
PLA and Pak Army brothers in arms: COAS says
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Executive Board meeting to approve the release of the tranche for Pakistan is expected to take place before August 20, Daily Dawn reported.
The board's approval is a prerequisite for the release of the seventh and eighth tranches of a $6 billion loan programme for Pakistan — that the country had signed with the IMF in 2019. The disbursement of the latest tranches, which amount to $1.7 billion have been pending since earlier this year after the lender objected to Pakistan's economic policies.
LAHORE/SUKKUR: India has released 2,00,000 cusecs of flood water in Ravi, which will reach Pakistan on Monday, as the Flood Forecasting Division (FFC) has apprehended extreme high flood in the river, ARY News reported.
Pakistan’s Indus Water Commissioner has contacted with his Indian counterpart and sought detail of the water released in Ravi in a letter. “How much water will reach in Pakistan in the water flow released in Ravi river,” Pakistan’s water commissioner asked.
According to sources, no response yet received of Pakistan’s letter from India.
we can only if we have dams and canals to divert the water.Aditya_V wrote:It's a shame we can divert this water to Rajasthan
Bajwa would have done that in the form of buying shares/securities of a pizza/burger/falafel chain, hence the visit to the US to sign the transfer of ownership papersVips wrote:Will Bajwa claim the $50 Million award in addition to the credit for the release of 1.2 Billion in aid?
Why are all the p*kis in the photo looking at the cake? Each of the pak*s wondering if he can get a bigger piece than others
Let me take that knife from you! Chinese made weapons are not reliable in your hands...
National Sport: Bacchabaazi or RakitmardRsatchi wrote:^^At this rate we may have to rewrite national icons of AlBakistan:
National Bird: Predator Drone
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National Arts Theatre: Hira Mandi
Rest the Maulanars can advice
Just under 1,000 feet to the southeast of the house sits the United Kingdom's embassy in Kabul.
In 2003, the Afghan Defense Ministry abandoned it and the government divided it into more than 50 plots, giving them to powerful people including government ministers and other high-ranking officials, plus warlords and drug lords. Their houses soon gained the nickname "poppy palaces."
Note that Badmash was disqualified for life due to lying because it rendered him non-sadiq and non-ameen. Will Dimran also get disqualified?Commission finds PTI received funding from prohibited sources
Party got funds from 34 foreign nationals and 351 foreign-based companies
PTI took ownership of eight accounts, kept 13 hidden and failed to mention three
Notice issued to PTI to explain why funds shouldn't be confiscated
Form-1 submitted by Imran Khan found to be “grossly inaccurate"
Look at colour of the burkaAnujan wrote:Zawahiri Shaheed's house is wearing a shuttlecock burkha now
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/middleea ... index.html
Contrary to the government’s claims that poliovirus was restricted to southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts, environmental samples from seven cities have returned positive, indicating the presence of the virus in major urban centres.
The virus was also reported in sewage samples collected from Islamabad and Lahore after a gap of 16 months. Both cities were declared polio-free in March 2021.
An official of the National Institute of Health (NIH), on condition of anonymity, said samples from Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Bannu, Nowshera and Swat were found positive.
As the city struggles with rain and crumbling infrastructure, frequent power outages and loadshedding — at times for 12-16 hours a day — are making life impossible for Karachiites.
Following the announcement by the KE about a technical fault in one of the generating units of its Bin Qasim plant, citizens across the city, who continue to face loadshedding, believe that the fault will exacerbate the situation.
The KE on Tuesday said that the first unit of its Bin Qasim Power Station-3 (BQPS-III) was currently offline following a fault identified during a test being conducted as part of the plant’s commissioning, with an estimated restoration time of eight to 10 weeks.
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Paying consumers in very high loss (VHL) areas continue to suffer the most compared to those with low loss (LL) feeders, which are mostly exempted from loadshedding.
Speaking to Dawn, Ahmed Chandio, a resident of Ramazan Gabol Goth near Safoora Chowrangi, said that paying consumers in his area were being penalised. “We have no power for 10 hours every day, sometimes more.”
In a tweet, Salman Mohsin from Saudabad said that his area had been facing announced loadshedding for 10 hours daily. According to a screenshot of the schedule, the first spell of loadshedding in his area begins at 8:05 am to 11:05 am; then 1:35 pm to 4:35 pm; 7:05 pm to 9:05 pm, and 11:35 pm to 1:05 am.
