Category: Pakistan

In light of an upcoming spell of monsoon rain from Friday to Sunday, the Meteorological Department has issued an urban flooding warning for Karachi, Thatta and Hyderabad. According to a Met Department notification, a “well marked low-pressure monsoon system has formed over the northern part of Bay of Bengal”. The system is likely to enter […]

ISLAMABAD: Amid propaganda against polio vaccine and frequent refusals by parents to inoculate their children against the virus, five more polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were confirmed on Tuesday. When contacted, Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Eradication Babar Bin Atta said: “It has been learnt that none of them was vaccinated during polio campaigns […]

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani has said the Supreme Court decision regarding cancellation of Reko Diq agreement proved very expensive to Balochis­tan, as the province will have to pay a fine of $6 billion imposed by the International Centre for Settlement on Investment Disputes (ICSID). “We have lost Reko Diq case in […]

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious resentment over lack of coordination between the Sindh and city governments to comply with its earlier order about removal of encroachments. The court directed the provincial law officer to come up with a compliance report on Aug 9. A three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed […]

The joint parliamentary session convened on Wednesday to debate the country’s future course of action in the wake of India’s decision to scrap Kashmir’s special status passed a resolution condemning New Delhi’s “unilateral move”. The resolution was presented by Kashmir Committee Chairman Syed Fakhar Imam and was passed unanimously. It rejects India’s “illegal, unilateral, reckless […]

KARACHI: Expressing its annoyance over the absence of prosecution witnesses, an antiterrorism court on Tuesday directed the investigating officer to produce them on Aug 19 for recording their testimonies in a case pertaining to killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud and three others in an alleged ‘staged’ encounter. The then SSP Malir Rao Anwar, the then DSP […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down hard on the Sindh government, municipal authorities and K-Electric, the primary supplier of electricity to Karachi, over the deaths of dozens of people due to electrocution during recent rains in the metropolis. A three-judge larger bench headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed was hearing a number of applications regarding various civic […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Tuesday that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recognised that the Indian government’s aggression [revoking Article 370 and 35A] put more than 1.5 billion people of South Asia at risk. A session of the OIC took place today in Jeddah to discuss the developments regarding occupied Kashmir. The foreign minister […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday accepted for hearing a review petition for the disqualification of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Azmat Saeed, sent Shah a notice to appear before the court in the case. Petitioner Roshan Ali Buriro’s lawyer Hamid Khan argued that Shah gave a false declaration […]

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been requested to declare that the rejection of no-trust resolution against the Senate chairman through secret balloting is without lawful authority and of no legal effect. A petition filed by Lawyers Foundation for Justice through senior lawyer AK Dogar also asks the court to declare Rule 12 (10) of […]