In this file photo, KP government spokesman Kamran Bangash (right) and provincial minister Taimur Jhagra address the media. DawnNewsTV/File
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday announced that it would investigate a recently-surfaced video showing members of the provincial assembly with mounds of cash received as purported bribe for changing loyalties in the 2018 Senate elections.
“We will get to the bottom of the [horse-trading] matter and will set up an inquiry commission for it in the due course of time,” spokesman for the government Kamran Khan Bangash told
Dawn.
He said the government would constitute an independent inquiry commission instead of a judicial commission.
Speaker Asad Qaiser distances himself from horse-trading video scandal
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Speaker Asad Qaiser says video has been shot at the Speaker House in Peshawar.
Former PTI MPA Mayar had confessed to taking bribe, said video had been shot at the National Assembly Speaker s House.
Such statements are an attempt to divert attention from the actual issue, says Qaiser.
Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser on Wednesday distanced himself from the horse-trading video that allegedly shows PTI MPAs receiving money to vote against their party in the Senate elections 2018.
Qaiser took to Twitter to say that the video had not been shot at his official residence, rather the place that can be seen in it is from the Speaker House in Peshawar.
Defence minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday said the federal government had neither contacted the Pakistan Democratic Movement nor intended to reach out to the opposition’s alliance for dialogue. DawnNewsTV
PESHAWAR: Defence minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday said the federal government had neither contacted the Pakistan Democratic Movement nor intended to reach out to the opposition’s alliance for dialogue to defuse political tensions in the country.
Talking to reporters during his visit to the TransPeshawar headquarters, Mr Khattak said the government wouldn’t back off from its commitment to accountability.
Accompanied by Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser and state minister for parliamentary affairs Ali Mohammad Khan, the minister said the ruling party had enough numbers to win majority in Senate elections.
16 Dec 2020 Human rights activists hold placards to mark the anniversary of an attack on the Army Public School Peshawar in Lahore on Wednesday. AFP
Gulf Today Report
Today (Dec.16, 2020) marks six years since the brutal attack at the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar took place, and the country continues to remember and mourn the loss of over 140 innocent lives.
As the country marked the sixth anniversary of the APS Peshawar carnage on Wednesday, politicians and Pakistani showbiz stars paid homage to the families that suffered in the heinous 2014 attack in which 131 school children and 10 others lost their lives.
The attack had shocked the entire nation as terrorists stormed inside the school and fired at children who were attending classes at the time.
In this file photo, a student points out the picture of his friend, who was killed in the militant attack, outside the Army Public School, Peshawar in 2014. INP
As the country marked the sixth anniversary of the Peshawar Army Public School (APS) carnage on Wednesday, politicians – both from government and opposition – paid homage to the families that suffered in the heinous 2016 attack in which 131 school children and 10 others lost their lives.
The attack had shocked the entire nation as terrorists stormed inside the school and fired at children who were attending classes at the time.
Recalling the incident, President Dr Arif Alvi said it had brought the nation to tears. These flowers laid their lives & brought focus of the nation to suppress terrorism with all its might. I thank them, he said.