Kamil Ali Agha gets notice for removing Shujaat from top slot

The PML-Q has issued a show-cause notice to its Punjab general secretary Kamil Ali Agha for taking an illegal step of calling a party meeting and removing Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain from the president’s slot.

The decision to issue the notice was taken at the PML-Q’s Central Execu­tive Committee meeting attended by party members, including secretary general Tariq Bashir Cheema, provincial presidents and central officials, in Islamabad on Thursday.

The participants expres­sed full confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat through unanimous resolutions.

Presidents of the PML-Q Sindh, Balochistan, Khy­ber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan chapters disowned the party’s meeting held in Lahore last week.

They also strongly condemned the declaration regarding the health of Chaudhry Shujaat, as well as the Lahore meeting that dared to remove him and Cheema from their party positions.

Another resolution passed by the party’s CEC on Thursday declared the upcoming session summoned by Kamil Ali Agha on Aug 10 “un-mandatory” and added the Punjab organisation did not have the authority to summon any session. Moreover, party leaders who participated in the meeting earlier called by Senator Agha would also be suspended, the resolution said.

Since the PML-Q ‘CEC’ meeting held last week, led by Senator Agha in Lahore, had decided to hold intra-party elections in 10 days and constituted a five-member election commission, it is learnt the PML-Q has approached the election commission and sought to stop the “illegal” election called by the party’s Punjab general secretary.

The rift within the PML-Q and, particularly within the family of Chaudhrys of Gujrat, had surfaced after party president Shujaat had written a letter to the party’s 10 MPAs, including Chaud­hry Parvez Elahi, to vote for PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz, who was contesting the chief minister’s election against Mr Elahi himself.

Soon after Mr Elahi won the chief minister’s election with the votes of all 10 PML-Q MPAs, Senator Agha had called a central executive committee meeting and passed different resolutions, including seeking removal of president Shujaat and secretary general Cheema.

The meeting was atten­ded by 83 out of the total 150 members of the committee. The quorum of the meeting was 40 members.

 

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Kamil Ali Agha gets notice for removing Shujaat from top slot

The PML-Q has issued a show-cause notice to its Punjab general secretary Kamil Ali Agha for taking an illegal step of calling a party meeting and removing Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain from the president’s slot.

The decision to issue the notice was taken at the PML-Q’s Central Execu­tive Committee meeting attended by party members, including secretary general Tariq Bashir Cheema, provincial presidents and central officials, in Islamabad on Thursday.

The participants expres­sed full confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat through unanimous resolutions.

Presidents of the PML-Q Sindh, Balochistan, Khy­ber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan chapters disowned the party’s meeting held in Lahore last week.

They also strongly condemned the declaration regarding the health of Chaudhry Shujaat, as well as the Lahore meeting that dared to remove him and Cheema from their party positions.

Another resolution passed by the party’s CEC on Thursday declared the upcoming session summoned by Kamil Ali Agha on Aug 10 “un-mandatory” and added the Punjab organisation did not have the authority to summon any session. Moreover, party leaders who participated in the meeting earlier called by Senator Agha would also be suspended, the resolution said.

Since the PML-Q ‘CEC’ meeting held last week, led by Senator Agha in Lahore, had decided to hold intra-party elections in 10 days and constituted a five-member election commission, it is learnt the PML-Q has approached the election commission and sought to stop the “illegal” election called by the party’s Punjab general secretary.

The rift within the PML-Q and, particularly within the family of Chaudhrys of Gujrat, had surfaced after party president Shujaat had written a letter to the party’s 10 MPAs, including Chaud­hry Parvez Elahi, to vote for PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz, who was contesting the chief minister’s election against Mr Elahi himself.

Soon after Mr Elahi won the chief minister’s election with the votes of all 10 PML-Q MPAs, Senator Agha had called a central executive committee meeting and passed different resolutions, including seeking removal of president Shujaat and secretary general Cheema.

