Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A group of Pakistani doctors blames a recent outbreak of HIV among children in a southern city on poor healthcare practices such as using dirty needles and contaminated blood, according to a statement released Friday.

The doctors are also urging Pakistan’s government to do more to understand how the virus went from high-risk groups such as drug users and sex workers to the general population. They also warned that there isn’t enough medication in the city of Ratodero, in southern Sindh province, where 591 children need medical treatment.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistan government has found fault with a special court’s death sentence for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, apparently taking sides in a split between the military and the judiciary, and the general’s lawyers said he plans to appeal.

Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said the government’s legal team had found “gaps and weaknesses” in the ruling after lawyers briefed Prime Minister Imran Khan about the case late on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 18 (NNN-APP) – A special court in Pakistan, handed the death sentence to former President, Pervez Musharraf, on charges relating to the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency in Nov, 2007, according to local media reports.

A three-member bench of the special court delivered a short verdict in the case, in the absence of Musharraf, finding him guilty of abrogation of the constitution, under article 6 of Pakistan’s constitution among others, local media reported, adding that, two judges were in favour of the death sentence, while one was against it.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court sentenced on Tuesday former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution, government officials said.

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an anti-terrorism court hearing the high treason case.

“Pervez Musharraf has been found guilty of Article 6 for violation of the constitution of Pakistan,” government law officer Salman Nadeem said.

Peshawar/Islamabad, Dec 16 (PTI) Pakistan's top leadership on Monday pledged to not allow militants with "bigoted vision" to take the country hostage as the nation mourned the 5th anniversary of massacre of 149 people, including 132 students, at the Army Public School in Peshawar.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan will be visiting Geneva to co-convene the first-ever Global Refugee Forum (GRF) commencing on Tuesday (December 17, 2019).

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Switzerland were co-hosting the GRF.

Prime Minister Imran Khan, along with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and leaders from Costa Rica, Ethiopia and Germany, have been invited to co-convene the Forum in recognition of their exemplary role for the protection and well-being of refugees, a Foreign Office statement issued here on Monday said.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 (APP): President Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday reiterated the pledge to root out terrorism and extremism in all its forms and manifestations from the country.

“The nation cannot forget the massacre of little angels/teachers of APS (Army Public School) 5 years ago on this day. Hard to commemorate this day without tears in one’s eyes,” the President said in a tweet, posted on his social media account.

“In its remembrance, we reiterate our pledge to root out terrorism and extremism in all its manifestations from our country,” he said.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday said Pakistan desired to strengthen economic cooperation with France, both at bilateral level and in context of European Union.

Talking to French Ambassador Marc Barety at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, the President stressed that there existed immense scope of investment in Pakistan due to its friendly policies.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (APP): Pakistan on Thursday pointed out the ‘failure’ of U.S. Treasury Department to notice extensive human rights abuses by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir as it issued a list of 18 global abusers including a Pakistani police official.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (APP): Reminding the world of genocidal Supremacist agenda of Nazi Germany which eventually led to Word War II, Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday urged the world to step in, before it was too late, to counter Hindu Supremacist agenda of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“As in Nazi Germany, in Modi’s India dissent has been marginalized and the world must step in before it is too late, to counter this Hindu Supremacist agenda of Modi’s India threatening bloodshed and war,” the Prime Minister said in a tweet posted on his social media account.