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Pakistan / S Asia / Philippines / SE Asia Wednesday, January 23, 2019 07 Pakistan JIT holds CTD officers responsible for Sahiwal killings THENEWS.COM.PK removed from their positions. victims,” he said, adding the It is a test case ed statements of three to four partment (CTD) on Saturday. ISLAMABAD “SSP CTD Sahial, DSP the incumbent government was three eyewitnesses. The CTD had claimed to CTD Sahiawl and all officers committed to provide justice. for the Prime Minister Imran have killed four terrorists in PUNJAB law minister Raja involved in the Saturday en- “Nobody is above the law,” Government of Punjab. Khan has assured the people Sahiwal near the toll plaza Basharat said that CTD offic- counter will be prosecuted un- he added. The investigating that strict action will be taken which later turned to be a fake ers have been held responsible der anti-terror law,” he said. team has found no links of We will provide justice against the culprits responsi- encounter. for the killing of Khalil’s family “SSP and DSP CTD Sahiwal Khalil’s family to terrorism, the to the heirs of victims. ble for the Sahiwal tragedy as The deceased were identi- in Sahiwal. have been suspended.” About sources said and added that Nobody is above the law he returns from Qatar. The fied as Khalil, his wife Nabeela, Speaking to media per- the murder of Zeehsan Javed, CTD mishandled the situation. assurance was given by him daughter Areeba and Khalil’s sons about the finding of JIT’s he said that the JIT head has The JIT was tasked to pre- Punjab Law Minister before embarking on a trip of friend. Minister for Human report submitted to Punjab asked for more time to investi- sent its report in 72 hours, end- Raja Basharat Qatar on Monday. Rights Shireen Mazari on Chief Minister and other top gate further. ed at 5:00PM today, however, Four people including Khal- Tuesday said that 16 officials of officials, Basharat said that “It is a test case for the Gov- earlier, the team head Punjab sain Shah said it is not possible Earlier, the JIT head along il, his wife, 13 years old daughter the Counter-Terrorism Depart- Additional IG police and Ad- ernment of Punjab. We will Police Additional Inspector to submit a final report on the with team members visited the and friend Zeeshan were killed ment (CTD) have been booked ditional IG CTD have been provide justice to the heirs of General (AIG) Syed Ijaz Hus- incident by 5pm Tuesday. site of the incident and record- by the Counter Terrorism De- under terrorism charges. Indonesia sets terms for Malaysia PM defends Israeli release of ‘radical’ cleric JAKARtA: An 80-year-old athlete ban; likens move to Philippine senators oppose Muslim cleric imprisoned in In- donesia on terrorism charges Trump’s border wall plan should only be released if he pledges allegiance to the AFP Last week Israel said the state, Indonesian President VIENNA decision was motivated by president’s push to lower Joko Widodo said on Tuesday. “rabid anti-Semitism” on Ma- Last week, Joko said cleric PRIME Minister Mahathir hathir’s part. Abu Bakar Bashir, who is Mohamad on Tuesday de- Mahathir, now 93 and in serving a 15-year jail term, fended Malaysia’s ban on Is- his second stint as premier, would be granted compassion- raeli athletes, likening it to has in the past attracted criti- criminal liability age to 9 ate release because he was US President Donald Trump’s cism for verbal attacks on old and frail. But his security plan to build a wall along the Jews. Last week he denied minister, Wiranto, announced US-Mexico border. accusations of anti-Semitism, Duterte backs bill seeking confinement of children as young as nine years old Monday that the plan was Malaysia sparked a row saying: “It is my right to tell being reviewed, taking into ac- with Israel after saying it them they have been doing a count legal technicalities and would not allow Israeli swim- lot of wrong things. Why can’t other issues. mers to compete in a tourna- we say anything against Israel, “The conditions must be ment later this year that serves against the Jews?”