ISLAMABAD: Notices were served on the defendants after a petition was filed in the Supreme Court by Deputy Director General Pakistan Sports Board Mansoor Ahmad who has pleaded that he was not.
The writer is Dawn’s resident editor in Islamabad.
THE PTI was clear. That one thing we knew in the absence of all other things. For 22 years, the party struggled to find traction for its clarity. The problem was the platform, not the agenda. The agenda, and its clarity, was the fuel that kept its engine running against all odds, and this clarity is what ultimately found takers in the shape of the middle-class voter.
That was the story till August 2018.
Since then, the famed clarity that once sprinted along the party rhetoric finds itself wading through a thick slush of harsh reality. In the last 32 months, the party has gone from the elation of victory to the wonderment of power to the burden of governance, to the acknowledgement of inexperience to the delusion of misplaced confidence to the realisation of ineptitude to the concern over the limitation of time to the genuine worry about the inability to achieve even a fraction of its promise. The clarity of 22 years is toda
Are parliamentarians orphans?
ISLAMABAD:
PML-N MNA from Sargodha Syed Javed Hasnain shocked the lawmakers in the National Assembly when he called the supreme legislative body of the country – parliament – and the lawmakers of both the houses “orphans” – “
Yateem idara, yateem arakeen” [orphan institution, orphan members] to be precise.
Perhaps, tired of the frequent arrests of the leaders of the opposition – Shehbaz Sharif and Khawaja Asif – detained on alleged corruption and money laundering charges, respectively, the MNA proposed through a constitutional bill that a parliamentary scrutiny committee should first examine if allegations levelled against a lawmaker really constitute an offence or if he/she is about to be politically victimised.
Journalist Daniel Pearl's beheaded body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2002. The murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was overturned last year.
After 18 years of denial, the Pakistani suspect convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a “minor" role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday.