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E R I T SA Sunday, 16 - 22 February, 2020 I Issue 158 I Pages 04 I Sections 06 I Rs 30
Hafiz Saeed sentenced to five-and-a-half years in Pakistan film censor board
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Lahore anti-terrorism court convicted Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaa-ud-Dawa (JuD) Chief hafiz Saeed to five-and-a-half years in Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) in two terror-financing cases on Wednesday. Given that the same verdict has been meted out in two separate terror-financing cases, instead of serving 11 years in the CBFC, Saeed will be required to watch every Lollywood film released over the next
five-a-half-years twice. “We’re hoping that this would help Pakistan’s listing with the Financial Action Task Force and Lollywood’s listing with other film industries. The move has positive repercussions for Pakistan’s economy, security and its film industry,” said Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan while talking to the media.
Along with Saeed, his close aide and fellow cinema buff Malik Zafar Iqbal has also been sentenced to the CBFC over terror-financing charges. The first assignment that Saeed and Iqbal would take up will be to review Sarmad Khoosat’s much talked about Zindagi Tamasha along with members of the Council of Islamic Ideology, and the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan. g
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Govt offers ehsanullah tamgha-eimtiaz, master bedroom in Dar’s seized home in bid to get him to return
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Team of North Korean experts arrive to assist in draft of social media regulations
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riginally, the experts were supposed to come from China, whose model of social media regulation we wanted to emulate,” said information minister Firdoua Ashiq Awan. “But then we thought we needed something a little stronger.” “Shoot for the moon, and you’ll land among the stars, as they say,” she said. “If we won’t be able to
manage to achieve what North Korea has, we’d be able to get to China level, at least.” “There’s so much to learn from our DPRK brothers and sisters,” said science minister Fawad Chaudhry. “For instance, when I first heard of the ‘3.5 Drill Method’, I thought it was an algorithm that shuts down the internet access of dissident users. Boy, was I wrong!” . g
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he federal government on Sunday offered escaped formerformer spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan ehsanullah ehsan the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) and the master bedroom in the seized property of former finance minister Ishaq Dar. “If this doesn’t make the cut,” clarified defence minister Pervez Khattak, “we could also offer another award, to be decided later, and to offer other options of accommodation.” “There is also the option of relationship counselling; we hear there is a fantastic therapist in Lahore,” he continued. “Let’s give this another go. Please.” Defence analysts were divided over the
issue. Lt Gen (retd) Amjad Shoib was of the view that the offer was far too generous and that he should be given just a Mentioned in Dispatches Imtiazi Sanad or Tamgha-eKhidmat (Class II). Others were of the view that the offer wasn’t generous enough. “he should be
‘Have temporarily borrowed Ehsanullah as spokesperson on Kurd massacre,’ reveals Erdogan
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N his Valentine’s Day address to the joint session of Parliament, Turkish President Recep Tayyib erdogan finally lifted the lid on the rumors and conspiracies surrounding the departure of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Spokesman ehsan Ullah ehsan. erdogan, on the second of his much anticipated two-day visit to Pakistan, revealed that ehsan had been temporarily loaned out to the Turkish government. “Unfortunately we in Turkey lack PR specialists like Mr ehsan, who brings a
unique repertoire and years of experience into the field. Therefore, we have temporarily borrowed him from Pakistan as the Turkish government’s spokesperson on Kurd massacre,” erdogan told the Parliament. In his address to the joint session, the Turkish president further revealed that ehsan, who will be taking up a different pseudonym during his work as the Turkish government spokesperson, will also be training the locals in his expertise. “We are hoping that by the
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time Mr ehsan’s work with us is finished we have sufficient trained spokespersons not only for the Turkish government, but also for the jihadist groups and proxies that Turkey supports in its neighbourhood, and in the broader region,” erdogan said. g
accommodated in the Prime Minister’s residence,” said Wajahat S Khan, former journalist and military theorist. “I have personally visited the premises, specially the bathrooms, and can testify that they meet the requisite standards for entertaining such an esteemed guest of the state.” g
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