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WASHINGTON: US officials held their first wide-ranging talks, since the 2021 pullout from Kabul , with representatives of the Afghan Taliban in Doha, Qatar, to discuss economic issues, security, and women’s rights, both sides confirmed on Monday. The talks also focused on returning assets of the Afghan central bank that were frozen in the United States after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in Aug 2021. “On July 30 and 31, met senior Taliban representatives and technocratic professionals in Doha, Qatar … to continue discussions regarding critical interests,” US State spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement issued in Washington. The US delegation was led by Thomas West, Special Representative for Afghanistan, and included Rina Amiri, Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, and Karen Decker, chief of the US mission to Afghanistan. Zabiullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman for Taliban, confirmed the meeting in a tweet, saying that an Afghan delegation, led by Forei...

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court came down hard on the Manipur police on Monday and demanded to see a complete break-up of the approximately 6,000 cases of murder, rape, arson, crimes against women, burning of villages, homes and places of worship the state government claimed to have registered during the ethnic clashes. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chan­drachud, was hearing petitions by the two women who were paraded naked and raped. The bench observed it was surprised to find both the centre and the state groping for facts about crimes which are “public knowledge, reported widely in the national media”. The court set up hearings on Tuesday, and said it was shocked to know that the Manipur police took 14 whole days to register even a ‘Zero FIR’ (an FIR that can be filed in any police station) on the sexual assault and gang-rape of two women in Thoubal district on May 4, The Hindu said. While the video of the horrific visuals of the sexual violence...

England beat Australia by 49 runs to win the fifth Test at The Oval on Monday and end the Ashes series all square at 2-2 after the tourists suffered a dramatic collapse. Australia, chasing a mammoth 384 to win, collapsed from 264-3 to 334 all out, with England’s retiring paceman Stuart Broad taking the final wicket. England did the bulk of the damage when, after a rain break of more than two hours, they took four Australia wickets for 11 runs in 19 balls. Off-spinner Moeen Ali (3-76) and all-rounder Chris Woakes (4-50) led the way before Broad, England’s all-time leading Ashes bowler polished off the tail. “It was absolutely wonderful,” Broad told Sky Sports . “I thought Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali set the tone absolutely unbelievably. “Woakesy picked up a couple of wickets, particularly Steve Smith, who has just been a wonderful player to play against all these years. “Once we got a couple we really started to believe. The crowd was unbelievable. It was so loud and we just jumped...

A part of the Karakoram Highway was swept away by a flood in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Kohistan district on Monday evening, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Irfanullah Mehsood said. DC Mehsood told Dawn.com that heavy rainfall had caused flooding in the Lachi nullah in Upper Kohistan’s Harban tehsil. A mosque, a police station, a hotel and multiple houses were damaged and a stretch of the Karakoram Highway was swept away by the flood due to which “hundreds of passengers”, including families and tourists, were left stranded on the road, he said. The DC said the highway’s restoration would “take days” as no trace of the thoroughfare was left near Lachi nullah. Asadullah Quraishi, tehsil chairman for the Harban-Bhasha area, told Dawn.com that police and residents vacated their quarters when the water flow in the Lachi nullah increased. The tehsil chairman said “it seems there will be a food shortage in Upper Kohistan and Gilgit-Baltistan” because the Karakoram Highway was getting block...

BANYUMAS: Eight people trapped in an illegal gold mine on the Indonesian island of Java are feared dead, a local rescue official said on Sunday, as search efforts entered a fifth day with little progress. Unlicensed mines — many with disregard for basic safety measures — are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago and accidents are frequent. The workers were digging inside a hole with a depth of 200 feet in Pancurendang village in Central Java on Tuesday evening when water suddenly flooded the illegal mine. Rescuers had deployed water pumps around the clock and worked to dam a nearby river in a frantic bid to get the water out of the mining shaft but it remained flooded on Sunday. “This is already the fifth day. We expect the bad news that the victims have died,” local search and rescue agency head Adah Sudarsa told reporters on Sunday. Sudarsa said the rescue effort would continue until Tuesday in the hope of retrieving the miners’ bodies, which are yet to be fo...

