Questions SC, other state institutions’ inaction over Fazal’s filth-filled speeches

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Women’s Wing President Kanwal Shauzab lambasted Fazal Rehman for using inappropriate, absurd, shameful and slanderous language against PTI’s women, questioning the silence of the Supreme Court (SC) and other state institutions over his filth-filled speeches.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Kanwal Shauzab said that Fazal Rehman was known for speaking such filth and mudslinging against women for taking part in politics but no action has been taken against him hitherto.

She said that Islam gave great status to women that emphasized greatly on their sanctity and respect but this person hidden himself in the cloak of religion used such filth.

“We are followers of a religion that gave tremendous rights to women either they are mothers, daughters sisters and wife,” she added.

She said that Fazal Rehman even issued a fatwa against Benazir in 1993 but later become part her government but he was power hungry person.

Kanwal Shauzab stated that he used such improper language against PTI’s women because the PTI rendered him political orphan, as he could not win election even from his own constituency. Therefore, she added that he vent his frustration by foul talk because he could not even secure the slot of the President.

PTI leader went on to say that she could not call him as Maulana who was the engine of the PMD train, who used religious for his political motives.

She said that Maryam Aurangzeb, Hina Rabbani and Shazia Mari sat around this man but they did not dare to condemn his absurd remarks against women.

Kanwal Shauzab stated that Article 14 of the Constitution gave protection of the dignity and honor of every individual but the state was completely asleep, as no institution was speaking against the violation of the constitution and law.

She said that people were stripped and killed in this country but no organization of the state was taking action.

She raised question as to why PEMRA allow airing such vile and filth-filled speeches of Fazal.

“I express my sympathy with the women of Fazlur Rahman’s house, as how they are tolerating such a dirty person,” she added.

On one hand, she said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan enjoyed such a respectable status who built three state-of-the-art cancer hospitals after his mother’s name that every mother of Pakistan yearned and wished to have a son like him.

PTI leader said that every sister wished to have a brother who would become a source of respect and honor for the entire nation.

On the other, she said that Fazal Rehman was a ‘Satan’ under garb of human, who was being curbed by every woman of the country.

She urged the media to expose this man who was vomiting his internal filth due to his utter frustration for not being succeeded in getting the presidential slot.

PTI leader said that Fazal lost his senses; hence she suggested country’s top psychiatrist to cure him for free to save Pakistani women from him.

She requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of rising human rights violations and take to task Fazal Rehman because Pakistani women would not tolerate such canalization, blackmailing character assassination anymore.

KARACHI, NOV 30 (DNA) — Renowned scholar of Hadith, Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic finance, Mufti Taqi Usmani on Wednesday called for setting up an empowered task force under a specially created division of the finance ministry to implement recommendations on interest-free banking system in the country.

He said this while addressing a seminar on seeking recommendations to establish an interest-free banking system in Karachi on Wednesday. He urged the finance minister to take practical steps to abolish interest-based banking system in Pakistan, contending that every religious faction was in harmony with this.

He said that the government has thus far constituted eight committees to wean the national economy from a conventional, interest-based system to an Islamic system. The committees, he said, worked at different times from 1978 to 2008.

“These committees were only empowered to prepare recommendations,” he said, adding that “But there is a need to establish a fully empowered task force to enforce an interest-free banking system in the country.”

He further suggested that the government constitute a division in the finance ministry to oversee the implementation of the interest-free banking system and that the task force should work under this division.

These committees produced several reports, all of which were never implemented. These include the Council of Islamic Ideology report on the revision of Ribba from the economy in 1971.

Then there was the report on banks and financial institutions by the Commission for Islamization of Economy in 1992. Report by Commission of Transformation of Finance System in August 2001, report of the task force of Ministry of Law and Justice and Human Rights of 2002, report of the task force of the Ministry of Finance to propose measures to bring government borrowing in compliance with Sharia of June 2002.

The report of the Self-Reliance Commission by the Ministry of Planning in 1991 and the report of the Steering Committee for the Promotion of Islamic Banking in Pakistan of December 2015.

He said that from 1978 to 2018, different institutions conducted detailed research and prepared significant reports on the subject of Islamization of the economy. All of these committees included religious scholars and financial experts with a single-point agenda to eliminate the interest-based banking system.

However, he said that all of these commissions, committees and task forces were tasked with preparing a set of recommendations which were shelved. “There is no need to establish any commission that makes recommendations but to establish a powerful task force that is empowered to implement the recommendations.

He further said that Article 227 of the Constitution directs that no law can be imposed, which is against Sharia. Moreover, it was in light of Article 203 that the Federal Sharia Court was established, and a bench was established in the Supreme Court to allow for appeals to the Sharia court’s decision.

