Waheed Parra Remanded to J&K Police Custody 2 Days After Getting Bail
Jammu and Kashmir Police whisked away the PDP leader just as he had come out of the Jammu district jail on January 9.
Waheed Parra. Photo: Twitter/@parawahid
Rights11/Jan/2021
New Delhi: A Jammu court remanded Waheed Parra to police custody till January 18, two days after he was given bail by an NIA court that noted that there was not even a ‘whisper’ of his involvement in the case for which he was being held according to the NIA’s original charge sheet.
Jammu and Kashmir Police whisked away the People’s Democratic Party youth wing president as he came out of the Jammu district jail right after he was released on Saturday, January 9.
FM Qureshi hosts Afghanistan s Hizb-e-Wahdat-e Islami delegation at MOFA
Pakistan
Tue, Jan 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi discussed the Afghan peace process with a delegation of Afghanistan s Hizb-e-Wahdat-e Islami at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.
Led by Muhammad Karim Khalili, the delegation arrived in Islamabad on Monday for a two-day visit during which it is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser.
During the meet today, Qureshi reiterated Islamabad s stance that there was no military solution to the Afghan conflict, adding only political dialogue could resolve the matter.
The foreign minister stressed that the regional peace was linked to the stability in Afghanistan and expressed satisfaction over the progress in intra-Afghan dialogue, saying it provides a unique opportunity to the Afghan leadership which must be seized for peace in the country.
National
January 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser Monday said the culmination of Afghan peace process would lead to an era of peace and prosperity in Afghanistan and the region.
“Pakistan is steadfast in its support to an inclusive broad-based and political solution to the Afghan conflict,” he said while talking to Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Afghanistan Chairman Muhammad Karim Khalili, who met him here along with a delegation.
Pak-Afghan relations, political situation in the region and issues of mutual interest came under discussion. The visit of Muhammad Karim Khalili is part of Pakistan’s ongoing policy to reach out to the political leadership in Afghanistan to forge common understanding on the Afghan peace process and deepen people-to-people linkages.
Mass detention of Crimean Tatars travelling to political trial in Russia
12.01.2021 Crimean Tatars detained on 11 January From a Crimean Solidarity video
Update Russian officials eventually detained around 120 Crimean Tatars, with all of them prevented from travelling on until the morning of 12 January, thus too late to reach the sentencing of Enver Omerov, his son Riza and Aider Dzhapparov.
Late on Monday evening, at least 17 vehicles and 59 Crimean Tatars were stopped at the entry to the Crimean Bridge as they tried to get to Rostov in Russia for the sentencing on 12 January of three recognized political prisoners. Among those detained were several veterans of the Crimean Tatar national movement, men in their sixties. There were no valid grounds for stopping any of the people, yet the traffic police took driving licences and car documents away, and also photographed passports, an act of overt intimidation. According to one of the activists, Dilyaver Abduramanov, th