DPakistan (TTP), Khawaja Asif accused the Afghan government of supporting TTP terrorists He further claimed that during the tenure of former prime minister Imran Khan the TTP was brought back to the region in order to establish a private militia, which he said harmed the country’s internal security “The National Action Plan (NAP) already exists and is now being reinstated to eliminate terrorism effectively Kh Asif emphasized The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Tuesday approved a unanimous declaration, reaffirming Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to eradicating terrorism
in all its forms and vowing decisive action against elements threatening national stability The country s top civil and military leadership reiterated this commitment during the first committee meeting under the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led coalition government However the meeting was boycotted by the key opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) among others
The committee emphasised that no institution, individual or group acting in collusion with hostile forces would be allowed to undermine Pakistan’s peace and stability While expressing regret over the absence of
some opposition members an official statement said that consultations on the matter would continue
The in-camera session, chaired by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir key federal ministers, parliamentarians and senior military officials
ism especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan The meeting was attended by PM Shehbaz, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) Lieutenant General Asim Malik chief ministers of all four provinces and other top officials However, several key figures including Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, NA Opposition Leader Omar Ayub and Pakistan Tehreek-eInsaf (PTI) members skipped the high-level huddle
ISLAMABAD S ta f f R e p o R t Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Ejaz Ishaq Khan on Wednesday initiated suo moto contempt proceedings after it transpired that a case he was hearing regarding PTI founder Imran Khan s right to meet with his lawyer had been transferred to a larger bench without his knowledge or consent “Under which law the miscellaneous petition for transfer of the case was filed ” Justice Ejaz Ishaq questioned the state counsel If the state supports transfer of the case to a larger bench without consent of the judge IHC judge asked Instead of doing this, you would have detonated the foundations of my court with explosives, the judge remarked Yesterday, the IHC administration had formed a three-member larger bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Sardar Sarfraz Dogar to hear all 26 petitions related to the visitation rights and jail conditions of Imran Khan As the orders in one such petition were not followed, Imran s lawyer Mashal Yousufzai sought contempt proceedings against Adiala Jail Superintendent Abdul Ghafoor Anjum The case was heard last week by Justice Ishaq However the cause list for the case presided by Justice Ishaq set to resume on March 21 was cancelled by the IHC registrar s office due to the larger bench s formation, it emerged during a hearing on Wednesday Yousufzai, her counsel Advocate Shoaib Shaheen and Imran’s spokesperson Niazullah Khan Niazi appeared before the court
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The military leadership provided a detailed briefing on the prevailing security situation particularly in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) The meeting was informed about ongoing counterterrorism operations, recent threats and the state s comprehensive strategy to ensure internal security Prime Minister Shehbaz in his address emphasised the government’s resolve to eliminating terrorism acknowledging the sacrifices of security forces He expressed concern over the security challenges facing Balochistan and K-P, stating that national unity was imperative in countering these threats
The participants of the meeting said that the army chief delivered roughly an hour-long briefing outlining the military s operational measures and intelligence-based actions against terrorist groups In addition, they said, the director general of military operations supplemented the briefing through presentation on strategic countermeasures
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TH E National Security Committee of Parliament came together to discuss the Jaffar Express hijacking but did not come up with any concrete proposals Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir, while briefing the committee, said that Pakistan should become a hard state , by which he meant one which did not present any ‘soft targets’, one in which there was better governance However while that might squeeze out further recruits to the cause of separatism, it did not necessarily help the immediate problem, which was what could be done to stop terrorism Much of the post-meeting debate was on the refusal of the PTI to attend the meeting PTI Chairman Gohar said that this was done on the instructions of party founder Imran Khan KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur did attend along with other CMs, as the meeting grew beyond strictly members of Parliament
