Category: Pakistan

Amina Masood Janjua, chairperson of the Defence of Human Rights in Pakistan — an independent organisation which has been working for the release of all citizens who have been illegally detained — on Friday met Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Friday to discuss the issue of missing persons. According […]

HARIPUR: Khyber Pak­h­tun­khwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Thursday declared registration of boats used for transportation of passengers and luggage or for picnic purpose in Tarbela Lake mandatory and asked the local administration to take steps ensuring that there was no overloading in the boats and each boat had life jackets for passengers and did […]

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers on Saturday submitted a resolution in the lower house against PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, demanding that the opposition leader apologise for his remarks criticising the National Assembly speaker. The resolution, which bore the signatures of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Human Rights Minsiter Shireen Mazari as well […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday lashed back at the opposition’s use of the ‘selected’ slur for him, saying the parties accusing him today were themselves “manufactured in the nursery of military dictatorship”. The remark was a reference to the PPP and PML-N founders’ allegedly close relationships with the military strongmen of their era. Addressing […]

A local leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) was shot dead in Peshawar’s Gulbahar area on Saturday, police said. Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle opened fire on the vehicle of Sartaj Khan, the Peshawar city district president of ANP, in the residential Gulbahar area, police officials said. Gulbahar Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ahmed […]

KARACHI: A delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) called on Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday and demanded that Islamabad provide funds directly to the local governments of Karachi and Hyderabad so that they could carry out emergency basic infrastructure works in the two urban centres of Sindh. A brief statement issued by the […]

Lawmakers from the PML-N and other opposition parties will resign from the parliamentary committee formed to probe rigging in the 2018 general elections, Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif announced on Saturday. “The rigging committee has not convened for four months,” he complained as he announced the decision. “We have [therefore] decided to resign from it.” The announcement came […]

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has discarded the medical report of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for being “vague” and subsequently dismissed his petition seeking suspension of his sentence on medical grounds. The detailed judgement of the IHC bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Mr […]

A delegation comprising representatives of the ruling PTI and allied parties paid a “solidarity” visit to Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Friday, two days after a multi-party conference (MPC) attended by nearly all opposition parties decided to adopt a constitutional way for his removal. Speaking to reporters after the meeting alongside Sanjrani, Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to “withdraw” the detention orders issued against two independent candidates contesting in the upcoming tribal elections. Both of them were arrested earlier this month. In a notification issued today, the ECP said that the arrests, which were made after the election schedule […]