The meeting was atten­ded by 83 out of the total 150 members of the committee. The quorum of the meeting was 40 members.

 

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Kremlin says China has the right to hold military drills around Taiwan

The Kremlin said on Thursday that China had the sovereign right to hold major military drills around Taiwan and accused the United States of artificially fuelling tensions in the region.

China fired multiple missiles around Taiwan on Thursday as it launched unprecedented military drills a day after a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as its sovereign territory.

Asked about China’s drills, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “This is China’s sovereign right.”

“The tension in the region and around Taiwan was provoked… by the visit of Nancy Pelosi,” Peskov told reporters on a conference call. “It was an absolutely unnecessary visit and an unnecessary provocation.”

Pelosi was the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, and said her trip made it “unequivocally clear” that the United States would not abandon a democratic ally.

It sparked a furious reaction from Beijing, which vowed “punishment” and announced military drills in the seas around Taiwan — some of the world’s busiest waterways.

The exercises, which began around 12 pm (0400 GMT), involve “live-firing”, according to state media.

The exercises are taking place in multiple zones around Taiwan — at some points within just 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the shore — and will conclude at midday on Sunday.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said it was closely watching the drills.

“The Ministry of National Defence stresses that it will uphold the principle of preparing for war without seeking war, and with an attitude of not escalating conflict and causing disputes,” it said in a statement.

Taiwan’s 23 million people have long lived with the possibility of an invasion, but that threat has intensified under President Xi Jinping, China’s most assertive ruler in a generation.

The island is once again a flashpoint between the United States and a Chinese leadership keen to project strength ahead of a crucial ruling party meeting this autumn at which Xi is expected to be given an unprecedented third term.

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James Webb telescope captures the most distant star in marvelous detail

The James Webb Telescope has taken a new image of the most distant star, nearly 28 billion light years away, and has captured it in stunning detail.

Researchers were able to spot galaxies and had a glimpse of a star called Earendel using the telescope.

Earendel means 'morning or rising star' and is situated in a galaxy called Sunrise Arc. The star is aligned with the galaxy cluster providing maximum magnification.

Dan Coe at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland said, “Nobody’s ever seen a star this highly magnified, not to mention a galaxy.”

Since light takes time to travel, the pictures of the star Earendel are the way it was 900 million years ago, soon after the Big Bang.

JWST is expected to have its next round of observation in December which will reveal what Earendel and Sunrise Arc are composed of. Coe says, "We’re all made of starstuff, but that stuff wasn’t around in the early universe. This is a rare opportunity to see if the heavy elements were there in this star 13 billion years ago.”

Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland wrote in a published paper, "JWST was designed to study the first stars. Until recently, we assumed that meant populations of stars within the first galaxies. But in the past three years, three individual strongly lensed stars have been discovered. This offers new hope of directly observing individual stars at cosmological distances with JWST."

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Fawad says banning PTI ‘not up to’ govt

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday stood adamant in the face of the government's announcement it may file a declaration against the party in the Supreme Court, saying that "it is not up to you" to ban Imran Khan or the party.

His remarks, during a press conference, followed Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah saying that the government can give a declaration to the Supreme Court, on the basis of verified evidence, that PTI is a foreign aided party and if the apex court upholds this declaration, "the party will stand dissolved".

Fawad said that a reference has been filed against Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and that the party will appeal against the Election Commission of Pakistan's decision, which he declared in contravention to the law and the Constitution.

A day earlier, the ECP in a unanimous verdict, ruled that the PTI received funds from "prohibited" sources.

The PTI leader also announced a protest outside the ECP office.

He alleged that parties part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement alliance had "met the chief election commissioner" before the verdict was announced.

Speaking to Geo News, Rana Sanaullah said that PTI would be "dissolved" if the Supreme Court upholds the declaration of the government.

“ECP has made a 100% correct decision,” the interior minister said, adding that the judgment "proved PTI is a foreign-funded party". He accused the party of hiding its accounts and tampering its financial record.