WASHINGTON: Mohsin Dawar, who heads the National Democratic Movement, has warned that militancy will spin out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and engulf the entire Pakistan. In a conversation with Pakistani journalists and scholars near Washington, the Pashtun member of the National Assembly also opposed banning former prime minister Imran Khan and his supporters from the next elections as doing so was “against democratic norms”. The briefing was held hours before a deadly blast in a JUI convention in Bajaur but the participants in this discussion seemed aware of this looming threat as they noted that some militant groups, particularly those associated with ISIS, were now targeting religious figures. “This will have very dangerous consequences,” said Mr Dawar while commenting on the discussion. “It will be difficult to control it if it’s not stopped now.” He warned that the militancy “can even prevent people from participating in the upcoming elections” if not curbed. “This is a raging fire....

Authorities from Afghanistan’s vice ministry created a bonfire of confiscated musical instruments and equipment in Herat province at the weekend, deeming music immoral. “Promoting music causes moral corruption and playing it will cause the youth to go astray,” said Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir, head of the Herat department of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Since seizing power in August 2021, Taliban authorities have steadily imposed laws and regulations that reflect their austere vision of Islam — including banning playing music in public. The bonfire saw hundreds of dollars worth of musical gear go up in smoke — much of it collected from wedding halls in the city. It included a guitar, two other stringed instruments, a harmonium and a tabla — a type of drum — as well as amplifiers and speakers. Women have borne the brunt of the new government regulations, and are not allowed in public unless wearing a hijab. Teenage girls and women have been barred...

SUKKUR: As many as 44 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the July 21 invasion of Narch village, falling within the limits of the Sangi police station of Pannu Aqil, police said on Friday. The police and area residents said that around 170 people riding scores of motorcycles and many of them waving firearms had stormed their way into the village and opened fire killing two youths and kidnapping two women along with a young girl on the night of July 21. They claimed that the invaders belonged to the Mahar clan and lived in Raza Goth, situated within the gang-infested riverine area of Pannu Aqil. They targeted a particular house but several others also came under the attack during their indiscriminate firing, the villagers claimed. The village is dominated by Kalhoro tribesmen. The police said that a strong contingent of police equipped with sophisticated weapons had been raiding various places in and around Raza Goth since July 22 to apprehend the remaining sus...

RAWALPINDI: Getting from Rawat to Kutchery Chowk has become a difficult task; it takes hours and commuters brave the difficult task of crossing the rough, pocked and bumpy road. Additionally, repair work on the Soan River Bridge, which was damaged on June 27, is still going on, making public transportation miserable. The road had recently been renamed as Potohar Avenue by the National Highway Authority (NHA). It connects many populated housing societies and its pathetic condition makes it difficult for the residents to commute especially since the bridge has been closed for repair work. Residents of the housing societies, who travel between Rawat and Kutchery on daily basis, seem helpless in getting authorities concerned realise and remove sewage accumulated on its uneven portion near Fauji Foundation Hospital, Al Shifa Eye Trust Hospital and the NLC establishments. During rains, the newly-constructed bridge over Soan River close to Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench building (tow...

PTI leader Asad Qaiser on Saturday called for an end to what he called was ongoing “propaganda” against his party, and urged for “powerful quarters” to ensure free and fair elections in the country. In a video statement, Qaiser, who unlike many of his peers did not leave the PTI in the aftermath of the May 9 violence, said: “The one-sided propaganda under way against the party and Imran Khan at this time, what do those in power and the PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement) group think? Do they think they can eliminate the PTI through such propaganda? “It is their misunderstanding. The more negative propaganda they are doing, the more the PTI is becoming popular,” he said as he criticised the incumbent government’s performance and questioned whether it had managed to tackle inflation and improved governance during its tenure. “Show us one sector in which we can say the PDM has shown [good] performance. These 14 months were the worst disaster that is why I want to say to the powerful sec...

