As the uncertainty surrounding general elections ended with the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) announcement of a timeframe for the polls, major political parties in the former ruling alliance welcomed the development, hoping that it would remove the apprehensions regarding the political situation of the country. In a much-awaited move, the electoral authority has announced that elections will be held in January next year following the completion of the delimitation process.
LONDON: In a major development, former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif is rushing back to London with a special message for his brother and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif despite him reaching Lahore a day earlier. Sources told Geo News that Shehbaz will reach London on Thursday night. While Maryam Nawaz is set to reach the British capital to meet her father on Thursday afternoon.
Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) has slammed India for its alleged involvement in the murder of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar saying that the incident reflects India's global "extrajudicial" network of state-sponsored targeted killings. Addressing the media during the weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Wednesday, FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that the news of Indian involvement in an extrajudicial killing in Canada reflects that New Delhi’s “network of extra-territorial killings had now gone global”.
The diplomatic row between New Delhi and Ottawa worsened further on Tuesday over a Sikh leader’s assassination as India — in a tit-for-tat move — expelled a Canadian diplomat, triggering an international response on the matter. The ties between the two nations fell to a new low after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Narendra Modi government of a role in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder in British Columbia in June. Nijjar, who was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in June, had been designated a "terrorist" by India in July 2020, following his support for a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent state of Khalistan.
