Category: Pakistan

At least 11 people were killed and 10 others critically injured when a passenger coach overturned on the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan on Saturday, hospital officials said. The coach was travelling from Pasni to Karachi when it overturned after its brakes failed near Buzi Top on the coastal highway. Nine of the passengers were […]

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman on Saturday likened his upcoming ‘Azadi’ March to a “war”, which he said would “only end when the government falls”. “The entire country will be our war zone,” he told reporters at a press conference in Peshawar. The JUI-F leader has announced to set out on a long march against […]

Multan police on Saturday apprehended Mohammad Arif, an absconding brother of slain social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, with the help of Interpol, police officials said. SHO Mahar Bashir Hiraj told DawnNewsTV that Arif has been handed over to Muzaffarabad police station in Multan. Arif had been declared an absconder in the murder case of Baloch, who had […]

ISLAMABAD: Senator Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday rejected the government’s decision that a committee comprising business tycoons will vet cases of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that are related to the business community. In a statement, he said: “The reported decision of the federal government to establish a committee of industrialists to vet cases that […]

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Friday exonerated a man, said to be a ‘commander’ of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, in cases pertaining to possessing explosives and illicit arms. The Counter-Terrorism Depa­rtment arrested Rehman Hussain alias Ustad Jee, said to be associated with the TTP-Swat’s Fazlullah group, on the outskirts of the metropolis on Jan 29. […]

A man and his wife were booked on Friday by police for the alleged rape and extortion of a woman in Lahore’s Mohlanwal area. A first information report (FIR) was lodged at the Sundar police station on the complaint of a woman who claimed that the man — who had allegedly raped her — and […]

A 22-year-old student of Islamabad’s Comsats University died of cardiac arrest on Friday, while students held the university administration responsible for the death and held protests. The students alleged that a delay in provision of medical treatment to the boy, Inam, led to his death — a charge denied by the university. A large number […]

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday categorically refuted reports of a meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and the visiting delegation of the Afghan Taliban. A Doha-based Taliban Political Commission (TPC) delegation is in Islamabad on the invitation of the Pakistan government for a discussion […]

An accountability court on Friday adjourned hearing the fake accounts case without making any substantial progress after it was informed that copies of the reference had not yet been provided to all 30 of the suspects nominated. Accountability judge Mohammad Bashir, who was hearing the case, said the court will start the indictment process once […]

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, retired justice Javed Iqbal has expressed frustration over what he called ‘cold response’ from other countries with regard to providing legal assistance required to proceed against the suspects having off-shore holdings. “White-collar crime begins from Lahore and reaches Islamabad from where it goes to Dubai and other states […]