The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure at the performance of the Islamabad police and lambasted the capital city police chief for a report his department submitted regarding the abduction of senior journalist Matiullah Jan last month. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed had taken up police report as […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought complete record of appointments of different directors general posted at important regional directorates of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The appointments to senior posts of the anti-corruption watchdog caught the court’s attention when a two-judge SC bench questioned the appointment of NAB’s Rawalpindi director general Irfan Naeem Mangi. […]
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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to provincial authorities and others on a petition challenging the second notification about extending the detention of four men set free by SHC after setting aside the trial court order in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, commonly […]
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A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while two others were critically injured in separate incidents of violence against Pakistan Army posts by terrorists and Afghan Border Police from across the border, the Foreign Office said in a statement late Wednesday. A press release dated August 5 said “terrorists operating from Afghanistan” resorted to firing mortar […]
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KARACHI: An accountability court on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former petroleum secretary Arshad Mirza and two others in a reference about alleged illegal appointments to two key posts in the Pakistan State Oil (PSO). The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed the reference in March against Mr Abbasi of the Pakistan […]
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BEIRUT: Emergency medical aid and pop-up field hospitals were dispatched to Lebanon on Wednesday, as the world offered assistance and paid tribute to the victims of the huge explosion that devastated Beirut. The blast centred on the city’s port caused massive destruction and killed more than 100 people, heaping misery on a country already in […]
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Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing in the wreckage of buildings on Wednesday as investigations blamed negligence for a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135. More than 5,000 people were injured in Tuesday’s explosion at Beirut port, Health Minister Hamad Hassan said, […]
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Pakistan on Wednesday strongly condemned the construction of a temple at the site of the demolished 16th-century Babri Mosque, hours after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundations of the Hindu place of worship. In a statement, the Foreign Office (FO) said the “flawed judgment” of the Indian Supreme Court paving the way for […]
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