Category: Pakistan

At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured when a passenger train collided with a bus near Rohri railway station on Friday night, according to Sukkur Police AIG Dr Jamil Ahmed. The police official told Dawn.com that the number of casualties was expected to rise as several of the injured were in critical condition. The […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the manner in which Pakistan had responded to Indian aggression in February 2019 was indicative of the nation’s maturity. Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad held to commemorate ‘Pakistan’s Responsible and Resolute Response to Indian Aggression’ of Feb 26 last year, the premier said the country was prepared […]

Newly appointed Attorney General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan on Wednesday said that he and the law minister “are equals” and that he would have a good working relationship with the government. In an informal conversation with reporters at the Supreme Court, the attorney general also said that the “autonomy of [his] office” is his […]

An antiterrorism court in Karachi on Wednesday exonerated two detained accused in a case pertaining to the murder of a senior police officer due to lack of evidence. The accused — Zafar Ali alias Saeen and Obaid alias Aabi — were acquitted of charges of their alleged involvement in the suicide attack on the motorcade […]

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought assistance from Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan on a petition filed by PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz seeking one-time permission to travel to London to inquire after her ailing father former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. “We want to hear point of view of the attorney general on […]

President Arif Alvi has condemned the burning of a mosque in New Delhi’s Ashok Nagar area during the violent clashes over India’s new citizenship law on Tuesday. Protests against a contentious citizenship law began on a smaller scale on Sunday but escalated on Monday — as US President Donald Trump started his two-day trip to […]

LAHORE: Lauding PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for speaking truth about PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif being the ‘selected prime minister’, Special Adviser to Prime Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan says this vision of the PPP leader contradicts his father Asif Ali Zardari’s ideology. “Bhutto-Zardari will soon be admonished by his father,” she added. Responding to Bhutto-Zardari’s […]

ISLAMABAD: National Acco­untability Bureau (NAB) chairman Javed Iqbal has said that striking a plea bargain deal is deemed conviction and it is prevalent in 30 other countries. “As per clause 25-b of [the National Accountability Ordinance] NAO, plea bargain is deemed conviction as the accused not only accepts his/her guilt but also agrees to pay […]

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday accepted for hearing a petition to stop the Aurat March 2020, scheduled to be held on March 8, and summoned Additional Director Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency and Deputy Inspector General Operations on February 27. The petition, a copy of which is available, filed by Judicial […]

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the federal and provincial government on a petition seeking an inquiry into the deaths of more than 10 people in Karachi’s Keamari area due to a toxic gas leak. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Ali Mazhar, also issued notices to the federal and provincial […]