The meeting did not provide the clear lead the nation expected from it Even the absence of the PTI failed to connect any dots because while the PTI showed that it still viewed domestic politics as more important than the threat facing the nation, and at this juncture, it was using even the threat posed by terrorism to try and expand the space provided to Mr Khan While this message may have been reprehensible, it did not indicate how Mr Khan was expected to make or mar the situation The government’s are against Mr Khan notwithstanding, it did not seem that it had much to offer beyond call for unity There was no indication of what the government planned, beyond saying the nation stood shoulder to shoulder with the armed forces and the law enforcing agencies in the war against terrorism, which was a hint that a military operation could be carried out
It is an unfortunate reality that behind every terrorist willing to commit such a crime as hijacking a train, there have to be thousands who feel that he has a point, even if he is using the wrong method Though it seemed that the committee realized this it did not seem to have any real idea of how to end this While not suggesting that throwing money at the problem is going to solve it, it is essential that more money is put up to help remove some of the feeling of alienation within Balochistan While military operations are necessary it is also necessary to remove the reasons for alienation not to stop terrorism but as a matter of justice
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Avillage chieftain was given to narrating overembellished tales of his hunting exploits Owing to his social standing, none of the poor villagers dared being rude to him But from the meaningful and amused glances that they exchanged he knew that his tales were making him a laughingstock in his absence Still he could not help magnifying his adventures To prevent further damage, he tasked his able secretary to cough discreetly whenever he said something that defied belief The very next morning, he decided to narrate, for the benefit of posterity the details of a landmark hunt of yore He began by telling his audience how the inhabitants of a distant village had sent for him to rid them of the menace of a 90-foot crocodile that had been terrorizing an entire region Alarmed by the figure, the secretary coughed tactfully The hunter took the cue and added that upon reaching the site, he was informed by eyewitnesses to the various incidents that the crocodile was only 80 feet long The secretary coughed again prompting the hunter to further correct the narrative by saying that when he came face to face with the crocodile, it appeared to be only 70 feet long Long story short –a sensational duel between the hunter and the reptile and three coughs from the conscientious secretary later –the crocodile had been killed and its length (as actually measured) had amounted to 40 feet When the secretary coughed again the hunter told him: Cough as much as you like The crocodile stands dead and measured and there is nothing anybody can do about it now Though they are probably the most notorious, hunters are hardly the only ones guilty of this sort of thing Blowing things out of proportion is a common human weakness that few can completely overcome We have all neutralized equivalents of crocodilian threats in our various domains; and more often than not, our accounts (sometimes even our memories) of such feats are infinitely more dramatic and heroic than the actual incidents As a rule, most of the folks remain blissfully unaware of the magnitude of sheer silliness that leaves their mouths (Our hunter friend above is an exception that proves this rule ) Considering the egoistic element inherent in human nature exaggeration of one s own merits and achievements should come as a surprise to anybody
The same goes for overplaying the accomplishments of one’s flesh and blood, ancestors and offspring But many human beings go one step farther: they are apt to glorify beyond all reason the merits of individuals that they admire What is curious about this is that the magnification is done after the fact so to speak That is it is not because of those merits that they adopt their heroes in the first place (which would be the case if they happened to be rational animals) Instead, once (for whatever reasons) they develop a liking for somebody they keep glorifying him until all boundaries of reasonability and credibility are crossed It is a rare breed indeed that notices while overstepping those limits The instinct of hero worship (which to a degree, is to be expected in human beings) therefore ends up getting the better of the good judgment of a very large percentage of humankind Nowhere is this exaggerating
Silliness must not be allowed even in the supposedly trivial and harmless beliefs. Views rooted in sloppy thinking may appear way too trivial to matter, but they tend to grow into significant obstacles in the way of a sensible world view. Since all things are interconnected because
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introduced via the 26th Amendment, explicitly mandates the state to take proactive measures for environmental protection This ruling demonstrates the judiciary’s evolving role in securing environmental justice as an ECOSOC right
Strengthening ECOSOC rights enhances Pakistan’s human rights reputation on global platforms
Despite these advancements several challenges persist:
