Category: Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the members of APPNA (Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America) to double down and ramp up their efforts to counter the Indian lobby in the US. He urged them to raise their voice for Muslims “suffering in Kashmir and India at the hands of the […]

LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department and an intelligence agency in a joint operation on Thursday busted media cell of the AQIS (Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent) in Gujranwala, causing a major blow to the terrorist organisation. The cell was also involved in financing terrorist operations of the AQIS. Five senior and important members have been arrested. […]

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday ordered summoning of the inspector general of police (IGP) to give an in-camera briefing to a special house committee on why police did not stop lawyers from marching towards the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and attacking it, leading to deaths of some patients. He gave […]

KARACHI: Former chief justice of Pakistan Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani has been awarded the 2020 J. Clifford Wallace Award by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in recognition of his extraordinary career as a judge and a jurist. According to a press rele­a­se, the decorated career of Justice Jillani spans thirty years (1994-2014). He has […]

LAHORE: PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah Khan was released from prison on Thursday afternoon after the Lahore High Court issued a written verdict about grant of bail to him in a drug trafficking case which pointed out various contradictions in contents of the FIR lodged by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). In his verdict, Justice Chaudhry Mushtaq […]

The PML-N’s spokesperson, in a statement issued on Friday via Twitter, strongly condemned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks from a day ago in which he said there was a “presence of mafia” in newspapers. On Thursday, while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Jalalpur Canal project in Pind Dadan Khan town of Jhelum, PM […]

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday upheld the appointment of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Abrarul Haq as chairman of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS). IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah also removed an earlier stay order against Haq’s appointment. PML-N leader and former chairman of the society Dr Saeed Illahi had moved the court against […]

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Sania Nishtar, at a news conference in Islamabad on Thursday, defended the government’s decision to remove approximately 800,000 names from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) database. “Beneficiaries for the BISP were identified through a survey conducted 10 years ago. People’s [financial] situation […]

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has found visible “lapses in the prosecution case” filed by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) against PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah, according to the detailed verdict of the case released on Thursday. The LHC has ruled that the “guilt of the petitioner (Sanaullah) needs further probe and his case calls for further […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday once again warned that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will “definitely” carry out an action of some sort in Azad Kashmir to divert the world’s attention away from two of his government’s recently introduced laws that have been criticised as anti-Muslims. The premier was addressing a public gathering in […]