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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Jawed Naqvi
DAWN.COM E-Paper | March 04, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications LAHORE: Berating Federal Law, Justice and Human Rights Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar for giving wrong information at the 58th session of UN Human Rights Council, PTI Punjab incarcerated President Dr Yasmin Rashid has demanded that the amended PECA Act should be invoked against him for ‘fake news’.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Abbas Nasir
LAHORE: The Punjab government plans to increase the number of Special Sexual Offences Investigation Units (SSOIUs) across the province to investigate scheduled offences under the Anti-Rape (Investigation & Trial) Act of 2021 and offer better services to women in distress. In this regards, around 150 more SSOIUs would be added Punjab wide to probe the scheduled offences.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Shahid Mehmood
LAHORE: The incarcerated PTI vice-chairman, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, has advised the PPP to either demand a Council of Common Interest (CCI) meeting or quit the ruling coalition in the Cente over its objections to proposed canals to irrigate land in Punjab. The PPP, which is in alliance with the PML-N in the federal government, has expressed serious reservations over a plan to build new canals on the Indus River for farming in Punjab’s Cholistan region.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Vikas Meshram |Binoy Kampmark |Mansoor Malik
The Hydrant Programme, which leads the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce, is supported by two national policing initiatives: the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) Programme and the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme (VKPP). It has documented 4,422 victims and 6,670 suspects in 2024.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik
LAHORE: Battered and cash-strapped, the PTI is now calling on its parliamentarians and ticket-holders to make financial contributions to help bear the essential expenses of the party. The PTI leadership after seeking the approval of party founder Imran Khan sent an internal circular to the parliamentarians, ticket-holders and those holding important positions in the party to raise funds for running it.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Jawed Naqvi |Niaz Murtaza
LAHORE: Enumerating a host of problems being faced by the country’s people, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has questioned the existence of the federal government and asked whether “the silent majority should suffer, as me and my colleagues are suffering in jails”. Mr Qureshi has asked these questions in a hand-written letter titled “Where is the federal government?”, provided to the media here on Monday.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Amjad Mahmood
• Minister slams PTI over ‘fake narratives’ on social media• Hammad believes ‘minus-Imran formula’ will fail; Sahibzada says PTI eying talks with establishment LAHORE: Information Minister Ata Tarar on Sunday criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) call for civil disobedience, mocking its proposer for being “disobedient since childhood”.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik
LAHORE: PTI vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has put the onus on the government to create a conducive environment for talks with his party. Talking to the media after his appearance in an Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore, the incarcerated PTI leader said a favourable response from the government can pave the way for dialogue with PTI. He reiterated the demand put forward by PTI founder Imran Khan for a judicial commission to investigate the May 9 riots and punish only those involved in violence.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
LAHORE: Following purchasing a large fleet of luxury vehicles for the bureaucracy as well as parliamentarians, the Punjab government has given its nod to massively increase the salaries of provincial parliamentarians. The PML-N government had secretly taken the matter to the provincial cabinet meeting, which met on Dec 3, as an ex-agenda item for its approval.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Ikram Junaidi
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: PTI Punjab chapter president Hammad Azhar on Wednesday asked the party leaders and workers to install secret CCTV cameras not just inside their home premises but also on the streets and in the neighbouring houses. The directive came in wake of the alleged ‘abduction’ of PTI members, enforced disappearances and raids on their homes and businesses in the provinces.
