It is extremely satisfaction that I am reporting that we will say goodbye to the IMF program this year," he said.

Nawaz Sharif additionally lashed out at previous president and armed force boss General (r) Musharraf when he said that no electric activities had been set up in the nine years. He demanded that Musharraf and his supporters ought to be conveyed to the parliament and made to account for themselves in the matter of why they didn't attempt even a solitary vitality venture around then?

Nawaz commended the endeavors of Paksitan armed force, police and the country in cutting down terrorism and militancy in the nation. He likewise communicated his satisfaction at the enhanced peace circumstances of Karachi and said that financial specialists were presently returning to the city.

Pakistan dismiss England for 297 on 1st day of 3rd Test

BIRMINGHAM: Sohail Khan denoted his arrival to Test cricket following a five-year nonattendance with a lady five-wicket pull as Pakistan rejected England for 297 on the primary day of the third Test at Edgbaston.

After Sohail started a top-request breakdown, England were obligated to left-handers Gary Ballance (70) and Moeen Ali (63) for taking them to what could yet demonstrate a testing absolute.

Sohail, a 32-year-old right-arm snappy, expelled a quartet of top-request batsman on his approach to figures of five for 96 in 23 overs.

Sohail's arrival was all the more amazing as his past two Tests - against Sri Lanka at Karachi in 2009 and against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 2011 - had yielded a consolidated pull of one for 245.

An anxiety crack of the back after a year ago's World Cup gave a further keep an eye on his advancement.

In any case, Sohail was reviewed set up of Wahab Riaz as Pakistan split up the all cleared out arm pace assault they had conveyed for the initial two Tests of this four-match challenge taking after England's 330-run arrangement leveling win at Old Trafford.

Sohail took the new ball after Pakistan commander Misbah-ul-Haq won the hurl on a melancholy morning, with some dampness in the pitch after overnight rain.

Alex Hales fell for an unconvincing 17 when gotten behind off a decent length Sohail ball.

Joe Root had made a Test-best 254 at Old Trafford in a match where he and century-producer Alastair Cook, the England commander, scored 506 keeps running between them for only twice out.

Misbah had depicted the pair as the "columns" of England's generally delicate top request. Pakistan thumped down the first of those columns when Root, playing one of his most loved back-foot constraining shots, edged Sohail and was held by now and then unsteady slip defender Mohammad Hafeez for only three.

Left-gave opener Cook, carrying on from where he cleared out off in Manchester, made 45 in 52 balls, including eight fours before Rahat Ali had him lbw.

James Vince guided England to 100 for three at lunch. In any case, on 39, a dubious guarded goad outside off stump against Sohail saw Vince, yet to mae a fifty in his eight Test innings, edge low to second slip Younis Khan.

Jonny Bairstow had safeguarded England from numerous a desperate position as of late.

Yet, he made only 12 preceding, attempting to cut a pointedly bobbing Sohail conveyance, he was found behind by contradicting wicket-guardian Sarfraz Ahmed.

Ballance, progressively guaranteed after a temperamental begin, hit 11 fours. However, his 150-ball innings finished when a look off leg-spinner Yasir Shah was well held by Ahmed, who made great ground to hold the intense chance in a case of Pakistan's highly enhanced getting. Ballance's way out finished a 6th wicket stand of 66 with Ali.

Chris Woakes, on his Warwickshire home ground, was then gotten behind for nine off a superb Rahat inswinger.

Mohammad Amir, who had all the earmarks of being nursing a calf issue, then hit twice with the new ball, including expelling Ali when the batsman's free drive saw Ahmed hold his fifth catch of the innings.

Sohail, suitably, finished the day's play when had No 11 James Anderson lbw for five. The paceman kissed the ground in satisfaction before Anderson assessed without much of any result.

First Hajj flight departs from Islamabad to Saudi Arabia

ISLAMABAD: Hajj operation from the government capital began on Thursday morning conveying 328 planning explorers from Islamabad to Saudi Arabia.

The Pakistan International Airline (PIA) flight PK-2503 left at 4.25 am.

The pioneers were seen off by Minister of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf.

The Minister praising the planning explorers and said that every single conceivable course of action have been made to give the most ideal offices to Pakistani travelers.

This year PIA would work flights from ten urban communities of Pakistan including Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Sukkur, Multan and Rahim Yar Khan.