In a new twist to Ayman al-Zawahiri's killing, Germany-based Afghan analyst Fahim Sadat told Republic TV that Pakistan may have leaked the Al Qaeda chief's location to the US. According to him, the Pakistani security establishment might have helped the US in lieu of the approval of the IMF deal. Coupled with political instability, Pakistan is facing a huge economic crisis with the currency in a free fall, depletion of foreign exchange reserves and inflation. The house in which Zawahiri was staying reportedly belonged to a top aide of Sirajuddin Haqqani who is believed to have close ties with Rawalpindi.
Analyst Fahim Sadat remarked, "I think this shouldn't be strange but will put serious doubts on the Taliban's claim that they are trying to cut their ties with terrorist groups and Afghanistan soil will not be used against any other country by any other groups. This is going to have a long-term impact on the claim of the Taliban. There was already a gap and mistrust between the Taliban and the international community and this will further strengthen that. What is strange is that the Taliban first denied this attack which means with coordination or no coordination, the Americans with over- the-horizon operations are active in Afghanistan."
"If this incident has not happened in coordination with the Taliban, I can also not reject the assumption that looking at the economic hardship of Pakistan, the Pakistani military establishment may have coordinated the whereabouts of Zawahiri with the Americans in return for America's help on IMF and other economic hardships that they are facing. This is already complicated. This will hugely damage the Taliban's claim for legitimacy and recognition by the international community," he added.
Can't wait for US army chief to call deputy secretary at GHQ regarding release of funds.Dollar free fall continues, trades at Rs223 in interbank
As per details, the Muslim man got into a heated argument with Masih after he refused to pay the latter Rs 40 for fixing his bicycle. The Muslim man asked Masih to consider a discount for him, as he was a devotee of Prophet Muhammad.
Masih allegedly refused to offer any discount and stated that he was a Christian and believed that Jesus Christ was the last Prophet.
The guy believes from his heart that Pakis only have perception problem. And if civilian traitors are straightened out these problems will cease to exist. Hope he becomes top Jernail one day.g.sarkar wrote:https://www.dawn.com/news/1703202/forme ... -xii-corps
Former DG ISPR Asif Ghafoor appointed Commander XII Corps
Naveed Siddiqui, August 4, 2022
Lieutenant General Asif Ghafoor has been appointed as the Commander XII Corps (Quetta), replacing Lt Gen Sarfraz Ali, who was martyred in a helicopter crash, the military's media affairs wing said.
Lt Gen Ghafoor has previously served as the ISPR head.
They also truly believe that:Bart S wrote:Not just this guy, pretty much all of Pakistani 'hubbulwatani' elites believe that.
Alhamdulillah, astagfirallah, ameen.CalvinH wrote:
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The guy believes from his heart that Pakis only have perception problem. And if civilian traitors are straightened out these problems will cease to exist. Hope he becomes top Jernail one day.
Ten members of crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Games contingent in Birmingham have disappeared in a suspected attempt to remain in Britain, a top sports official from the island nation told AFP on Sunday.
The nine athletes and a manager vanished after completing their events, the official said, requesting anonymity.
True. Though establishment cannot financially sponsor Imran for the scale that is needed to run elections and dharna's he did, what establishment did was to bring moneybags like Jahangir Tarin to him and assured these moneybags that Imran is dim he is just the front face and establishment will make sure that other things falls in place. Without establishments support no one would have joined Dimran. 18 Initial years of his political career are a proof of this.Bart S wrote:Dimran had a lot of sponsors starting from Hamid Gul and even Musharraf. This guy was simply one of the several moneybags who funded him. The biggest sponsor of course, without which he would never had come to power, was the 'establishment'.
Praveen Swami, Shekhar Gupta, The Print and their likes only provide partial facts to suit whatever their agenda of the day is.
ISLAMABAD: Backchannel contacts between Pakistan and India have met a dead end as both sides have struggled to agree on the moves that may pave the way for slow but gradual improvement in the relationship.
“Talks have been going on but have reached a point where things aren’t moving anywhere,” a source familiar with the development said.
There has been a desire from both the sides to break the impasse but the issue is how to move forward from this point onwards, the source explained.
What has slowed down the process was the political uncertainty in Pakistan. There was a glimmer of hope for a possible thaw in the relationship following the change of government in Pakistan in April. What spurred the optimism was that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was one of the first leaders to congratulate Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The sources said backchannel contacts that began during the PTI government’s tenure picked up pace in April after the change of government. But despite “intense” backchannel diplomacy, the two sides were not willing to concede an inch on their respective issues.
