{"id":40964,"date":"2023-12-28T14:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pm-kakar-announces-ban-on-new-year-celebrations-in-solidarity-with-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:52:02","slug":"pm-kakar-announces-ban-on-new-year-celebrations-in-solidarity-with-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pm-kakar-announces-ban-on-new-year-celebrations-in-solidarity-with-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Kakar announces ban on New Year celebrations in solidarity with Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar on Thursday announced a complete ban on New Year celebrations in an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its October 7 attack<\/a>, which left about 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP<\/em> tally based on Israeli figures.<\/p>\n

In response, Israel\u2019s relentless aerial bombardment<\/a> and ground invasion with troops and tanks have killed at least 21,320 people, mostly women and children, and wounded another 55,603 people, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n

In an address to the nation today, PM Kakar said: \u201cKeeping in mind the seriously concerning situation in Palestine and to show solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters, there will be a strict ban by the government on holding any kind of event for New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

He requested the nation to show solidarity with the Palestinians and exhibit sobriety and humility at the New Year.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said over 21,000 Palestinians were killed so far by the Israeli forces that \u201ccrossed all limits of violence and injustice\u201d with around 9,000 children dead since the Israeli bombardment began on October 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole Pakistani nation and the Muslim world are in a sheer state of anguish over the massacre of innocent children and genocide of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kakar said Pakistan had vocalised<\/a> the plight of the Palestinian people on every global forum available and would continue to do so in the future as well to stop the Israeli bloodshed.<\/p>\n

He said Pakistan had dispatched two aid packages to Palestine while a third package was being prepared.<\/p>\n

The premier added Pakistan was engaged in talks with Jordan and Egypt to provide timely aid to Palestine and to evacuate the injured present in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Sharjah also banned New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks a day ago as an expression of solidarity with Gazans.<\/p>\n

The decision was announced in a Facebook post by Sharjah police, warning on Tuesday that legal measures would be taken against those found violating the ban.<\/p>\n

The ban is \u201ca sincere expression of solidarity and humanitarian cooperation with our siblings in the Gaza Strip,\u201d Sharjah police had said in the post.<\/p>\n

Sharjah is the United Arab Emirate\u2019s third-largest emirate by size and population behind Abu Dhabi and Dubai. There are seven emirates.<\/p>\n

Sharjah\u2019s decision on New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks appeared to be limited to that one emirate as public celebrations continued to be advertised in the country\u2019s other emirates.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, the military\u2019s top brass also expressed full solidarity<\/a> with Palestinians and condemned the \u201cserious human rights violations and war crimes\u201d being perpetrated in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

The military moot reiterated the government\u2019s stance of demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a peaceful resolution to the ongoing crisis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar on Thursday announced a complete ban on New Year celebrations in an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its October 7 attack, which left about 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/281828280ce4858.png?r=184944","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}