ISLAMABAD, Sep 24 (DNA): The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered to
compile lists of conflicting decisions of the High Courts.

The Registrar Office of the SC has issued an important circular in the
matter of discrepancies in the judgments of the five high courts and the
circular has asked to prepare lists of judgments based on discrepancies.

According to the circular, appeals against the decisions of the high
courts are pending in the SC. A number of inconsistencies have been
identified in the challenged decisions of the high courts.

In the circular issued by the Registrar’s Office, the concerned office
is directed to prepare and submit a list of conflicting decisions of the
high courts within 15 days. DNA

ISLAMABAD, Sep 24 (DNA): A local court in Islamabad on Sunday sent
journalist Muhammad Khalid Jamil to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in
a case pertaining to spreading “provocative narrative against the state
institutions through social media platforms”.

The journalist was presented in an Islamabad district and sessions court
today after completion of a two-day physical remand.

During the hearing, the FIA sought more physical remand of Jamil which
was rejected by Islamabad court. After hearing arguments, he was sent to
jail on 14-day judicial remand.

Khalid Jamil, the bureau chief of a private news channel, was taken into
custody from his residence at Media town, Islamabad.

According to the First Information Report (FIR), the accused was found
“sharing and spreading highly intimidating content/tweets on social
media platforms, including X”.

The FIR invoked Section 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) of
the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). It also included Section 20 of the
Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca).

The FIR asserted that the journalist was found to cause “harm to
Pakistan”. DNA

Says regional peace to remain elusive without resolution of Kashmir dispute

Islamabad: /DNA/ – Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment Mashaal Hussain Mallick extoled the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaarul Haq Kakar for raising voicing for the oppressed Kashmiris in his address at the UN General Assembly session.

SAPM on HR and Women Empowerment, while addressing the award ceremony arranged by Bright Future Society, said that I am grateful to the PM for highlighting the state terrorism in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir at global stage.

Mushaal said that PM’s address in the General Assembly not only helped exposed the Indian fascist and notorious face before the world but it would also encourage the Kashmiri brothers and sisters that Pakistan never missed the chance to bring to lime light the brutalities of the Indian brutal forces before the world.

She went on to say that the PM as the ambassador and advocate of Kashmiris highlighted the worst human rights violations in the occupied valley before the international community.

Mushaal vowed that Pakistan will continue to expose India’s Hindu fascist regime at every forum globally.

SAPM said that the oppressed Kashmiris see Pakistan as the center of their hopes for achieving their right to self-determination as India fascist Narendra Modi led government turned the scenic Kashmir valley into a killing field.

She said that all top Hurriyat leaders including her husband Yasin Malik was in Indian Illegally and unlawful incarceration as they were detained in fake, fabricated and politically motivated cases to silence their just voices.

Moreover, she said that Hindutva regime even subject other minorities to worst state oppression.

Mushaal said that Indian government was not only involved in state terrorism in IIOJK but its notorious agency carried out terrorist activities across the world.

Mushaal stated that the recent killing of Sikh separist leader in Canada exposed the ugly face of Hindutva regime before the world.

She urged that the international community and UN bodies should take immediate steps for resolution of the Kashmir issue and releasing detained Kashmir leaders and other freedom fighters because the regional peace would remain elusive without settlement of the long-standing Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of the people of the occupied territory and UN resolutions.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Saturday urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to announce the exact date for the upcoming general elections without any delay.

PPP while demanding a level-playing field for all the political parties has also urged the ECP to announce the date and election schedule as per the Constitution while the PTI insisted that the ECP should play its constitutional role to ensure holding polls within the constitutionally mandated period of 90 days.

The demand came just days after the ECP announced that elections would be held in the last week of January as the delimitation process would be completed by Nov 30, followed by a 54-day election programme period before the general elections.

Apparently, the eagerly awaited announcement cleared the fog of political ambiguity and rekindled hopes for a resurgence of political and economic stability but despite clearing the air about polls’ timing, the ECP did not announce the exact elections date, leaving room for speculation.

Therefore, a PTI spokesperson urged the ECP to shun the useless practice of hiding behind the technicalities to avoid the announcement of a cut-off date for the general elections.

The PTI official also criticised the ECP for its dilly-dallying tactics to announce a specific poll date, demanding of the electoral body to avoid deviating from the Constitution.

