Category: Pakistan

An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday summoned Maryam Nawaz, vice president of the PML-N, over the use of a bogus trust deed in the Avenfield properties case after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) moved an application before accountability judge Mohammad Bashir. NAB Deputy Prosecutor General Sardar Muzaffar Khan Abbasi filed the application, seeking action against Maryam […]

Opposition parties in the Senate on Tuesday submitted a no-confidence resolution against Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani along with a requisition to convene the Upper House for a session. The resolution was submitted after a meeting between members of the opposition in the chamber of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Raja Zafarul Haq, who chaired […]

Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Tuesday termed reports regarding Prime Minister Imran Khan’s participation in the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Russia as “speculative”. Taking to Twitter, Dr Faisal said Pakistan and Russia remain in contact about engagement at the highest level. “Any announcement in this regard would be made formally at [the] […]

Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, while giving a post-cabinet press briefing on Tuesday, said the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) will be asked to justify the airing of interviews of under-trial prisoners. On July 1, an interview of former president Asif Ali Zardari was pulled off air shortly after it being airing on a private […]

Former president Asif Ali Zardari and ousted premier Nawaz Sharif spent a total Rs3.26 billion on foreign visits over the course of nine years, the federal cabinet was informed on Tuesday. Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood revealed during a post-cabinet meeting press conference that Zardari had spent Rs1.42bn on his 134 foreign tours over five years […]

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) approved an investigation against former provincial minister Sharjeel Inam Memon over allegations of corruption and money laundering, a press release by the anti-corruption watchdog said on Monday. Memon is accused of owning assets beyond known sources of income and will be probed under Section 9(v) of the NAB Ordinance. Section […]

Four cases of polio were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Monday, taking the total number of cases detected across the country this year so far to 41. According to the KP Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), two new cases of polio were found in Bannu district; the crippling disease was confirmed in a 12-month-old […]

Maryam Nawaz, a vice president of the PML-N, demanded Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation in a post-midnight rally on Sunday in Mandi Bahauddin. Addressing the premier in her speech, she said: “Give your resignation! Go home!” and urged the crowds to chant along with her. The PML-N leader also said that keeping former prime minister […]

Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of incarcerated former premier Nawaz Sharif, on Monday warned that she would go on a hunger strike if the government doesn’t allow her father homemade meals. “The fake government has imposed restrictions on homemade meals for Nawaz Sharif. The staff who took his food has been waiting outside the jail for […]

A Sadiqabad-based taxi driver, who recently underwent treatment for health complications caused by obesity, passed away on Monday after he was left unattended due to commotion in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in Lahore. Noorul Hassan, weighing 330 kg, had made national headlines last month when he was air lifted on a Pakistan Army […]