Gilgit-Baltistan’s Blasphemy Law Controversy on September 24, 2023Global Responses to Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Regarding the background of the mentioned legislation, an article on the website of the U.S. Congress states that Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which consists of sections of Chapter XV (“Of Offences Relating to Religion”) of its Penal Code, criminalizes insults or derogatory remarks against religion or religious feelings. Pakistan, like […]
Gilgit-Baltistan’s Blasphemy Law Controversy – I on September 21, 2023The Origins of the Latest Dispute On the evening of August 23, 2023, at 5 o’clock, in the Skardu City police station in Pakistan, an FIR (First Information Report) numbered 51457 was filed. The person filing the FIR did not mention their name anywhere in the request but instead mentioned their organizational position as the […]
OPF Housing Society lacks basic facilities on February 22, 2017ISLAMABAD: The housing society of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) is giving the looks of ancient ruins even after a lapse of two decades. The OPF made the housing society for overseas Pakistanis in Zone-V of Islamabad covering thousands of kanals of land, and the foundation had spent billions of rupees taken from potential residents, […]
OPF MD closes door on fake degree holders on February 16, 2017ISLAMABAD: Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) Managing Director (MD) Habibur Rehman Gilani has said noose has been tightened around the fake degree holder and soon their cases will be forwarded to police and FIA. In an exclusive interview with Daily Times, he said, “It is fact that sheer injustices were done with OPF during the previous […]
Presidency becomes no-go area for media on February 15, 2017ISLAMABAD: Security staff at the Presidency did not allow media to cover a function as a list carrying names went ‘missing’. The Presidency had invited the media for the coverage of a ceremony in which prizes were to be distributed among the toppers of FBISE exam. However, security officials prevented the media from entering the […]
Angry Punjab to teach Sharifs a lesson in next polls on February 14, 2017ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has learnt through a recent report compiled by intelligence agencies that his party would lose more than 100 seats in Punjab in the next general elections. Sources told Daily Times that the secret agencies issued an alarming report in which it is revealed that improvement of the systems of policing, […]
Chaudhrys to breathe new life into Mushs party on February 12, 2017ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf has tasked his old confidants, the Chaudhrys of Gujrat, to transform his party into the third biggest political force in Pakistan. The party leaders have initiated meetings with smaller parties to bring them under one flag. In this connection, former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will be meeting important political […]
Chaudhrys to breathe new life into Mushs party on February 12, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf has tasked his old confidants Chaudhrys of Gujrat to transform his party into the third biggest political force. The party leaders have started meetings with small parties to bring them under one flag. In this connection, former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain would meet important political figures of the […]
Fake degree holders in OPF move against management on February 10, 2017 ISLAMABAD: Bogus degree holders in the Overseas Pakistani Foundation (OPF) have united and started a move against the management of the department. The administration of the OPF has also adopted a firm stance against the alliance of the fake degree holder by issuing an order that the pay and allowances would be stopped of […]
Workers agitated as PPP divided into two factions in Islamabad on February 9, 2017ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party is clearly divided into two factions in federal capital Islamabad, where, after announcement of party office bearers for Islamabad, the workers have started protests. The President of PPP Central Punjab Qamar Zaman Kaira and General Secretary Nadim Afzal Chan , who show themselves as the champion of re-organising the party in […]