Asian Lite News Archive

Category: PAKISTAN

  • Pakistan freezes assets of JuD, JeM to evade FATF blacklisting

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    The Pakistan government has frozen a total of 964 assets of proscribed organisations Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) as it takes action against elements involved in terror financing and money laundering as part of efforts towards fulfilling requirements of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) 27-point action plan. As per the the Interior Ministry, 907…

  • Fugitive Tiger Memon Finally On Intel Radar

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    A Kenyan food import company, Magnum Africa, operating from Nairobi has rekindled hopes at the headquarters of India’s external Intelligence agency — RAW — of locating one of the most sought after fugitives, Tiger Memon, the mastermind of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, which killed 257 people in one of the worst ever terror attacks in…

  • ‘Face justice’: Pakistan warns Sharif

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    After the Islamabad High Court directed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to ‘surrender’ by September 10, the government has asked the PML-N supremo to return from London and face justice. Replying to a question at a press conference held after a cabinet meeting, Information Minister Shibli Faraz said on Tuesday that Sharif should return to…

  • Imran regrets letting Nawaz leave the country

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    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that allowing his predecessor Nawaz Sharif to leave the country was a “mistake” and that his government “regretted” the decision. In a wide-ranging interview to ARY News on Thursday night, Khan hinted that he was pressurised into sending Sharif abroad, saying that the reports presented to his government…

  • New Revelation Sparks Outrage in Pashtun community

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    Former Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan, who had recently said that Pakistani agencies want him to lead its death squads and kill anti-state elements including journalists, has now revealed that Pakistan’s state institutions were responsible for the murder of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa SP Tahir Dawar. Dawar was a decorated, senior Pakistani police officer-and a Pashto poet-who…

  • Pak Senate Rejects FATF-Linked Bills

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    In an aggressive reaction against the opposition, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has lashed out, saying that the political parties were sabotaging the governments efforts to exit the grey list of the Global Watchdog on money laundering and terror financing, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Khan’s statement came as a reaction after the upper…

  • Pakistan’s fake speech to security council exposed

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    Isolated at the UN, Pakistan faked a speech to the Security Council posting it on the website of its permanent mission pretending it was delivered even though its Ambassador did not speak at the session on terrorism. Pakistan was not on the list of speakers circulated for the virtual meeting held online on Monday, nor…

  • Dawood Acquires Caribbean Citizenship

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    Nestled in the beautiful Windward Islands of the Caribbean, the Commonwealth of Dominica (CoD) is a country with a small population of less than 80,000 people. With the help of Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has acquired the passport of CoD under its Economic Citizen Programme, reveals the latest dossier on the…

  • Pak approaches UK for Sharif’s extradition

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    Declaring former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif an “absconder”, the incumbent Imran Khan-led government has approached the UK government for his extradition, according to an official. “The government is treating him (Sharif) as an absconder and has already sent a request to the British government to extradite him,” Dawn news quoted Adviser to the Prime…

  • Taliban delegation arrives in Pakistan ahead of peace talks

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    Amid the extending wait in the initiation of the all-important intra-Afghan dialogue, a Taliban delegation arrived in Pakistan to discuss the way forward towards the Afghan peace process. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Afghan Taliban’s political office in Doha, is reportedly leading the high-level delegation. It will meet senior leaders of the Imran…

  • Converted Sikh girl’s family want to leave Pakistan

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    The family members of the converted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur from Nankana Sahib in Pakistan have written a letter to authorities asking them to make a passport for them as they want to leave Pakistan, according to media reports. According to reports, the letter has been sent to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan Army…

  • Pakistan sanctions Taliban to evade FATF blacklisting

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    At a time when Afghan Taliban, the United States and the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan are on the verge of initiating the intra-Afghan dialogue, Pakistan government has issued a statutory notification, ordering imposition of sanctions on those Afghan Taliban leaders and groups, including the Haqqani Network, who are on the United Nations Security Council…

