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Shanxi shoulders responsibility and leads energy reform

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ISLAMABAD: Low-carbon energy development concerns the future of humanity, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a congratulatory letter to the Taiyuan Energy Low Carbon Development Forum, which opened on Tuesday in Taiyuan of north China’s Shanxi province, a traditional energy production center in China.

The country attaches great importance to low-carbon energy development and actively promotes energy consumption, supply, technology and institutional transformation, Xi said.

The country is ready to work with the international community to strengthen energy cooperation in all aspects, safeguard energy security, address climate change, protect the ecology and environment, promote sustainable development and bring more benefits to people around the world, he added.

As a national forum approved by the State Council of China, the Taiyuan forum attracts expertise from around the world. It has already been successfully held for three times, exerting significant impact in the global energy field.

It is developing into an influential energy platform for conducting high-level dialogues, launching scientific and technological achievements and promoting international cooperation in the global energy sector.

Co-hosted by the People’s Government of Shanxi Province, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Commerce and National Energy Administration, the event this year features an opening ceremony and summit forum, an exhibition on energy revolution and six sub-forums.

While highlighting the national theme of energy revolution, the forum aims to show the world China’s achievements and determination in advancing energy revolution as well as its call for further international cooperation.

The event also serves as a great opportunity for Shanxi to enhance its influence at home and abroad, lead energy revolution and promote energy transformation and development. It is of great significance for Shanxi to transform from a major coal consumer to a pioneer in energy revolution and embrace high-quality development.

Shanxi places more emphasis on attracting expertise from around the world for this year’s forum. It has strengthened the exchanges with the International Energy Agency, foreign provinces or states with friendship relationship, elite universities as well as research institutions. Meanwhile, it has deepened cooperation with leading energy companies in the world to build demonstration projects on international cooperation.

Shanxi province opens up to welcome all friends at home and abroad and intends to cooperate with international partners in energy transformation and reform.

It hopes the forum will provide a platform of consultation, contribution, and shared benefits for various parties to promote global energy transformation, jointly address the challenge of climate change, reach a consensus on fully implementing the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and deepen pragmatic cooperation.

To thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the important arguments of Xi on energy reform, the forum will help to practice the country’s goals, policies, requirements and strategies on energy, promote energy consumption, supply, technology, institutional revolution and all-round international cooperation. It will also push forward the Shanxi energy revolution comprehensive reform pilot program.

Through the forum, Shanxi will gather global wisdom, bring about new ideas for economic development and fulfill its mission given by the central government to provide valuable experience in energy revolution for the rest of the country.

The reform program in Shanxi is expected to be a pioneering one in exploring ways to carry out such programs nationwide. It is a comprehensive one that involves various fields and tackles deep-rooted problems in China’s economic development.

Taking this forum as an opportunity, Shanxi determines to shoulder its responsibility and resolutely achieve the strategic goals of energy transformation and reform as a good example for the rest of the country or even the world. (The Report was Published in People’s Daily China and Reproduced by TNT)

Related: Shanxi makes strides in renewable energy generation

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Shanxi makes strides in renewable energy generation

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ISLAMABAD: Shanxi province in north China has taken concrete actions to increase power production from renewable energy sources and achieved remarkable results in replacing coal with clean energy.

Solar energy offers a clean source of power. On the ridge bordering Yungang district and Zuoyun county in Datong, solar panels were glinting in the sunlight, and modular prefabricated substations stood among them, delivering clean energy to distant places.

On a mountain near Shahukou in Youyu county, more than 30 wind turbines rotated continuously under the clear blue sky. With 1,680 hours of effective wind speed each year, they could produce 80 million to 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.

In recent years, Shanxi has quickened its steps for energy transformation, giving priority to green and diversified development. Aside from coal power generation, the province has increased photovoltaic (PV) and wind power generating capacities.

As a national energy base, Shanxi has vigorously promoted new energy projects and significantly increased installed capacity of wind power and PV power generation.

Over the past three years, the installed capacity of wind power and solar PV power grew by 16.3% and 70.9% respectively, making wind and solar PV power the second and third largest power sources in the province.

The installed capacity of wind power exceeded 10 million kilowatts. The solar PV power generation capacity in Shanxi reached 4 million kilowatts, ranking first in China.

Shanxi has stepped up the development of wind energy resources, actively promoted the construction of low wind speed projects in central and southern part of the province, and pushed ahead the construction of a 7 million–kilowatt wind power base in the north.

The province is striving to integrate at least 14 million kilowatts of wind power capacity into its power system by 2020.