• BCCI official says a number of boards have asked for match schedule to be revised • No e-tickets this time as Indian board makes carrying physical tickets mandatory NEW DELHI: Barely three months to go before the start of the 50-overs World Cup, the organising Indian cricket board has said the schedule would be adjusted and an Oct 15 India vs Pakistan blockbuster in Ahmedabad could be among the matches affected. World Cup schedules are usually announced a year before the start of the event, but the fixtures for the tournament in India, scheduled from Oct 5, were unveiled only last month. The inordinate delay has inconvenienced fans who plan to travel to India for the tournament and BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed even the schedule announced last month is not final. “Two or three boards have written in, asking to change based on the logistical challenges,” Reuters quoted Mr Shah as telling reporters on Thursday. “We are working out with the ICC, and we should be able to clear ...

BEIJING: Typhoon Doksuri hit southeastern China on Friday morning, bringing high winds and battering rains to coastal areas after the deadly storm bypassed Taiwan on its way from the Philippines. Wind speeds of up to 175 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour) were recorded as the storm reached the coast of Fujian province around 10:00 am (0200 GMT), Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. Fears of potential danger to residents and the destruction of property led the national weather observatory to renew the most severe “red alert” in its four-tier system on Friday. State news agency Xinhua reported “more than 416,000 people in Fujian had been evacuated to safe places”. In Xiamen, a major port city on the Taiwan Strait, heavy weather appeared to have ripped the roof off of a bus station and pushed it up against a nearby sign. The powerful Typhoon Doksuri is expected to continue moving in a northwestern direction over central China as its intensity gradually weakens. But Xinhua re...

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to “fully and forcefully” implement its resolutions on the Middle East conflict that give the right of self-determination to Palestinian people. Addressing a meeting of the 15-member UNSC on Thursday, Ambassador Munir Akram strongly condemned the recent large-scale Israeli military’s operations in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank, and called for holding Israel accountable for its grave human rights violations and crimes in Occupied Palestine. “Unfortunately,” he said, “the killing of children, women, and men continues in Occupied Palestine with complete impunity. The rule of law can be upheld only if it is applied universally and consistently, without exceptions or double standards.” The envoy regretted that Security Council had not been able to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in Occupied Palestine. Asks UNSC to fully implement resolutions on self-determination rig...

RAWALPINDI: Pakis­tan Post has increased domestic postal rates by 50 per cent and 150pc from August 1. According to a notification from the Ministry of Communication, rates for non-registered ordinary letters, envelops and aerogrammes have been inc­reased from Rs20 to Rs30 for 20 grams, Rs38 to Rs60 for 50 grams, Rs50 to Rs75 for 100g, Rs75 to Rs120 for 250g, Rs100 to Rs150 for 500g, Rs200 to Rs300 per kilogram, and Rs250 to Rs380 for 2kg. Other than textbooks, which include pamphlets, journals, periodicals, sheets of music, maps, printed circulars, invitations, bills, greeting cards, and books other than textbooks, the rates will be increased from Rs2 to Rs5 per 100g. Parcel rates have also been increased as follows: 1kg increased from Rs100 to Rs150, 3kg from Rs175 to Rs270, 5kg from Rs250 to Rs380, 10kg from Rs375 to Rs570, 15kg from Rs500 to Rs750, 20kg from Rs625 to Rs940, 25kg from Rs750 to Rs1,130, and 30kg from Rs875 to Rs1,320. The rates for printed materials and parcels, ...

WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump said on Friday he would not end his run for the White House if he were convicted and sentenced in any of the criminal investigations mounting against him. The 77-year-old Republican frontrunner was asked about his reaction to the federal and state charges he faces as he bids for a second term in 2024, a day after federal prosecutors added three felony counts to the indictment against him over his handling of classified documents. Asked by radio host John Fredericks if being sentenced would stop his campaign, he quickly responded: “Not at all. There’s nothing in the Constitution to say that it could. And even the radical left crazies are saying not at all, that wouldn’t stop (me) — and it wouldn’t stop me either. These people are sick. What they are doing is absolutely horrible.” Trump said previous presidents including Barack Obama and George W. Bush “took documents”, suggesting falsely that his predecessors had engaged in conduct similar...

