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  • Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to seek the advice of his brother Nawaz Sharif on Military leader’s appointment

    Pakistan Top Minister Shehbaz Sharif will make a decision at the appointment of the following Military leader after discussing the topic with former premier Nawaz Sharif in London, in step with a media file.

    Nawaz Sharif, the elder brother of Top Minister Shehbaz Sharif, has been dwelling in London since November 2019 when he used to be allowed to head there for clinical remedy however by no means returned. He served 3 times because the top minister of Pakistan and appointed a minimum of 4 Military chiefs.

    Military leader Normal Qamar Javed Bajwa, 61, would retire on November 29.

    The top minister, who arrived in London on Saturday arrived to wait the state funeral of the past due Queen Elizabeth II, can even meet Nawaz Sharif all the way through his keep within the town and speak about the appointment of the following Military leader with him, The Specific Tribune newspaper reported.

    The Top Minister would make the verdict at the appointment of the Leader of Military Workforce (COAS) after discussing the topic with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, the newspaper quoted Power Minister Khurram Dastgir as announcing.

    Responding to a query at the reported assembly between former top minister Imran Khan and Military leader Bajwa, Dastgir mentioned that regardless of how again and again any person met with military leader Bajwa, the top minister would make the overall choice.

    The topic of the Military leader’s appointment has led to a stir in political circles in Pakistan.

    Khan in an interview had demanded that the brand new Military leader must be appointed through the following executive after the elections.

    The appointment of the Military leader is the only prerogative of the top minister.

    When Khan used to be in energy, the opposition accused him of seeking to deliver an Military leader of his selection, who may make stronger his alleged schedule of victimising opposition leaders.

    Since he misplaced energy, the equation has modified and now Khan is announcing that the coalition executive desires to put in a military head of its selection to offer protection to looted wealth and thieve basic elections.

    Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, accusing Khan of raking up an issue for his non-public get advantages, mentioned on Saturday that Shehbaz Sharif would appoint a brand new Military leader on time in November.

    The robust Military, which has dominated the coup-prone nation for greater than part of its 75-plus years of life, has hitherto wielded really extensive energy within the issues of safety and overseas coverage.

    Addressing a public rally in Faisalabad previous this month, Khan had alleged that the federal government used to be petrified of honest elections and delaying the polls till the appointment of the brand new Military leader through the top of November when the incumbent Gen Bajwa would retire.

    “(Asif Ali) Zardari and Nawaz (Sharif) wish to deliver their favorite as the following military leader as a result of they have got stolen public cash,” Khan alleged. “They’re afraid that after the patriotic military leader comes, he’s going to ask them about their loot.” Strongly objecting to Khan’s remarks, the Military issued a commentary through which it accused him of attempting to discredit and undermine senior management of the Pakistan Military at a time when the establishment is laying lives for the safety and security of the folk.

  • 90-year-old Indian lady revisits Pak after 75 years to look her ancestral house in Rawalpindi 

    An Indian lady’s long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral house in Rawalpindi materialised when Pakistan granted 90-year-old Reena Chhibber Varma a visa and she or he arrived right here on Saturday by the use of the Wagah-Attari border, 75 years after leaving the rustic on the time of Partition.

    Wet-eyed Varma, instantly after her arrival in Pakistan, left for her place of origin Rawalpindi, the place she’s going to seek advice from her ancestral residing Prem Niwas, her faculty, and adolescence pals.

    In a video she uploaded on social media, Varma, who’s from Pune, stated her circle of relatives was once residing at the Devi Faculty Highway in Rawalpindi when the Partition came about.

    “I studied on the Fashionable College. My 4 siblings had additionally long gone to the similar faculty. My brother and a sister additionally studied on the Gorden Faculty situated close to the Fashionable College,” she recalled.

    “My elder siblings had Muslim pals who would come to our house as my father was once a person of revolutionary concepts and had no factor in conferences with girls and boys. Ahead of the Partition, there was once no such factor of Hindus and Muslims. This took place after the Partition,” she stated.

    “Even supposing the Partition of India was once mistaken, now that it has took place, each the international locations must paintings in combination to ease visa restrictions for all people,” she stated.

    The Pakistan Prime Fee in India, in a goodwill gesture, has issued a three-month visa to Varma, who was once simplest 15 years outdated when her circle of relatives moved to India right through the Partition in 1947.

    Varma had carried out for a Pakistani visa in 1965 however didn’t get it then as tensions between the 2 neighbours have been prime on account of the conflict.

    The aged lady stated she had expressed her need to seek advice from her ancestral house on social media ultimate yr.

    Sajjad Haider, a Pakistani citizen, contacted her on social media and despatched her photographs of her house in Rawalpindi.

    Lately, she once more carried out for a Pakistani visa which was once denied.

    She then tagged her need to Pakistan’s Minister of State on International Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar who facilitated her visa to seek advice from her ancestral the town.