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I’m not only factor behind Pakistan’s team bad performance: Misbah

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Lahore : Pakistan men’s team head coach Misbah-ul-Haq thinks that he is not the only factor behind the national team’s bad performances over the past year.

The 46-year-old Misbah will appear before the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) cricket committee along with bowling coach Waqar Younis after the team’s disappointing performance on the tour of New Zealand.

Misbah wants the cricket committee to do ‘fact-based analysis’ which will further help the cricket of Pakistan.

“We have to understand all factors behind team’s defeat. There can’t just be me behind the dipping in performances. Nothing will change If one person leaves the system but we must address all the problems realistically,” Misbah said in a presser at Gaddafi Stadium.

Misbah took responsibility for the team’s defeat but wants critics to understand the reasons behind failures.

“The players worked hard in the available resources and conditions after going through a tough quarantine in New Zealand,” he added.

“COVID-19 is impacting not just our performances but it has affected other teams like India and Sri Lanka too. Cricket is completely changing due to the virus but now we have to get accustomed to this,” he maintained.

Misbah believes skipper Babar Azam’s injury was also the biggest factor behind the defeat. “Babar’s injury was a big miss for us as he has been among runs in the past year or so. Pakistan without Babar is like New Zealand without Kane,” he added.

“We should also accept that the Blackcaps were better than us in all three departments. They have been playing good cricket for the past couple of years. We also tried our best on the field during the series but unfortunately, results did not go our way,” he maintained.

Federal cabinet likely to approve budget for new accountability courts

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ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the federal cabinet meeting on Tuesday (tomorrow) where the members are likely to approve Rs400 million budget for the establishment of new accountability courts.

The federal cabinet members will deliberate upon the 15-point agenda including political, economic, and power-related matters in the forthcoming meeting.

A draft bill regarding the Auditor General Office will be presented in the upcoming meeting, whereas, the appointment of the director-general (DG) of Legal and Justice Authority is also included in the agenda.
The federal capital is likely to make important decisions including approval of a budget worth Rs400 million for the establishment of new accountability courts in the country.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Supreme Court (SC) had directed the federal government to make 30 new accountability courts functional within a month besides issuing orders to appoint the law secretary.

Moreover, it will also approve the provision of additional stocks of wheat to state-owned utility stores in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

The other items include approval to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Commercial Banking Lahore to declare a police station; appointment of an administration and elections of National Council For Tibb; additional charge of director-general (DG) of Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP); construction of a multi-storey building on railway land in Nowshera.

It is expected that the participants of the meeting will approve the December 23’s decisions of the cabinet’s committee on reforms, as well as decisions of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and the committee on privatisation.

Pakistan and the United States Partner to Prevent COVID-19 in Prisons

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Islamabad, Jan 11, 2021 – From December 28 to January 7, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) section collaborated with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Prisons Department to deliver PKR 9,762,700 in personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitizer, soap, and gloves to staff and inmates to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The provision of PPE for staff and personal hygiene items for inmates during the pandemic is part of an ongoing partnership between the U.S. Mission to Pakistan and the KP Prisons Department to improve prisons and build capacity of corrections officials throughout Pakistan.

Under this trusted partnership, INL and the KP Prisons Department remain committed to training prison department officials in basic and advanced correctional institution management and providing hundreds of its staff with security, protective, and digital equipment to enhance their capacity to manage prisons more efficiently and ensure security of prisons.

Pakistan enters the Dark Mode

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By Muhammad Omar Iftikhar

All cities of Pakistan were engulfed in darkness on the night of January 09, 2021. While the cause is still being ascertained, some reports claimed it to be an “engineering fault.” At 11:41, the system tripped causing the flow of power to be interrupted. The electricity across the country was resumed after a lapse of nearly 12 to 15 hours. The social media users, especially those on Facebook and Twitter, began sharing their reasons behind the blackout. Some said it to be a military coup while some humorously connected it to an alien invasion. While some were talking sense by saying that the power grid has tripped, the rest were sharing memes about this incident. While such a power shutdown and a blackout do not bode well for the effectiveness of the government, it did show us a lighter side of our nation. A similar power breakdown in a Western country may have compelled people to take on the streets, loot stores, and create havoc, the people in Karachi showed an opposite reaction. They began sharing memes and jokes about the power breakdown on social media. Such a blackout wasn’t taken seriously by the Pakistanis as we as a nation are accustomed to spontaneous interruptions of power that at times do last for more than 12 to 24 hours. Moreover, we have become prone to such incidents and events. Imagine the time in 2010 when Cyclone Phet entered Sindh and it was predicted that heavy rainfalls would occur in the province. The people of Karachi went to the Sea View to witness the incoming Cyclone Phet. They did so despite the authorities asking them not to. The power blackout was again a strong reminder to the people of Pakistan and to the world that we as a nation can withstand any hurdle unless it is not backed by political or religious differences.