Leaders of a coup in Niger declared General Abdourahamane Tiani as the new head of state on Friday days after saying they had ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in the seventh military takeover in West and Central Africa in less than three years. The upheaval has raised concerns about the security of a region where Niger has been a key ally of Western powers seeking to contain insurgencies by groups linked to Al Qaeda and the militant Islamic State. Tiani was the head of the presidential guard whose soldiers shut Bazoum inside his palace on Wednesday, leaving confusion over who was in control. The general appeared on state television on Friday with a banner on the screen that described himself as the president of a newly formed military body, the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland (CNSP). “The President of the CNSP is the head of state,” an officer said, reading out a statement. The constitution has been suspended, all government institutions dissolved and the CNSP will e...

ISLAMABAD: Continuing its streak of hasty legislation, the National Assembly on Thursday passed 28 private member’s bills — 24 of them seeking establishment of private universities in different parts of the country — without quorum as Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf allowed lawmakers to move motions for the passage of the bills, even on behalf of those members who were absent from proceedings. Apart from 28 private member’s bills, the lower house also witnessed passage of a government bill and introduction of four other proposed legislations through a supplementary agenda on private member’s day. Of the 24 bills for the new universities, 16 had been introduced by the members in the same sitting, and the speaker put them for a vote after the house through motions allowed him to do so without referring them to committees concerned. However, Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Saad Waseem said all these universities would be established after completion of the ...

ISLAMABAD: As the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman is set to retire by the end of this month, the government has stepped up efforts to appoint a new head, with several senior officers in the run for the top slot, Dawn learnt on Thursday. The current FBR chairman, Asim Ahmad, was appointed by the PML-N-led coalition government on April 27 last year and will retire on July 30. High-ups in the FBR believe that a delay in appointing the top tax officer might cause uncertainty within the tax department, leading to revenue bleeding on a daily basis. Therefore, the government may give a look-after charge to a senior official until the appointment of a regular chairperson. Sources said that the names of five officers were under consideration by the finance ministry for the post of FBR’s new head, including two officers from the Inland Revenue Service (IRS) and three from the Customs Group (CG). As for the IRS, the two potential candidates are Nadeem Rizvi, serving as FBR’s member ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told African leaders he would gift them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within months despite Western sanctions, which he said made it harder for Moscow to export its grain and fertilisers. Speaking at a two-day summit in St Petersburg devoted to Russian-African ties, Mr Putin said Russia was expecting a record grain harvest and was ready to replace Ukrainian grain exports to Africa on both a commercial and aid basis to honour what he said was Moscow’s critical role in global food security. “We will be ready to provide Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Central African Republic and Eritrea with 25-50,000 tonnes of free grain each in the next 3-4 months,” Mr Putin told the summit, whose participants applauded. “We will also provide free delivery of these products to consumers.” Calls Western sanctions hurdle to supply of free fertiliser to poor nations; AU chair Assoumani urges Russia-Ukraine ‘peaceful co-existence’ La...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reiterated the government’s resolve to develop the Gwadar Sea Port as one of the best in the world and promised that the “fruit of development” in Balochistan would be directed towards the people of the province. The premier passed these remarks during a visit to Gwadar, where he inaugurated several development projects along with Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir. Addressing a ceremony at the China-Pakistan Expo Centre, PM Shehbaz said the fate of the people of Balochistan, especially those of Gwadar, would be changed through the ongoing development operation across the province. He recalled that during the tenure of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, projects in power, infrastructure and other sectors were launched in Gwadar. However, he claimed that all these projects had been abandoned by the PTI government. “But in the last 15 challenging months, the coalition government managed to lay the foundation of development and prosperity in...

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to form a high-powered committee, comprising three vice chancellors and officers from security agencies, to investigate the Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) scandal. HEC Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Federal Education on Wednesday that the education sector was suffering because of the scandal at the varsity. He said that even international media was raising this issue and added a high-powered committee was being notified to investigate the matter while a special audit and performance audit of the IUB would be conducted in the near future. “Today, we will notify this high-powered committee, which will stay in the university for some days to complete the probe,” he said and added that there were 253 universities (both public and private) in the country and because of this issue, students were upset. “This is unacceptable,” he said and added that universities had policies relat...

