Category: Pakistan

TAXILA: As many as 97 Sikh pilgrims from Canada and 80 from Australia arrived at Gurdwara Punja Sahib Hassanabdal on Friday. They are visiting Pakistan to attend the opening of Kartarpur Corridor on the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak on Nov 12. Officials from the Evacuee Trust Property Board welcomed the Sikh yatrees. Sardar […]

Pakistan on Saturday expressed “deep concern” over the Indian Supreme Court’s ruling in the historic Babri Masjid case, saying it had made it clear that “minorities in India are no longer safe”. While announcing its judgement on a disputed land where Hindu hard-liners demolished the 16th-century Babri mosque in 1992, India’s top court earlier in […]

ISLAMABAD: Most illegal Pakistani immigrants prefer to stay jailed and do menial jobs in the hope to attain legal status abroad instead of opting to return home, the foreign affairs ministry informed a parliamentary committee on Friday. “They are mostly asylum seekers, who have torn up their passports and despite facing extreme hardship in jails, […]

ISLAMABAD: “We are independent, yet we are also dependent on others at the same time,” observed Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah with a smile on his face while rising for the day after attending tax-related cases in the Supreme Court on Friday. The observation came when the judges were retiring for a short break during […]

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has given the attorney general one week to submit a reply on identical petitions filed against the recent dissolution of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). The development came on Friday after Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resumed hearing of the petitions and Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan, National Health […]

An accountability court in Islamabad on Thursday turned down a plea against the auctioning of former finance minister Ishaq Dar’s property in Gulberg Lahore. The plea was filed by Dar’s wife, Tabassum. Accountability court judge Mohammad Bashir announced the decision, saying that the petitioner failed to substantiate her claim that Dar had gifted the house […]

As schools in Lahore remained closed on Thursday for the first time due to the prevalence of “smog” in the city, Punjab Chief Meteorologist Mahr Sahibzad Khan said that the current smoke levels should not be confused with “smog”. “Smog components become visible after smoke and fog combine. Until now, the fog has not developed,” […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday wondered what could be the consequences if it concluded that top government functionaries — the president, the prime minister and the law minister —exceeded their discretion by filing a reference against a sitting judge of the apex court. “If we agree with your arguments and come to the conclusion […]

A final post-mortem examination report of Nimrita Amarta Maher Chandani — a BDS final-year student at Bibi Aseefa Dental College (BADC) who was found dead in her hostel room in Larkana in September — says that she was sexually assaulted before her death and died due to asphyxiation. Police Surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn that […]

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday, while ordering young doctors to resume medical duties immediately, reprimanded the secretary of Punjab’s Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education department, Momin Agha, over the government’s delay in addressing the doctors’ concerns. Justice Jawad Hassan issued the order while hearing a petition filed by advocate Azhar Siddique against a […]