Pakistan’s Karachi police on Friday recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a water tank in a hospital located in Karachi’s Shah Faisal area.
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According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Korangi, Faisal Bashir, the police has confiscated a large number of weapons including anti-aircraft guns, Kalashnikov, rifles and hand grenades that were hidden in the water tank of the cardiology hospital in Shah Faisal colony of the metropolis, reported ARY News.
Bashir while addressing the local media said all the arms and ammunition that are recovered have been sent for forensics and the investigation into the matter is underway. “Further investigation into the matter is underway,” he said.
SRINAGAR: Security forces have taken a “decisive control” over Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in J&K following the abrogation of Article 370 two-and-a-half-years ago, Union home minister Amit Shah said at the CRPF’s 83rd Raising Day main function in Jammu on Saturday, held for the first time outside Delhi.
“After the abrogation of Article 370, the security forces have successfully controlled terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir,” Shah said and called it the biggest spinoff of the repeal of the constitutional instrument that gave J&K some special but contentious privileges. Praising the CRPF, he said “I am sure we will be able to restore peace” in the next few years.
The situation in J&K has seen a “drastic change” since Narendra Modi took over as PM in 2014, he said. And on the PM’s watch, the dream and vision of ideologues Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit Prem Nath Dogra— Ek Pradhan, Ek Vidhaan, Ek Nishan— have come true in J&K, Shah said. “Today, it’s the best tribute to the soul of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee that there is one flag, one Constitution and one leader across India,” he said.
Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is likely to face another no-trust motion in Pakistan National Assembly (Image: Reuters)
Voting on the no-confidence motion against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will take place on March 28. A no-confidence motion was submitted earlier this month against Imran Khan by the Opposition parties which held his government responsible for the uncontrolled inflation. The voting was delayed due to OIC representatives in Islamabad.
Following the submission, Imran Khan had met the Attorney General of Pakistan and sought legal opinion in the matter.
According to the Dawn newspaper, the Khan-led government is anxious and been making all attempts to foil the Opposition’s move to oust the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf: regime led by Khan, who has already claimed that the powerful Pakistan Army is backing him.
The no-confidence motion, signed by about 100 lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was submitted with the National Assembly Secretariat. Khan, 69, is heading a coalition government and he can be removed if some of the partners decide to switch sides, which is not unusual in parliamentary democracies.
India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant scored the fastest Test fifty by an Indian batter on Sunday when he completed his half-century in 28 deliveries on the second day of the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru.
Rishabh Pant on Sunday broke Kapil Dev’s record of fastest Test fifty for India.
India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant scored the fastest Test fifty by an Indian batter on Sunday when he completed his half-century in 28 deliveries on the second day of the 2nd Test against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru. With India having bowled Sri Lanka out for 109 early in the day’s play, the hosts extended their 143-run first innings lead with some quick scoring in their second innings. It was Rishabh Pant, batting at No. 5, who took charge of the innings and attacked the visiting bowlers to help consolidate India’s control.
With his brisk fifty, Pant broke Kapil Dev’s almost 40-year record of the fastest Test fifty by an Indian batter.
Kapil Dev had scored a 30-ball half-century while batting against Pakistan in the Karachi Test in December, 1982. Despite his heroics, Pakistan went on to win the match by an innings and 86 runs.
Earlier on Sunday, Jasprit Bumrah took a fifer, his first in a home Test, as India ran through Sri Lanka’s lower order and bowled them out for 109.
Sri Lanka had resumed batting at 86/6 on Day 2 but could add only 23 runs to their total.
India started their innings well, with Rohit Sharma scoring 46 and Hanuma Vihari chipping with a knock of 35.
Stating that the incident involving the accidental firing of a missile which ended up in Pakistan indicates many “loopholes and technical lapses” of serious nature in “Indian handling of strategic weapons”, Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe to “accurately establish the facts” surrounding it. This was also conveyed to the Charge d’ Affaires (Cd’A) of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.
People work around what Pakistani security sources say is the remains of a missile fired into Pakistan from India, near Mian Channu, Pakistan on March 9, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters
“The Indian decision to hold an internal court of inquiry is not sufficient since the missile ended up in Pakistani territory. Pakistan demands a joint probe to accurately establish the facts surrounding the incident,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Pakistan said in a statement.
“The grave nature of the incident raises several fundamental questions regarding security protocols and technical safeguards against accidental or unauthorised launch of missiles in a nuclearised environment.”
Stating that they took note of the statement from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the MoFA said such a serious matter cannot be addressed with the simplistic explanation offered by the Indian authorities.
A day after Pakistan made a detailed presentation that an Indian supersonic surface–to–surface missile landed 124 km inside its territory, the MoD on Friday said that in the course of a routine maintenance on March 9, a “technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile” and the Government of India has taken a “serious view” and has ordered a high–level Court of Inquiry.
On the missile landing in Pakistan, the MoD said the incident is “deeply regrettable” but it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life.
Raising a series of questions, Pakistan said given the “profound level of incompetence,” India needs to explain if the missile was indeed handled by its “armed forces or some rogue elements”.
Pakistan also sought answers to several questions including the measures and procedures in place to prevent accidental missile launches and the particular circumstances of this incident, the “type and specifications of the missile”, the flight path and trajectory and how it ultimately turned and entered Pakistan. “Was the missile equipped with self-destruct mechanism? Why did it fail to actualise?” it said.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has released a study that identifies Pakistan as a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking.
The study titled “Modern slavery: Trafficking in women and girls in Pakistan” reveals how economically vulnerable women and under-age girls are targeted in particular.
An HRCP press release issued on Wednesday said, “Although it is difficult to determine the magnitude of the crime–given lack of reliable data–HRCP is particularly concerned over the network of trafficking that exists internally, spanning sex trafficking, forced child labour, bonded labour, forced begging and forced marriage. Economically vulnerable women and under-age girls are targeted in particular.”