  • PAKISTAN: A Pariah Among Ummah

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    What a fall. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has become a pariah state as Arab countries withdraw their support to the selected government over their failure to accept the ground realities in the region. Instead of supporting their long term allies, Pakistan has decided to join with Iran-Turkey axis besides supporting China despite the Communist…

  • Terror groups join hands to sabotage Afghan peace process

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    Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistan-based terror group, has merged with its splinter groups Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Hizb-ul-Ahrar (HuA) in Afghanistan to re-align and re-establish itself to carry out terror activities aimed at sabotaging the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan along with targeting neighbouring Pakistan. Reliable sources have informed that representatives from TTP, JUA and HuA…

  • Imran says Pakistan can never recognise Israel

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    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken a clear and unequivocal stand, saying the founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had made it clear that until the Palestinians get their due rights, they will not recognise Israel. Khan expressed these views during an interview with a private news channel on Tuesday. He discussed at…

  • Arab relations turn a tightrope for Pakistan

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    On the first anniversary of revocation of Article 370 by India, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi took Saudi Arabia to task in a TV interview for not obliging Pakistan over the issue of ‘organising’ a meeting of the Council of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers  (CFM) on Kashmir in early February 2020.…

  • Miandad lashes out at Imran for ruining cricket

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    Legendary Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad has lashed out at his former teammate Imran Khan, saying the current Pakistan Prime Minister has ruined cricket in the country. Miandad said that Imran has ruined the state of affairs of cricket in Pakistan by appointing officials in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) who have zero knowledge of the…

  • Pak Court allows Sikh girl to unite with Husband

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    The Lahore High Court has allowed a Sikh woman to unite with her Muslim husband. Pakistan Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur alias Ayesha Bibi will now join with her husband Muhammad Hassan after she hesitated to go back to her parental house. Jagjit who is the daughter of a Nankana Sahib preacher was living in a…

  • Miandad slams Imran over government functioning

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    In what seems to be another bombshell in the volatile Pakistani politics, batting legend Javed Miandad threw a challenge to Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying that he would oppose every decision of his if it goes against the interests of Pakistan. “Not only in the affairs of sports, I will also challenge him (Imran Khan)…

  • Hundreds Protest in Spin Boldak Against Pakistan

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    Hundreds of Afghans staged a protest in Spin Boldak district to condemn last week’s deadly incident at Chaman crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan. On July 31, at least nine civilians were killed and 50 others were wounded in Pakistani forces artillery attacks on “residential areas” in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, the Afghan Defense Ministry…

  • Arabs snub Pakistan over Kashmir

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    A bellicose and rather desperate Pakistan wanting to ratchet up the volume over Kashmir tried a spanking new manoeuvre. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation wary of Pakistan’s antics is refusing to hold a foreign ministers meeting on Kashmir. A troubled Pakistan however, is unwilling to listen and is looking to appeal to the Islamic Umma…

  • ISIS trying to gain hold in PoK: Indian Army

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    The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group is attempting to gain a foothold in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) even as the terror infrastructure across the border was intact, a senior army officer said….reports Asian Lite News. “Whatever inputs we have…Islamic State is definitely trying to gain a foothold in the area (PoK),” the General Officer Commanding (GoC),…

  • Indo-Pak ties important to us: US

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    Reiterating that relations between India and Pakistan are important to it, the US has expressed the hope that New Delhi and Islamabad would work on issues between them and reduce tensions….reports Asian Lite News. As US Secretary of State John Kerry mentioned a couple of weeks ago after a call with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz…

  • No Chinese troops in POK: China

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    By Hardev Sanotra   China has denied any of its armed personnel were posted in Pakistani Kashmir, stating that these were “just stories”. A senior leader in charge of bilateral relations with India and Pakistan said that with modern technology and satellites no troops could remain undetected anywhere. “Even 5,000 ants cannot hide from being seeing,”…

  • Heat wave toll touches 1,242 in Karachi

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    The devastating heat wave that struck Pakistan’s Sindh province is slowly subsiding but the toll has climbed to 1,242 with 32 deaths reported in Karachi….reports Asian Lite News. Various government-run hospitals in Karachi confirmed that at least 32 people died of heatstroke. At least 13 people died in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), 11 in…