The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday to the highest level since 2001 to tackle above-target inflation and signalled the possibility of further increases ahead. The quarter percentage-point rise lifts the Fed’s key lending rate to a range between 5.25 per cent and 5.5pc, the US central bank said, adding that it will “continue to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy.” The rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) used similar language when it voted to hold rates steady in June, and the latest statement suggests that policymakers are mulling another pause at their next meeting in September. However, the Fed also said it would assess a range of data points “in determining the extent of additional policy firming,” which indicates that they also see more monetary tightening ahead. This would be in line with the median forecast of two additional rate hikes this year at the last FOMC meeting in June. The quarter pe...

ISLAMABAD: The Global Hunger Index (GHI-2022) has ranked Pakistan at 99th position out of the 121 countries. The report’s Pakistan chapter , which was laun­ched on Tuesday in Islam­abad, reveals the country’s score has dropped from 38.1 in 2006 to 26.1 in 2022, yet the hunger level is considered serious. Zero score indicates a country has no issue of hunger. “The current edition of the GHI reveals that armed conflicts, climate change, and the coronavirus pandemic are intensifying each other; as a result, up to 828 million peo­ple were forced to go hungry. As things stand, 46 countries will not even achieve a low level of hunger by 2030, much less eliminate hunger entirely. In Africa, South of the Sahara and South Asia are once again the regions with the highest rates of hun­ger. South Asia, the reg­ion with the world’s highest hunger level, has the highest child stunting rate and by far the highest child wasting rate of any world region,” it was infor­med through a statement. In th...

LAHORE: Pilgrimage-related activities resumed at the Gurdawara Darbar Sahib on Tuesday after Indian authorities reopened their side of the Kartarpur corridor. The Indian government had closed the corridor on July 20 after floodwaters entered fields of crops near the corridor. According to a senior official of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), Indian authorities opened the gate of their side of the corridor on Saturday morning following a flag meeting with Pakistan Rangers at the zero-line. “As many as 106 pilgrims were scheduled to visit the corridor from India on Tuesday (July 25), but only 53 of them made it across to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib,” ETPB administrator Rana Tariq told Dawn on Tuesday. He said 89 Indian pilgrims are scheduled to visit Kartarpur on July 26 (Wednesday), while the number would increase in the days to tome. He said the Indian and Pakistani side gates were opened at 8:15am and 8:45am, respectively, on Tuesday, while Sikh pilgrims entered Pakistan throu...

LAHORE: The Lahore General Hospital management shifted 15-year-old girl [victim of domestic violence] to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) following her deteriorating health condition. It has also formed a 12-member medical board of senior medics from various specialties for treatment of Rizwana. The duty doctors said the condition of Rizwana got serious due to malnutrition and the complications of her wounds in her brain and on the face. Resident of Sargodha, the girl was shifted to the LGH on Monday in the domestic violence matter when her employers - a civil judge in Islamabad and his wife - were accused of torturing her. LGH chief executive Prof Dr Muhammad Al-Fareed Zafar told Dawn that the girl was shifted to the ICU keeping in view her condition. LGH management forms 12-member board to treat the teen He said according to the medical examination so far, Rizwana was bearing some four to six month old wounds/bruises on her head and face. During medical examination, the doctor...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will launch a health insurance scheme for journalists on Aug 7, Information Minister Marriyum Auran­gzeb said on Monday. The form for registration in the scheme is available on the websites of the Press Information Depart­ment and the Ministry of Information. Registration of journalists would be done through a digital form to ensure transparency, Ms Aurangzeb said. According to the minister, the government has allocated Rs 1 billion for the scheme in the federal budget. Ms Aurangzeb said the scheme would cover “all health facilities”. “Health insurance and salaries of journalists have always been an issue,” she observed, adding that the government had recovered Rs110 million through the platform of the Indepe­ndent Tribunal for News­paper Employees and made direct payments to print media staffers. She said the health insurance scheme was applicable to all journalists and media workers, regardless of whether an individual was a press club me...

