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  • PIA pays USD 7 mn to Irish firm after aircraft seized in Malaysia over lease dispute

    The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has knowledgeable the London High Court that it has paid USD 7 million to an Irish jet firm, every week after a aircraft of the cash-strapped nationwide flag provider with 170 passengers on board was seized on the Kuala Lumpur airport over a lease dispute.
    The PIA knowledgeable a choose on the London High Court on Friday that it has paid round USD 7 million to the Peregrine Aviation Charlie Limited within the case pertaining to 2 jets leased to it by the Dublin-based AerCap, Dunya TV reported.
    Malaysian authorities final week seized a PIA Boeing-777 on the Kuala Lumpur airport on the orders of an area court docket over the non-payment of plane lease dues owed to the AerCap.
    Lawyers for each the PIA and the airliner sought adjournment on Friday to a later date within the hope that the total quantity shall be paid by means of an settlement with out the court docket issuing any order in opposition to the PIA, the report stated.
    The Dublin-based AerCap’s lawyer informed the court docket: “The claimant’s position is that the sums were paid today by the defendant (PIA).”
    The court docket was knowledgeable that the PIA didn’t make funds because it requested for the modification of its declare in July and that it owed USD 580,000 monthly to the airliner, however it didn’t pay and litigation was initiated, the report stated.
    The leasing firm had filed a case in opposition to the PIA in London High Court in October 2020 over its failure to pay the leasing payment price about USD 14 million which had been pending for six months.

    In response, Pakistan’s nationwide provider had maintained that because the COVID-19 pandemic had severely affected the aviation business, there needs to be a discount within the overhead prices.
    Meanwhile, the leasing firm saved an eye fixed on the actions of PIA, and as quickly because it acquired the data of flight 895’s scheduled touchdown in Malaysia, it appealed to an area court docket to grab the plane as per the worldwide civil aviation leasing legal guidelines, sources added.
    The Boeing 777 plane was seized after London High Court issued the order, an airline spokesman had stated.
    Dunya TV reported that within the London court docket the flag provider’s attorneys raised no objections in regards to the seizure of its aircraft in Malaysia.

  • Pak media watchdog suspends licence of reports channel for airing ‘contemptuous’ remarks towards judges

    Pakistan’s media watchdog has suspended the licence of a TV channel for 30 days and imposed a advantageous of Rs 1 million on it after one in all its controversial anchors voiced ‘contemptuous’ remarks and ‘cast aspersions’ on the judiciary.
    The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) took motion towards Bol News on Friday, in accordance with a press release.
    “PEMRA suspends Bol News for 30 days, fine of Rupees one million is also imposed,” PEMRA stated in a tweet.

    PEMRA suspends Bol News for 30 days, Fine of Rupees One Million can also be imposed pic.twitter.com/x4pnetUT6i
    — Report PEMRA (@reportpemra) January 22, 2021

    It stated anchor Sami Ibrahim on January 13 “aired contemptuous remarks against the … chief justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and other honourable judges while discussing the matter of appointment of judges in the LHC”.
    The anchor “cast aspersions on the superior judiciary in violation of Article 19 read with Article 68 of the Constitution […] and the PEMRA laws including the PEMRA Code of Conduct, 2015”, it stated.
    The authority famous that the channel failed to specific remorse after being issued present trigger discover and as an alternative insisted that it ought to be withdrawn.

    In April 2019, the LHC despatched a discover to Ibrahim for “scandalising” excessive court docket judges.

    Minister for Science Fawad Chaudhry slapped the anchor at a marriage social gathering in 2019 after he had accused him in a chat present of conspiring towards Prime Minister Imran Khan.

