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اسلام آباد:(نیٹ نیوز/ایمرا نیوز) جسٹس اطہر من اللہ نے چیف جسٹس اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ کے عہدے کا حلف اٹھا لیا۔چیف جسٹس اسلام آباد ہائی کورٹ کی حلف برداری کی تقریب ایوان صدر میں منعقد ہوئی، جہاں صدر مملکت ڈاکٹر عارف علوی نے جسٹس اطہر من اللہ سے حلف لیا۔حلف برداری کی تقریب میں وفاقی وزراء، ہائیکورٹس کے ججز، سینئر وکلاء اور اعلیٰ سرکاری عہدیداران نے شرکت کی۔جسٹس اطہر من اللہ نے جسٹس انور کاسی کے بطور چیف جسٹس اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ ریٹائر ہونے پر بطور چیف جسٹس حلف اٹھایا۔وہ 17 جون 2014 کو اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ کے جج تعینات ہوئے تھے۔بطور چیف جسٹس اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ جسٹس اطہر من اللہ 11 دسمبر 2023 تک اس عہدے پر فائز رہیں گے۔

لاہور:(نیٹ نیوز/ایمرا نیوز) کرتار پور راہداری کے سنگ بنیاد کی تقریب میں شرکت کے لیے بھارتی وفد پاکستان پہنچ گیا۔سابق بھارتی کرکٹر اور سیاست دان نوجوت سنگھ سدھو کی قیادت میں بھارتی وفد واہگہ بارڈر کے راستے پاکستان پہنچا جہاں پنجاب رینجرز کے حکام نے ان کا استقبال کیا۔وزیراعظم عمران خان کل نارووال کے قریب کرتار پور راہداری کا سنگ بنیاد رکھیں گے جب کہ تقریب میں بھارتی وفد سمیت پاکستان میں موجود سکھ یاتری بھی تقریب میں شرکت کریں گے۔پاکستان کی تجویز پر نریندر مودی حکومت نے کرتار پور سرحد تک اپنی حدود میں راہداری بنانے کی منظوری دی، اس سے قبل پاکستان نے بھارت کو پیشکش کی تھی کہ سکھ یاتریوں کو بغیر کسی دشواری کرتارپور آنے کے لیے پاکستان راضی ہے، بھارت بھی اس کی اجازت دے۔ یاد رہے کہ ضلع نارووال میں واقع کرتار پور بھارتی سرحد سے متصل علاقہ ہے جہاں سکھ مذہب کے بانی بابا گرو نانک دیو جی نے اپنی زندگی کے آخری ایام گزارے اور یہیں گردوارے میں ان کی قبر بھی ہے۔سکھ یاتریوں کو کرتارپور تک پہنچنے کے لیے پہلے لاہور اور پھر تقریبا 130 کلو میٹر کا سفر طے کر کے نارووال پہنچنا پڑتا تھا جب کہ بھارتی حدود سے کرتارپور 3 سے 4 کلو میٹر دوری پر ہے۔
کرتارپور کی اہمیت و پس منظر
ہندوستان کی تقسیم کے وقت گردوارہ دربار صاحب پاکستان کے حصے میں آیا، دونوں ممالک کے درمیان کشیدہ تعلقات کے باعث طویل عرصے تک یہ گردوارہ بند رہا۔بھارتی سکیورٹی فورس نے سرحد پر ایک ‘درشن استھل’ قائم کیا جہاں سے سکھ دوربین کی مدد سے دربار صاحب کا دیدار کرتے ہوئے اپنی عبادت کیا کرتے تھے اور پہلی بار 1998 میں دونوں حکومتوں کے درمیان ایک معاہدہ ہوا جس کے تحت ہر سال سکھ یاتریوں کو کرتارپور کا ویزہ ملنا شروع ہوا۔

LONDON: Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali is returning to Somerset as an overseas player for the 2019 season, the club announced on Monday.

The 33-year-old, currently playing in the second Test against New Zealand in Dubai, will be available for the entire County Championship and Royal London One-Day Cup campaigns in his second spell at Taunton.

