MNAs Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar were released from jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur district early on Saturday, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) and jail sources said, more than two days after the two lawmakers were granted bail by the Peshawar High Court in the Kharqamar attack case. Dawar and Wazir, who are leaders of the PTM, were […]
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An accountability court in Sukkur on Saturday remanded PPP senior leader Khursheed Shah in the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) custody for nine days. Shah, who served as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly during the term of the previous government, was arrested by the bureau from Islamabad on Wednesday pertaining to an assets beyond […]
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Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday highlighted the duty and responsibility of the judiciary within a democratic system and said that it “has the authority to stop an individual or institution in the event they transgress the fundamental rights accorded to them”. His remarks came during a lecture at Karachi’s Institute of Business […]
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ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Friday reviewed the performance of the operation wing of the anti-graft watchdog and said the bureau had recovered Rs71 billion over the last 22 months. “Comparative figures of the last 22 months are also indicative of NAB’s excellent performance as the bureau has recovered […]
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Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton will pay an official visit to Pakistan from October 14-18, the Kensington Palace announced on Friday. Before their visit, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a special event at the Aga Khan Centre in London on October 2, which will be hosted by Prince Karim […]
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KARACHI: Seven years after the deadly fire that killed more than 250 workers in a Baldia garment factory, an owner of the industrial unit identified a Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker and six others as accused persons, who allegedly planned and set fire to their business over non-payment of ‘protection money’. While recording his statement from […]
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ISLAMABAD: Two days after two judges of the Supreme Court recused themselves from hearing pleas challenging a presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa, two more judges on Thursday withdrew themselves from a three-judge SC bench that took up a petition moved by two sitting members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). When the […]
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An International Monitory Fund (IMF) mission — led by its Pakistan, Middle East and Central Asia Mission Chief Ernesto Ramirez Rigo — concluded a five-day visit to Pakistan on Friday, highlighting progress in multiple key areas in a press statement. According to a press release posted on the IMF website, the country’s economic programme is […]
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A major and a sepoy of the Pakistan Army were martyred in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Mohmand tribal district, the military’s media wing said on Friday. Maj Adeel Shahid and Sepoy Faraz Hussain “fell victim to an IED planted by terrorists from across the border”, the director general […]
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has termed its Afghan counterpart’s renewed refusal to recognise the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan as “irresponsible and unwarranted”. The Afghan foreign ministry’s statement, issued on Friday in response to the opening of the 24-hour Torkham crossing by Pakistan earlier in the week, emphasised that Kabul “does not recognise […]
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