Category: Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday announced the government’s decision to take concrete measures to curb air pollution in the country. Addressing a press conference in Lahore, he expressed regret that over the past 10 years, a 70 per cent decline had been witnessed in the number of trees in the city. “A 70 per […]

With the retirement of the incumbent chief election commissioner (CEC) around the corner, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has sent three recommendations for the post to Prime Minister Imran Khan, reported on Saturday. Shehbaz, in a letter, suggested former bureaucrat Nasir Mahmood Khosa, former ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani and […]

ISLAMABAD: The scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) appears to be ignoring the commission’s directive for hearing the foreign funding case against the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on a day-to-day basis as it adjourned the hearing to Dec 2. The committee, headed by the ECP’s director general (law), held its 44th meeting […]

ISLAMABAD: The special court seized with the high treason case on Thursday put on hold its verdict and urged former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf to appear in court in order to record his statement. The court, however, made it clear that there will be no adjo­urnment at any cost for day-to-day proceedings from […]

Two assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) and three constables were suspended on Friday after they were nominated in a case pertaining to the killing of former councillor of Kallar Syedan Waheed Amjad in Rawalpindi, City Police Officer (CPO) Faisal Rana said. According to a first information report (FIR) filed in the Kallar Syedan police station on the […]

The National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Karachi chapter has requested its chairman to start a fresh inquiry against Fazaia Housing Scheme (FHS) Karachi on the allegation of “cheating public at large”, a press release issued by the accountability watchdog said on Friday. It added that the probe against FHS and others has been requested to address […]

At least 10 people were injured in an explosion that occurred in a rickshaw in Lahore’s Chauburji area on Friday, officials said. According to the spokesperson for Punjab’s Counterterrorism Department (CTD), the blast occurred at around 11:25am. “Ten persons have been injured including the driver of the rickshaw. All sustained minor injuries. All of the […]

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday indicted four men, said to be associated with criminal gangs operating in Lyari, in a case pertaining to the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Ali Raza Abidi. The four men — Mohammad Farooq, Abdul Haseeb, Mohammad Ghazali and Abu Bakar —have been booked and arrested for their alleged […]

ISLAMABAD: The investigation of the LNG terminal case, in which former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and former finance minister Miftah Ismail are implicated, is “a classic example of the violation of fundamental rights”, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) said on Wednesday. In a detailed judgement issued on an application for post-arrest bail by former […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has urged the lawyers and their representative bodies to play their role to promote human rights and rule of law and constitution in the country “as it is the only way to resolve the issues being faced by the nation”. Talking to a delegation of the newly-elected […]