Category: Pakistan

Sindh advocate general on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the provincial chief minister had approved the payment of compensation to Amal Umer’s parents in line with the government’s policy regarding compenmsation to victims. The top court was hearing a case pertaining to the killing of 10-year-old Amal who was shot dead last year during […]

The government has decided not to file an appeal against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) interim order to allow former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for weeks, Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem announced on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference alongside government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan after a federal cabinet meeting, the minister […]

ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the Pakistan Elec­tronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Moham­mad Saleem Baig, has tendered an unconditional apology in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and expressed regret for issuing a ‘misleading’ advisory that banned appearance of television anchorpersons in other talk shows. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Oct 29 issued a show cause […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has alleged that democracy is being weakened under a plan where the election process is getting replaced with “selection” to make people irrelevant in governance and decision-making affecting the very fate and future of the country. This was stated by the PPP chairman without elaboration in a […]

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is scheduled to visit Pakistan from November 25-27 in her capacity as the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Advocate (UNSGSA) for inclusive finance for development, the Foreign Office (FO) announced on Sunday. In a press release, the FO said that the Dutch queen will call on President Arif Alvi and […]

ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday approached the Supreme Court with a request to urgently hear his May 28 challenge to the [dismissal][1] of his plea against the transfer of fake/benami accounts case from a banking court in Karachi to the accountability court of Islamabad. A two-page application moved by senior counsel Farooq […]

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Sunday said that the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision to unconditionally allow former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for four weeks for medical treatment, in fact, “reinforces the spirit of the cabinet decision” on the issue. He was addressing a press conference […]

RAWALPINDI: Police investigating into the child abuse case claimed to have recovered an 11-year-old tea vendor who had allegedly been abducted by a man arrested and being suspected of leading an international dark web. One of his accomplices was also arrested from Mandi Mor as police raids continued to arrest other members of the gang […]

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday witnessed the opposition and the government locked in a heated debate on justification for frequent promulgation of ordinances, with the opposition accusing the government of trying to make the parliament redundant and the government terming the opposition’s stubborn attitude responsible for it. Rejecting the opposition’s criticism over what it called […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court questioned the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa about the functioning of internment centres without authorisation for three months last year during the hearing of a petition on Friday against the KP-Action in Aid of Civil Power Ordinance. Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who heads a five-judge Supreme Court bench, cautioned Attorney General […]