Category: Pakistan

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of “undermining the parliament”, saying that opposition had no choice but to take to the streets. “If you do not make the parliament functional, democratic forces will be forced to take to the streets,” he said in conversation with reporters in Islamabad. Bilawal, who […]

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Wednesday questioned how the ‘prison rules’ could determine the imprisonment of convicts for life, ie 25 years. “Under what basis has it been written under Rule 140 and 198(b) of the Pakistan Prisons Rules that life term for the convict will be for 25 years when the Pakistan […]

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced on Thursday that the party will begin its anti-government ‘Azadi march’ on October 27. “The current government is the result of a fake election and fake results,” said Rehman during a press conference. The PPP and PML-N, who along with the JUI-F had been holding […]

KARACHI: Measures taken by the Sindh government to stop terror financing were discussed in a meeting held between Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and a US congressional delegation here on Wednesday at CM House. The chief minister told the delegation that the Sindh government had seized/frozen 65 properties of four banned organisations under […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly session, which was scheduled to continue till Friday, was prorogued on Wednesday within minutes of the start of the sitting as the opposition alleged that the move was aimed at avoiding election for the vacant office of the deputy speaker. Ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) member Syed Fakhar Imam, who was presiding […]

A third-year student of Hamdard University was shot dead during an incident of mugging in Karachi on Thursday morning, police and her family said. The victim, identified as Misbah, was sitting with her father in their car while waiting for her university’s point bus near Mochi Mor in Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood when they were approached by […]

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal on Thursday addressed traders and manufacturers in Lahore to reassure them that the watchdog is acting on their complaints and will not be a cause for disruption in their businesses. Defending the watchdog’s actions in the recent part, Iqbal said NAB has never liked to overstep its jurisdiction […]

A Lahore antiterrorism court on Wednesday remanded the suspect behind the murder of four minor boys in Chunian, Suhail Shehzad, into police custody for 15 days. The court also ordered a medical exam of the suspect. The hearing was presided over by Judge Abdul Qayum Khan. Deputy prosecutor general Abdul Rauf Watoo was also present. […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday de-notified Qasim Suri as a member of the National Assembly. The decision came after the Balochistan High Court election tribunal, last week, declared Suri’s election to the National Assembly as void. Suri was elected as an MNA from NA-265 (Quetta-II) on a ticket of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) […]

TV Analyst Hafeezullah Khan Niazi on Wednesday challenged in the Lahore High Court a 30-day ban on his appearance on television channels imposed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). The appeal was filed by Niazi against Pemra, the body’s regional general manager, information ministry and Senator Azam Khan Swati. On Tuesday, Pemra had placed a […]