  • JeM chief Masood Azhar to be arrested? Pakistan anti-terrorism courtroom points warrant

    Image Source : FILE PHOTO Masood Azhar is believed to be hiding in a “safe place” in his native city – Bahawalpur.
    In a big improvement, an anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar on the fees of terror financing.
    The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued the warrant throughout a listening to in a terror financing case instituted by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police in opposition to some members of the JeM.
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    “ATC Gujranwala judge Natasha Naseem Supra issued an arrest warrant for Masood Azhar and directed the CTD to arrest him and present him in the court. The CTD told the judge the JeM chief was involved in terror financing and selling jihadi literature,” an official instructed PTI.
    He mentioned the ATC choose issued the arrest warrant for Azhar on the request of a CTD inspector.
    Masood Azhar hiding in Bahawalpur
    Azhar is believed to be hiding in a “safe place” in his native city – Bahawalpur.
    Following the Palwama terror assault in February 2019 in India, Pakistan’s Punjab province police had launched a crackdown on terrorism financing and on this connection arrested six activists of the JeM in Gujranwala, some 130kms from Lahore.
    The CTD mentioned its groups raided the whereabouts of the JeM’s “safe house” and arrested its members — Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Amir, Allah Ditta, Muhammad Iftikhar, Muhammad Ajmal and Muhammad Bilal Makki — and recovered lakhs of rupees from their possession.
    “The suspects had been accumulating funds to finance actions of JeM. The chargesheet in opposition to them has been submitted to the Anti-Terrorism Court Gujranwala and they’re being interrogated,” the CTD mentioned.

    Following immense worldwide stress after the Pulwama assault, the Pakistan authorities had arrested over 100 members of banned militant outfits together with the JeM chief’s son and brother.

    The authorities additionally took management of the JeM, Mumbai terror assault mastermind Haifiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (uD) and Falahai Insaniat Foundation (FIF) properties together with seminaries and mosques throughout the nation.
    JeM deliberate, executed Pulwama terror assault
    JeM had claimed duty for the Pulwama terror assault that killed 40 CRPF troopers.
    Pakistan’s Punjab authorities claimed to have taken over the executive management of the JeM headquarters – comprising Madressatul Sabir and Jama-e-Masjid Subhanallah – in Bahawalpur.
    According to the federal government, some 600 college students are finding out there and none of them is related to any banned outfit or concerned in any terror exercise.
    In May 2019, the United Nations designated Azhar a “global terrorist” after China lifted its maintain on a proposal to blacklist the Pakistan-based JeM chief, a decade after New Delhi approached the world physique for the primary time on the problem.
    The UN committee listed Azhar on May 1, 2019 as being related to Al-Qaeda for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material to”, “recruiting for”, “otherwise supporting acts or activities of”, and “other acts or activities indicating association with” the JeM.
    Masood Azhar and IC-814 hijacking
    Azhar is a fugitive launched by India in change of passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines aircraft IC-814 in 1999.
    After his launch in 1999, Azhar fashioned the Jaish-e-Mohammed and scripted many audacious terror strikes in India.
    On February 26, 2019 India had launched air strikes on what was mentioned to be JeM’s largest coaching camp in Pakistan’s Balakot.
    The world terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is instrumental in pushing Pakistan to take measures in opposition to terrorists roaming freely in Pakistan and utilizing its territory to hold out assaults in India and elsewhere.
    The Paris-based FATF positioned Pakistan on the Grey List in June 2018 and requested Islamabad to implement a plan of motion to curb cash laundering and terror financing by the top of 2019 however the deadline was prolonged in a while attributable to COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • ‘International embarrassment’, says Pakistan SC because it orders reconstruction of vandalised Hindu temple

