Category: Pakistan

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday issued directions for the parliament to resolve the deadlock over the appointment of members of Election Commission of Pakistan within 10 days. During the hearing of a petition challenging the appointments, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah appreciated the efforts made by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and Senate […]

A medical board on Wednesday will exhume the body of Gul Sama, a 10-year-old girl who was allegedly stoned to death in Dadu, so that a post-mortem examination can be carried out. The members of the board have proceeded to Wahi Pandhi area for exhumation, confirmed DIG Police Hyderabad range Naeem Shaikh today. A four-member […]

Asad Umar, who recently rejoined the federal cabinet as the minister for planning and development, on Wednesday stepped down as the chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance. The development took place during a session of the committee in parliament today and in the wake of Asad Umar’s new appointment. National Assembly Speaker […]

PML-N Senator Aisha Raza Farooq on Tuesday submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate Secretariat, urging the Upper House to adjourn its proceedings and take up the “urgent and very serious matter of exploitation of underage orphan girls at Darul Aman Kashana”. The motion, signed by senators of the opposition parties, referred to allegations levelled […]

PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday held a press conference in London to declare that the “Niazi-NAB nexus had once more been dealt a defeat”. His remarks came a day after PTI senior counsel Naeem Bokhari withdrew a set of appeals challenging bail granted to Shehbaz in the Ashiana case and the Ramzan Sugar Mills […]

Alamgir Wazir, a former member of the Pakhtun Council at Punjab University (PU) who was arrested for his participation in the recently held Student Solidarity March, filed a bail petition at a local court in Lahore on Wednesday. Wazir, who participated in the march, was reported missing on Sunday. A day later, it emerged he […]

A case was registered against a suspect for sexually assaulting a six-year-old boy in Rohillanwali, Muzaffargarh, it emerged on Tuesday. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Rohillanwali police station on December 1 under Section 377 (unnatural offence) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Later Section 367-A (kidnapping or abducting in order to subject […]

ISLAMABAD: The senior counsel representing Justice Qazi Faez Isa argued before the Supreme Court on Monday that even the prime minister cannot ask any income tax officer to hand over tax records of an individual since such a request does not fall within the purview of the income tax laws. Advocate Munir A. Malik contended […]

Police on Tuesday said they suspect a criminal gang is behind the kidnapping of Dua Mangi, a young girl who was abducted from Karachi’s DHA neighbourhood late Saturday night, and remains missing. A senior police official, who wished not to be named, told that a preliminary probe into the case had revealed that a criminal […]

A request to have the statement of Mohammad Khan — the father of murdered Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud — recorded via video link was withdrawn by his counsel on Tuesday in the wake of his demise a day earlier. An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Karachi held proceedings today for the ongoing trial of the murder […]