ISLAMABAD: PTI chief Imran Khan is due to appear today (Tuesday) before an Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team looking into the cipher issue, a day after his aides Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Asad Umar were questioned in connection with the same case. In remarks telecast over social media on Monday night, the PTI chairman said he had no idea what the agency wanted to quiz him about. He admitted that a cipher was a most secret document, as its leak could compromise the secrecy of the entire network of diplomatic communications. Mr Khan also claimed that the cipher “had never left the foreign office”, therefore there was no question of it being lost. Last week, former principal secretary Azam Khan had recorded a ‘confessional statement’ , accusing former prime minister Imran Khan of using the coded document to subvert the no-confidence motion. Following these revelations, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah accused Mr Khan of undermining national security and also blamed Mr Qureshi fo...

ISLAMABAD: Despite strong opposition from consumers, the power division and the power regulator did not budge from increasing national uniform electricity tariff by up to 26pc (Rs7.5 per unit) with effect from July 1, 2023 as committed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At a public hearing presided over by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) Chairman Tauseef H. Farooqui, trade and industrial bodies, mostly from Karachi, protested over such a massive price hike, saying the industry was already at its last leg of survival and the additional burden would lead to closure of businesses, wipe out export market as products become uncompetitive and add to the employment losses. The flabbergasted consumer representatives, one after the other, expressed their anger in a language that the Nepra chief had to intervene with repeated requests to convey their feelings in a professional manner and appropriate words. Despite repeated calls from various trade bodies and Nepra ...

Iraq condemned yet another desecration of the Holy Quran in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday and said Danish staff at the embassy in Baghdad had left the country after protests there, while Copenhagen said it had “not withdrawn from Iraq”. Demonstrations have raged across Iran and Iraq after Denmark and Sweden allowed the Holy Quran’s burning under rules protecting free speech. Protesters in Iraq set the Swedish embassy in Baghdad alight on Thursday. Two anti-Islam protesters set fire to a copy of the holy book in front of the Iraqi embassy in the Danish capital on Monday. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he condemned the burning. “These provocative and shameful acts do not represent the views of the Danish government. Appeal to all to deescalate — violence must never be the response,” Rasmussen said in a tweet. Iraq’s foreign ministry called on authorities of European Union countries to “quickly reconsider so-called freedom of expression and th...

• Blinken claims 50pc occupied land recaptured by Ukraine • Minsk, Moscow hold strategic dialogue KYIV: The Ukrainian port city of Odesa came under renewed Russian missile attack early on Sunday, just hours before President Vladimir Putin declared that Kyiv’s counteroffensive had “failed” as he began two-day talks with his Belarus counterpart and ally Alexander Lukashenko. The longtime leaders met for the first time since Lukashenko helped end a mutiny by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Russia last month, in the biggest threat to Putin’s more than two-decade rule. “There is no counteroffensive,” Lukashenko said, before being interrupted by Putin: “There is one, but it has failed.” On the other hand, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview to CNN on Sunday claimed that Ukraine took back about 50pc of the territory that Russia had initially seized, although Kyiv’s counteroffensive would extend several months. “These are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive....

• PML-N starts efforts to take all stakeholders on board; PPP to nominate own candidate • Govt plans amendment to expand mandate of caretakers beyond ‘day-to-day’ affairs LAHORE/ISLAM­ABAD: As PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif intends to see party stalwart and confidant Ishaq Dar as the interim prime minister, the PPP has expressed strong reservations saying a “man from the Sharif family” is not suitable to lead the ‘neutral’ setup. However, PML-N started efforts on Sunday to take all stakeholders on board, including the military establishment and assuage the concerns of the PPP leadership. Both PPP and PML-N want to see a politician steer the caretaker government to avert any move to delay polls. The ruling party is likely to make an official announcement after convincing the allies. To hammer out details regarding the caretaker setup , the elder Sharif is camped in Dubai , again, for a huddle with the PPP top leadership — Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Both PML-N a...