    Image Source : VIDEO GRAB The Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj is taken into account sacred by the Hindu group.
    Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to begin the reconstruction of a century-old Hindu temple that was vandalised by a mob within the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa final week and instructed them to get well the cash for the restoration work from the attackers whose act has prompted “international embarrassment” to the nation.
    The apex court docket, which took discover of the assault and ordered the native authorities to look earlier than the court docket on January 5, additionally directed the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to submit in court docket particulars of all useful and non-functional temples and gurdwaras throughout Pakistan.
    ALSO READ: Mob vandalises, burns down Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan, 26 arrested
    The assault on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Karak district on Wednesday by members of radical Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam occasion (Fazal ur Rehman group) drew sturdy condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu group leaders.
    During the listening to on Tuesday, a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed ordered the EPTB to begin the reconstruction work.
    Chief Justice Ahmed mentioned the assault on the temple has “caused international embarrassment to Pakistan.”
    The court docket additionally directed the EPTB to clear encroachments from temples throughout the nation and take motion towards officers concerned within the encroachments.
    The EPTB is a statutory board that manages spiritual properties and shrines of Hindus and Sikhs who had migrated to India following the partition.
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary, police chief, and Shoaib Suddle, the pinnacle of a fee on minorities’ rights, had been current in the course of the listening to.
    Dr Suddle, who visited the temple in Karak district and introduced a complete report within the case to the apex court docket on Monday after it requested him to probe the assault, advised the court docket that the provincial EPTB “did not protect the shrine”.
    ALSO READ: Pak’s KP Chief Minister says his govt will rebuild Hindu temple vandalised by mob
    Justice Ijazul Ahsan then questioned Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abbasi on how the assault might have occurred when there was a police examine submit subsequent to the temple.
    “Where were your intelligence agencies?” the choose requested.
    Abbasi advised the court docket that 109 folks concerned within the assault had been arrested. He additionally mentioned that 92 police officers, together with the superintendent of police and deputy superintendent of police had been suspended.
    Chief Justice Ahmed mentioned that “suspension was not enough”.
    The police chief advised the court docket {that a} protest by the JUI-F was happening close to the location on the day of the incident.
    “Out of the six ulema at the protest, only Maulvi Mohammad Sharif incited the crowd,” he mentioned.
    The choose additionally pulled up the EPTB chairman, saying he ought to “not sit on the chairman’s seat with government mentality”.

    “Your employees are doing business on the land meant for shrines. Arrest them and start the reconstruction of the temple,” Justice Ahmed directed.
    The court docket ordered the EPTB to get well the cash for the temple restoration from the attackers.
    “You (EPTB chief) have to recover money from the people who did this, from this Maulvi (Sharif) and his followers,” the chief justice mentioned.
    Justice Ahsan noticed that the EPTB “has the money to construct its own buildings but does not have money for Hindus”.
    The bench directed that particulars of useful and non-functional shrines, data of disputes on EPTB lands and a report on the efficiency of the EPTB chairman be submitted to the court docket in two weeks.
    The court docket mentioned an in depth judgement could be launched later and adjourned the listening to for 2 weeks.
    In his report, Suddle advised opening of 4 Hindu temples for worldwide tourism, together with Param Hans Ji Maharaj Samadhi (the one attacked Karak), Hinglaj Mata Mandir in Hingol National Park of Balochistan’s district Lasbela, Katas Raj complicated in Punjab’s district Chakwal and Parhlad Bhagat Mandir in Punjab’s district Multan.
    He additionally beneficial that lodging and boarding preparations and safety just like Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib must be offered at these Hindu temples.
    Last week, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan mentioned that his authorities will rebuild the temple.

    The temple was attacked by the mob after members of the Hindu group obtained permission from native authorities to renovate its decades-old constructing. The mob had demolished the newly constructed work alongside the outdated construction.
    Leader of Hindu Community Peshawar Haroon Sarab Diyal mentioned a samadhi of a Hindu spiritual chief exists on the temple web site and Hindu households from throughout the nation do go to the samadhi on each Thursday.
    The Samadhi of Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj is taken into account sacred by the Hindu group. It was constructed the place he died in 1919 in Teri village of Karak.
    The controversy over the samadhi erupted many a long time in the past.
    According to the main points submitted to the Supreme Court in 2014 in a case about it, the Hindus had been visiting the shrine until 1997 when it was dismantled by the locals.
    The apex court docket in 2014 ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities to revive and reconstruct the Hindu shrine. The order was issued over a petition of a Hindu lawmaker who had claimed that the shrine had been occupied by an influential cleric of the realm.
    Hindus type the most important minority group in Pakistan. According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus reside in Pakistan. However, in accordance with the group, over 90 lakh Hindus reside within the nation.
    The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu inhabitants is settled in Sindh province the place they share tradition, traditions and language with Muslim residents. They typically complain of harassment by the extremists.
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  • Bill launched in US House to terminate designation of Pak as Major non-NATO ally