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TH E Y say only bad news from Balochistan makes the headlines: Pakistan s largest and most impoverished province mired in a decades-long insurgency The local newspapers are flooded with the news of people being killed in bomb blasts, target killings and the loss of lives in incidents of terrorism However amid this backdrop of turmoil a problem that is just as terrible is subtly developing: climate change Its widereaching consequences are changing the lives of women and children, particularly in the underprivileged parts of Balochistan Thousands of children in South Asia, particularly Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Afghanistan are at the risk of climate-related disasters as per the UNICEF 2021 Children s Climate Risk Index The report reiterates that children in these countries have vigorously been exposed to devastating air pollution and aggressive heatwaves, with 6 million children confronting implacable floods that lashed across these countries in July 2024 On 11 and 22 November 2024 over 20 youths urged the world leaders to come up with plans to mitigate the impacts of climate change on children at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan Among those 20 resolute children was the 14-year-old Zunaira Qayyum Baloch representing the 241 5 million people of Pakistan Dressed in her traditional Balochi attire with a radiant smile in her face and resolute in her commitment, Zunaira Qayyum Baloch startled everyone Hailing from the far-flung district of Hub in Balochistan, Ms Baloch went to represent the children of a country whose carbon footprint is next to zero yet suffering some of the worst climate-related disasters Her message to world leaders was clear: step up and combat climate-induced inequalities, particularly those affecting women and children
“After my father passed away, my mother became the sole breadwinner She helped us get an education and met all our requirements Zunaira explains During the catastrophic rains of 2022 an incident changed my perspective on climate change Rain water had accumulated in the roof of
our home and streets were flooded with water The destruction was so overwhelming, and I realised that such events were no longer rare but enhancing constantly ” During the COP29 she expressed her concerns with the experts how Pakistan particularly Balochistan has been detrimentally affected by climate disasters like frequent floods, heatwaves, hurricanes and droughts
Lamenting that climate change was a childrights crisis, she told the world how the changes in the climate had jeopardized the lives of millions of women and children throughout the world In June 2007 when the Cyclone Yemyin hit the coast of Balochistan, it wrought unprecedented damage to the province, particularly Turbat, Pasni and Ormara and rendered 50 000 homeless within 24 hours including children According to reports 800 000 became affected and 24 went missing The 2022 floods had a devastating impact across Pakistan, with Balochistan being one of the hardest-hit With 528 children dying nationwide, 336 people died in Balochistan, including children Tragedy struck again in 2024 when torrential rains engulfed 32 districts of Balochistan particularly the port city of Gwadar and Kech district The Provincial Disaster Management Authority put the death toll of children dying due to the flood at 55 out of the total of 170, with 16 others injured
These alarming statistics highlight how urgently appropriate plans and proper strategies for disaster preparedness and loss mitigation in Balochistan must be developed While extreme weather events such as floods
become more common, the need for climate change has never been greater Regions in Balochistan, such as, Naseerabad Jaffarabad Sohbatpur Nokundi Sibi and Turbat have seen severe heatwaves in the past few decades On May 2017 the Mercury rose to a record breaking of 53 5C in Turbat, making the district the hottest place of the year after Mitribah, Kuwait Dr Sammi Parvaz, a gynecologist at Turbat’s teaching hospital, says rising temperatures contribute to higher dropout rates among schoolgirls and affect their menstrual cycles
According to NIH research menstruation is severely impacted in climate-vulnerable countries like Pakistan, she explains Girls in extreme heat, like in Turbat and Karachi, experience more intense, painful cramps ” Overcoming the stigma around periods is a daunting task particularly in small towns in Balochistan where cultural norms and practices have a strong hold on communities During floods thousands of girl children struggle to manage their periods amidst the chaos of the disaster and remain without period products For instance, after the 2022 floods 650 000 pregnant women and girl children in Pakistan were without essential maternal care with a significant proporti on from Balochistan Madat Balochistan, a non-profit organisation, has supported over 31,000 people across 34 districts in Sindh and Balochistan
With its major work concentrated in and around Quetta Dera Bugti Jaffarabad Jhal Magsi Sohbatpur and Khuzdar it is a proudly women-led organization and fundamentally believes in prioritizing women and
The decades-long running insurg ency in Balochistan stems from human rights violations, inequality and government neglig ence . „Climate-related catastrophes fur ther destabilise the regionÊs development. For instance , there was a surg e in the number of protests during the 2022 floods in Gwadar and Turbat, reflecting the deep frustration and despair of the people‰.
