PM calls President

PM calls President ‘PTI worker’ after returning SC bill

Lauds ISI for arresting banned BNA founder

Governor Punjab presents cheque for quake affected Turkiye, Syria

ISLAMABAD:  Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday criticised President Arif Alvi for returning the Supreme Court bill – which aims to curtail the powers of the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to take suo motu notice and constitute benches on his own – to Parliament after it was passed by the National Assembly, calling it “most unfortunate.”

“President Alvi returning the Supreme Court Bill duly passed by parliament is most unfortunate,” Shehbaz said on his official Twitter handle.

“Through his conduct, he has belittled the august Office by acting as a worker of the PTI, one who is beholden to Imran Niazi more than the Constitution & demands of his Office.”

Separately, PM felicitated the country’s top spy agency for arresting Gulzar Imam alias Shambay, the founder of banned Balochistan National Army (BNA), in an intelligence operation.

He tweeted: “Heartfelt felicitations to ISI for carrying out a brilliant operation that resulted in the arrest of BNA’s founder. This operation speaks of outstanding professionalism of our institutions.”

He hoped that the arrest would help suppress militancy in Balochistan and usher in a new era of peace.

Meanwhile, PM paid tribute to respected diplomatic historian and researcher Alastair Lamb on his death last month, calling him an erudite scholar who exposed Indian lies and propaganda on the Kashmir dispute.

In a tweet on his Twitter handle, he said, “With the death of Alastair Lamb, a respected diplomatic historian & researcher, last month, an era of erudite scholarship on the origins of the Kashmir dispute came to an end. Through his carefully researched books, he exposed Indian lies & propaganda. Rest in peace!”

Meanwhile, Governor Punjab Muhammad Baligh-ur- Rehman called on PM and presented a cheque of donation amount collected for the quake victims of Turkiye and Syria.

During the meeting, the overall law and order in the province and other issues of mutual interest were discussed during the meeting. Agencies