Weekly News Summary - 07 April - 13 April 2016

8/18/2019 Weekly News Summary - 07 April - 13 April 2016

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Weekly News Summary

Thursday 07-04-2016 through Wednesday 13-04-2016

National

Thursday 07-04-2016

Operation launched against militant groups in southern Punjab: Report Pakistan’s commerce ministry taking several steps to promote trade with Russia: Report

Total government borrowing crosses Rs1trillon: SBP

Referring to the Ayyan Ali money laundering case, a SC judge remarks that an accused onthe ECL can go abroad: News

Pakistani JIT probing Pathankot attacks received ‘very limited cooperation’ in India: FO

National Security Committee (NSC) concerned over hostile spy agencies’ activities in

country: News

CPEC reflects all-weather Pak-China ties: PM Nawaz Sharif

Imran Khan lost SKMCH (Shaukat Khanum Hospital) funds in Oman real estate business:

Government CM Punjab’s wife offer s sane advice. Calls for halt in ‘selling souls for immoral activities’ in

tweet: News

PTI candidate withdraws, joins MQM hours before NA-245 by-polls. PTI in a tight spot: News

25 ‘IS-inspired militants’ operating in Karachi: CTD police

PPP's Asif Hashmi to face multiple corruption cases: NAB, FIA sources

ECP rejects KP government request to postpone election on Nazim, Naib Nazim: News

Higher Education Commission (HEC) proposes Rs 25b for ‘certain’ projects for 2016-17: News

Friday 08-04-2016

PTI Chief writes letter to State TV to ‘make arrangements’ for his address to the nation regarding Panama paper leaks: News

Consensus eludes NA debate on Panama probe: News

LHC issues notices to 8 Sharif family members on application seeking probe into Sharifs’offshore assets: News

China's Xinjiang province seals Pakistan ties with $2bn in deals: News

Bilateral trade with India on track despite strained ties: Khurram Dastgir

Afghanistan's 'unity government' proving anything but unified: Report

New poverty line index makes a third of Pakistanis ‘absolutely poor ’: Report

People facing food, fuel shortages in Gilgit-Baltistan: Report

PM wants best cabin crew, catering services for PIA: News Tribal police appoint first-ever female officers: News

Saturday 09-04-2016

Pakistan ready to work with India to prevent arms race: Foreign Office

US says it’s aware of Indian spy’s arrest but ‘cannot comment’: State Department

US jumps in to save Pak-India peace process: Report

Kerry arrives in Kabul on unannounced visit to support Afghan ‘unity government’: News

Opposition demands ‘forensic audit firm’ probe Panama Papers revelations: News

Opposition wants CJP to lead offshore probe: Report

Chandio lambasts PM over free hand to money launderers: News

TAPI gas pipeline through Afghanistan ‘doable’ with the help of foreign contractors: ADB Three shot dead in suspected sectarian killing in Karachi: News


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Prime Minister lauds Punjab government’s ‘HR development’: News

Hindu Kush quakes may have long-lasting effects: Experts

Sunday 10-04-2016

Nawaz Sharif has lost moral authority to rule after Panama paper leaks: Imran Khan

Pakistan, China air forces launch joint training exercise: News

Pakistan Navy inducts surface to sea 'Zarb' missile after successful test: News

Iran to hold three-day military drill near Pak border using latest military equipment: News

Street agitation if judicial commission not formed on Panama Leaks: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

NAB officer suspended till probe completion after attacking and threating a beauty salon withhis wife: News

Inaction on rape cases spotlights Muzaffargarh police: News

Non-bailable arrest warrant issued for suspect Mansoor in Baldia Town tragedy case: News

Brothers hanged in Sialkot for murdering six people: News

Monday 11-04-2016

Sharif-Modi contact on telephone. Hopeful of reviving bilateral talks: News

Pakistani troops expand offensive to Punjab to target militant groups: Report

Senate panel to get briefing on RAW activities in country based on Jhadav’s confessions: News

