National
January 29, 2021
KARACHI/ LAHORE: Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has claimed that Pakistan survived the global economic meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic much better than the rest of the world.
He said the global economy suffered 8-fold more damages than that of Pakistan. Shaikh said Pakistan’s GDP growth rate was negative 0.5percent when we were emerging from the first wave of the pandemic, compared to the global growth rate of negative four percent. The world recognises that Pakistan’s economy absorbed the global shocks and performed better, the finance minister claimed. Economies of several countries continue to remain in the woods, he said.
JI MP Hafiz Salman Butt dies
National
January 29, 2021
LAHORE: Veteran leader of Jamaat Islami, parliamentarian, labour leader and students leader, Hafiz Salman Butt, died here Thursday night due to kidney failure. He was 65 and survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters besides grandchildren.
Hafiz Salman Butt elected to national and Punjab assemblies three times since 1985. He obtained BSc degree from the Punjab University in 1982 and took active part in students politics as a leader of Islami Jamiat Talaba and was elected as vice president of the Punjab University Students Union.
He was an engineer and a businessman by profession, elected to the National Assembly in 1985, 1990 and 2002 elections. He has also led Pakistan Railways Employees Union and remained its president for several terms to espouse the cause of labour welfare, and also remained the vice president of the National Labour Federation. He was also an active sportsman in football, hockey and swimming, wa
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has handed down more than 15 years jail term each to two close aides of Mumbai terror attack mastermind and banned Jamat-ud Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, including the outfit s media face Yahya Mujahid, in a terror financing case. The anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Tuesday also sentenced Saeed s brother-in-law Abdul Rehman Makki to six-month in jail. Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta awarded 15-and-half-year imprisonment each to Yahya Mujahid and Zafar Iqbal, and six-month term to Prof Abdul Rehman Makki in a case registered by the Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab Police, a court official told PTI on Wednesday.
Ag OnlineLAHORE: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl expelled on Friday a senior party leader, Maulana Sherani, and three other members for “violating” party discipline, Geo News reported.The.
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December 25, 2020
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) Thursday convicted the chief of a banned organisation, Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, and five other group leaders in another case of terror financing and terrorism.
The court of Aijaz Ahmad Butter awarded Hafiz Saeed, Hafiz Abul Islam Bin Muhammad, Professor Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Ashraf, Yahya Mujahid 15 years jail term, along with Rs20,000 fine, each.
Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki was awarded six months imprisonment.
The court convicted the JuD leaders in a case [FIR No 32/19], registered by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD). The convicts were booked under sections 11-F(2), 11-N, 11-I, 11-J and others of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The sections relate to being a member of a banned outfit and supporting and arranging meetings of a proscribed organisation, illegal fundraising and buying properties with the raised funds.