Skip to main content

PM Imran Khan chairs PTI parliamentary party meeting today

PM Imran Khan PTI Parliamentary party meeting

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday (today) will chair a meeting of parliamentary party of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI, ARY News reported. 

Sources said that the current political scenario in the country, economic situation, regional security, and other issues will be discussed in the meeting.

PTI’s office bearers and leaders are directed to ensure their attendance at the meeting. The meeting will be held at the Parliament House at 6 p.m. today.

It may be noted that the federal cabinet has approved a circulation summary of Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure extension, ARY News reported, citing sources.

According to sources, a new summary regarding the extension of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa was formulated by the Federal Government after the Supreme Court heard a case into the matter.

Read more:Govt prepares new draft to remove SC objections on COAS’ extension

Sources said that the summary was sent to cabinet members through special messenger for their opinion on the matter. The summary has been sent to the President for approval, confirmed the sources.

The decision was taken during an important meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad to consult a case regarding Army Chief General Bajwa’s extension in SC. Army chief Gen Bajwa also attended the meeting.

The post PM Imran Khan chairs PTI parliamentary party meeting today appeared first on ARY NEWS.



from ARY NEWS https://ift.tt/2OoSW0e

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

IT ministry forms panel to review social media rules

ISLAMABAD: While uproar against the new rules to regulate social media continues from various segments of society, including parliamentarians, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and civil society, the information technology ministry on Friday formed a committee to review the rules. The federal cabinet approved the rules on Feb 11, but later after opposition from various quarters, including companies that manage different social media platforms, the prime minister announced that a fresh consultation process would be launched over the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules 2020. The committee formed by the IT ministry is headed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Chairman Amir Azeem Bajwa while its members are Eazaz Aslam Dar, additional secretary of IT; Tania Aidrus, member of the Strategic Reforms Imple­mentation Unit, Prime Minister Office; and Dr Arslan Khalid, focal person on digital media at the PM Office. Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Ma

Young girl’s tragic story makes her symbol of Yemen war

Buthaina Mansur al-Rimi’s life has changed drastically since last year — orphaned in Sanaa, the little girl controversially ended up in Saudi Arabia for medical care and has just returned to Yemen’s capital. Her entire immediate family was wiped out in an air strike by a Saudi-led coalition that backs Yemen’s government, using an explosive device Amnesty International says was made in the US. Images of Buthaina’s rescue and a picture of her swollen and bruised at a hospital trying to force open one of her eyes with her fingers were beamed worldwide. That international fame saw her become something of a propaganda pawn in the war between Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels and Saudi media. “I was in my mother’s room with my father, sisters, brother and uncle, the first missile hit, and my father went to get us sugar to get over the shock, but then the second missile hit, and then the third,” she says. “And then the house fell,” adds the little girl, who says she is eight. It was the