Category: Pakistan

The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Circle on Thursday arrested a man suspected of abusing, torturing and blackmailing a woman in Karachi. FIA Cyber Crime Circle Additional Director Faizullah Korejo said that the suspect impersonated himself as a person associated with an intelligence agency. The suspect belongs to an influential family, he said, adding […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that the top priority of his government is to run the economy on strong foundations to create opportunities for livelihood, increase trust among foreign investors and enable local industries to flourish. The prime minister was chairing a special meeting of his economic team at his Bani Gala residence […]

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition that sought deletion of terrorism charges against former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf and transfer of the judges’ detention case from the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) to the sessions court. An IHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb had resumed […]

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) has formally sought permission from the Islamabad administration to hold the much talked “Azadi March” on October 27, at D-Chowk located in the federal capital’s red zone. JUI-F leader Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, through his counsel Kamran Murtaza, submitted an application on Tuesday to the chief commissioner Islamabad […]

MUZAFFARABAD: People in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) held sombre ceremonies on Tuesday to mark the 14th anniversary of the devastating 2005 earthquake as “national resilience day”. The main, though brief, ceremony was held here in K.H. Khurshid Football Stadium where a monument to the martyrs of the region’s worst ever natural disaster has been […]

ISLAMABAD: The major opposition parties — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — have rejected the government’s act of setting up the CPEC Authority through a presidential ordinance and termed it an “illegal” move in violation of recommendations of the parliamentary committee concerned. PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal, during a press […]

Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the murder of a third-year medical student of Hamdard University in Karachi last week. Misbah, 24, was killed by armed motorcyclists on October 3 near her home on Rashid Minhas Road when she was waiting inside the car along with her father, Athar […]

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazulr Rehman on Wednesday announced that his party’s anti-government ‘Azadi March’ to the capital will now take place on October 31 instead of October 27. Speaking to reporters, he said the party would now join Kashmiris in observing October 27 as a black day across the country in protest against the […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday suspended the election tribunal’s Sept 27 decision to unseat Qasim Khan Suri — a PTI member from Balochistan and deputy speaker of the National Assembly. The suspension by a three-judge SC bench also includes the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) de-notification of Mr Suri as a member of […]

A special court in Islamabad has decided to hear a high treason case against former dictator retired Gen Pervez Musharraf on a daily basis with effect from October 24. A three-member bench, led by Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, while hearing the case on Tuesday directed all parties to submit their written arguments before next hearing […]