Moreover, the province has promoted the development of pilot clean heating projects. It plans to bring the capacity of wind power heating units to 600,000 kilowatts and expand the areas covered by clean heating to 1.2 million square meters.

In terms of PV power, Shanxi has applied for approval from the National Energy Administration for construction of national solar PV leading technology bases, in an effort to increase its installed PV power generation capacity to 10 million kilowatts by 2020.

Shanxi has also intensively developed geothermal projects. It has promoted geothermal development projects and technologies, improved geothermal energy development and utilization, and built geothermal heating demonstration zones in Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Xinzhou, Changzhi and Linfen. By 2020, the geothermal heating area in the province will reach 23.6 million square meters.

Additionally, Shanxi has used internet technologies to support the building of a smart system of clean energy. The province adheres to the integrated development of the internet, advanced information technology and energy industry.

It has improved energy internet infrastructure construction, built an intelligent system for energy production and consumption, made the production of renewable energy smarter, and promoted the coordinated development of centralized and distributed energy storage.

Shanxi has advanced the pilot construction of intelligent energy service parks and improved the consumption capacity of green electricity. It encourages new energy power generation enterprises to trade wind and thermal power as a whole with places in and out of the province as a way to boost new energy consumption capacity.

The province has encouraged private sectors to take part in the power transformation projects from coal to electricity. It has also enlarged the proportion of green electricity output to other provinces through existing channels.

Thanks to the effective measures, sustainable development of new energy in Shanxi has shown a strong momentum.

Datong coal mining subsidence area PV base is the country’s first national solar PV leading technology base with a power generation capacity of one million kilowatts. By the end of June, 2018, the project’s power generation had been connected to the grid.

Nowadays, the land and vegetation in the mining subsidence area have been gradually restored, and the environment has been effectively improved. With rows of PV panels shining brightly, the mining subsidence area has become a beautiful landscape in Datong.

Lingqiu county in Datong is home to the largest wind power heating project in China. Put into operation in October 2018, the project has a generation capacity of 400,000 kilowatts

The project could be used as a source of indoor heating for an area of 200,000 square meters in the short run and 800,000 square meters in the long run, directly benefiting 5,513 residents relocated for poverty alleviation.

Shanxi’s first large-scale biological gas project was put into operation in April this year. It is able to process 100,000 mu (about 6,667 hectares) to 200,000 mu of crop straws or 100,000 tons to 150,000 tons of livestock and poultry breeding waste, and produce 14 million cubic meters of biogas, more than 7 million cubic meters of natural gas, more than 40,000 tons of high efficient organic fertilizers and 6 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide.

Tanghuai industrial park in Shanxi has implemented geothermal and clean energy heating projects. In 2018, the park achieved full coverage of clean energy central heating, with an accumulative clean energy heating area of 2.2 million square meters.

Shanxi Shuangliang Renewable Energy Industry Group has utilized the world advanced technology to develop deep geothermal heating, and has built the first and largest geothermal central heating station in China.

Through steadily advancing on the path of sustainable development of new energy, Shanxi is firmly shouldering its historical mission. (The Report was Published in People’s Daily China and Reproduced by TNT)

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Punjab govt to file appeal against ATC’s verdict in Sahiwal killings case

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LAHORE: Punjab government on Friday announced to file an appeal against the court verdict in Sahiwal Tragedy Case.

Provincial Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat said instructions in this regard have been issued to the Advocate General already.

Speaking at a press conference at DGPR office, Raja Basharat said that Chief Minister has also constituted an inquiry commission which would took a detailed review of all those matters due to which victims of Sahiwal Tragedy have faced hurdles.

This commission would identify weaknesses in prosecution, investigation and the process of evidence within a specific period he said, adding the government is concerned on the murder of innocent people in this tragedy.

He expressed surprise that expression of satisfaction of the heirs of victims on the recent decision is a very big question mark. Law Minister said that government got registered FIR according to the will of the heirs and judicial inquiry was conducted.

Similarly, the demand of not conducting trial in Sahiwal was also accepted. However, the heirs could be satisfied of this decision but the government is not satisfied and it will make every effort to bring the responsible persons of this tragic incident to their logical ends.

To a question, he said that government is not responsible for the poor health of Nawaz Sharif nor it showed any negligence in the treatment. He said that not only personal physician of Nawaz Sharif was satisfied about the facilities being provided by the government but government also called special physician from Karachi.

Chief Minister also presented his plane with the offer to call physician of his own choice from any country. He said that Nawaz Sharif had a chronic disease which abruptly reported and now we should pray for his early recovery.

