Category: Pakistan

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday welcomed the hearing of of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States Congress on the situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, where people are facing movement and communications restrictions for more than 100 days. “Pakistan welcomes the public hearing on human rights in occupied Jammu and […]

Lahore’s air quality went from being ‘hazardous’ to ‘unhealthy’ with an Air Quality Index (AQI) ranking of 157 on Saturday, according to Air Visual. The Punjab capital, which was recorded to be the world’s second most polluted city for weeks, finally slid to the third spot. Uzbekistan’s Tashkent replaced Lahore as the second most polluted city, […]

PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl on Friday began the ‘Plan B’ of its anti-government Azadi March by blocking major highways in four districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The party workers staged sit-ins on the Grand Trunk Road near Nowshera, Karakoram Highway in Hazara region, Chakdara road in Malakand division and Indus Highway near Bannu. However, the Peshawar-Islamabad […]

RAWALPINDI: The provincial government has declared Rawalpindi as a metropolitan city and changed the status of Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) to the metropolitan corporation. The district council stands suspended and property tax is expanded to 24 union councils which were rural areas in the past. After delimitation for local government elections under Local Government Act […]

ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari may stay at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) for a longer period of time as a medical board has suggested that he should not be shifted anywhere due to his health issues. “Mr Zardari should not be transported anywhere due to vertigo, cervical issues and heart problem,” Pims’ […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court expressed its bewilderment during a hearing on Thursday over certain provisions of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Action In Aid of Civil Powers Ordinance which treat a statement by a member of the armed forces as sufficient evidence for convicting an individual detained at internment centres. “When people get acquitted of charges, this […]

ISLAMABAD: Senate chairman Mohammad Sadiq Sanjrani on Thursday ruled that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif be immediately sent abroad for medical treatment. After Senator Javed Abbasi, on a point of order during the proceedings in the house, rejected the government’s condition of submitting a surety bond of over Rs7 billion to get Mr Sharif’s name […]

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday reserved its verdict on contempt of court cases against Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan and prime minister’s aide Firdous Ashiq Awan, after both of them offered unconditional apologies for their remarks. The verdict of the cases, which were being heard together by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, will […]

Of the 17,807 content restrictions made by Facebook globally, the highest number — over 31 per cent — of the requests originated from Pakistan between January and July 2019, according to the platform’s latest transparency report released on Wednesday. Facebook restricted 5,690 items within Pakistan during the first half of 2019, as compared to 4,174 pieces from the second […]

PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday rejected the government’s conditional decision to allow Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for medical treatment, accusing the government of playing “dirty politics” on the former prime minister’s health. Addressing a press conference alongside the PML-N’s top leadership, he announced that the party’s legal team has approached the Lahore High […]