ISLAMABAD: The PPP has expressed grave concern over the notices issued to women working in different departments to vacate Fatima Jinnah Hostel, and demanded that the notices be immediately.
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has expressed grave concern over the notices issued to women working in different departments to vacate Fatima Jinnah Hostel, and demanded that the notices be immediately.
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April 26, 2021
Islamabad : Dr Kenneth Holland, former President, American University of Afghanistan, has said that US will continue its counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan after troops withdrawal but over the horizon and in this regard may require Pakistan’s help in the form of its bases to fight against ISIS and terrorists in Afghanistan.
Dr Holland was addressing a virtual panel discussion on ‘Biden Administration: options & challenges for Pakistan-US Relations’ organised here by Centre for Strategic Perspectives at the Institute of Strategic Studies in collaboration with Area Study Centre for Africa, North & South America, Quaid-i-Azam University. Admitting that Pakistan had been a critical partner in every way for the US throughout the peace process, Dr Holland said that the importance may reduce once the US troops leave Afghanistan.
150 prominent citizens demand withdrawal of HEC (Amend) Ordinance
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April 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Some 150 prominent academics and civil society leaders have written a strongly-worded open letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan demanding the withdrawal of the HEC Amendment ordinance and restoration of the HEC as an independent national regulatory body.
The government had promulgated the HEC (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 on 25 March 2021, through which the tenure of the chairperson was reduced from 4 to 2 years, the current Chair Dr. Tariq Banuri was removed from his position, and HEC was placed under the Federal Ministry of Education.
The signatories of the letter include senior educationists, vice chancellors, journalists, former ambassadors, generals and other government officials, parliamentarians, and human rights activists. They include such names as LUMS founder Syed Babar Ali, human rights activists Ms Hina Jilani, Harris Khalique and Karamat Ali, Council of Islamic Ideol
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US-Forces commander in Afghanistan General Austin Scott Miller said Sunday the evacuation of some bases has already started in Afghanistan.
“We will turn over the bases primarily to the Ministry of Defense and other Afghan forces,” Miller told reporters in a press conference in Kabul on Sunday, adding that: “The notification day will be the first of May but at the same time as we start taking local actions, we have already begun that”.
The US is expected to hand over three military bases and one airport to the Afghan forces in the next two weeks as part of the US plan for the full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11, sources said last week.