Category: Pakistan

At least one policeman was martyred and four others sustained injuries in an explosion in Quetta’s Double Road area on Tuesday evening, The target of the blast was a police mobile, police sources said. According to police, unidentified miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in a motorcycle parked on the roadside. The bomb […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday cleared the air of uncertainty about its participation in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) protest, deciding that the opposition party will join the ‘Azadi March’ whether it remains a rally or turns into a sit-in against the government. The decision was taken at yet another marathon meeting of […]

Various students organisations staged demonstrations inside Balochistan University on Tuesday, in protest over the harassment scandal unearthed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) a day earlier. The students marched inside the campus to mount pressure on the authorities to punish the culprits allegedly involved in the harassment of female and male students. The case had come […]

Scores of students, teachers and members of the civil society on Monday protested the murder of district education officer Nawab Ali in Kolai-Palas Kohistan district. On the call of the Shangla teachers association, protests and rallies were held across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including in Shangla, Nawab’s native district. On Saturday, Nawab was allegedly murdered in his […]

A cyber crime court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) requesting to transfer the case involving the video of former accountability judge Muhammad Arshad Malik to an anti-terrorism court (ATC). The FIA prosecutor informed the court that terrorism clauses have been added to the charges against […]

The Supreme Court on Monday resumed hearing of petitions challenging the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. Justice Umar Ata Bandial was heading the full court consisting of 10 SC judges. Justice Isa has already furnished two rejoinders to rebut the allegations levelled by the federal government in its reply and those on behalf of […]

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered that the issue of the appointment of two members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) be sent to the parliament. During the hearing of a petition challenging the appointments, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah said that the National Assembly speaker and Senate chairman should “end the […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered concerned authorities to take steps to control the prices of basic food items, the government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan announced in a post-cabinet meeting news briefing on Monday. Awan, the special assistant to the prime minister (SAPM) on information, said that the premier also called the chief ministers […]

ISLAMABAD: Disposing of a petition, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to probe the video leak matter strictly in accordance with the law. The petition was filed by the relative of the main character in video leak controversy against alleged harassment by the agency. IHC Chief Justice Athar […]

meeting with party President Shahbaz Sharif in the chair here on Saturday (today) to formulate a strategy regarding its participation in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl’s (JUI-F) ‘Azadi March’ on Oct 31. “After the announcement of Nawaz Sharif to join the march, the party is holding another huddle on Saturday (today) in Model Town to finalise […]