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Imran Khan authorised force against TLP but Pak military opposed
According to sources, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa presented all the pros and cons of using force against TLP workers when the political and military leadership gathered to discuss the issue at the National Security Committee meeting that took place on October 29. People who know the details of this meeting have confirmed to Dawn that the army chief said if the decision-makers were ready to pay the price for using force against the TLP, then the military would do as ordered
Imran faces unrest in Pakistan over record inflation
Before coming to power, Khan had vowed to root out corruption and lift people out of poverty as he promised a new and prosperous Pakistan with the creation of 10 million jobs. Instead, after a visit to Saudi Arabia last month, he announced $3 billion in financial support from Riyadh. In an address to the nation last week, Khan had blamed the opposition for past mistakes and inflation in the international market for the miseries of the people in Pakistan
Imran Khan surrenders to terrorists, again
Such abject surrender to terrorists has rarely happened anywhere else but Pakistan. The so-called peace pacts with militant groups, first with TLP and now with TTP, exposes the grim reality of Pakistan's counter-terrorism policy, a fact which must be noted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) at its next meeting.
Imran Khan calls NSC meet as TLP protests enter 7th day
Protests by the members of the proscribed group entered their seventh day on Thursday with protesters camping out in Kamoke since Wednesday night. Initially, the group staged sit-ins in Multan and Lahore, after which a march towards Islamabad was announced. Security forces had cordoned off major roads to prevent the protesters from reaching Islamabad.
Pak ready to talk, afraid to wound Islamists
Challenged from various quarters, the government's immediate threat comes from the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) that has launched a 'Long March' to lay siege to the national capital. The body of hardline Sunni activists demands that the government fight the perceived 'Islamophobia' in the Western world. More specifically, it wants the French envoy in Islamabad expelled for France's expulsion of Islamists at home and its role in the Charlie Hedbdo cartoons controversy.
Pak inflation breaks 70-yr record during Imran Khan's tenure
According to the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), from October 2018 to October 2021, electricity rates increased by 57 per cent from 4.06 PKR per unit to at least 6.38 PKR per unit, the report said. By the first quarter of October, the price of an 11.67 kg cylinder of LPG had gone up by 51 per cent from 1,536 PKR to 2,322 PKR. Similarly, the price of petrol had gone up by 49 per cent in three years from 93.80 PKR per litre to 138.73 PKR per litre.
Pak govt surrenders to TLP, releases activists
The government also assured the TLP leaders of reviewing the Fourth Schedule list containing their names and working on a plan to release their jailed chief Saad Rizvi, the report quoted Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed as saying while speaking at a news conference on Sunday.
FATF has sufficient proof to blacklist Pakistan at its Paris plenary
The Pakistan government had agreed to formally mention the money laundering documents according to 2019 Pak-IMF deal, which linked IMF tranches directly to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Pakistan was given the three month time in June this year to fulfil the remaining conditions by October. The FATF plenary will be held in Paris from October 19-21.
Pakistanis lash out at Imran Khan for 'petrol bomb'
Pakistanis woke up Saturday morning to find out that the Ministry of Finance had okayed a Rs 10.49 per litre hike in the price of petrol. As expected, many took to social media to show their visceral disdain of the government's action, the report said. #PetrolPrice was trending on Twitter as the netizens vent their anger on social media.
Pakistan is run by Allah and Army, Imran trying to woo Allah against Army
The PTI says that Dogar's comments have created a "wrong perception" politically. But perceptions are being fanned by jubilant PTI's supporters who are claiming that this was the "unprecedented" victory of the civilian government led by Imran Khan over Pakistan's all-powerful military establishment, headed by General Qamar Javed Bajwa. At the same time Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry cautiously played down the issue claiming that "PM Imran Khan will never undermine the respect of the Pakistan Army and the Army Chief".
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