Contributor James Soviero
A former student may have arranged to meet Irish teacher John Dowling outside a Paris university. After meeting up, he allegedly murdered him in cold blood, it emerged on Thursday night.
A Pakistani national and former student of Irish teacher John Dowling stabbed him to death. This took place Wednesday in Paris outside a university. Ali R., 37, told responding police he killed him [in cold blood] because he “insulted the Prophet Muhammad.”
John Dowling
Ali R. was seen talking with lecturer John Dowling, 66, outside Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci where Dowling taught English before he brandished a steak knife and stabbed the lecturer in the throat and chest, the Daily Mail reported.
COVID resurgence: SC bar writes to CJP to ban public gatherings
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the alarming upsurge in cases of the Coronavirus, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed to impose a ban on public gatherings across the Country.
“As your lordship knows that Article 9 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan gives protection to the health and safety of the public at large, therefore, the government has to provide better health facilities to the general public. As we observe that such facilities are not up to the mark even in normal conditions, rendering it nearly impossible to cater to such a deadly pandemic. Hence, it is requested and very humbly submitted, that being the custodian of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and while exercising the powers under article 184(3), suo motu notice may kindly be taken while imposing a ban upon every kind of public gatheri
National
December 25, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The Additional District Judge, Islamabad, Muhammad Ali Warraich, has dismissed the defamation case filed by the ruling PTI on âbehalf of PM Imran Khanâ against PTI Founding Member Akbar S Babar.
The case was filed in July 2019, wherein the PTI had alleged defamation and seeking recovery of Rs5 bn from Akbar S Babar on account of damages for criticising the PTI policies on the social media.
The dismissal order was issued on December 16, 2020. Advocate Badar Iqbal Chaudhry argued on behalf of Babar while Hassan Rasheed Qamar represented the PTI.
In all, the PTI has filed three defamation cases against Babar since the filing of the Foreign Funding Case in November 2014. One was withdrawn and two have been dismissed by the relevant courts.
Pakistan marks birthday of great leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah 25 December 2020 10:40 Share in:
ISLAMABAD. KAZINFORM - On December 25, Pakistan marks the birthday of the great leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who is revered in the country as the founding father of national statehood. In his article correspondent of «Kazinform» International News Agency Arsen Uteshev will give us an insight into the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a politician, the first governor-general of Pakistan, and one of the initiators and most active participants in the division of the British Raj.
The future politician was born in 1876 in Karachi, where Muhammad s parents moved a year before his birth. In those years, due to the opening of the Suez Canal, the city experienced an economic boom.
British MPs, diplomats express solidarity with Bangabandhu’s secular, progressive values
Bangladesh’s socioeconomic progress lauded
British lawmakers and diplomats stationed in London have paid their profound homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and expressed solidarity with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s commitment to upholding Bangabandhu’s secular, progressive and pluralistic values in sustaining Bangladesh’s growth and prosperity.
They also paid deep homage to the martyrs, biranganas and the valiant freedom fighters of 1971 War of Liberation.
Apart from eminent British parliamentarians, senior UK foreign office officials, Ambassadors and recipients of Friends of Liberation War Honour were present at the programme hosted by British High Commission in London recently marking the glorious Victory Day.