Category: Pakistan

PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday challenged Prime Minister Imran Khan to reveal “who funded the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) from within India, the Middle East and the United States”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the PML-N leader asked why the prime minister was allegedly not disclosing the money trail of PTI’s foreign funding. […]

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered day-to-day hearing of the foreign funding case against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The order came after the opposition’s Rehbar Committee on Wednesday submitted an application, asking the ECP to decide the case before the expiry of the chief election commissioner’s term next month. In the application […]

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday expressed his displeasure over the performance of the Sindh cabinet and directed the provincial ministers, advisers and special assistants to improve their working. He expressed these views while presiding over an informal meeting of the cabinet held in the Sindh Assembly building, according to Sindh Information […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tele­communication Authority (PTA) has clarified that it forwards requests for suspension of Facebook accounts based on the latter’s community standards. The PTA said in a statement on Tuesday that it made requests to suspend accounts related to blasphemy, pornography, impersonation and indecent, defamatory and anti-state content. “These efforts are (aimed) to protect […]

ISLAMABAD: The long-awaited reference against former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the LNG terminal case has been approved and will be filed in a fortnight, the country’s anti-graft body inform­ed a court on Tuesday. However, while talking to Dawn, Mr Abbasi claimed that the LNG terminal was the most economical of such projects in Asia […]

ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Supreme Court asked the counsel for Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Tuesday to refrain from using the judicial forum for discussing politics, saying the judiciary would deal with the remarks of Prime Minister Imran Khan in accordance with the law. “Let’s not use this rostrum to discuss politics; […]

The Environment Protection Department (EPD) of Punjab has directed that brick kilns using “old technology” in the province should be closed from Wednesday. In a notification dated November 19, the EPD said: “Consequent upon approval of the competent authority, no old technology brick kilns shall operate” in select cities from November 20 till December 20. […]

A special court in Islamabad on Tuesday reserved its verdict in the high treason case against former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf. Heading a three-member bench, Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth asked where Musharraf’s lawyer was. He was informed by a special registrar of the court that the lawyer was gone to perform Umrah. Following this, […]

Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), called on Prime Minister Imran Khan at the PM Office on Tuesday. “Matters pertaining to national security were discussed during the meeting,” a brief statement issued by the PM Office said. Lt Gen Faiz was given the charge of the country’s top spy […]

An accountability court in Karachi on Tuesday ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to initiate the process of proclamation and attachment of properties of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani’s wife and five children and other suspects absconding in a case pertaining to the alleged accumulation of assets worth Rs1.16 billion. NAB had arrested Durrani, […]