Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that all characters who conspired against party supremo Nawaz Sharif have been “unmasked and met their fate”. “Nawaz Sharif is the still the top leader of the country despite being ousted from power three times,” she remarked. Moreover, banners and posters have been displayed on the way from the airport to Jati Umrah to welcome Maryam. Sea of people eagerly waiting to welcome Maryam Nawaz Sharif.#خوش_آمدید_امید_سحر pic.twitter.com/iTtT12xhzL — PML(N) (@pmln_org) January 28, 2023Maryam, after her arrival at Lahore airport, tweeted: "Pak sar zameen shadbad". Maryam and her father, Nawaz Sharif, left London for Geneva on January 4.

It should not be surprising to note how this region faces some of the toughest — conventional and non-conventional — security challenges in the world today. It is hard to deny the impact of colonisation across South Asia. The growing influence of China across South Asia adds another layer of stress to the regional friction evident within and across South Asia today. Despite varied differences, both large and smaller South Asian states share vital natural resources which are confronting increasing climate threats. All South Asian states need to cooperate to better address regional climate-related challenges and to untap the economic potential of the broader region.

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy Flotilla comprising PNS RAHNAWARD and RASADGAR along with PN Submarine HASHMAT port-called Muscat in Oman and Bandar Abbas in Iran, respectively, during overseas deployment. On arrival at host countries’ ports, Pakistan Navy ships were warmly welcomed by representatives of Pakistani embassies and officials of host navies, a Pakistan Navy media release said. Students of Pakistani School Muscat and members of Pakistani community also visited PN Ships. Upon completion of the port call at Iran, PN ships participated in a passage exercise with Iranian Navy Ship IRIS KAMAN to enhance interoperability. The port visits of Oman and Iran by PN Flotilla will further enhance existing close diplomatic ties and cordial relations with friendly countries.

"Necessary security measures have been taken to continue normal activities at the embassy and diplomats of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Tehran," he said. Azerbaijan's foreign ministry responded strongly to the attack, summoning Iran's ambassador in Baku to demand justice and saying it would evacuate its embassy staff from Tehran. It said an "anti-Azerbaijani campaign" in Iran had contributed to the attack, without elaborating, and accused Tehran of long ignoring its appeals to boost embassy security. Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim former Soviet republic, has friendly ties with the United States and Israel and has had difficult diplomatic relations with Iran. Israel has had an embassy in Baku since the early 1990s and has been a significant military backer of Azerbaijan in recent years.

Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar says inflation reached historic high during the PTI government’s tenure and the rupee depreciated due to failed economic policies. Dar added that the government inherited several problems from the previous government, adding, the government was working day and night. The finance minister further said that the economy of Pakistan was destroyed in five years, but the government of the coalition parties wants to improve it till the next elections. "Pakistan would not be where it is today if Imran Khan had not done political enmity,” he further said. “Imran Khan should apologise to the nation for destroying the country,” he remarked.

Share:It is a matter of mammoth embarrassment for an agricultural country like Pakistan where rampant poverty and soaring food inflation have confounded the miseries of the downtrodden segment of society manifold. Last year heavily devastating floods played havoc in Pakistan resultantly pushing about 6.8 to 9 million people into pauperism talons swooping up the poverty rate to 35.7 % as per cautious estimation of the World Bank (WB). Apart from this, it is also really heartrending to witness that we are running short of food grains, productivity, and provision of wheat flour to the people. Seeing deplorable footage of the miserably poor people running after the flour bags having money in their hands like pipe and the piper on mainstream media has cast gloom on the entire nation and quite ironically still, we claim that Pakistan is an agricultural country. Quite ironically both political opponents frequently claim to address our economic woes but on the other side, each of them doesn’t have any tangible solution to such problems.

He [Zardari] has given money to a terrorist outfit and people from powerful agencies are facilitating him,” Imran alleged. “The nation has come to know what [Prime Minister] Shahbaz [Sharif] and [Finance Minister Ishaq] Dar are. The former prime minister said that whoever came to bail Pakistan out of the economic morass would put conditions. Also, the caretaker government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Friday recalled the K-P security personnel of PTI Chairman Imran Khan. One person died in the shooting, while several members of the PTI chairman’s close circle, including Faisal Javaid, Imran Ismail, Ahmad Chattha and Imran Yousaf were also injured.

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LAHORE: Seventeen Pakistani nationals imprisoned in the Indian jails were repatriated via Attari-Wagah border on Friday. According to Pakistan High Commission information on Twitter, “17 Pakistani nationals imprisoned in India were repatriated today via Attari-Wagah border after hectic efforts of Pakistan High Commission in India and Foreign Office and cooperation of the Indian side. Our efforts will continue to repatriate all prisoners from India on completion of their sentences, said the commission.

The Express Tribune reported first that India had invited the foreign minister to the SCO meeting scheduled to take place in Goa in May. “Both Pakistan and India are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. “As in the past, these invitations are being processed as per standard procedures and a decision will be taken in due course,” she added. The SCO meetings come at a time when tensions continue to persist between Pakistan and India. Hina Rabbani Khar visited India in 2011 when she was the foreign minister.

Imported goods will be sold at rates based on the new parity with the dollar and will provide windfall profits to retailers. The fall in the rupee has been enough to absorb any except the most extraordinary fall in global oil prices, with the result that there will additional inflation as goods transport and power rates become more expensive. It may be noted that Senator Dar’s attempt to defend the rupee, which was the policy measure he was best associated with, has come to an abrupt end. Senator Dar came to the Finance Ministry last year to bring down the inflation ruining his party’s electoral hopes. His assumption that inflation was imported proved simplistic, and instead, Pakistan is faced with the sort of inflation it has never seen.

The recent decision to allow a rapist to go unpunished after he married his victim is a slap in the face of human rights. A local jirga facilitated an out-of-court settlement between the families of the victim and the offender. The ruling is a step backwards in terms of ensuring justice, and a step forward in normalising the rape culture. More than 21,000 women were reported to have been raped in just last four years and the unreported cases outnumbered the reported ones. The patriarchal mindset prevailing in all sections of society cannot be turned overnight, but providing justice to the victim is essential under all circumstances.

The rupee devaluation helped the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) rise by 1,200 points during the day. The global lender had asked the government to let the market forces -- mostly commercial banks -- determine the exchange rate. The rupee had remained under government control since Ishaq Dar took charge as the finance minister in late September 2022. At that time, Dar had said that the fair value of the rupee stood in the range of Rs180-200 per US dollar. Now, the black market rate will come closer to the bank rate,” he added.

The demonstrations marking India’s so-called Republic Day as Black Day saw Kashmiris, members of the Sikh community, and their allies pressing the British government to intervene and halt the ongoing genocide in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). “Only those nations who respect wishes and aspirations of other nations, like Kashmiris, have a right to celebrate their freedom,” he added. “Why is India so scared of Kashmiris?” Kayani asked. “This day in 1950 when Indian state adopted its constitution basically legitimized its theft of the right of self-determination from the peoples of the Punjab and Kashmir,” Srai said. “For any success, grass roots momentum is needed in western nations especially Europe where the local governments must be informed vile acts of Indian state i.e.