“There is a need to add religious scholars in Sharia benches in Supreme Court,” he said. Armed struggle to implement Sharia not allowed. While addressing the seminar, Mufti Usmani said that armed struggle to implement Shariah is impermissible.

He added that he wanted to end the usury system and has worked extensively on the subject. But for the effort to succeed, a unanimous voice must be raised to end the scourge of usury. He said that all concerned institutions must try to implement interest-free banking.

At a point, he added that the implementation of Shariah law is the most important thing under Islamic rule of law. Mufti Usmani emphasized Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to take practical steps to abolish interest-based banking system in Pakistan, adding that unified decisions of scholars have always led to good outcomes. =DNA

ISLAMABAD, NOV 30: /DNA/ – PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday congratulated the newly appointed military leadership, expressing the hope that it would work to “end the prevailing trust deficit” between the nation and the state.

Last week, Gen Asim Munir, a soldier with considerable operational experience and a career steeped in intelligence, was designated as the country’s 17th army chief while Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza, another infantry officer with an enviable career, was appointed as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee.

The appointments ended weeks of intense speculation about who will lead the powerful military following Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s retirement. Gen Mirza took charge on Nov 27 while Gen Munir assumed charge on Nov 29.

In a tweet today, Imran felicitated the new military command. “We hope the new military leadership will work to end the prevailing trust deficit that has built up in the last 8 months between the nation and the state.

“The strength of the state is derived from its people,” the PTI chief added.

Along with the message, Imran also shared a screenshot of a purported quote by Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, which some people on social media questioned the veracity of.

Imran slammed for ‘selective memory’

Reacting to Imran’s statement, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb took exception to his claim and questioned whether Quaid-i-Azam had also offered an indefinite extension to the army chief behind closed doors.

The information minister, addressing a press conference in Islamabad, said the only mistrust present was the one in Imran’s mind.

Aurangzeb said Imran was now twiddling his thumbs after the party’s long march and advised him to do the following two things: Declare all the gifts he had taken from the Toshakhana and follow through on registering a case against the Jang Group and Dubai-based businessman Umar Zahoor for the claims they made against him.

“You know that if you file the case, you will have to provide details about the watch and all those details related to the Toshakhana which have yet to be revealed to the nation.”

As for the PTI’s announcement to leave the provincial assemblies, she said Imran only wanted political instability and discord in the country.

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz claimed Imran had a “selective memory” but other people did not.

“You collude with certain elements of the establishment, they raise and feed you like their godson. Now you beg for their unconstitutional interference and when it is denied you call them traitors. You have the audacity to talk about trust deficit? You think people are fools,” she tweeted.

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to hold local government polls in Punjab in the last week of April 2023, an ECP spokesperson said on Wednesday, pinning the holdup on delaying tactics.

Quoting the minutes of a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Sikandar Sultan Raja, to review the Punjab local elections schedule, the spokesman said a consensus to this effect was reached after detailed consultations.

According to the spokesperson, the meeting was informed that local government laws were changed twice due to which the ECP had to conduct the demarcation of local constituencies twice.

The term of the Punjab local bodies expired on January 1, 2022.

He said the provincial government notified Punjab Local Government Act on November 16, 2022, and as per the new law, the ECP would have to delimit the constituencies for the third time.

Moreover, the Punjab government was yet to notify Punjab local government constituency rules and Punjab Local Government Conduct of Election Rules, the spokesperson added.

“The Punjab government is obliged to support [the ECP] in the light of the constitution, law, and orders of the Supreme Court,” the spokesperson added.

The ECP had either conducted or was about to conduct local elections in all provinces, the spokesperson said quoting the CEC. “Only Punjab remains where the laws have been changed during different periods,” the CEC said chairing the meeting.

The CEC also said elections could not be held only in Punjab because of delaying tactics. He did not mention who was dragging their feet on the local polls.

The spokesman said the government of Punjab should provide copies of ECP Rules and other data to the provincial commission of Punjab.

“If any changes are made in the local government laws, the ECP will conduct the local polls in Punjab using its constitutional powers,” the spokesperson said.

According to the ECP spokesperson, Chief Secretary Punjab asked the ECP that before scheduling the local polls, it should be remembered that the holy month of Ramadan might coincide with the local elections in late April.

“For that reason, the ECP should decide an appropriate date,” the spokesperson quoted Chief Secretary Punjab as saying.

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ISLAMABAD, NOV 30: As the Rabi season approaches and sowing is underway in various parts of Pakistan, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has appreciated the role of agriculture universities across the country in supporting the farming community and has urged them to enhance their facilitation to farmers and guide them to take right decisions to gain bumper yields of grains, pulses, vegetables and oilseed crops. HEC has advised the universities to adopt unconventional methods for enhancing the agricultural productivity by setting up bootcamps to train housewives and farmers.

