Category: Pakistan

A Mushshak trainer aircraft belonging to the Army Aviation crash-landed in a paddy field near Wazirabad in Punjab’s Gujranwala district on Saturday, security and rescue sources said. Both the pilots remained safe in the incident. According to sources, the two-seater aircraft had taken off from Rahwali Cantt for a training mission, with Capt Ahmad and […]

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Friday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to assist its members in a forensic audit of the mobile phones of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s (Pemra) chairman as well as its officials for allegedly blacking out media coverage of opposition parties. The Senate Committee on Human Rights confronted Pemra […]

Karachi police chief, Additional Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon, on Saturday outlined the security measures taken for the chehlum of Imam Husain tomorrow (Sunday), which includes a heavy deployment of police, suspension of mobile phone services and a ban on pillion riding. The AIG said that as many as 5,313 policemen would perform security duty during the chehlum. […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed on Friday he was not worried about the ‘Azadi March’ — planned to be organised by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam later this month — and said the JUI-F was incapable of sustaining a sit-in for even a week. At a meeting with Ulema and scholars affiliated to government-run institutions or […]

Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication Babar bin Atta on Friday resigned from his post. In a post shared on Twitter, Atta said he has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to relieve him of his duties due to “some personal reasons” pertaining to his family. “During this time [as focal person on polio] I […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government’s much trumpeted drive against benami asset holders has received a setback in the first three months of the current year due to lacklustre response from the provinces, Dawn has learnt from reliable sources. The deadline for getting the information from the provinces was set at Sept 30, which was largely missed by […]

PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court (PHC) bench on Thursday declared as unconstitutional the functioning of scores of internment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after merger of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) into the province. The bench of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mussarat Hilali also directed […]

ISLAMABAD: Nasir Butt, the main character behind the judge’s video scandal, has claimed in an affidavit submitted in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that an ‘institution’ as well as a judge pressurised former accountability judge Mohammad Arshad Malik to convict former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Mr Malik convicted Mr Sharif in the Al-Azizia reference, but […]

PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif on Friday announced PML-N’s “complete support” for JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s ‘Azadi March’. He said that a massive rally will be held in Islamabad on October 31 to present a joint list of demands by the opposition. “Despite the support that Imran Khan enjoys, he has failed the country and […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday announced that Saudi Arabia had positively responded to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s initiative for defusing tensions in the Gulf region by agreeing to give peace a chance. “Saudi leaders have responded positively. It has been agreed that diplomacy would be preferred and differences would be resolved through […]