Pakistan military personnel punished over escape of Taliban figure - spokesman Reuters 24/02/2021 By Charlotte Greenfield
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A number of Pakistani military personnel have been penalised for negligence over the escape of a high-profile former Pakistani Taliban figure from custody, an armed services spokesman said on Wednesday.
Liaqat Ali, the former public face of the militant Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and better known by his pseudonym Ehsanullah Ehsan, escaped last year three years after he handed himself in to the military. All those responsible for it were tried and penalised, Major General Babar Iftikhar, spokesman for Pakistan s Armed Forces, told reporters in the city of Rawalpindi where the army is headquartered.
A number of Pakistani military personnel have been penalised for negligence over the escape of a high-profile former Pakistani Taliban figure from custody, an armed services spokesman said on Wednesday.
Sameera Fazili with Joe Biden, the new US President
The crisis-ridden White House will have two Kashmir women when Joe Biden will take over, next week. After Kashmir born Ayesha Shah, now it is Sameera Fazili who will be Joe Biden’s Deputy Director of National Economic Council. Ms Fazili, a mother of three, will be focusing on manufacturing, innovation and domestic competition. She goes to the White House from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she was Director of engagement for the community and economic development. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, she had served as a senior policy adviser at the White House’s National Economic Council where she covered retirement, consumer finance, and community and economic development. Before joining the government, Fazili was a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development clinic, where she helped start a CDFI bank and a local anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to internation
Workers rally against proposed privatisation
Lahore January 15, 2021
LAHORE:Thousands of electricity workers observed “Protest Day” all over the country on Thursday under the aegis of All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union CBA against the proposed privatisation of national electricity distribution and thermal power houses.
Thousands of workers held a protest rally outside Punjab Assembly Hall, here, carrying national flags and banners in support of their demands. General Secretary of the union Khurshid Ahmed, Haji Younas, Osama Tariq, Liaqat Ali and others spoke on the occasion.
General Secretary of the union Khurshid Ahmed said that electricity was being run in the public sector while the private sector was being governed for profit. That is the reason Quaid-e-Azam had declared that those industries providing basic need to the nation would be run under public sector like electricity. He dem