. fulfilled, including a pledge of as a qualifying event for the On Tuesday he branded Is- allegiance to the Unitary State Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. rael “a criminal country”, add- of Indonesia and Pancasila,” “Every country has the ing: “If their people want to Joko said, referring to the right to accept or refuse entry compete in sport, they can go state’s secular ideology which of anybody,” Mahathir told a to some other country.” Israel includes recognition of one press conference in Vienna on has called on the International God. (DPA) Tuesday. “You can see that in Paralympic Committee to chal- America now they are erecting a lenge the decision or change very high wall to prevent Mexi- the venue of the competition. cans from going to America,” he Kuala Lumpur, which has said. “We have the same idea, no formal diplomatic ties with 27 killed in fire as that people who are undesirable Israel, has rejected pleas from for our country will be kept out the world sporting body to find bus hits tanker of our country,” Mahathir added. a solution to the row. near Karach DPA Taliban ready for talks with US ISLAMABAD AT least 27 people have been as Afghanistan counts dead killed in southern Pakistan in a head-on collision between a DPA Taliban and US envoys bus and a fuel tanker, officials KABUL have officially met four times (File photo) Filipino students protest Duterte government’s drug war campaign. (AGENCIES) said on Tuesday. since July, in an attempt to The crash occurred in the PREPARATORY talks for find a negotiated settlement REUTERS require counterpart legislation and has said he has since real- the Children, while domestic town of Hub near the southern peace negotiations between the for the 17-year-long war in the MANILA and approval of the Senate, ised they were all on a greater activists said children should port city of Karachi late Mon- US and the Taliban will con- embattled country. members of which appear less scale than he had imagined. be protected from criminals, day, local administrator Shab- tinue on Tuesday, according to But it was not clear what SENATORS in the Philippines supportive. Despite a war on drugs not held liable for things they bir Mengal said. the Taliban, despite an attack effect the Wardak attack on Tuesday joined activists and “It is anti-family, anti-poor that has killed thousands of were forced to do. The bus with 33 people by the militants the day before would have on the Doha talks. child protection groups in con- and simply unjust. Moreover, people and graft-related scan- Agnes Callamard, a United on board was heading to the that left more than 100 dead at Provincial council mem- demning a lower house move it will promote a heartless and dals and resignations of his Nations special rapporteur who south-western province of an Afghan spy agency base. ber Nafisa Selai Wardak said to reduce the age of criminal ruthless society that has no re- own appointees, Duterte has has frequently locked horns Balochistan when it collided Taliban representatives at least 126 agency members liability from 15 to nine, calling gard for its own people,” said not lost his lustre among Fili- with Duterte, called it a “dan- head-on with the tanker, Men- have been meeting with US were killed in the attack, which it extreme and unjust. Antonio Trillanes, one of Du- pinos, who polls show back his gerous and potentially deadly gal said. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to began Monday morning when The proposal has Presi- terte’s biggest critics. morality-centred approach to proposal. Just shameful”. Both vehicles caught fire, pave the way for the talks. a suicide bomber detonated dent Rodrigo Duterte’s sup- Risa Hontiveros said the law and order. Justice committee chair- burning most of the victims Washington has agreed to talk his explosive laden-vehicle port and is being revived by idea went against Philippines’ Senator Panfilo Lacson man Salvador Leachon, beyond recognition, he added. about “ending the invasion of outside the base. There were his Congressional allies, hav- international commitments said nine was too young, but he however, said the bill was At least four people are be- Afghanistan and preventing 150 agents housed at the base. ing been filed on his inaugura- and a global trend of raising, supported lowering the age “to misunderstood, and was reha- ing treated at a hospital in Ka- the country from being used All the survivors suffered inju- tion day in 2016 along with a not lowering, the criminal age. a certain level”. Joel Villanueva bilitation-centred, and “pro- rachi, said doctor Asad Khan. against other countries.” ries, Wardak said. bid to re-introduce the death “Why do we want to slide said the bill needed a rethink, children”, with non-compliant DNA testing was being The Taliban issued a state- Another provincial council penalty - moves touting his back to the minimum, or even to target parents more. parents the ones who would go conducted to identify the bod- ment, following the Monday member, Mohammad Sardar crime-busting credentials. below the minimum? Is this a “Children in general have to jail. ies so they can returned to attack on the base in Wardak Bakhtyari, said 60 bodies had The plan was approved on race to the bottom?” she told a different levels of maturity and “The point here is there is their families, Mengal said.

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