SOURCE: Ausaf, Ummat, Daily Pak, Nawa-i-Waqt, Urdu Point, Daily Jinnah, Awami Awaz, Daily Dharti, Jasarat, Kawish, Daily Intekhab, Daily Times, Jang, Ibrat, Khabrain, Roznama Dunya, Hizb Media, Al Qalam Weekly, Baad-e-Shimal, Bang-e-Sahar

CHINA
1 China has indicated that India will not be able to get the NSG membership even at the end of this year since it has no intention to support the Indian request. (Nawa-i-Waqt)
2. The Interior Ministry has directed that fool-proof security should be provided to the Chinese nationals across Pakistan particularly in Gwadar. It warned that anti-Pakistan external forces are planning to target the Chinese citizens to sabotage the CPEC. The Sargodha Police Division have already tightened security cover for Chinese nationals, and asked the Chinese nationals to avoid travel without making it known to Police first. “If we are informed in advance, we will provide security wherever they have to travel”, the Sargodha Police told them. (Jasarat)
3. A 100% increase in the Chinese citizens visiting Pakistan is recorded in the wake of CPEC work. The Chinese Government is pushing its traders to do business with Pakistan. (Baad-e-Shimal)
4. Pakistan has awarded the contract of Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline project to a Chinese firm. The contract involves laying the pipeline from Gwadar to Nawabshah. (Nawa-i-Waqt)
UNITED STATES
1.In a joint statement, Sami-ul-Haq, Hafiz Saeed, Liaqat Baloch, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and Fazlur Rehman Khalil of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) reiterated their determination to continue the protest movement against the drone attacks, and the US and Indian conspiracies. DPC will hold long marches in Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and other cities in the last week of Ramzan. The statement accused India and the US of instigating the Afghan attack on the Torkham border. It held that the US, India and Israel are conspiring to target Pakistan’s nuclear program. Hafiz Saeed repeated the DPC resolve to free Kashmir and bring to the relief of farmers the electricity get the electricity produced in Kashmir. (Roznama Dunya)
2. Prime Minister’s Foreign Policy Advisor, Sartaj Aziz has spoken of establishing a relationship of equal footing between Pakistan and the US. Well, he makes a point but the fact is that the United States is not satisfied with the action that Pakistan has taken to check terrorism. Despite operations like the Zarb-e-Azb, Washington wants us to do more. The US should understand the problems of Pakistan before making such demands. The Pakistani atomic programme is safe and secure; this has been stated by a US organization. How safe are India N-assets? Media reports say there was a theft of Indian atomic assets. So, what the US should do? It must stop demanding a roll back of Pakistan’s N-programme. Also, instead of pressurizing Pakistan to do more on terrorism front, the US should hyphenate its relations with India and Pakistan. (Khabrain Edit)
AFGHANISTAN
1. The Chief of Hezb-i-Islami, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has termed the government of Ashraf Ghani as illegal, and said the Ghani government is not interested in any political reforms. He charged that Kabul and the US want only war and announced that he would wage his war against the US occupation as per the Sharia. The US can try to be more aggressive but in the end they will be defeated, Hekmatyar remarked. (Ummat)
2. Eleven members of the Haqqani Network have been arrested, says an Afghan official in Khost. (Ummat)
INDIA
1. As usual, the Indian Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, blamed Pakistan for the Pompore attacks staged by militants. The Indian people do not believe such accusations; by now they are aware of the tactics of the Indian government to fool them. Instead of blaming Pakistan for terrorism in Kashmir, Singh will do well to give a self-determination right to the Kashmiri people. (Ausaf Edit)
2. The Defence Secretary told the National Assembly that the RAW spy network in the country would be busted soon based on the leads thrown up by the interrogation of RAW agent Kulbhushan. He also accused that India was interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan, and was spreading anarchy in the country. (Daily K2)
3. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has failed to effectively globalise the issue of the unprovoked Indian firing on the Line of Control and the detention of the Indian agent Kulbhushan Yadav in Pakistan. Pakistan should take these issues to the International Court of Arbitration, and the International Criminal Court. Islamabad should take the world community into confidence and expose India. There is no gainsaying that the Indian threat should be taken seriously more so since India has got a favourable coverage in the international media. India has a powerful lobby to speak for it. (Khabrain Edit)
ARMY/SECURITY FORCES
1. While the Army Chief General Raheel Sharif’s resolve to take the Karachi operation to its logical end and clear the city of terrorists and criminals is laudable, there is an undeniable need to tone up the working of the Karachi police before the Rangers are pulled out since infiltration of RAW elements into the city as also Balochistan is a reality. (Roznama Dunya Edit, Jang Edit)
TERRORISM & EXTREMISM
1. Two members of the defunct TTP are arrested from the S.I.T.E area of Karachi. Both are Afghan nationals; they had obtained ID cards by bribing the NADRA officials. (Jasarat)
2.Abdul Hafiz Amirpuri in his column made call for donations to ‘Al Rahmat Trust’, which, he said, is working under the leadership of Maulana Masood Azhar and other eminent religious scholars. The Al Rahmat Trust has a wide network to collect Zakat and other forms of alms for from the Muslims. The donations collected under the aegis of the Trust are being used for the constructions of mosques, establishing Madaris, helping martyrs’ families and Muslims hit by natural calamities. It is also working for the release of prisoners. People of the faith should donate to the Al Rahmat Trust. (Al Qalam Weekly, 22- 30 June)
POLITICAL SCENE
1. PPP cadres have advised party supremo Bilawal Bhutto to keep off PTI’s protest movement on Panama Leaks case. Since the PTI government has given a big grant to the Taliban associated to Darul Uloom Haqqania Madras association with PTI protests may affect PPP’s image. (Roznama Dunya)
2. The Federal government had decided to revoke the Frontier Crimes (FC) Regulations in FATA. Simultaneously, Sharia courts will be established in order to bring the tribal areas into the national mainstream. If the experiment succeeds, then it can be implemented also across the nation. (Jasarat Edit)
3. Noted analyst and commentator, Najam Sethi avers that it will not be fair and proper to invoke the Articles 62 or 63 to ascertain the Prime Minister’s ineligibility. He opines that the Interior Minister Nisar should not bother about what the social media writes. Instead the minister should focus on improving law and order. For this purpose, he should work on improving ideological and educational quotients. It is sad that jihadi literature has still not been removed from school curriculum. (Jang)
NWFP/KP
1. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) KP leader, Zaman Haqqani and its provincial Secretary (Information) Maulana Ayub have welcomed the government grant to Darul Uloom Haqqania. The aid will help the Madrassa to upgrade its facilities to meet the needs of the day. Both leaders have rejected the criticism of former President Zardari and federal minister Pervez Rashid, saying that even Benazir Bhutto government gave grants to the Jamia Haqqani for building class rooms and hostels. The Jamiat leaders pointed out that former Prime Minister had visited Darul Uloom Haqqania and appreciated its work. (Ummat)