Category: Pakistan

A landslide near Dasu, Kohistan caused authorities to block the Karakoram Highway for all kinds of traffic on Monday, Radio Pakistan reported. The Astore Valley Road was also blocked in Dashki. Gilgit Baltistan Disaster Management Authority Director General Fareeh Ahmed also advised residents to avoid unnecessary travel, Radio Pakistan said. Meanwhile, in Galiyat and Abbottabad life was disrupted due […]

The Lahore High Court on Monday declared the formation of a special court — which heard the treason case against former dictator Pervez Musharraf and handed him a death sentence after finding him guilty of treason — as “unconstitutional”. The LHC bench, which was hearing Musharraf’s petitions against the verdict, also ruled that the treason […]

MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said on Monday that there was “nothing sensational” in his press conference from a day ago, when he announced his surprise resignation as federal minister for information technology. Speaking to the press alongside Planning Minister Asad Umar after meeting a delegation of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi, Siddiqui […]

ISLAMABAD: Around 3,000 illegal Pakistani immigrants detained in inhuman conditions in Bosnia have refused assistance from the government of Pakistan to return home. Special Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aman Rashid told the Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development that the Jungle Migrants Camp in Vucjak was located on the border […]

LAHORE: The United States has generated a Level 2 travel alert for Pakistan and other polio-endemic Asian countries following outbreak of the crippling disease, declaring the life-time booster dose for adults mandatory during the period of restrictions imposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The US issued new guidelines for travelers bound for polio-endemic countries […]

LAHORE: A mobile phone video of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nephew, Hassaan Niazi, surfaced on Friday showing him misbehaving with a commuter on road following a minor accident. The video showed Mr Niazi exchanging harsh words with a car driver and kicking the car in the presence of two policemen. The cops present there averted […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Assem­bly on Friday witnessed a rare show of solidarity when opposition lea­der Rana Sanaullah rejected drug smuggling charges levelled against him and he was backed by some members from treasury benches. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah, who has been facing a case of drug smuggling for the last six months […]

PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that his party should not have “become a part of government’s undue haste” in the passage of bills pertaining to the tenure of services’ chiefs. In a press conference held in Lahore, Sanaullah rejected perceptions that the PML-N had dropped its stance of “vote ko izzat do” (respect the vote). “We […]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan has asked a US federal court to pause an Australian copper company’s bid to enforce a $6 billion arbitral award while it looks to have the award nixed, reports Law360, a New York-based legal publication. The company — Tethyan Copper Co. Pty Ltd — won the award last summer following a dispute over the […]

The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the extended three-year sentence against former additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar — for torturing a minor girl employed as domestic help in Islamabad — maintaining the one year sentence handed down by the Islamabad High Court in April 2018. […]