The PML-N leader, citing the ECP verdict, said the PTI accepted funds from 34 foreigners and 351 companies in violation of the Political Party Act and the Election Act.

ECP’s ruling "proved Khan is a liar and forger”, the interior minister said, adding that the ruling alliance has devised a future plan after the verdict.

He maintained that they would "show the real face of Imran Khan" to the people.

In its verdict, the ECP said that the party, in violation of the Constitution, had received funds from 34 foreigners. The party received funds from US, Australia and UAE.

The party accepted funds from a US business personality, it said, and added, “13 unidentified accounts also surfaced during the probe in the PTI funding case.”

The ECP said that the PTI had submitted a false affidavit about the party’s accounts. PTI Chairman Imran Khan had submitted a false F1 form to the ECP, it added.

After a damning verdict by the ECP, PTI leader Farrukh Habib said that foreign funding was "not proved" against the party.

The verdict disappointed those who were pushing the narrative of foreign funding against the PTI, said Habib. He said that the party was of the view that it was a case of prohibited funding, not foreign funding.

Raising questions over the ECP, the PTI leader said that the Islamabad High Court had ordered a probe into the accounts of all the political parties without any discrimination.

He said that the scrutiny committee tasked to probe the accounts of PTI completed its work on time but the committees established to check the accounts of PPP and PML were yet to submit their report.

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Fazl wants swift action against PTI after ECP verdict

Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday called for swift proceedings against former prime minister Imran Khan and his party, demanding that the “PTI should be made an example of”.

“Whether it is Imran Khan or Dr Arif Alvi, [they] should immediately resign from the party because they have proven to be criminals,” he said in a press conference that followed a meeting of the PDM leadership at the Prime Minister’s House today.

Fazl’s comments come a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan, in its much-anticipated verdict, ruled that PTI had “wilfully” and “knowingly” received prohibited funding — which include a number of foreign donors.

In its order, the commission also said that it was “constrained to hold that Imran Khan failed to discharge his obligations as mandated under the Pakistani statutes”.

The PDM chief said that all the political parties had decided to initiate action against Imran and his party as they were now “proven criminals”.

He demanded that PTI officeholders should also be immediately arrested.

The JUI-F leader said that for eight years, Imran tried to “run away” from the ECP by levelling accusations against the institution and its chief.

“He blackmailed the ECP but the reality is that the commission is an [independent] institution and it can’t falsify the facts,” he stated.

Imran and his supporters have on multiple occasions cast aspersions on the ECP and its Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, accusing the body and its leader of bias.

“The verdict has proved that he is an incompetent leader. All these years the PTI submitted false certificates and declarations in the ECP which is a violation of the Constitution.

“But today, we have reached the stage where it is now clear that he backed a foreign agenda and tried to harm Pakistan,” he claimed.

The verdict, Fazl continued, showed that Imran was a “foreign puppet who was brought into politics as [part of] a foreign agenda”.

“He took help from Israel and India […] today all these facts have been unearthed. His fundraisers had links to Israel, India, Denmark, Canada, Finland and many other countries.”

Fazl added that during today’s meeting, the government and its allies had agreed that the “matter of the state’s security” was the utmost priority and stressed that all the “institutions and powers” should work as one to protect the country.

Such “criminal elements”, he said, should be “uprooted from the country’s history and be made an example for the upcoming generations”.

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Pakistan desires to further strengthen bilateral trade relations with Japan & Indonesia

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has expressed Pakistan's desire to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment relations with Japan and Indonesia.

She was talking to Japan's Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Honda Taro and Indonesian Ambassador in Pakistan Adam Tugio, who separately called on her in Islamabad.

During these meetings, bilateral ties with particular focus on trade and investment were discussed.

Talking to the Japanese Vice-Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar appreciated the trusted development partnership between the two countries.

The Minister of State also reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to promoting international peace and stability.

In her interaction with the Indonesian ambassador, she underscored more business-to-business contacts and generating momentum through high level visits and connectivity.

 

 

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