To a question, he said that court has permitted to Maulana Fazal ur Rehman to hold protest march and government has accepted his constitutional freedom. It is hoped that the limits fixed by the court would be followed by the protestors, he added.

Earlier on Friday Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the prime minister directed the Punjab government to file an appeal in the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) against the judgment in Sahiwal killing case.

In a post shared on twitter, Awan said that beside appeal, premier has also ordered the provincial government to investigate the weaknesses and flaws of prosecution in leading the case.

She added the entire nation had watched the video of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officers opening fire at the passengers. The government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is committed to ensure justice to the children, who lost their parents in this shooting mishap, she asserted.

The ATC had ordered to acquit six CTD personnel due to lack of evidence. These accused included Safdar Hussain, Ahsan Khan, Ramzan, Saifullah, Husnain and Nasir.

In January 2019, four persons including two women were shot dead in Qadirabad area by the CTD officers who claimed that they killed four ‘terrorists’ over intelligence reports.

Umair and his two sisters Muneeba and Hadia were also present in the car when the incident occurred. Later, they were taken away by police and were handed over to their relatives.

On the other hand, eyewitnesses denied CTD’s statements and said that the people in the car did not fire at officials. “There were no weapons found with the bodies,” they said.

They said that the children traveling in the car claimed that the police had killed their parents. “Following the firing incident, the security personnel left the kids at the petrol station where they spoke to us”. A few minutes later, CTD officials returned and took the children with them to an undisclosed location,” the eyewitnesses added.

Read more: ATC acquits all CTD accused in Sahiwal encounter

Prime Minister and Chief Minister of Punjab Usman Buzdar took notice of the tragic incident after which, Inspector General Amjad Javed Saleemi formed Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI) officers that declared law enforcement members responsible for the incident.

Later, the officials involved in the encounter were nabbed on the directions of CM Buzdar and an FIR was lodged on behalf of Khaleel’s brother Jaleel against 16 people under section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997.

(With additional input from INP)

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Foreign Funding Case: ECP raises objection on PTI’s lawyer

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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday raised an objection over Deputy Attorney General Saqlain Haider representing the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) as its lead lawyer in the foreign funding case.

The ECP in its detailed order has questioned the merit of lawyer Saqlain Haider representing the PTI despite being appointed as deputy attorney general.

The order states: “Saqlain Haider, learned counsel for the respondent who is stated to have been appointed as Deputy Attorney General, had no right to appear for political party against the interest of the state.”

It further states that the PTI lawyer should rather protect the state and not the party which are two completely different entities.

“The learned counsel should have preferred the state over the interests of a political party after his present appointment as Deputy Attorney General,” it added.

Read More: ECP rejects PTI applications for secrecy in scrutiny of foreign funding

On PTI’s demand to exclude the petitioner and its founding member Akbar S. Babar from the scrutiny process, the order states: “The request for exclusion of the complainant from the scrutiny was not justified because the latter had to provide material evidence to the committee.”

In 2014, on the application filed by Akbar S Babar, the foreign funding case was heard for a long time at ECP. A special committee was formed in March 2018 for the purpose.

The committee had asked PTI for the details of its accounts against which PTI had challenged the authority of the ECP. (With additional input from INP)

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Pakistan, India sign Kartarpur Corridor agreement

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India signed the Kartarpur Corridor agreement at Zero Point of Wagah border on Thursday.

Sikh Yatrees will be permitted to visit the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib from morning till evening, Dr Faisal said while addressing the media after the signing of the agreement.

“There will be a $20 per visitor per visit, as service charges.” Dr Faisal said, adding that the prime minister will inaugurate the corridor on November 9.

The significance of the signing of the bilateral treaty between the two sides comes at a time when bilateral relations are at an all-time low and no high-level meetings between the two sides have been held.

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While there have been several agreements between the two sides, very few have been signed by them. In 1974, a Bilateral Agreement on Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines was signed.

Yatrees will be permitted to visit the Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib from morning till evening.

Pakistan says it is still working on the invitations for the inauguration of Kartarpur Sahib Corridor, though one was sent to former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh who hails from a village Gah in Indian Punjab.

Prime Minister Imran Khan would inaugurate the facility on the scheduled date as construction work has entered the final stage, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party announced.

The inauguration of Kartarpur Corridor would coincide with the birth anniversary celebrations of founder of Sikhism Baba Guru Nanak Sahib.

“Pakistan is all set to open its doors to Sikhs from all across the globe,” the PM wrote. “The world’s largest Gurdwara will be visited by Sikhs from across India and other parts of the world,” he said.

