Top Story
January 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and his junior coalition partner, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), are not on the same wavelength on the question of national dialogue.
The PML-F’s narrative regarding ‘Track-II dialogue’ is currently being propounded by its secretary-general Muhammad Ali Durrani. He says he has been tasked by his party boss to undertake the process, a claim that is widely viewed with a grain of salt; party head Pir Pagara himself is yet to publicly own the initiative and hasn’t uttered a word about it so far.
While Durrani is on the move pursuing his ‘assignment’, the prime minister continues to stick to his hard line. Imran Khan and his cabinet members have offered dialogue to the opposition but they have not specified any agenda for future talks and insisted that the talks cannot be about the accountability process and relief to opposition leaders.
Top Story
January 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and his junior coalition partner, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), are not on the same wavelength on the question of national dialogue.
The PML-F’s narrative regarding ‘Track-II dialogue’ is currently being propounded by its secretary-general Muhammad Ali Durrani. He says he has been tasked by his party boss to undertake the process, a claim that is widely viewed with a grain of salt; party head Pir Pagara himself is yet to publicly own the initiative and hasn’t uttered a word about it so far.
While Durrani is on the move pursuing his ‘assignment’, the prime minister continues to stick to his hard line. Imran Khan and his cabinet members have offered dialogue to the opposition but they have not specified any agenda for future talks and insisted that the talks cannot be about the accountability process and relief to opposition leaders. In fact, they have been bringing up the invitation for ta
PTI leader says his party will bag anti-PPP votes in PS-43 constituency
Haleem Adil Shaikh. PHOTO: Haleem Adil Shaikh
HYDERABAD:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf s parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh said on Saturday that his party s candidate would not be contesting against the Jam family but the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the by-election in PS-43 constituency of Sanghar.
Addressing a press conference in Sanghar, he said, The by-polls will reflect the PPP s downfall in Sindh which has already begun. He added that his party would also receive the anti-PPP vote in the constituency.
Sheikh said he believed that during the by-poll, the PPP would be held accountable for utterly neglecting development in the area during the last 13 years of its government.
Karachi
January 2, 2021
In a bid to gather support from its allies to give a tough time to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (PPP) in the upcoming by-polls in Sindh and Senate polls, a delegation of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday met leaders of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA).
The PTI delegation led by Sindh Assembly Opposition Leader Firdous Shamim Naqvi met Pakistan Mulism League-Functional (PML-F) leaders Nand Kumar and Sardar Abdul Rahim. The PML-F is a key party of the Grand Democratic Alliance, a Sindh-based coalition of political parties and individuals.
The PTI and PML-F leaders agreed in the meeting on forming a joint strategy for the upcoming by-polls in three provincial assembly constituencies in Sindh and Senate elections. According to sources privy to the meeting, the PTI sought the support of the GDA in the by-polls in PS-88 (Karachi) and PS-43 (Sanghar), and offered support to the GDA in the by-election in PS-52 (Umerkot). The by-polls in these co
Remembering the ones we lost
List of notable personalities who passed away in 2020
Remembering who passed away in 2020. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
The year 2020 will for times to come be remembered as a year of loss and mourning. As the year draws to a close, we remember some of Pakistan s notable personalities who we lost this year forever.
Their loss - for various reasons - added to the despair of the friends and families they left behind as the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic upended, among several other things, our traditional ways of mourning the demise of a loved one.