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Azhar will not play for Pakistan at next year’s World Cup in England and Wales, having retired from one-day internationals, making him available for the whole summer after making a positive impression during a spell at Somerset last season.

“I very much enjoyed my time with the club this year and I am really pleased to be going back,” he said.

“Somerset is a special club and it was a pleasure to play for them in 2018. There was a really good atmosphere in the dressing room and there are some very good players at the club. The supporters were excellent and I look forward to seeing everyone again next year.”

West Indies cricketer Shannon Gabriel was the pick of their bowlers with 4-70 in the first innings of the ongoing Test

West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel was suspended for next week´s second Test against Bangladesh after he accumulated five demerit points within a 24-month period for disciplinary breaches, the International Cricket Council said on Friday.

Gabriel was handed two demerit points after he was found guilty of shoulder barging Bangladesh´s Imrul Kayes during the opening day of the first Test between the two teams in Chittagong on Thursday.

The incident took place in the eighth over of the Test when, after bowling a delivery, Gabriel was judged to have made deliberate physical contact with batsman Imrul on his follow through.

“In the opinion of the umpires, this physical contact was avoidable,” the ICC said in a statement.

Gabriel had received three demerit points during the Jamaica Test against Pakistan in April 2017, when he was also fined 50 per cent of his match fee.

With the addition of two demerit points, he has reached the threshold of four demerit points, which have now been converted into two suspension points.

As two suspension points equate to a ban from one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is, whichever comes first, Gabriel has been suspended from the second Test, which will be played in Dhaka from November 30 to December 4.

Gabriel was also fined 30 per cent of his match fee for Thursday´s incident.

His suspension came as a blow for West Indies as Gabriel was the pick of their bowlers with 4-70 in the first innings of the ongoing Test.

ISLAMABAD:(media92news) The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will seek approval from the cabinet to legalise smuggled inactive phones on a payment of duty, a senior tax official told media92news on Thursday.

The tax machinery estimates that import of illegal phones in the market causes heavy revenue losses to the federal exchequer annually.

“We will submit the summary in the next cabinet meeting,” the official said requesting anonymity.

As per the proposed plan, the tax authority has worked out a plan to tax all those smuggled phones which are currently inactive and still in shops as unsold stock.
A cut-off date within the range of one to one and half months will be announced for owners of such phones for availing the scheme to legalise it, the official said.

Past the deadline, the official said, all those phones will become redundant on which duties are not paid at the nearest customs point.

Such phone sets, either smuggled before the deadline, or after that, will not be activated.

However, phone sets currently in use whether legally imported or smuggled will be exempted from the payment of duty.

The payment of duty on smuggled phone will depend upon the category they belonged to.

In 2017-18, Pakistan’s legal imports value of mobile phones reached $847.656 million in 2017-18.

Earlier, the imports had crossed the $1bn mark when there was no duty under the free trade agreement with China, or a very negligible duty applicable from other countries. The government has recently revised the duty structure and imposed regulatory duty on imports of mobile phones.

Consequently, the legal imports have started declining, mainly because of a rise in smuggling of mobile phones.

In May, the Pakistan Tele­communi­cations Authority (PTA) launched the Device Identification, Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) mechanism to counter the spread of substandard and used phones being smuggled into the country.

The used and refurbished mobile phones are being smuggled into the country using different channels.

According to the PTA, nearly 160m compliant and non-compliant mobile devices were active on all the networks before the launch of DIRBS.

Currently, the FBR has notified new rates of regulatory duties on import of new mobile sets. The rate of regulatory duty is Rs250 per mobile set worth less than $60.

The rate of regulatory duty is 10pc of the value of mobile phone if its value ranges between $60-130. The rate of regulatory duty will be 20pc of the value if it is more than $130 per set.

The unregistered mobile phones will be those devices that are not registered with the Global System for Mobile Association.

The force had been established pre-partition by the British and overtime their responsibilities kept on increasing. As the war on terror made its way to Pakistan, personnel from the Khasadar force laid down their lives for the country.

These brave men who stared terror in the face now fear losing their employment after the implementation of a police system in the region.

Personnel from the force have demanded that after the merger of FATA they should be assigned to the Levies force so they are not rendered unemployed.

