JUI-F march got Sharif released from prison: former party leader
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Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, one of the four JUI-F leaders who were expelled from the party in December 2020, has said that ex-premier Nawaz Sharif was released from the prison because of the 2019 Azadi March.
âHad we not done Azadi March, Nawaz Sharif would still be languishing in jail,â the former JUI-F leader told reporters in Quetta Monday.
Maulana Fazlur Rehmanâs JUI-F had staged a sit-in in October 2019 against Prime Minister Imran Khanâs government. The sit-in could not, however, achieve its goals and PM Khan is still the countryâs prime minister.
Pakistani General as Riyadh envoy brings Middle East policy under army. Eyes on Israel
Notwithstanding Pakistan’s strategic ties with Beijing, it does not want to be entirely in China’s camp.
Ayesha Siddiqa 25 January, 2021 10:01 am IST Text Size:
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It was in August 2018 that Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, banged his fist on the table to announce that, henceforth, the country’s foreign policy will be made at the Foreign Office. He intended to post career diplomats in foreign missions not just as an expression of control but also to encourage them. In early 2018, even the Inter-Services Intelligence, or the ISI, had discovered through a study of the Foreign Office that diplomats were demotivated because of political appointments in the department, especially at higher ranks. However, within two years, the foreign minister had to reverse his policy experiment there are now quite a few retired milit
QUETTA: Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that despite difficulties the struggle to remove the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government will continue.Talking to media.
QUETTA: Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that despite difficulties the struggle to remove the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government will continue.Talking to media.
Pakistan s Islamic Clerics Debate Normalization Of Relations With Israel
January 13, 2021 | By Tufail Ahmad
Pakistan is once again engaged in an intellectual debate about its religious identity. The issue is whether to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, which, seen as the Jewish state, Pakistanis deem ideologically incompatible with the Islamic State of Pakistan. Pakistanis view their country as the
Medina-e-Saani,
the second Medina, after the holy city of Medina, which was the first Islamic state established by Prophet Muhammad after he proclaimed Islam.
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Although this debate has been a recurring theme in Pakistan s intellectual life, it re-emerged recently after several Islamic countries – the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco – decided to normalize relations with Israel. In December 2020, Pakistan s top-ranking Islamic scholar, Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, reignited this debate by publicly advocating normalization with Israel.