Category: Pakistan

 

HYDERABAD: The first day of the month July carries great significance in the history of Pakistan due to implementation of important state decisions. Chronologically on this very day the founding father Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah inaugurated the first bank named as the State Bank of Pakistan in 1948.The metropolitan capital Islamabad was given district status in 1960 while Karachi was included in Sindh province. On this day in 1970 Baluchistan was given provincial status after removal of the one unit scheme and Karachi was merged into west Pakistan in 1961. The government also started issuing the National Identity Card (NIC) numbers to its citizens and started to establish government databases in the computers and replaced the paper based Personal Identity System.

 

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi says India has always been playing a spoiler s role in Afghanistan as it wants to create misunderstanding about Pakistan in that country. Speaking in a private TV channel programme he said peace and stability in Afghanistan is vital for regional stability and Pakistan would especially immensely benefit from it. The President expressed hope that all Afghan parties would peacefully resolve their issues with consensus and through peaceful means. Expressing his dismay over the recent allegations levelled by certain Afghan leaders against Pakistan he said Islamabad has already reiterated its clear position over Afghan peace and reconciliation process.Dr Arif Alvi said Pakistan has hosted about 3.5 million Afghan refugees on its soil.

Constitution of Pakistan available in Braille now Asad Islamabad June 30 (Online) Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has announced that the constitution of Pakistan has been made available in Braille. He made this revelation as the National Assembly resumed its session at the parliament house in Islamabad on Wednesday.He said this is a historic occasion that the country s constitution has been made accessible to the blind people.

 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday invited the opposition parties to sit with the government for improving and reforming the electoral process for the sake of future of democracy in Pakistan. “Since the elections in country have been controversial after 1970, we are striving to improve the election process. We have proposed election reforms and I will request the opposition to sit with the government, as it pertains to the future of democracy in Pakistan,” he said while speaking on the floor of National Assembly. Imran Khan also referred to his 21 years of cricketing experience and said the controversies of defeat and victory in the international cricket only ended after the introduction of neutral empires and the support of modern technology. The Prime Minister also mentioned the campaign of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) after the 2013 general elections, when his party wanted the audit of only four constituencies, but the then government did not accept the demand and later the matter was decided by the court. He said that the introduction of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in elections besides ensuring transparency will also expedite the process of announcement of election results. The Prime Minister further said that the government was also ready to listen to the opposition parties if they had any better proposal for election reforms. Imran Khan in his wide-ranging address spoke on various issues of national importance including his government’s vision of a welfare state, budget, economic policy, foreign policy challenges as well as the situation in Afghanistan.

 

Two Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred in an exchange of fire with terrorists across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on Wednesday, the military’s media affairs wing said in a statement.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (​ISPR), terrorists inside Afghanistan opened fire on a military checkpost in the Dwatoi area of North Waziristan. Pakistan Army troops responded in a “befitting manner”, it said.

During the exchange of fire, two soldiers identified as 35-year-old Lance Naik Pervaiz and 43-year-old Havaldar Saleem were martyred, the ISPR statement said.

The ISPR said it strongly condemned the “continuous use of Afghan soil for terrorist activities against Pakistan”, adding that Pakistan has “consistently been asking Afghanistan to ensure effective border control on their side”.

Such attacks have become more frequent recently. In May, at least five soldiers were martyred and seven others injured in multiple incidents of cross-border fire from Afghanistan.

Last month, Pakistan Army’s top brass had taken serious notice of the cross-border firing incidents emanating from Afghanistan and regrouping of terrorist leadership and outfits across the border, and expressed the hope that Afghanistan’s soil “will not be used against Pakistan”.

“In light of emerging regional security situation, Pakistan has taken effective border management measures and the same is expected from Afghanistan to deny any space to spoilers of peace,” the commanders stressed during the 241st Corps Commanders Conference.