Pakistan Ulema Council adopts a 10-point code of conduct for administration, faculty andstudents of mosques and seminaries with the council and for Wafaqul Masajid Pakistan:

News

Behind Fake Degrees of Axact there is a Maze of Deceit with a network expanding to over190 countries: NYT Report

Death toll from powerful 7.1 South Asian quake rises to 6: News

Shah Mehmood lashes out at Tareen, Sarwar in show of 'disunity' as PTI intra-party polls

loom: News Imran Khan postpones intra-party elections, to be held after Raiwind march plan: News

Rehman Malik says he will ‘quit politics’ if Panama links proved: News

Two more MQM leaders, Muhammad Raza and Waheed-uz-Zaman, jump on MustafaKamal’s ship: News

Tuesday 12-04-2016

Gwadar port to be operational by year end: Chinese official

Cold start doctrine a real threat if not vigilant, warn military experts: News

Pakistan Air Force inducts indigenously-manufactured JF-17 aircraft in the No. 2 Squadron(Minhas), replacing some of the oldest F-7Ps in its inventory to increase firepower: News

Bill to turn PIA into company adopted despite opposition: News Over 500-acres land of Quaid-e-Azam University under illegal occupation of key political

and non-political figures: Report

NAB fails to meet SC deadline for completing probe into major cases again: News

Pakistani being held in Austria, link between Paris and Mumbai attacks under probe: News

LHC seeks government reply in plea against petrol price increase: News

President satisfied with Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) report: News

Wednesday 13-04-2016

Sharif, Nisar and Imran to arrive in London. Zardari already in London. Panama papers to beagenda of meetings: Report

RAW involved in destabilizing Pakistan, says General Raheel Sharif: News

Investigation into ‘any matter’ is executive’s responsibility, says CJP: News


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PTI leadership for probe into $20m loan for Sharifs-owned company in ’90s: Report

Tax system on the brink of collapse, Senate told by FBR: News

IMF "encouraged" by PIA privatization step, awaits more plans: Mission Chief in Pakistan

Dar cancels US trip to ‘look after PM’s engagements’: News

Quadrilateral Group struggling to hold meeting for Afghan reconciliation: Report

JIT to investigate money laundering charges against Altaf Hussain in light of disclosuresmade by Sarfraz Merchant: Report

Supreme Court orders Ayyan Ali's name to be struck off ECL: News

SHC grants protective bail to Anis Qaimkhani in Dr. Asim Case: News

New bill seeks women judges in Supreme Court: Report

International

Thursday 07-04-2016

US, Turkey want to intensify operations and support ‘moderate rebels’ to push IS further eastin Syria: US Envoy

Iran's Rouhani says his country not a threat to any other nation. Backs moderate interaction

with neighbors, world: News Israeli firm’s workers held in Romania f or spying: News

Turkey, Germany herald progress as migrant flow to Greece slows: Report

Destroying IS continues to be my top priority: Obama

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Ukraine on G7 summit agenda: News

Trump, Hillary lose their Wisconsin Tuesday primaries to opposites: News

Leading Arab satellite operator drops Hezbollah TV channel Al-Manar after rising tensions between Iran and KSA: News

Iran to send team to KSA for Haj discussion: News

Man says killed Ahmadi shopkeeper in Scotland for disrespecting Prophet (SAAW): News

Turkey to work on rule to strip terrorism supporters of citizenship: Report Displaced Ukrainians confused, frustrated over suspension of benefits: UN

Worldwide executions up by 50 percent during last year: UN

Belgium starts find ing ‘man in hat’ Brussels Airport bombing suspect: News

ISIS fighter captured in Sinai after disguising himself as a burka-clad woman: News

Friday 08-04-2016

Israel restarts work on West Bank wall: Report

Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, hit by a huge leak of offshore financial data: News

Panama Papers leak received by International Consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ): News

Panama paper leaks 2.3 terabyte data and 11.5 million confidential documents of 214,000offshore accountholders. Implicate hundreds of top world leaders and other famous

personalities in offshore holding: Report

Turkey, Israel near normal relations: Ankara

Russian President Vladimir Putin denies any “element of corruption” on his part in Panama

Papers leak: News

Representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan, the United States and China expected to convenelater this month to re-examine the blueprint for peace talks: Report

Cameron admits he benefited from father’s offshore fund to the tune of 30,000 pounds before

2010.

