Category: Pakistan

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday raided the PML-N’s party secretariat in Lahore, according to Ataullah Tarar, deputy secretary general of the party. A four-member FIA team, including a female officer, had conducted the raid, Tarar said, adding that the officials were allowed inside after they showed warrants. He said that the party had […]

SUKKUR: PPP leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah was brought to the National Accountability Bureau court, Sukkur, from the NICVD Hospital on Tuesday in an ambulance while his one wife, son and a nephew (son-in-law) also appeared in the court, which was hearing a reference filed against him and his 17 co-accused for allegedly making assets […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday confirmed the interim pre-arrest bail of former Karachi nazim and Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal and others in a reference about alleged illegal allotment of land. The two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh confirmed the interim bail of Mr Kamal, then executive […]

ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary panel on the appo­int­ment of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) met here on Tuesday after a long interval, but failed to break the deadlock on filling three positions in the currently dysfunctional commission. An informed source told Dawn that the bipartisan parliamentary panel will meet […]

LAHORE: The Punjab government has constituted a four-member committee to decide the request of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif who sought to prolong his stay abroad for his medical treatment, claiming his condition to be ‘very critical’. Mr Sharif has written to the Punjab home secretary seeking extension in his stay abroad for his medical […]

Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi on Wednesday said that neither he nor Prime Minister Imran Khan had arrested PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah, adding that there had been “no interference” or political victimisation in the PML-N leader’s legal proceedings. Afridi’s remarks come a day after the Lahore High Court […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has expressed concerns over the provincial authorities for delaying the approval of a proposed project to detain dogs and release them after sterilisation and vaccination and granted a last chance to authorities to complete the process within 20 days. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar also asked […]

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the Peshawar High Court’s order directing the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to probe alleged irregularities in the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit project within 45 days. The KP government submitted a request in the Supreme Court’s Peshawar registry while the […]

The federal cabinet on Tuesday decided against allowing Maryam Nawaz permission to fly abroad, maintaining the PML-N vice president’s name on the exit control list (ECL), government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan announced. Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, Awan did not specifically talk about […]

LAHORE: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is going to introduce e-verification service of educational documents to end forgery and to make the process of attestation of various documents hassle free. A task force on Civil Service Reforms and Austerity and Restructuring, led by Prime Minister’s Adviser Dr Ishrat Hussain, at a recent meeting advised the […]