Category: Pakistan

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has issued a ‘red letter’ to 27 ministries/divisions for a “critical delay” in the tasks they were assigned under the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan, it emerged on Thursday. The red letter — considered to be a final warning and expression of displeasure — was issued to the secretaries […]

Former member of Punjab Assembly Parveen Sikandar Gill was found dead in her house in Lahore’s Naseerabad area, police said on Thursday. Officials said that the former MPA — who lived alone in her house — had rope marks around her neck and expressed suspicion that she had been murdered. A first information report of […]

The father of Salahuddin Ayubi — a suspected ATM robber who died in police custody — alleged on Wednesday that his son was subjected to brutal torture by officials of Rahim Yar Khan’s City A-Division police station. Ayubi was arrested by police in Rahim Yar Khan for allegedly robbing an ATM last week and was […]

ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Senate to protest what it described as the government’s attempts to rule through ordinances. Tensions began when four ordinances promulgated by President Dr Arif Alvi in May and July were laid in the house by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Azam Swati towards the end of […]

An accountability court in Lahore on Tuesday rejected a plea by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for an extension in the physical remand of Hamza Shahbaz, sending him to Lahore’s Camp Jail on judicial remand in a case of alleged money laundering and assets beyond means. Hamza, the son of PML-N president and National Assembly […]

Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said that the environment of the third round of talks on the Katarpur corridor held between Pakistan and India on Wednesday was positive, despite prevailing tensions between the two countries over the situation in occupied Kashmir. Speaking to the media after the completion of the discussion held in Attari, […]

ISLAMABAD: The acting judge of an accountability court here on Tuesday asked the Adiala jail administration to provide details about the amenities available to former president Asif Ali Zardari, who has been in jail on judicial remand in the fake bank accounts case till Sept 5. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan was hearing an application […]

Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), on Wednesday told the people of Indian-occupied Kashmir that the Pakistani armed forces were standing by them and will go to any length to protect their land. Addressing a press conference at the General Headquarters on the situation in occupied Kashmir since the […]

ISLAMABAD: As a federal minister on Tuesday stressed the need for reining in the anti-graft watchdog, a bill landed in the Senate seeking to amend the National Accountability Ordinance promulgated two decades ago by a military ruler. Winding up a Senate discussion on denial of health facilities to former president Asif Ali Zardari amid allegations […]

Six police officers, including a sub-inspector, were nominated in a criminal case for allegedly torturing a man, identified as Amir, to death in Lahore, it emerged on Tuesday. According to a first information report (FIR) lodged on the complaint of the victim’s brother, Amir — who worked as a gardener in Lahore’s P.F Colony — […]