Prime Minister Imran Khan would inaugurate the facility on the scheduled date as construction work has entered the final stage. 

The prime minister said the Kartarpur Corridor will be a major religious hub for the Sikh community. “(It) will boost the local economy (and) result in earning foreign exchange for the country creating jobs in different sectors including travel and hospitality.”

Pakistan handed the final draft of the proposed bilateral agreement over to India on October 11 and also accepted New Delhi’s demand to allow devotees of other faiths – Hindus, Christians, Zoroastrians etc – to visit Baba Guru Nanak Devji’s final resting place. (With additional input from INP)

Read more: Manmohan Singh to attend inaugural ceremony of Kartarpur Corridor: Indian media

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Pakistan climbs 28 places in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index

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ISLAMABAD: In another positive development that could boost investors’ sentiments towards Pakistan and will allow the debt-ridden state to combat its economic crisis, Pakistan has jumped up 28 places on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index and clinched 108th position besides securing a place among top ten global business climate improvers.

Pakistan carried out six reforms in the last one year that helped improving its ranking from 136 to 108, according to the World Bank’s annual flagship report “Ease of Doing Business 2020”, released on Thursday. Last year, Pakistan was ranked 136th among the 190 nations surveyed.

According to the World Bank, the six areas which saw reforms included starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, paying taxes and trading across borders. Pakistan made starting a business easier by expanding procedures available through the online one-stop shop. In addition to improvements in property registration, obtaining a construction permit became easier.

The launching of online portals for new commercial connections made getting electricity easier, and tariff changes are announced in advance. Moreover, tax compliance became easier through online payment modules for value-added tax and corporate income tax. Pakistan made trading across borders easier by enhancing the integration of various agencies into an electronic system and by improving coordination of joint physical inspections at the port.

Since assuming the office, Prime Minister Imran Khan made it amongst his highest priorities to take measures for improving ease of doing business in the country. As a result of the coordinated efforts led by the state’s institutions, Pakistan has been acknowledged by the World Bank among the top global reformers this year.

Pakistan, another top improver, developed an ambitious reform strategy, setting up a national secretariat as well as a prime minister’s reform steering committee to ensure progress, the report acknowledged.

Read more: Govt committed to provide enabling environment to investors/business community: PM

Pakistan’s economy kept up a solid pace of business regulatory reforms and earned the spot among the world’s top ten most improved economies and improved their global ease of doing business scores.

Governments of 115 economies around the world launched 294 reforms over the past year to make doing business easier for their domestic private sector, paving the way for more jobs, expanded commercial activity, and higher incomes for many, according to the World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2020 study.

This latest edition of the study documents reforms implemented in 10 areas of business activity in 190 economies over a 12-month period ending on 1 May 2019.

Business-friendly environments are associated with lower levels of poverty, and improved regulatory efficiency can stimulate entrepreneurship, startups, innovation, access to credit, and investment.

The study is the 17th in an annual series that evaluates regulations enhancing or constraining business activity for small and medium-size enterprises.

“Governments can foster market-oriented development and broad-based growth by creating rules that help businesses launch, hire, and expand,” World Bank Group president David Malpass said.

“Removing barriers facing entrepreneurs generates better jobs, more tax revenues, and higher incomes, all of which are necessary to reduce poverty and raise living standards.”

“This rise is significant and made possible by collective and coordinated actions of Federal Government and Provincial Governments of Sindh and Punjab over the past year,” said Illango Patchamuthu, World Bank Country Director for Pakistan.

 “The accelerated reform agenda has many noteworthy features to improve quality of regulations, reduce time and streamline processes. This momentum needs to be sustained in the coming years for Pakistan to continue to make progress, said Illango.

It is important to note that Doing Business is not meant to be an investment guide, but rather a measurement of indicators of ease of doing business.

The economies with the most notable improvement in Doing Business 2020 are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, China, India and Nigeria, according to the report closely watched by the global investors.

Top performers typically had online business incorporation processes, electronic tax filing platforms, and online procedures for property transfers.

The Ease of Doing Business index is mostly used as a guide by foreign investors to learn more about a country, aiding decisions on pouring money into the economy. The report is based on surveys carried out in Lahore and Karachi. The results are based on the work done from November 2018 to June 2019.

International investors consult the report and the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum before taking decisions on investment plans. (With additional input from INP)

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No one would be allowed to talk against institutions in Azadi March: Mian Aslam

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LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal said that government accepts right of protest but no one would be allowed to talk against institutions.

