Category: Pakistan

SIALKOT/LAHORE: Spe­­cial Assistant to the Prime Minister on Infor­mation and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said the government has decided to conduct a detailed inquiry into the purported video of an accountability court judge and expose those behind the scandal. Judge Arshad Malik’s purported video, which was made public by leader of the main […]

FAISALABAD: On the complaint of one of the survivors of the Samjhota Express blast that occurred in India in 2007, who had lost his five children in the incident, the D-Type Colony police have registered a case against the perpetrators of the terrorist act. The complainant, Shaukat Ali, had appealed to the police to arrest […]

ISLAMABAD: The Sup­reme Judicial Council (SJC) may ask Attorney General Anwar Mansoor to come up with replies to the stand taken by two superior court judges facing presidential references when it resumes hearing on them on July 12. An informed source privy to the development told Dawn that the SJC had already issued a notice […]

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Friday that his party would move the court if the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) failed to withdraw its decision of deploying army personnel with magisterial powers inside polling stations in elections for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s seats in the erstwhile Fata. Addressing a meet-the-press programme at […]

In a large-scale reshuffle, thousands of employees of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) across the country have been transferred to various departments as the board aims to meet its revenue targets for the new fiscal year, it emerged on Saturday. According to office orders issued by the FBR on Friday, as many as 2,154 […]

ISLAMABAD: The Army on Fri­day said that a special cell on missing persons had been established at the General Headquarters (GHQ). Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, in a meeting with Defence of Human Rights chairperson Amina Masood Janjua, disclosed that a special assistance cell was working at the GHQ to […]

An accountability court on Friday rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) request for an extension in the physical remand of Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case. However, the PML-N leader will remain in the accountability bureau’s custody as he is on physical remand till July […]

The opposition’s anti-government ‘Rehbar Committee’ met on Friday to decide a future course of action, with the main item on the agenda being the removal of Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani. Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) leader Akram Khan Durrani addressed the media soon after the meeting concluded to announce that he had been chosen convener for the […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan formally inaugurated the Road to Makkah project on Friday at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA), reported Radio Pakistan, on the occasion of the departure of first PIA Haj flight. The premier was given a detailed briefing on the project under which the immigration and relevant processes for intending pilgrims are being completed at […]

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Friday announced a countrywide mass contact drive to “expose the government” and said the people will have to struggle for their democratic, human and economic rights. The PPP chairman, who was addressing a press conference in Peshawar, termed the current political situation in the country “a reversal of democracy”. “We […]