Category: Pakistan

The PML-N on Monday formed a committee to hold consultations with the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and other opposition parties before committing to a final date for their anti-government protest. The committee’s formation was announced by senior PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal, who was speaking to reporters after a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) […]

In a major reshuffle in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the appointment of ambassador Munir Akram as Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, the Foreign Office announced on Monday. Akram will replace Dr Maleeha Lodhi, who has held the office of Pakistan’s envoy to the […]

At least one policeman was martyred and three others injured in an exchange of fire with suspected terrorists in Balochistan’s Loralai district on Monday evening, an official said. One suspected militant blew himself up and another one was killed by police during the exchange of fire. Station House Officer Loralai Abdul Rehman said personnel of […]

ISLAMABAD: As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the provincial election commissioners to update voters’ lists, the number of registered voters is likely to increase from the existing 109 million to 113m, it emerged on Sunday. A senior ECP official told Dawn that provisional electoral rolls would be published and displayed at the union council […]

The Lahore High Court on Monday allowed that a terrorism financing case against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the banned Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), be shifted from a Gujranwala anti-terrorism court (ATC) to one in Lahore. LHC Chief Justice Sardar Shamim Ahmed heard a petition filed by Saeed in which he said that he was being […]

Following violent clashes a day earlier in Peshawar at the Lady Reading Hospital during which 13 doctors were arrested, a case was registered by police on Saturday nominating 26 doctors. The arrested doctors were shifted today from Peshawar to Mardan Jail. The case has been registered under Sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday announced Rs500,000 compensation money for each person killed in the recent earthquake in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) and Punjab. According to the Prime Minister Office (PMO), Mr Khan made the announcement during his telephonic conversation with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) chairman Lt Gen Mohammad Afzal who called the […]

At least three people, including a leader of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), were killed and more than a dozen others injured in an explosion that rocked the Chaman area of Balochistan’s Qilla Abdullah District, Chaman Assistant Commissioner Yasir Dashti said. According to police officials, the bomb was an improvised explosive device (IED) which was planted […]

ISLAMABAD: A large number of students from Bahria University on Friday held a protest against the university administration for starting classes in an under-construction building which they claimed led to the death of a fellow student. Haleema Amin, 23, a student of second semester, fell from the fourth floor of the building and later died […]

At least 10 medical professionals suffered injuries on Friday after Peshawar police resorted to tear gas shelling and launched a baton charge in the premises of the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) in order to disperse doctors who had gathered there to protest. Among the injured was Young Doctors Association (YDA) Chairman Dr Zubair, who is […]