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Vulnerability is a multi-dimensional concept and in a country like Pakistan where most of the women and girls are pushed to the margins of society in every way possible Maryam Jamali tells Take the 2022 floods for example the most recent catastrophes etched in our memories Women and girls were responsible for most of the labour when it came to evacuating to safer places As soon as they did their needs when it came to menstruation or pregnancy care were completely ignored by aid agencies as they sent out packages or set up medical camps Most of our work at Madat was compensating for things like this We worked with midwives to ensure that women who could not stand in lines for ration received it regardless, or women who did not want to interact with male doctors didn t have to In our housing projects we prioritize women especially those who don t have a patriarch in the household because that severely limits their access to resources for rehabilitation In patriarchal societies women and girl children are the primary caregivers of the family and they are the sole persons to grow crop do house chores fetch firewood and water
These household responsibilities create an educational
APOLEON was crowned in December 1804 and 11 years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo In these 11 years he united Europe for the first time since Charlemagne had done a thousand years before in 804 Napoleon achieved it through battlefield victories against the great military powers of his age, such as Prussia and Austria Deng Xiaoping was already an old man of 74 when he took charge of China in 1978 Eleven years later he stepped down in 1989 the year of Tiananmen Square Many people including Singapore s leader Lee Kuan Yew thought of him as the greatest man they had ever known, because of what he set out to achieve and then achieved in these 11 years Deng discarded the Marxist views he had held for more than half
$4 600 per person in 2003 and took it to $12 500 by 2013 Today it is still more or less at the same place He hangs on nonetheless Jawaharlal Nehru spent his first decade building institutions which we still have around us The Indian Institute of Technology came in 1950 starting with Kharagpur Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1954 the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1956, Indian Institutes of Management in 1961 In this period, Nehru put up a string of public sector enterprises that still live The steel giant Sail (1954) ONGC (1956) NMDC (1958) Indian Oil (1959) and so on and on His contributions to world affairs were also in this period from Panchsheel (1954) to Bandung (1955) Whether you admire Nehru, as people of my age were compelled to do when we were young, or you dislike him, as is fashionable today, his legacy is alive and breathing in the institutions that he conceived and built All of it more or less finished in 11 years Pakistan s general Ayub Khan was likened by Samuel Huntington of Clash of Civilisations fame to the lawgivers of Ancient Greece Ayub seized power in 1958 and lost it 11 years later in 1969 His initial years were promising in terms of economic growth leading to that praise from Huntington even though the numbers were modest by the standards of Japan and South Korea and Taiwan But the war against India in 1965 and the agitations that were stirring in the east finished him off Even the wicked leaders of history completed their arc in this period Hitler came to office in 1933 and by 1944 was in his bunker awaiting the forces of marshal George Zhukov who had defeated the Germans in Stalingrad the year before All the achievements that history lists for the German tyrant, from what he did to the economy and the autobahn, to the persecutions of minorities, to the manhandling of the French and British forces with the conception of “blitzkrieg” to the development of the first modern rocket the V2 all of these came in 11 years There is a reason this 11-year phenomenon is a rule as much as it is an observation It speaks to the nature of man and what humans are like We have a limited number of original ideas to offer and that limit exhausts itself with time Most of us do not have much power or agency over the world The few who do have power show the rest of us what is possible and for how long In his book The 10 Rules of Successful Nations, Ruchir Sharma writes under the subhead of “Stale leaders” that “one simple way to think about this rule is that high impact reform is most likely in a leader ’s first term and less likely in the second term and beyond as a leader runs out of ideas or support for reform and turns to securing a grand legacy As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: In the end every hero becomes a bore Aakar Patel is the chair of Amnesty International India
R E M C H A N D had said “Communalism always comes in the garb of culture Along with this today s truth is also that communalism falsifies history and presents myths as history Today BJP-RSS is busy finding facts from aeronautics to organ transplantation and IVF treatment in Puranas and is citing mythical stories as proof of this For them, Taj Mahal and all mosques are Hindu temples and for this they present the looting and destruction of some Hindu temples by Mughal rulers as proof There are numerous examples in history of destruction of each other s religious places Shaivites have attacked Vaishnavites, Hindus have destroyed Buddhist monasteries, Brahmins have brutally suppressed Shudras All these are hundreds and thousands of years old things and today our modern scientific and rational consciousness considers them wrong Despite all these distortions our society has progressed has become more civilized than before and the tradition of harmony Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb has developed Lessons can be learnt from history, but revenge cannot be taken on the basis of this history Doing so would mean dehumanising society, pushing society back to the era of barbarism, destroying all that human civilisation has achieved till date But communal forces do not want to learn lessons from history they want to do politics of revenge on the basis of the barbarism of history and want to push Indian society further back back to the era of barbarism Their intentions and declarations are very clear BJP s bag is a magical bag, full of issues But these issues are not the issues of our real life This bag contains issues of hatred issues of anti-Muslim hatred It presents Muslims as an imaginary enemy whose presence here is the root of all the problems of this country It wants to snatch away the basic right of the Muslim community to live a life of dignity as a citizen To realize its imagination, it wants to mobilize Hindus This is the essence of the politics of Hindutva that the Sangh-BJP talks about The word ‘Hindutva’ was used for the first time by Savarkar This ‘brave’ son of the Sangh-BJP has said that Hindutva has nothing to do with Hinduism and it is the politics of mobilizing Hindus to reach power