Pakistan is keen that India must take steps with regards to Kashmir before any process of normalisation of ties begins. New Delhi, however, is more interested in Islamabad first exploring the option of resuming bilateral trade. {Hain, this doesn't make sense. Wasn't it TSP who were crying about trade not resuming due to hindootva agenda of Mudi?}
But India instead of offering any concessions on Kashmir hardened its stance. Some of the developments including efforts to hold G-20 summit-related events in Srinagar did not go down well with Pakistan.
The friction in the relationship prevented Pakistani and Indian foreign ministers from interacting with each other at the recent meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tashkent.
India, the sources said, is inclined to the re-engagement but reluctant to offer something that would help Pakistan resume the dialogue.
“Our policy is clear. We want to engage with everyone, including India,” a senior government member said, while requesting anonymity. The government functionary, however, was skeptical if the hardline Modi government could show any flexibility on the Kashmir issue.
The sources said that Western powers, including the United States and the UK, were also pushing for defusing tensions and opening some formal channels of communications between the two South Asian neighbours.
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s missions in Europe have stepped up their campaign on Kashmir, including an informal outreach to Swedish politicians to intercede with Turkey on Sweden’s NATO membership bid in return for raking up the Kashmir issue.
As part of the campaign this year, the Pakistani side made an informal outreach to Swedish politicians about taking up their country’s bid to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with Turkey in exchange for support for efforts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, three people familiar with the matter said.
Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February but faced opposition from Turkey, a member of the military alliance, over claims that the Scandinavian countries support “terrorist” Kurdish groups. Turkey dropped its objections after the two countries said they will address pending deportation or extradition requests for terror suspects.
Four soldiers were martyred in a suicide blast at a military convoy in the Mir Ali area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Tuesday.
The martyred soldiers have been identified as 22-year-old Lance Naik Shahzaib, a resident of Mansehra, 26-year-old Lance Naik Sajjad, hailing from Ghizer, 25-year-old sepoy Umair, a resident of Kohat and 30-year-old sepoy Khurram, a resident of Narowal.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), intelligence agencies have commenced investigations to find out details about the suicide bomber who carried out the attack and his handlers and facilitators.
Senior Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Omar Khalid Khorasani and two others members of the banned outfit were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan on Monday, according to Taliban spokesman Muhamamad Khorasani.
Omar's real name was Abdul Wali Mohmand and he previously headed the TTP in the Mohmand Agency bordering Afghanistan.
In a statement today, TTP officials said that the car carrying Omar came under attack in the eastern Paktika province near the Barmal district on Sunday evening.
They urged the Taliban government in Afghanistan to investigate the incident and unearth “spies” who could be responsible for the death of senior TTP leaders.
Apart from Omar, the two other men killed in the attack have been identified as Mufti Hassan and Hafiz Dawlat Khan. They were among several TTP leaders who had joined the outlawed Daesh in 2014.
It is pertinent to mention here that Omar was a member of the TTP team involved in negotiations with Pakistani officials, Pashtoon jirgas and recently with religious scholars over the past few weeks.
Omar and a majority of the TTP members from Mohmand agency had parted ways with the TTP and formed a splinter faction Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat Ahrar (TTP-JA) in 2014.
The then TTP chief Maulvi Fazalullah had sacked him after he had announced the formation of his own group Jamaat ul Ahrar, which comprised of almost all the Taliban leaders from the Mohmad Agency. Omar had accused the TTP leadership of deviating from the outfit's ideology.
kuchh dur chalte hi..US President Joe Biden has said that he is “angered and saddened” by the “horrific” killings of four Muslim men in the New Mexico city of Albuquerque, adding that “these hateful attacks have no place in America”.
Police in the US state of New Mexico announced on Wednesday that the “primary suspect” in the recent killings of four Muslim men in the city of Albuquerque had been arrested. Police identified the suspect as 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, who is also a Muslim.
The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday condemned the Indian government’s “mischievous move” of observing “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” on August 14 — Pakistan’s day of independence.
According to The Hindu, the decision to observe August 14 as a remembrance day was taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remember the “struggles and sacrifices of our people”.
This year, the newspaper said, the event will be commemorated with silent marches centered on 75 refugee colonies and exhibitions will also be set up at more than 5,000 locations, including universities and colleges.