Mandela’s ex-wife loses court bid to claim his home: News

Saturday 09-04-2016


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Iceland PM becomes first victim of Panama paper leaks. Resigns from post: News

China says it’s in touch with India over JeM issue. No change in policy: News

India in talks to buy 40 US Predator drones, has eye on Pakistan, China: News

Panama law firm says it hasn't been approached by investigators yet: News

Al Qaeda militants execute 15 Yemeni government soldiers: State News agency

Belgium releases video of airport suspect fleeing after bombings: News

At least two dead in shooting at US Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas: News

Turkey's parliament approves agreement enabling it to repatriate Pakistani migrants backhome: News

FBI director says unlocking method won't work on newer iPhones: News

Sunday 10-04-2016

Panama papers link rich Gupta brothers with South African President Jacob Zuma. Scandalgets worse for the President: News

Embattled Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk resigns after panama paper leaks: News

US deploys B-52 bombers to Qatar for ‘fighting ISIS’: News

Iranian Vice President for women’s affairs summoned by court over ‘spreading falseinformation’ regarding executions: Report

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visits India, bullish on Indo-US ties: News

India temple fire kills over 100 people watching fireworks: News

Sanders wins nomination primary in Wyoming beating Hillary Clinton: News

Latest primaries results show bleak election landscape for Trump and Clinton: Report

Bring back our stolen military gear, Israel's army begs ex-soldiers: News

Dubai to build tower taller than Burj Khalifa as ‘gift to the people of 2020’: News

Philippine troops clash with rebels; 23 killed, 73 hurt: News

North Korea successfully tests ballistic missile engine: News

Monday 11-04-2016 Israelis accused of abusing detained Palestinian minors: UN Report

No torture, even under new president's orders: CIA chief

Iran says Russia delivers first part of S-300 air defense system: News

PM and cabinet of Kyrgyzstan resign over corruption details leaked in Panama papers: News

Trump rips 'rigged' US election system after Colorado defeat: News

Obama calls Libya his 'worst mistake': News

Kerry to offer no apology for Hiroshima during visit to Japan, says US official: News

US Navy officer charged with spying for China and Taiwan: News

At least 12 killed in suicide attack by ISIS on Afghan army recruits: News

Three suicide bombings in Russia's Stavropol region near a police station: News Anti-IS Syrian journalist 'shot in head' in Istanbul: News

Tuesday 12-04-2016

Cameron agrees to open up information about Britain’s overseas tax havens to Scotland yardand British tax authorities: News

Afghan Taliban launch 'spring offensive' against occupation forces: Report

Erdogan hosts Saudi king to tighten alliance. Saudi Arabia says it will honor peace with Israelagreed in Egypt: News

Anti-Islam hate crimes rise tenfold in Spain in 2015: Report

Italian PM in Iran to win back economic clout: News

Loyalists, rebels clash in Yemen, jeopardizing truce: News Car bomb in Lebanon kills Palestinian official: News


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Paris, Brussels attackers wanted to target Euro 2016 football tournament: Europol

Turkey strikes Islamic State targets in Syria after shelling hits border town in Turkey: News

Wednesday 13-04-2016

India, US ‘agree in principle’ to share military logistics : News

EU starts ‘crack down’ on tax havens, targets big companies: News

Judge rules against couple in China's first same-sex marriage case: News

Panama raids offices of Mossack Fonseca law firm: News

Oil jumps on report of Saudi-Russian consensus on freeze of oil production: Report

‘Firms working with WB in Africa use tax havens’: Report

Mossack Fonseca was used by intelligence agencies including CIA to setup offshore businesses: German Newspaper

Rise in Boko Haram’s child suicide bombers 10-fold over 12 months: News

Weekly News Summary - 07 April - 13 April 2016

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