Category: Pakistan

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi on Tuesday filed a reference in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import contract case against 10 accused, including former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former finance minister Miftah Ismail and former Pakistan State Oil (PSO) managing director Sheikh Imranul Haq. The accountability bureau submitted the reference in an accountability court […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday expressed the government’s willingness to allow the restoration of student unions subject to the establishment of a “comprehensive and enforceable code of conduct”. “Universities groom future leaders of the country and student unions form an integral part of this grooming,” said the prime minister in a post on Twitter. […]

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has promised to resolve the issues faced by paramedics in Swat district, saying the role of paramedics is vital in ensuring efficient delivery of healthcare services. He said that employees of health department were already given incentives and in the future possible assistance would also be ensured according to the […]

A local court in Lahore on Monday rejected the police’s request for physical remand of Alamgir Wazir, who was detained two days ago in a sedition case registered against the organisers and participants of the recently held Students Solidarity March, and sent him to jail on a 14-day-long judicial remand. Police had requested 10-day physical […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has failed to provide senior citizen cards to around 2.8 million elderly people of the province as nearly half of them suffer from physical disabilities, according to sources. They said that government’s failure to prepare senior citizen cards was violation of KP Senior Citizen Act, 2014, a law which provided […]

Fayyazul Hassan Chohan has been reinstated as Punjab information minister, according to a notification issued on Monday. Chohan has been made the information minister in addition to his current portfolio of colonies department. He will replace Mian Aslam Iqbal. The development comes after Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent day-long visit to Lahore. Chohan had resigned […]

The trial of the suspected rapist and murderer of four children of Chunian began on Monday in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore — nearly a month after he confessed his crimes. ATC judge Mohammad Iqbal heard the case in Kot Lakhpat jail, where suspect Sohail Shahzad is being held. Deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf […]

ISLAMABAD: The Sup­r­eme Court has held that pre-arrest bail, being a judicial power and rooted in equity, is an extraordinary remedy and, therefore, should be exercised cautiously only to protect innocent people from the horrors of abuse of process of law. Authored by Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin Ahmed, a three-page judgement on a set of […]

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Judges on Friday amended its rules to invite candidates for judicial posts in the provincial and Islamabad high courts. Earlier, the parliamentary committee, in the wake of a judicial order during the period of former chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, had virtually become a rubber stamp. The apex […]

An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Saturday announced that it would indict on December 7 Hafiz Saeed, the chief of the proscribed Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), and other JuD leaders who were booked in July for offences pertaining to terror financing. Saeed, along with deputy emir Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, Hafiz Abdul Salam bin Mohammad, […]