GDA lawmaker calls out ‘errant cops’ in Sindh Assembly
Says police facilitating abductors in ransom collection; house passes law increasing sentence in narcotics cases
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
The role of errant police personnel in facilitating kidnaping for ransom incidents dominated the proceedings in the Sindh Assembly on Friday after an opposition lawmaker drew the house’s attention towards it.
MPA Nand Kumar Goklani of the Grand Democratic Alliance, moving a call attention notice on the law and order situation, said that around 159 people were kidnapped during 2020 and most of them were released after ransom was paid. “Instead of taking action against the kidnappers, they [the police] played the role of facilitators and paid the ransom to dacoits,” he said, citing eye witness accounts by victims’ families. “Where is the writ of law that you always claim,” he asked of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government, adding that most of th
Concern expressed over detainees’ plight in jails
Srinagar, January 09, 2021 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders and organizations have expressed concern over the plight of Kashmiris, detained under black laws, especially of those languishing in different jails of India including Delhi’s Tihar jail.
Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir and APHC leader Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori and Abdul Samad Inqilabi in their statements in Srinagar said that India in line with its malicious plan has put the lives of the Kashmiri prisoners at risk particularly in the present environment of Covid-19 pandemic in Indian jails.
The statements said that several Hurriyat leaders and activists suffering from multiple physical ailments are being victimized by denying proper food and medication. The Hurriyat leaders and organizations demanded immediate release of the detainees including Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mohammad Yaseen Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Dr Mohamm
Why India Chose Silence on Accepting Afghan Envoys? December 22,2020
KABUL - Afghanistan has no envoy in India since two and a half years as New Delhi has chosen silence to approve or reject the credentials of an Afghan envoy introduced to the country 16 months ago. Turkey, Tajikistan, Holland and Kuwait are other countries who in recent years have been silent over approval of credentials from Afghan envoys. Some experts say intelligence concerns and disregard for diplomatic and international norms as well as internal political differences in Afghanistan are to blame for disapproval of Afghan envoys to foreign countries. Shaida Mohammad Abdali was the last ambassador to India where he served for six years before resigning in September 2018.
Every House Hit by Bullets : Budgam Villagers Protest Against Air Force s Firing Drills
The recent injury to a woman who was busy with household chores has brought a longstanding problem to the fore, say Wolina residents.
One of the houses of the Budgam village affected by Air Force firing, with a bullet hole in the window circled. Photo: By arrangement
Rights19/Dec/2020
Budgam: On December 11 at 11 am, 65-year-old Fatima Begum was washing vegetables inside her house in central Kashmirâs Budgam district when a bullet hit her right leg. It had pierced the roof of her house and had allegedly been fired by Air Force personnel during their routine firing drills.
Ex MP, Minister, legislators, BJP rebels in fray in Phase-VII Prohibitory orders imposed in Poonch
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 15: Former Member Parliament (MP), Cabinet Minister, legislators and BJP rebels are among 150 candidates who will try their luck in penultimate seventh phase of polling for 18 seats across 10 districts in the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu region tomorrow.
Thirty Sarpanchs and 416 Panchs have been elected unopposed in the Panchayat by-elections in tomorrow’s seventh phase.
Suchetgarh and RS Pura Territorial Constituencies in Jammu district will witness high voltage contests tomorrow with many bigwigs in fray on both the seats.
Sham Choudhary, former Cabinet Minister from BJP, Tarlok Singh Bajwa, ex Rajya Sabha member of Congress, Taranjit Singh Tony, who is contesting as an Independent after having quit National Conference and Naresh Kumar Bittu (National Conference) are in the race for Suchetgarh Territorial seat going