National
April 4, 2021
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has signaled that three weeks complete lock down would be imposed if the citizens continued violating SOPs as the corona cases were swiftly increasing in the state.He warned that if this pandemic was not controlled, the dead bodies would be found on the roads helplessly and nobody will be available to collect and bury the dead bodies, he said this while having surprising visit to Central Press Club and held informal talks to journalists here on Saturday.
He asked the citizens to follow the SOPs strictly before pushing themselves towards the death pool. He said that a grand meeting of Ulema from all school of thoughts would be summoned on Monday for holding in depth consultations with them in view of Friday congregation and holy month of Ramazan in order to control the corona pandemic by following the SOPs.
In this file photo, PDM president Maulana Fazlur Rehman along with PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz talks to the media after a meeting. Tanveer Shahzad / White Star
What do you do when the expected happens unexpectedly? Many in the PML-N are asking each other such a question a day after the PPP disclosed Pakistan’s worst kept secret that it would contest the by-elections and the Senate polls in the coming weeks and months. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari speaking at the conclusion of the party’s central executive committee meeting on Tuesday evening said it as clearly as it could be said: his party would not leave any electoral contest uncontested. Translation: PPP would not be resigning from the assemblies any time soon.
India Failed to Win Hearts, Minds of Kashmiri People: AJK President
Islamabad, December 18, 2020 (PPI-OT): The 53rd death anniversary of prominent Kashmir liberation movement leader Raisul Ahrar Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas was observed in both AJK and occupied Kashmir on Friday with the pledge to frustrate India’s despicable plan to deprive the Kashmiris of their territory and to continue the struggle until every inch of Kashmir is liberated from the illegitimate Indian occupation.
The main function to pay homage to Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas- one of the pioneers of the Kashmir liberation struggle- was held at his mausoleum at Faizabad near Rawalpindi. The ceremony was attended by the AJK President Sardar Masood Khan, Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan, members of the state cabinet, Chief of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, President AJKMC Shafiq Jarral, Chairman AJK Public Accounts Committee Abdur Rashid Turabi, members of the AJK Legislative Assembly,