  • ?Pakistan to probe BBC report on MQM

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       Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directed the interior ministry to thoroughly investigate claims made in a BBC report about the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) receiving funding from India, and sought an early report. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan and special assistant to Sharif on national security and foreign affairs Tariq Fatemi met the premier…

  • Zaheer Abbas is the new ICC president

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    Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas assumed the office of International Cricket Council (ICC) president on Day 3 of the world cricket governing body’s Annual Conference week here….reports Asian Lite News. Zaheer began his one-year term and thanked the ICC Board and the Full Council for confirming his nomination. “I feel truly honoured and humbled to…

  • US hopes India, Pakistan will resolve issues

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    Expressing the hope that Pakistan would be a responsible stakeholder on security issues, in particular the nuclear issue, the US has said that New Delhi and Islamabad need to work on issues between them peaceably on their own….reports Asian Lite News.   US Secretary of State John Kerry has talked “about his concerns about tensions…

  • Pakistan vows to crush terrorism

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    Pakistan will do everything it can to stamp out terrorism, top Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi has said. “Let me be clear. We will be relentless in rooting out terrorism, whosoever its sponsors, external or internal,” Dawn quoted Lodhi as saying at the UN Security Council. Lodhi is Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN. “Any effort…

  • Many die in Pakistan heatwave

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     At least 136 people have died in a heatwave in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi and other districts of the Sindh province, media reported. Saturday was the hottest day this year in Karachi, where the mercury had shot up to 45 degree Celsius, Dawn online reported. The maximum temperature of 48 degree Celsius was recorded…

  • NBW issued against Musharraf

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    A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf  in a murder case. The court of additional sessions judge Kamran Basharat Mufti ordered the former military ruler to be arrested and presented in court on July 24 in connection with the murder of former Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed, Geo News…

  • Bradford charity sets an example

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    Bradford-based charity QED (Quest for Economic Development) celebrates 25th years of excellent services to the communities this year. Asian Lite News look into their activities and talks to Mohammed Ali and Adeeba Malik who are spearheading the movement at one of the most deprived areas in the country….reports Asian Lite News Some people see things…

  • Pakistan releases 113 Indian fishermen

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    Pakistan released 113 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan….reports Asian Lite News. The release came on a directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the wake of a similar announcement by his Indian counterpart Narenda Modi. The fishermen, who had been kept in Karachi’s Malir jail for…

  • Ban Ki-moon hopes for ‘amicable’ Kashmir resolution

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    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “will continue to engage with each other” to try to resolve the Kashmir situation “peacefully and amicably”, according to Ban’s deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq….reports Asian Lite News. At the daily press briefing here on Wednesday, Haq side-stepped a question by a…

  • Modi’s phone call reduced India, Pak tension

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phone call to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif has helped reduce tension between the two countries, a daily said. Daily Times, in an editorial “Modi’s overture”, said that Modi’s call has “helped reduce the rising temperature in India-Pakistan relations due to aggressive rhetoric by both sides”. “It was a positive…

  • Kerry tells Sharif to tamp down tensions with India

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    “Enormously concerned” over recent increase in tensions between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to work out how to tamp them down, acknowledging that the latter had just finished a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi….reports Asian Lite News. The increase “in the…

  • Modi speaks to South Asian counterparts ahead of Ramadan

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke over telephone to his Pakistan and Bangladesh counterparts, Nawaz Sharif and Sheikh Hasina, and Afghan President Ashran Ghani and conveyed to them good wishes for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, an official statement said. In his conversation with Sharif, Modi reiterated his message of “peaceful, friendly and cooperative” relations…

  • Rohingya Muslims concerns Pakistan

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    Pakistani political organisation Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has condemned the plight of Rohingya Muslims and demanded that Muslim countries severe diplomatic relations with Myanmar in protest, a media report said. Addressing a protest rally in Islamabad on Sunday, JI chief Sirajul Haq urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to convene an Islamist summit to come up with a…

