Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) Mohammed Qasim Khan was hearing a case regarding outstanding dues which were supposed to be paid by the Punjab Government to Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA)

Punjab Chief Secretary Jawad Rafique was not present during hearing, due to his absence Chief Justice Muhamamd Qasim Khan ordered Punjab Chief Secretary to present a written explanation for his absence in previous hearing.

Upon knowing that Chief Secretary couldn’t appear before Court due to his meeting with Corps Commander, Chief Justice LHC issued a notice requiring complete details of that meeting including agenda and decision taken in that meeting.

Deputy Commissioner Shikarpur Kashif Nabi took on the microblogging site Twitter to express his views about recent exchange of harsh words between AC Sialkot Sonia Sadaf and Firdous Ashiq Awan.

Kashif tweeted a thread and said: “let’s keep aside Firdous Ashiq Awan and AC Sialkot issue, civil servants need to watch their own attitude towards public”. He reminded “why majority thinks we are some officers only interested in taking pictures for social media.”

He admitted that many new officers were seeking validation from public and this act proved how attention seeking young officers were nowadays. He also mentioned that one person did not represent whole institution.

He said that British invaders kept people away from them, because they had fear of revolution and asked why our Civil Servants keep public away from them?, why don’t they give access to the majority of people who cannot see them on Twitter?

Special Assistant to Prime Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan paid a surprise visit to Ramzan Bazaar in Sialkot, this was the moment when citizens approached her and complained about the rotten fruits being sold in Ramzan Bazaar.

Firdous immediately summoned Assistant Commissioner Sialkot Sonia Sadaf and held her answerable for the situation in Ramzan Bazaar. During the conversation situation escalated when AC Sialkot tried to explain to her that she was unable to reach and address these issues due to excessive crowd .
Upon this explanation given by AC Sialkot, Firdous responded that it was her responsibility to reach the spot regardless of the obstacles, Firdous said that AC was not a special person facing this trouble of crowd all alone, but a high-ranking officer like her prefered to stay in her comfortable office.

Situation got worse when AC Sialkot protested against the way she was being dealt with. Firdous said that these actions did not suit her as an Assistant Commissioner, “who is that shameless person who appointed you as Assistant Commissioner” remarked Firdous which made Sonia leave the scene.

Recently, an article written by Hamid Mir surfaced on media titled ‘Enough Is Enough- Pakistan not happy with Afghan Taliban’. In that article Hamid Mir had claimed that Pakistan was not happy with Afghan Taliban due to their absence in Istanbul Peace Conference, despite Pakistani government’s best efforts to convince them.

Hamid Mir also claimed that Pakistan had aggressively warned Afghan Taliban that the consequences won’t be good if they ignored Peace Conference. Istanbul Peace Conference was backed by Biden administration, which was not joined by Afghan Taliban due to new date of troops withdrawal given by the United States. Afghan Taliban believe that this is a violation of peace treaty according to which the US was supposed to withdraw their troops by May 1st.

However, in an interview with Harf E Raaz, a Pakistani TV channel news show by Neo News, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen stated that Hamid Mir’s reports were baseless. “We have brotherly relationship with Pakistan as we have many things in common including religion, history and culture”, said Suhail Shaheen. He was asked that if, as claimed by Hamid, the Afghan Taliban had any involvement with banned terrorist organisation Tehrikh-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)?. Upon this question, Suhail stated that they had no relation with TTP and they would never allow anyone to use Afghan soil against Pakistan.