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Pakistan records 1,877 fresh Covid-19 infections, 32 fatalities

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ISLAMABAD : Pakistan recorded as many as 1,877 new cases of the coronavirus in a single day with 32 more fatalities.

According to the latest update released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 1,877 new cases emerged after 34,524 samples were tested during the previous 24 hours.The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country has soared to 504,293 with addition of the fresh infections while the countrywide death toll jumped to 10,676.

The NCOC said the positivity ratio of infections was recorded at 5.43 per cent. There are a total of 35,246 active cases, out of which 2,286 have been billed as critical.

The country saw 1,402 patients recovering from the disease over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recovered patients to 458, 871.

Since the Covid-19 outbreak began last year in Feb, Sindh has reported a total of 226,338 infections, Punjab 145,508, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 61,424, Balochistan 18,412, Islamabad 39,242, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 8,489, and Gilgit Baltistan 4,880.

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Tax reforms lead to over Rs 2205b receipts in six months: PM told

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ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (DNA): Prime Minister Imran Khan was told on Sunday
that tax receipts had surpassed Rs 2205 billion during first six months
of current fiscal, manifesting the fruition of government’s taxation
reforms.

Chairing a meeting to review the tax reforms, the prime minister was
briefed that owing to tax reforms, a growth in number of taxpayers had
been witnessed. Federal Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Shibli Faraz and
Hammad Azhar, Advisor to PM Dr Ishrat Hussain, Special Assistant on
Revenue Dr Waqar Masood, Chairman of Federal Board of Revenue Javed
Ghani and relevant senior officers attended the meeting, a PM Office
press release said.

It was told that the tax collection was being automated and taxpayers
were being given incentives. The automation of the taxation system would
enhance transparency and reduce corruption and tax evasion. The meeting
was told that tax form had been made far easier for the small and medium
enterprises by reducing its pages from five to one and entries from 200
to just 24. The prime minister was told that owing to the introduction
of direct link between FBR’s system and company through point of sale
system, the receipt of sales tax had also increased.

The prime minister appreciated the federal ministers, SAPM on revenue
and FBR chairman for bringing about taxation reforms. He viewed that the
taxpayers were in fact the benefactors for the country who deserved
applause. Moreover, he also called for measures to introduce measures
for encouragement of the taxpayers.

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Putin, Aliyev, Pashinyan to hold talks on Karabakh in Moscow on January 11, Kremlin says

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MOSCOW, Jan 10 – Trilateral talks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will be held on Monday, January 11, in Moscow at the initiative of the Russian head of state. The sides plan to review the implementation of the November 9, 2000 statement of the three leaders on Nagorno-Karabakh and discuss steps to resolve the regional issues, the Kremlin press service reported on Sunday.

“At the initiative of the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, on January 11, 2021, in Moscow, trilateral talks will be held of the President of the Russian Federation, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. It is planned to review the implementation of the November 9, 2000 statement of leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on Nagorno-Karabakh and discuss further steps on resolving the issues present in the region,” the statement said.

According to the press service, a particular attention will be paid to the issues of aid to residents of districts affected by the military action as well as of unblocking and developing trade and economic and transport connections.

Additionally, separate conversations of Vladimir Putin with Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan are planned.

Renewed clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia erupted on September 27, with intense battles raging in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory that had been part of Azerbaijan before the Soviet Union break-up, but primarily populated by ethnic Armenians, broke out in February 1988 after the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its withdrawal from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1992-1994, tensions boiled over and exploded into large-scale military action for control over the enclave and seven adjacent territories after Azerbaijan lost control of them.

On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on a complete ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting from November 10. The Russian leader said the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides would maintain the positions that they had held and Russian peacekeepers would be deployed to the region.

India wants to damage Pakistan from inside: interior minister

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ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (DNA): Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said Sunday
that India is trying to damage Pakistan through its agents and funding.

“India wants to damage Pakistan from inside,” said Rasheed while
addressing an event in Fateh Jang. He added that the neighbouring
country was funding militant groups in the country.

The minister thanked the Hazaras for ending the sit-in in Quetta and
said the community helped the country come out of an emergency
situation. He added that Pakistan army will protect the nation from such
attacks.

The remarks from the interior minister came a day after Quetta’s Hazara
community buried their 10 coal miners who were murdered in Balochistan’s
Machh area.

The 10 coal miners were executed by unidentified men in their sleeping
room in the Machh coal field area on January 3. The attack was claimed
by the Islamic State’s Wilayah Pakistan arm.

The militant group released a graphic image that showed two armed men
standing next to the bodies of the coal miners.

The community staged a sit-in on Quetta highway for six days, demanding
Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit the families of the dead. PM Khan,
however, visited Quetta after the burial of coalminers.

During his visit to Quetta, the premier said that sectarian terrorist
organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has merged with the ISIS in Pakistan and
it was carrying attacks on Hazara community.

He also said that India was trying to incite sectarian violence in the
country by plotting assassinations of religious clerics. He added the
intelligence agencies thwarted four such plots in the recent days.

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