LAHORE: A restaurant owner has given a homeless family found sleeping on the streets of Lahore a new lifeline after pictures of the family went viral on social media.

The photo showed the man sleeping with his children in the province’s capital had garnered much attention from the public including Punjab Chief Minister’s spokesperson who directed that the family be found immediately and be helped.

However, before the government could do anything, the family was spotted by restaurant owner Umer Hussain.

Speaking to Gulf News, Hussain shared how he had come across the family on October 27 sleeping near Mall Road.

Shared a conversation with the father as a story on his Instagram account, Hussain asked the father why he was sleeping on the streets and told him to not bring his children to sleep with him on the streets and promised to offer them an education.

However, a week later the family was still living on the streets.

“I had warned the father to not bring the children with him when he was selling those baskets and he had promised that he won’t do so. So, when I saw them on the street again five days ago, I got really upset. I called the police because I wanted to make sure that these were his children,” Hussain shared.

Not stopping there, he went on to check on the man’s family and once he was confident that the children were his, he took them shopping for clothes and had dinner with them.

In a Facebook post, he shared pictures from his time with the family and asked people who wanted to help the family to send their donations to any one of his restaurants.

In a live Facebook video, Hussain showed the children playing in his home garden, writing: “Kids having best time in our backyard! – look at the smiles they have!”

He said that he had already contacted the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau and searched for schools nearby, where the children could study.

“We are doing our homework because we actually want to make a difference. It is not about a publicity stunt, it is about changing the life of these children forever,” he told Gulf News.

He added, that the Pakistan government has banned child labour but children who are used as bait to sell products or for begging is also a critical social issue.

“Children should not be on the streets. That is the point. If there is no child labour, children should also not be allowed to be used to beg. So, the government should ensure that children go to school.”

BEIJING: Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing a ceremony at the Central Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.

He is in China on his first official visit since assuming charge as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in August this year.

File photo of PM Imran chairing a federal cabinet meeting.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned an emergency meeting of the federal cabinet today (Thursday).

The country’s current economic and political situation will be discussed during the meeting, according to sources. The cabinet will also be briefed on the premier’s China visit, they added.

“The current situation in the country following a Supreme Court verdict acquitting Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death over blasphemy allegations, is also expected to be discussed,” the sources further said.

Religious parties are staging protests in major cities across the country following the top court’s verdict. Roads have been blocked and educational institutes have been closed due to the protests.

On Wednesday, PM Imran backed the Supreme Court’s decision in the Asia Bibi case and warned protesters against clashing with the state.

PM says Asia Bibi verdict constitutional, warns agitators of stern action

“I’m here only because a Supreme Court verdict was announced today. The way a small section reacted to it and the language that they used, I am forced to address you,” PM Imran said.

“The decision of the judges is according to the constitution and Pakistan’s constitution is according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah,” he said, referring to Asia Bibi’s acquittal by the apex court.

“Only enemies of the state call for execution of judges and rebellion against the army chief.”

PM Imran appealed to the nation not to listen to such elements, warning the agitators not to clash with the state or hurt the country only for their vote bank and political gain. “If you do this, the state will fulfill its responsibility,” he said.

ISLAMABAD:(Net News/ Media 92 News) Former premier Nawaz Sharif on Thursday avoided answering journalist’s questions regarding Prime Minister Imran Khan’s address to the nation a day earlier.

The former prime minister appeared before an accountability in Islamabad for the hearing of National Accountability Bureau’s references against him when he was asked about Saudi Arabia’s financial deal and PM Imran’s address.

“I seldom watch TV and did not listen to his address,” Nawaz responded.

A day earlier, PM Imran conveyed to the two major opposition parties, whose leaders have been facing corruption references, that they will not be given any NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance).

Addressing the nation in order to take the people into confidence over his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s political and economic situation, the prime minister vowed to continue the fight against corruption alleging that Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz wanted to get an NRO.

He stated that his government will not give any NRO to these parties. “If these two parties want to take to streets, then they should go ahead with it,” PM Imran said, promising to provide them containers for camping out.

“Get this loud and clear, there will be no NRO. I will not spare any corrupt individual,” he added.