Talking to media persons, Mian Aslam said when PM Imran Khan is apprising the world about Kashmir issue Maulana Fazlur Rehman is arranging his political show in federal capital.

He said uniform of JUI-F workers resemble with RSS workers. He said India tried its best to include Pakistan in FATF blacklist and JUI-F showed its armed group in a rally.

He said Nawaz Sharif is being given best medical treatment. Mian Aslam added that Nawaz Sharif did not want to go to hospital with NAB team and went to hospital after Shehbaz insisted for this.

He said government did not want to politicize the health issue of Nawaz Sharif. (With additional input from INP)

Read more: Govt to allow ‘Azadi March’ to go ahead as long as it remains peaceful

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Rehman Malik says Modi still in mood to act like Hollywood actor

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ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is continuously acting like a Hollywood actor by his drama of fake surgical strikes at Line of Control (LoC).

He said that PM Modi used this tactic of fake surgical strike in his election campaign to win the election. He planned and engineered Pulwama attack to blame Pakistan for it and then played a Hollywood style surgical strikes which is still continue.

The Chairman Senate Body advised Prime Minister Modi to be a real statesman and come out of this fake surgical strike illusion. He said by fake surgical strikes at LoC PM Narendra Modi proves to impress his opponents which is his wild imagination. ‘Very rapidly PM Modi is converting a secular India into an extremist state by his full support to Indian terrorist organization RSS which is expanding from Nagaland to East Punjab in India’, he added.

Rehman Malik appealed the Indian opposition parties to stand against Narendra Modi to block his agenda of converting India into an extremist state. I would continue to expose the RSS and Modi’s mindset against Pakistan, adding that India had a history of false and persistent motivated flag operations, he added.(Additional Input From INP)

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IHC approves pre-arrest bail plea of Akram Durrani

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ISLAMABAD: The pre-arrest bail plea submitted by the former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Akram Durrani, has been accepted by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday.

The high court conducted the hearing of the petition filed by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) central leader Akram Durrani today.

The IHC judge accepted the pre-arrest bail plea of Durrani till November 4 and sought a reply from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by issuing a notice.

Akram Durrani had submitted the petition on Tuesday (yesterday) to seek approval of his pre-arrest bail by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) over the fear of his arrest by NAB authorities investigating into alleged illegal appointment of Pakistan Housing Authority (PHA) director.

In his petition, Durrani stated that he has replied over the questionnaire sent by the anti-corruption watch, whereas, the petitioner has also made NAB chairman a party in the plea.

He served as the Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2007. He served as federal minister for Housing and Works, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018.

Last year, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal had ordered an inquiry against Akram Khan Durrani over misuse of power and illegal allotment of plots.

Durrani was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) from Constituency PK-90 (Bannu-IV) in general election of 2018.

On October 2, 2018, Akram Khan Durrani became the leader of the opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). (Additional Input From INP)

Related: IHC orders issue of ECP appointments be sent to parliament

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Islamabad police dispatch 400 containers to various places to block ‘Azadi March’

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ISLAMABAD: Government s preparations to stop Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F)-led Azadi March intensified as Islamabad police dispatch 400 shipping containers to various places in the capital to block roads to prevent JUI-F, PML-N and PPP workers to enter Islamabad.

The containers have been placed in Red Zone area of the capital. The containers will be used to block the entrance and exit points of the federal capital and Red Zone to prevent entry of the Azadi March participants.

According to sources, these steps are being taken to meet any situation as JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called for a march on Islamabad on October 31

Meanwhile, a committee formed by Prime Minister Imran Khan to hold talks over Azadi March of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), on Monday rejected Opposition’s Rehbar Committee’s demand of the premier’s resignation.

According to sources, the rejection came during a meeting of the government’s committee headed by Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak and comprises of National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, Speaker Punjab Assembly Pervaiz Elahi, PTI leader Asad Umer, Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood, and Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri held in Islamabad.

During the meeting, the government committee rejected Rehbar Committee’s demand of resignation of PM Imran.

Sources said that the members of the government committee said that the government recognizes the opposition’s right to peaceful protest but the march towards federal capital is inappropriate during the current situation of the country and the region, adding that the government is serious about resolving issues through dialogue.

Sources further said that the government committee has decided to hold meeting with all opposition leaders and it will also hold meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif.

“Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has also been tasked to contact Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) chariman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,” sources said while Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will himself contact JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.(Additional Input From INP)

Related: LHC fixes petition against JUI-F’s Azadi March for hearing on Tuesday

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