Category: Pakistan

• Polio national coordinator says use of expired vaccine is harmless • Health dept storekeeper who issued the stock suspended RAWALPINDI: At least 50 children were administered an expired polio vaccine in the Dhoke Budhal village in Rawalpindi on Monday, the first day of an ongoing nationwide vaccination campaign. Local health department teams are monitoring […]

A special court in Islamabad on Tuesday found former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence under Article 6 of the Constitution. This is the first time in Pakistan’s history that a military chief has been declared guilty of high treason and handed a death sentence. […]

ISLAMABAD: All the oceans of the world cannot wipe off the stain on a superior court judge if he were to face the indignity of going through proceedings before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) based on material collected illegally by the executive, argued a senior counsel on Monday while defending Justice Qazi Faez Isa in […]

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday convicted Sohail Shahzad for kidnapping, raping and murdering a minor boy in Chunian and handed him the death sentences on three counts. Shahzad was arrested by police on October 1 in a case pertaining to the rape and murder of four minors in Chunian. Four children — […]

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday said that the special court’s decision to hand former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf a death sentence in the high treason case against him was a “historic” one. Earlier today, a three-member bench of a special court, in a landmark verdict, handed a death penalty to Musharraf in a […]

ISLAMABAD: The administration of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), district administration and police began searching hostels on Sunday after an armed clash between two student groups left one person dead and around 16 others injured. The operation will reportedly continue for the next few days, as the university announced on Sunday that it will remain […]

About five to six kilogrammes of explosive material was used in a blast that injured at least 11 people in Peshawar on Monday, City Police Officer Muhammad Ali Gandapur said while quoting an initial report prepared by the bomb disposal unit. Earlier, police believed the explosion, which took place outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights will take up several bills including the ‘Zainab Alert’ bill that it has been deliberating over for several months now. In the last meeting of the committee in October, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had expressed the hope that the bill would soon be […]

Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday said that the tragedy of Dhaka’s fall provides the lesson that the state should take care of its citizens’ rights. Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, the outgoing chief justice noted that December 16 reminds the nation of two tragedies — the 1971 secession of then East Pakistan and […]

ISLAMABAD: Criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government for keeping the issue of creation of new provinces in south Punjab in a cold storage, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has called for immediately holding a referendum in Bahawalpur Division to seek opinion of people as to what kind of administrative arrangement they want for their area. […]