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  • Pak Police varieties particular unit for minority locations of worship after church assault

    Amid rising assaults on non secular minorities in Pakistan, the Islamabad Police on Thursday constituted a 70-member particular unit for the “protection of minority places of worship and communities” within the nationwide capital.

    “Seventy jawans (policemen) have been posted in the ‘Minority Protection Unit’,” the Islamabad Police stated in a submit on X, previously generally known as Twitter.

    It stated all district cops shall be accountable for the safety of minority locations of worship and communities of their areas.

    The unit, established as per the suggestions of the National Minorities Commission, will carry out its duties underneath the supervision of SSP operations.

    “Liaison with minority committees shall be strengthened at every divisional stage,” the police added.

    It additional acknowledged that the unit policemen have additionally been chosen from the current recruitment for the Minority Protection Unit.

    The transfer comes a day after an enraged mob ransacked and torched 21 church buildings and a number of other homes of Christians over blasphemy allegations in Jaranwala city of Faisalabad district, 130 km from Punjab’s provincial capital Lahore.

    A Christian cemetery and the workplace of the native assistant commissioner had been additionally vandalised.

    Police within the Jaranwala space on Thursday took a ‘curfew-like’ measure to revive peace and arrested over 100 suspects together with activists of radical Islamists Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) for his or her alleged involvement in violence a day earlier.

    More than 3,000 policemen and two firms of Pakistan Rangers have been deployed in Jaranwala following Wednesday’s riots.

    The authorities has imposed part 144 prohibiting the gathering of 4 or extra folks in Jaranwala. Besides, all instructional establishments, enterprise centres and markets remained closed in Jaranwala on Thursday.

    Meanwhile, the Punjab authorities has issued instructions to type a high-level inquiry committee to research the incident, according to orders issued by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar.

    The incident sparked nationwide outrage from all political events, civil society and the media.

    Minorities together with Christians and Hindus in Pakistan have often been subjected to blasphemy allegations and a few had been tried and even sentenced underneath the powerful blasphemy.

    According to a report by the Centre for Peace and Justice Pakistan in June final yr, based mostly on information collected from the National Database and Registration Authority, Pakistan is house to 22,10,566 folks from the minority Hindu neighborhood adopted by Christians 18,73,348.

    Published On:

    Aug 17, 2023

  • Case registered in opposition to Imran Khan and his activists for obstructing Islamabad Police

    Islamabad Police on Monday registered a case in opposition to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan and 150 of his occasion staff for obstructing regulation enforcement company officers from implementing a court docket order in opposition to the ousted prime minister within the Toshakhana case a day earlier.

    Islamabad ,UPDATED: Mar 6, 2023 23:28 IST

    A Pakistani court docket not too long ago issued a non-bailable arrest warrant in opposition to former prime minister Imran Khan within the Toshakhana case. (File picture)

    By Press Trust of India: Islamabad Police on Monday registered a case in opposition to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan and 150 of his occasion staff for obstructing regulation enforcement company officers from implementing a court docket order in opposition to the ousted prime minister within the Toshakhana case a day earlier.

    A workforce of Islamabad police on Sunday reached the Lahore residence of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to arrest him within the Toshakhana case however returned after assurance from his authorized workforce that he would seem earlier than the court docket on March 7.

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    The police confronted stiff resistance from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activists outdoors Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore.

    Khan, 70, has been within the crosshairs for getting items, together with an costly Graff wristwatch he had obtained because the premier at a reduced value from the state depository known as Toshakhana, and promoting them for revenue.

    The case in opposition to Khan’s chief of employees Senator Shibli Faraz and 150 of his occasion staff, was registered on Monday on the Race Course police station on the criticism of Station House Officer (SHO) Nadeem Tahir, in line with The Express Tribune newspaper.

    An Islamabad-based district court docket on Monday refused to withdraw a non-bailable arrest warrant it issued final week in opposition to Khan for his failure to seem within the Toshakhana case.

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    The PTI chief had filed an utility within the Islamabad district and classes court docket in opposition to the warrants issued on February 28 after Khan skipped a number of hearings within the case.

    Khan has not attended any hearings since November final yr when he was injured in an assassination try at his rally within the Wazirabad space of Punjab.

    The former cricketer-turned-politician was granted interim bail by a particular court docket in Islamabad after being shot throughout the assassination try.

    He has since obtained extensions on his bail because of medical causes.

    Khan was ousted from energy in April after dropping a no-confidence vote in his management, which he alleged was a part of a US-led conspiracy focusing on him due to his unbiased overseas coverage selections on Russia, China, and Afghanistan.

    The PTI chief, who got here to energy in 2018, is the one Pakistani Prime Minister to be ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament.

    Posted By:

    Raajnandini Mukherjee

    Published On:

    Mar 6, 2023

  • Over 30,000 in Pakistan seem for police constable examination, sit on stadium floor to write down paper

    A written examination was held in Islamabad on Saturday to refill the 1,667 vacant posts of constables within the Islamabad Police division.  

    Islamabad,UPDATED: Jan 1, 2023 21:56 IST

    At least 32,000 candidates have been made to sit down on the bottom for the written check that was carried out for recruitment to the constable’s publish on the Sports Complex in Islamabad on Saturday.

    By India Today Web Desk: Pakistan is reeling beneath dire monetary straits and rising unemployment is simply compounding issues for the nation. Now, a brand new image has emerged on social media which reveals hundreds of candidates sitting on a stadium floor to seem for a written check for recruitment to the constable’s publish in Islamabad Police.

    At least 32,000 candidates have been made to sit down on the bottom for the written check that was carried out on the Sports Complex in Islamabad on Saturday.

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    According to Islamabad police, greater than 30,000 female and male candidates from throughout Pakistan took the written examination for the 1,667 vacancies that have been marketed for the police constable recruitment course of. The police constable’s posts have been mendacity vacant for the final 5 years.

    The large turnout in Islamabad Police Recruitment has sparked a brand new debate on the difficulty of accelerating employment within the nation. Unemployment in Pakistan has reached its peak. Due to negligible recruitment in authorities jobs, the variety of unemployed can also be constantly rising. Despite this, lakhs of aspirants are attempting their luck for the posts mendacity vacant within the authorities sector.

    According to a report launched by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) in 2022, over 31% of the nation’s youth is at present unemployed. Out of this, 51% are females whereas 16% are males, with lots of them having skilled levels. Nearly 60% of Pakistan’s inhabitants is lower than 30-years-old, whereas the present unemployment charge is 6.9%.

    PAKISTAN’S ECONOMIC CONDITION

    The financial situation of Pakistan is such that the treasury of the nation is operating dry and the nation can also be grappling with scarcity of cooking gasoline and each day necessities.

    What has made issues worse for Pakistan is the political instability that rocked the nation after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted final 12 months. The floods additional compounded the issues, affecting one-third of the thousands and thousands of individuals residing in Pakistan.

    Pakistan needed to flip to the worldwide stage for monetary help, after which many nations got here ahead to assist. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) got here to the rescue of the nation however with a situation.

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    According to Pakistani information channel, ARY, the IMF shouldn’t be glad with the efficiency of Pakistan’s Finance Ministry and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). It has disbursed a mortgage of 1.2 billion {dollars} to Pakistan, taking the entire mortgage disbursed by the establishment to 7 billion {dollars} until date.

    According to the information company Reuters, the IMF has suggested Pakistan to scale back its expenditure earlier than the ninth evaluate of the mortgage that was disbursed to the nation to drag itself out of monetary straits.

    (Inputs by Subdih Kumar)

    Edited By:

    Raajnandini Mukherjee

    Published On:

    Jan 1, 2023