In a statement, HEC has assured the Agriculture Universities of all its possible support in facilitating the farming community so that they get maximum produces and mitigate the hazards of climate change. The universities have been requested to take special care of farmers in the flood-affected areas.

Pakistan’s Agriculture Universities have always been at the forefront to assist and issue guidelines to the farmer community throughout the Kharif and Rabi seasons, be it pertaining to preparation of fields, quality of seeds, timeliness of sowing, fertilization, irrigation, and harvest.

They also offer their expertise in the key areas of overall plant health covering pathology, entomology, virology, biotechnology, breeding & genetics, ecology, crop physiology, agronomy, horticulture, water resource management, and applied climate sciences.

In the wake of the havoc wreaked by floods this year, the academic community has greatly fulfilled its responsibility to provide maximum support in the flood affected areas, and the agriculture universities have further strengthened their bond with the farmer community.

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ISLAMABAD, NOV 30: Youth being the most vital asset of the nation, with Pakistan having more than 60 per cent of its population under 30 years of age – potentially an important demographic dividend – needs to be engaged positively and prepared to take up the challenges of upcoming era, empathetically and systematically.

The views were expressed by speakers at a ceremony organized by Youth Impact, a not-for-profit social development organization, at a local hotel, to showcase and acknowledge 75 peacebuilding projects undertaken by youth leaders it trained from across Pakistan this year.

The program was addressed, among other notables, by Khalid Rahman, chairman, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Saad Tariq Siddiqui, chairman, Alpine Club of Pakistan, Tauseeq Haider, famous TV Anchor, Abdul Samad Khan, CEO, Youth Impact, and Mathew Singer, director, public affairs section, US embassy.

To prepare Pakistan’s youth to volunteer for critical social leadership and peacebuilding roles, Youth Impact had launched a campaign through ‘Camp Himalayas’, a program to train more than 400 young social leaders, who embarked on a journey of community service by executing multiple tasks of social development, inclusivity and nation-building in their local districts. In total, nine wilderness-based outdoor leadership camps were conducted in Kaghan valley and Margalla hills following which these youth volunteers delivered a total of 372 peacebuilding seminars and 75 peacebuilding projects in their own communities, with a total impact count of 23,488 community members engaged. These projects were largely delivered in the remote areas of Balochistan, South Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, as well as in lower income localities of Karachi.

Speakers at the ceremony lauded their efforts of giving back to the society and underscored the importance of voluntarism among our youth through multiple community welfare initiatives. They lauded the efforts of the young individuals, who chose to bring about social change and development by projecting the values of unity, respect, diversity and tolerance.

The speakers also stressed the need of more such platforms, that pave the energies of our youth into the right direction by providing them a constructive and productive programme design for larger benefit of society.

Abdul Samad Khan – CEO and Founder of Youth Impact, having transformed more than 26000 individuals through various programmes – pledged to gear up for the bigger challenges with an objective of training more than 1.2 million youth in the next ten years.

The event also marked the 10th anniversary of “Markhor”, along with launching its 10th edition. Where young individuals would undergo the largest wilderness-based annual youth leadership moot of Pakistan, near khanpur, starting from November 30th and concluding on Dec 04, 2022. It aims to develop interpersonal and social skills in youth through extensive experiential learning.  The programme attracts not only national but also international applicants, who join this venture to equip themselves with real life skills. A total of 714 individuals have so far benefited from this programme.

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Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has emphasized that as no nation in the world could progress without focusing on research, the youth should promote a culture of research in all walks of life.

RCCI Acting President Muhammad Hamza Sarosh who was invited as a Chief Guest on 7th Multidisciplinary Student Research International Conference at University of Wah, said that information and digital technologies were the future technologies in which the new generation of Pakistan should acquire special expertise to enable them to serve the country to cope with the challenges of modern era. RCCI Former Vice President Mr. Tallat Mahmood Awan along with Mr. Abdul Rauf, Executive Committee member were also present.

Pakistan is very lucky to have 60% youth in the national population. Youth is our future and its our collective responsibility to provide them an environment where they can seek business opportunities over job opportunities, he added.

With the motive to encourage students to become job creators instead of job seekers, RCCI aimed to provide opportunities to our youth to participate in interactive sessions, training workshops, to learn about success stories, innovative ideas which enhance their knowledge about entrepreneurship.

We at RCCI has a close liaison with different Universities, he said. He also congratulated the organizing team of 7th Multi-disciplinary Student Research International Conferences-2022 and assured RCCI support and assistance in this regard.