at their residences instead of Tughlaq Lane In fact the party which does not have the courage to face the real issues of the common people is busy in making headlines on such issues no matter how dangerous the consequences are for the country! But Swami Vivekananda s soul will also be disturbed by this, because Swamiji was definitely a saffron-clad person, a follower of Hinduism and a knower of Vedas, but he was definitely not the carrier of the saffron ideas of Sangh-BJP He was not even touched by Muslim hatred He was a believer of Islamic body and Vedantic mind He was prophesying the rule of the hardworking Shudras indeed in his times the hardworking were Shudras Sangh-BJP is trying to convert a secular Swami Vivekananda into a communal saffron-clad
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thousands of people worldwide He had sued the Telegraph Media Group (publisher of the Daily Telegraph and the Telegraph online) at the UK High Court over thirteen articles published by The Telegraph between November 2021 to February 2023 which reported on allegations made by Ms Spottiswoode to the United States Congress Mr Chishti whose full name is Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti fought a tough legal battle with the paper in London for over two years which involved disclosure and review of thousands of documents between Mr Chishti and Ms Spottiswoode The High Court proceedings drew on these extensive personal communications between Mr Chishti and Ms Spottiswoode as well as hundreds of documents The Telegraph obtained through a subpoena of Ms Spottiswoode s attorneys in the United States The communications included text messages in which Ms Spottiswoode asked that she be seduced and slowly undressed” by Mr Chishti during the period in which she claimed she was being harassed
The documents contained intimate conversations which showed that Ms Spottiswoode repeatedly pursued Mr Chishti with romantic interest during the periods in
which she was claiming she was harassed and assaulted
and made her allegations public after Mr Chishti had moved on to a different relationship and married his now-wife Ms Pobereskin
The U K ’s oldest newspaper conceded that the allegations it published were false misleading and defamatory The Telegraph withdrew its position that its allegations were true and were in the public interest It will run in perpetuity its subsequent apology on top of a record thirteen separate articles published online The apology will also be published separately both in The Telegraph’s print and online editions The Telegraph further agreed to pay Mr Chishti substantial damages and legal costs The Telegraph acknowledged that Mr Chishti has consistently disputed the allegations Ms Spottiswoode made to the US Congress which provided her with legal immunity against claims of defamation The Telegraph also acknowledged that, although he sought to provide evidence to Congress to disprove the allegations made against him, Congress did not give him the opportunity to do so Renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School commented: Mr Chishti s settlement with The Telegraph further cements his position that the allegations against him are just that: allegations I have advised Mr Chishti and followed his case with interest Last year Mr Chishti won the largest defamation award in Pakistani history after similarly challenging allegations related to Ms Spottiswoode published by the Narratives Magazine
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A pivotal meeting of the UK Air Safety Committee is scheduled for March 20 to evaluate the five-year ban on Pakistan’s national airline and other carriers, according to officials from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) The committee will review the status of all Pakistani airlines including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), and discuss the possibility of lifting the restrictions The ban was imposed in July
morrow’s review In 2020 during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government former aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan disclosed that many pilots had been operating with fraudulent licences This followed a deadly crash of PIA’s Airbus A-320
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The plantation will focus on native and climate-resilient species including Kikar Jand Amaltas Shisham, Sukh Chain, Phulai, Chir, Kail, Deodar, Peepal, Neem, Beri, Jaman, Imli, and Chilgoza
According to officials 2 047 plantation events are scheduled nationwide under this campaign The initiative follows last year s monsoon plantation drive, which saw 40 526 million saplings planted PM Shehbaz recalled the catastrophic floods of 2022, which he said underscored the urgent need for robust climate action Despite contributing minimally to global greenhouse gas emissions Pakistan remains among the world s most vulnerable countries to climate change, he noted
sion of food for law enforcement personnel A significant amount also goes towards hiring containers to block entry points and prevent unauthorized gatherings in sensitive areas The government incurs these costs to maintain law and order If protests remained within legal limits, these funds could have been diverted towards
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further briefed the House on immigration, passport security, and efforts to curb professional begging in the capital He revealed that numerous individuals had been arrested as part of an ongoing crackdown on organized begging rings These are not isolated cases of poverty but coordinated operations,” he said, stressing the need for stricter legislation
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