Tag: Cyril Almeida
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Imran Khan’s tracksuit gets discussed on social media: its suitability, price, brand!
Prime Minister Imran Khan was slammed on social media for wearing a tracksuit during an international address yesterday. While Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a crucial message to the international community asking them to waiver debt payments on poorer countries following the abysmal economic conditions looming amid coronavirus lockdown, the critics pointed out the tracksuit…
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Mahira Khan & Mehwish Hayat fight against Abusive Language and Slurs
Pakistani actress, Mahira Khan, dissed a Twitter follower who vilified her yesterday in response to her tweet. Though the context of her tweet was obscure the actress seems to have purportedly expressed remorse on the inflammatory para 66 in the detailed judgment of Supreme Court in former General Pervez Musharraf’s treason case. Aap ki zehniat…
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Treason Case: Non-bailable arrests warrants for Dawn’s Cyril Almeida
News Analysis | The Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued non-bailable arrest warrants for daily Dawn’s Assistant Editor Cyril Almeida. The court has directed the journalist and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to appear before the court on October 8th. The name of Almeida has also been placed in the Exit Control List (ECL) on…
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The fly or the honeybee? – Haider Mehdi
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | Imam Ali ibn e Abi Talib, said anybody looking for an evil (evil example) is like a fly that leaves all the beautiful things around it and sits on the wound.” The people of Pakistan voted with their minds and their feet. Especially of KP who again gave a resounding…
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Why Spy chronicles’ won’t rescue Nawaz?
Waqas Shabbir | Some term them untold; few call them old wine in a new bottle. The significance of the much-talked-about ‘Spy chronicles’ may not be much, had ousted PM Nawaz Sharif not created a controversy when he declared that Pakistan was responsible for 2008 Mumbai attacks. Maybe no one would have even paid heed…
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In defense of the PML-N Quaid
News Analysis | Step 1: Call the Incident a Product of Yellow Journalism In a bid to defend its beleaguered leader incumbent government is going all guns blazing to convince the people of Pakistan that disqualified former PM Nawaz Sharif was misquoted by Indian media. Vigorously defending his ‘Quaid for life’ Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan…
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Mumbai attack comments: What future holds for Nawaz Sharif after his Anti-Pakistan statements
News Analysis | Ousted Prime Minister and former head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has made some ‘irresponsible’ and ‘controversial’ remarks on Mumbai attacks. In an exclusive interview to daily Dawn’s Cyril Almeida that appeared on Saturday, Sharif blamed Pakistan for ‘allowing’ terrorists to kill 150 people in Mumbai. “Militant organizations are active. Call…
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Thank you Nawaz Sharif for showing your real colors
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi| If anyone had any doubts about this man, Nawaz Sharif’s sanity and desperation to save his wealth and from going to jail along with Maryam Safdar, his Dawn interview on the Mumbai attacks should be enough! In an earlier piece, I had written ……”And that is why he’s so dangerous now…
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Man accused of shooting interior minister appears in Pakistan court
AFP | A man accused of shooting Pakistan’s interior minister in a suspected assassination attempt possibly linked to blasphemy appeared in court Monday, with the attack seen as an ominous sign for security ahead of nationwide elections. Abid Hussain appeared before the anti-terror court in Gujranwala city in Punjab province, where he was remanded into…
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Pakistan Army: The hope that got shattered
Saad Rasool | The Dawn Leaks issue has fizzled out, almost as inexplicably as it arose. And, in the aftermath, a significant fraction of Pakistanis are still wondering what it was, why it became such a big deal, and how it disappeared without a whimper. Some claim that the Army ‘surrendered’. Others speculate that some…