  • Pakistan suspends ban on Save the Children

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    Pakistan’s interior ministry has suspended its order to shut down Save the Children international aid organisation in the country, a media report said ….reports Asian Lite News. An assistant commissioner of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration, along with the local police on June 11, sealed the organisation’s country office located on Margalla Road of Islamabad…

  • Protests in Pakistan over Modi’s remarks

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    Protests were held across Pakistan’s Sindh province to voice anger over what people described as “Indian war hysteria and inhuman brutalities being meted out to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar”. Activists of almost all religious parties and a number of political parties took out rallies and staged demonstrations across Sindh, Dawn online reported. Pakistan Muslim…

  • Sharif strikes sobering note amid tensions

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    Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif struck a sobering note while the Pakistani parliament stuck to the “old script” by passing resolutions against India amid “shrill exchanges” between the two neighbours…..reports Asian Lite News. “After the shrill exchanges between Pakistan and India in recent days, calm and sense were finally restored on our side by Prime Minister…

  • US asks India, Pakistan to cool down

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    “We encourage India and Pakistan to take those kinds of steps, and we believe that India and Pakistan each have a mutual interest in addressing the threat posed by violent extremism and terrorism,” By Arun Kumar  While declining comment on India’s surgical strike on militants in Myanmar, the US has asked India and Pakistan to…

  • Pakistan ‘rattled’ by Myanmar strike: India

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    India said the its surgical attack on militants in Myanmar has left Pakistan “rattled”, while intelligence inputs warned that retaliatory attacks were possible in the northeast…reports Asian Lite News. The Congress, meanwhile, accused ministers of blowing their trumpets too loudly, while the BJP said the opposition party was trying to belittle the success. On a…

  • Pakistan passes anti-India resolutions

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    Terming the recent statements by the Indian leadership as “irresponsible”, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said  that the atmosphere for relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors has been hampered even as the country’s parliament passed resolutions against India….Asian Lite News “Recent statements by Indian ministers have hampered our relations with India,” the premier said while…

  • Pakistan takes Modi remarks to UN

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     A top Pakistani official called upon the international community and the UN to take notice of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement in Dhaka last week regarding Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War. The people of Pakistan and Bangladesh were bound by strong bonds, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s key advisor Sartaj Aziz while adressing the Senate,…

  • Pakistan carries out 150 executions in 6 months

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    Pakistan has executed approximately 150 “criminals” over the past six months amidst concerns that those executed may have been tortured into making false confessions, reports The Independent. Saudi Arabia has executed at least 90 over the same time period while the US has executed 14. Human rights organisation Reprieve marked Pakistan’s 150th execution since the…

  • Ties with India will improve: Pak army chief

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    A day after declaring that Kashmir was an “unfinished agenda of Partition”, Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif  promised an improvement in relations with India but warned that Islamabad will not be intimidated by recent statements emanating from New Delhi. After a joint session of parliament, Sharif told media that in the coming days there would…

  • Will not sign nuclear NPT: Pakistan

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    Pakistan said it will not sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) because it considers it discriminatory. “It is a discriminatory treaty. Pakistan has the right to defend itself, so Pakistan will not sign the NPT. Why should we?” said Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on being asked whether Islamabad would sign the NPT if Washington…

  • Indo-Pak friendship film bags award

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    ‘Trading for Peace,’ a film produced by London-based Conciliation Resources, an organisation working to bring peace to Kashmir through trade between India and Pakistan, bagged ‘Positive Collaboration’ award…reports Asian Lite, Best newspaper for the Asian diaspora An initiative to encourage greater interaction and confidence across the Line of Control in Kashmir has been recognised with an industry…

  • Pakistan criticize Parrikars terrorism remarks

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    Pakistan has criticized Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s statement that India will use terrorism to counter terrorism from other countries. Indian media quoted Parrikar as saying  that India has to neutralize terrorists through terrorists. Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval has however sought to play down Parrikar’s controversial comment. Pakistan’s Adviser on National Security and…