    On the primary day of the 117th Congress, a lawmaker has launched a invoice within the US House of Representatives to terminate the designation of Pakistan as a Major non-NATO Ally.
    Introduced by Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, the invoice removes Pakistan’s designation as a serious non-NATO ally, a standing that permits for varied advantages similar to entry to extra US protection provides and participation in cooperative protection analysis and improvement tasks.
    The invoice additionally notes that the US President can’t problem a separate designation of Pakistan as a Major NATO ally, until a presidential certification that Pakistan continues to conduct navy operations which are contributing to considerably disrupting the secure haven and freedom of motion of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan.
    It additionally seeks a presidential certification that Pakistan has taken steps to display its dedication to forestall the Haqqani Network from utilizing any Pakistani territory as a secure haven and that the Pak authorities actively coordinates with Afghanistan to limit the motion of militants, such because the Haqqani Network, alongside the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
    The invoice additionally asks the president to certify that Pakistan has proven progress in arresting and prosecuting Haqqani Network senior leaders and mid-level operatives.
    Pakistan was named a Major non-NATO ally in the course of the Bush Administration in 2004. Currently, there are 17 Major non-NATO ally. Brazil was the final nation to given this designation by President Donald Trump in 2019.
    The designation offers the nations to entry into cooperative analysis and improvement tasks with the Department of Defense (DoD) on a shared-cost foundation, participation in sure counter-terrorism initiatives, buy of depleted uranium anti-tank rounds, precedence supply of navy surplus (starting from rations to ships).
    It additionally offers them entry to War Reserve Stocks of DoD-owned tools which are saved exterior of American navy bases, gives them loans of kit and materials for cooperative analysis and improvement tasks and evaluations and permission to make use of American financing for the acquisition or lease of sure protection tools.
    The designation amongst different issues expedites export processing of house expertise and permission for the nation’s companies to bid on sure DoD contracts for the restore and upkeep of navy tools exterior the United States.
    However, President Trump in January 2018 suspended all monetary and safety help to Pakistan. The outgoing Trump Administration even thought of terminating the designation of Pakistan as a Major non-NATO ally.
    Under the Obama Administration, US designated India as a Major Defense Partner.

  • Ten extra arrested over assault on Hindu temple in northwest Pakistan

    Pakistani police have arrested 10 extra folks in in a single day raids for his or her alleged involvement within the vandalisation of a Hindu temple by a mob led by members of a radical celebration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
    With the most recent arrests, the variety of accused arrested within the case has risen to 55. Over 350 folks have been named within the FIR after the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district was vandalised and set on hearth on Wednesday by a mob protesting in opposition to its growth work.
    Search is underway to arrest the others accused named within the FIR.
    The temple which additionally had a samadhi of a Hindu non secular chief was attacked by the mob after members of the Hindu group obtained permission from native authorities to renovate its decades-old constructing.

    The mob, led by some native clerics and supporters of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam celebration (Fazal ur Rehman group), demolished the newly constructed work alongside the outdated construction.
    The assault on the temple drew robust condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu group leaders.
    India has additionally lodged a protest with Pakistan over the vandalisation of the temple and sought strict motion in opposition to these liable for the incident.
    The protest was conveyed to Pakistan by diplomatic channels, sources in New Delhi mentioned on Friday.
    Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has assured that his authorities would reconstruct the broken temple and the Samadhi on the shortest potential time.

    Chief Minister Khan’s Special Assistant on Information Kamran Bangash mentioned that non secular tolerance could be maintained within the province.
    Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the native authorities to seem earlier than the courtroom on January 5.
    The courtroom has issued instructions to one-man Commission on Minorities Rights, KP chief secretary and KP inspector basic of police to go to the positioning and submit a report on January 4.
    Hindus kind the largest minority group in Pakistan.
    According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus dwell in Pakistan. However, in accordance with the group, over 90 lakh Hindus live within the nation.

    The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu inhabitants is settled in Sindh province the place they share tradition, traditions and language with Muslim residents. They usually complain of harassment by the extremists.
    Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Saturday termed as “completely unwarranted” India’s protest over the vandalisation of the Hindu temple.

  • Pak’s KPK govt approves Rs 2.35 cr to buy ancestral homes of Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor

    Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities on Saturday authorized the discharge of Rs 2.35 crore to buy the ancestral homes of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor positioned within the coronary heart of this metropolis and declared because the nationwide heritages.
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mehmud Khan formally authorized the proposal, permitting the authorities involved to buy the ancestral havelis at a charge decided by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Communication and Works Department a couple of weeks again.

    Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar, following a report of the Communication and Works Department, has fastened the worth of Dilip Kumar’s 4 marla (101 sq. metre) home for Rs 80.56 lakh whereas that of Raj Kapoor’s six marla home (151.75 sq. metre) for Rs 1.50 crore.
    Marla, a standard unit of space utilized in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is taken into account as equal to 272.25 sq. toes or 25.2929 sq. metres.
    After procurement, each the homes can be transformed right into a museum by the KP archaeology division.
    The archaeology division had despatched a proper request to the provincial authorities for releasing over Rs 2 crore for buying each the historic buildings, the place the 2 greats of the Indian cinema had been born and raised of their early days earlier than the Partition.
    Raj Kapoor’s ancestral house, referred to as Kapoor Haveli, is located within the fabled Qissa Khwani Bazar. It was constructed between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor’s grandfather Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor.

    Raj Kapoor and his uncle Trilok Kapoor had been born within the constructing. It has been declared nationwide heritage by the provincial authorities.
    Veteran actor Dilip Kumar’s over 100-year-old ancestral home can also be positioned in the identical locality.

    The home is in shambles and was declared as nationwide heritage in 2014 by the then Nawaz Sharif authorities.
    The homeowners of the 2 buildings made a number of makes an attempt previously to demolish them for setting up business plazas in view of their prime location however all such strikes had been stopped because the archaeology division wished to protect them, conserving in view their historic significance.

  • Pakistan to play 10 bilateral sequence in 2021: PCB chief

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    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Babar Azam and Mohammad Hafeez
    Pakistan will have interaction in 10 bilateral sequence subsequent yr aside from the World T20 Cup project, PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani has stated.
    Mani stated in a podcast that Pakistan had lined up 10 bilateral sequence within the new yr and would mess around 9 Tests, 20 ODIs and 39 T20 matches as there could be no scarcity of cricket for gamers.

    “New Zealand are coming over before the World T20 Cup. Next in is England to play two T20 matches and both teams will then leave for the event in India,” he stated.
    Mani stated South Africa had despatched their delegation to Pakistan to evaluate the Covid-19 protocols and safety preparations they usually have agreed to ship their crew in January for 2 Tests and three T20 matches.
    According to particulars, New Zealand will first come over in September-October to play three ODIs and three T20 internationals earlier than leaving for the World Cup.

    The day the New Zealand crew leaves for India, England will attain Pakistan for his or her two T20 matches. Mani stated the board was completely behind the nationwide crew administration of head coach, Misbah-ul-Haq, coaches, Waqar Younis and Younis Khan and the help workers.
    “I don’t think we can have a better management and support staff. We have the best and it can’t be better. We have also started inducting elite former players into our high performance centre and domestic cricket teams.”
    Mani additionally stated that the board realised that Misbah might solely work with the out there assets and general choice has been honest. “Misbah is not alone; he has the support of Waqar and Younis Khan and all of them are people who have played and done well everywhere for Pakistan.”
    The PCB chief additionally made it clear that Pakistan had bought no monetary profit from sending its crew to England in the summertime nevertheless it was a call taken after a lot thought for the sake of world cricket within the pandemic.
    He additionally stated the England Cricket Board had approached the PCB themselves for the brief tour to Pakistan and the choice to carry the sequence later within the yr was taken to make sure England’s full energy aspect got here to Pakistan.
    “All these positive things happening are only possible when the management in the board is professional.” Mani additionally stated that the Board was engaged on strategies to slowly enable again crowds to matches in coming days. 

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  • Four Pakistan Army personnel killed as army chopper crashed in Gilgit-Baltistan throughout rescue operation

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    Four Pakistan Army personnel had been killed when a army helicopter crashed throughout a casualty evacuation on account of technical causes in Gilgit-Baltistan, the military stated on Sunday.
    The chopper crashed in Minimarg space of Astore district on Saturday night, the military stated in an announcement.
    It was transporting the physique of a soldier to the army hospital in Skardu.

    The pilot, co-pilot and two troopers had been killed within the accident, the assertion stated, including that the crash occurred on account of technical causes.
    Gilgit-Baltistan Information Minister Fatullah Khan has expressed deep sorrow over the tragedy.

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