Taxila: 8 including doctor killed in rescue operation
TAXILA: Police conducted an operation to rescue a kidnapped doctor in Tehsil Taxila of Rawalpindi where eight persons were killed including the abducted doctor, six kidnappers and a sub-inspector, Geo News reported Thursday.According to police sources, a doctor was kidnapped from Haripur area a month ago and demanded Rs10 million ransom.Police conducted an operation Thursday morning to rescue the kidnapped doctor in Tehsil Taxila. During operation, six kidnappers including two women were killed while check post in-charge Raja Hasnain and the doctor were also killed in the cross fire.Police has recovered hand grenades and other ammunition from the possession of kidnappers. Security forces have cordoned off the area while investigations are underway.
Funeral of Dr Baqir Shah today
DERA MURAD JAMALI: The dead body of martyred police surgeon Dr Baqir Shah has been sent to Dera Murad Jamali area of Naseerabad. The funeral prayers will be held in his native town of Chattar Friday morning, Geo News reported.
According to sources, people gathered near the dead body of Baqar Shah who was gunned down by unidentified gunmen at Sabzal road, at a hospital in Quetta on Thursday, December 29. Friends and relatives of the murdered surgeon have started reaching here to attend his funeral.
Shah had earlier spoken about death threats from unknown people in a televised press c onference earlier this year after he resisted pressure to fudge the postmortem reports of four unarmed Russians and a Tajik shot dead by police in Kharotabad.
According to sources, people gathered near the dead body of Baqar Shah who was gunned down by unidentified gunmen at Sabzal road, at a hospital in Quetta on Thursday, December 29. Friends and relatives of the murdered surgeon have started reaching here to attend his funeral.
Shah had earlier spoken about death threats from unknown people in a televised press c onference earlier this year after he resisted pressure to fudge the postmortem reports of four unarmed Russians and a Tajik shot dead by police in Kharotabad.
Pasha visits Qatar to repair ties with US
ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha’s visit to Qatar, home to US Centcom’s regional headquarters, has led to speculations about an ‘intelligence back channel’ between Pakistan and the US to reset troubled security cooperation.Gen Pasha, whose overseas trips are not officially announced, is said to have returned on Wednesday from a trip to Qatar, which had been ‘authorised’ by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Mr Gilani had earlier this week himself disclosed Gen Pasha’s visit during a media interaction when he said he had approved the trip.
Mr Gilani would travel to Doha next month.
A western diplomatic source claimed that Gen Pasha during his stay in Qatar met the US officials.
The claim could not be independently verified.
Gen Pasha’s visit followed the release of Centcom’s preliminary report on the November 26 Nato attacks on Pakistani border posts.
Centcom Commander Gen James Mattis initially planned to visit Islamabad this week for sharing with the Pakistani military authorities findings of the probe, but had to cancel the visit after his hosts expressed their inability to receive him because of the situation at home, where anti-America sentiments are running high and a parliamentary body is working to review the terms of engagement with Washington.
No comments were available from military’s public affairs wing, the ISPR.
But diplomatic observers insist that indications from both Islamabad and Washington point towards an impending thaw in relations that went into a free fall after the Nato attacks.
While Gen Mattis directed Isaf (International Security Assistance Force) to improve ties with Pakistan and Pentagon hinted at possible punitive action against those responsible for the border incident — something desired by Pakistan Army, the Foreign Office on Thursday too spoke about efforts to mend ties.
“We are on speaking terms with the US. Doubtless there are problems but we are trying to put our relations on a track that is transparent and in sync with our aspirations. I am reluctant to discuss specifics,” FO spokesman Abdul Basit said at the weekly media briefing.
“We want to have a good relationship with the US, a relationship that is based on mutual trust and mutual respect,” Mr Basit said.
The FO has all along said that normalisation of ties will begin only after parliament completes the review of ties.
“Please wait for our parliamentary process to complete,” the spokesman said when asked about back channel diplomacy to end impasse in the ties.
The diplomatic observers are also attaching importance to the timing of Kabul’s withdrawal of objection to Qatar hosting Taliban’s office because the announcement came while Gen Pasha was in Qatar, supposedly talking to US officials.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai had on Tuesday for the first time agreed to setting up of the Taliban office in the Gulf state, something which he had all along opposed.
Cooperation between the US and Pakistan over Afghan reconciliation efforts too came to a halt after the border incident.
Pakistan boycotted Bonn conference on Afghanistan earlier this month and the trilateral Pakistan-US-Afghanistan meeting was also cancelled because of strained ties.
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