In a statement, the PTI leader said that the ECP, through its officials, was trying to use technical reasons as an excuse to avoid announcement of the exact elections date, adding that the system of Pakistan was built on the foundations of democracy. Hence, he said, the ECP should focus on exercising its constitutional duty to conduct fair and transparent elections within the constitutionally defined framework.

Though the Constitution made it mandatory to hold polls within 90 days after the dissolution of the National Assembly, the ECP selected the last week of January for polling on grounds that the previous coalition government had notified the census results just days before dissolving the assembly and the decision made it mandatory to complete delimitation exercise before holding polls.

“The electoral body is not willing to give constitutional rights of vote to 240 million after the dissolution of the National Assembly on Aug 9,” the spokesperson said. He flayed the ECP for adopting the approach of “criminal negligence” towards the serious efforts of the president of the country to ensure polls within the constitutionally defined time limit.

“The entire nation was in great anxiety pertaining to the electoral watchdog’s attempts to rob the nation of their right to vote under the guise of technical tricks and misinterpretation of the Constitution,” the PTI spokesperson said.

He went on to say that the ECP should immediately drop the shameful efforts to dig the grave of democracy and make Pakistan weak internally and the land of lawlessness before the world and should give the poll date within 90 days.

In a statement, PPP Secretary General Nayyar Hussain Bukhari said that the ECP should give the date and schedule and the interim government should assist it in holding free, fair, and transparent polls in the country.

The PPP secretary general said that the doors of negotiations were never closed in politics, adding that the PPP formed an alliance with its rivals for the sake of democracy and the Constitution.

He added that the PPP even signed the Charter of Democracy with the PML-N in the recent past.

He said that the PPP did not want to increase bitterness but it could not work with the groups that were enemies of the state and state institutions — an apparent reference to the PTI and the May 9 incidents. Bukhari said that the PTI leadership had been disqualified, adding that the party also did not hold intra-party elections.

Bukhari said that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif went abroad on the recommendation of the doctors of Imran Khan’s hospital and on the order of the judiciary.

He said that Nawaz should come to Pakistan and play his political role.

In addition, he said revenge in the name of accountability was not new for the PPP, adding that PPPP President Asif Ali Zardari served a long jail-term without being awarded any punishment before being acquitted by the judiciary in the cases.

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani maintained that Pakistan’s decision regarding establishing relations with Israel would be determined with consideration of both Pakistan’s national interests and those of the Palestinian people.

The statement came in response to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s remarks regarding normalisation of Israel’s relations with the Muslim world.

Cohen, as reported by Israeli media outlet Kan News, suggested that “six or seven” Islamic nations were likely to normalise ties with Israel, following Saudi Arabia’s potential inclusion in the Abraham Accords, which already involved the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan.

The Israeli minister also claimed to have met with leaders from several Muslim countries who have not recognised Israel yet.

Jalil, in response to the Israeli FM’s assertion, clarified that Cohen has not met with any Pakistani official in recent times.

In 2005, during the tenure of former president General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s then-foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri met with his then-counterpart Silvan Shalom in Turkey, Istanbul.

This was the first meeting that took place publicly and was a result of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s efforts. However, no such meetings at the level of foreign ministers or higher have been reported in the media since then.

A senior Pakistani diplomat, on the condition of anonymity, hoped that Pakistan would not have to make a decision on this matter in the near future.

In his address at the 78th United Nations General Assembly this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said peace with Saudi Arabia means peace between the Muslim world and Jews.

Netanyahu also claimed Israel is “on the cusp” of normalising ties with Saudi Arabia while holding maps showing the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights as part of Israel.

His statement has since sparked a new debate about which Muslim countries, after the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, will establish relations with Israel.

It should be noted that Cohen has claimed that six or seven Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, will soon recognise Israel. However, he did not mention the names of those seven countries due to the situation in Libya, international affairs experts believe.

A significant diplomatic issue with Libya was sparked less than a month ago by Cohen, whose office disclosed that then-former foreign minister of Libya, Najla Mangoush, had met with him in Rome.

Mangoush was fired as a result of the discovery, which also caused widespread protests in North Africa, and fled to London. Following his error, US officials reprimanded Cohen for “killing” the conduit of communication with Libya, The Cradle reported.