Category: Pakistan

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will visit Pakistan on June 23, it was announced via Prime Minister Imran Khan’s official Instagram account. According to the post on Sunday night, Qatar has announced an investment worth $22 billion in various sectors of Pakistan. This is the second major investment to come to Pakistan this year; […]

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a PML-N leader and president of the Hamza Youth Wing Punjab, Waleed Butt, after registering a case against him, Cyber Crime wing in-charge Asif Iqbal said on Tuesday. Iqbal said that Butt, who was previously the president of the PML-N Youth Wing Gujranwala, was uploading “hateful content” against […]

The Lahore High Court on Tuesday rejected bail applications filed by PML-N leaders Khawaja Saad Rafique and Khawaja Salman Rafique in a corruption case. A two-member bench, headed by Justice Baqir Najafi, announced the decision. Both brothers are chief suspects in a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) earlier this year. NAB has accused […]

ISLAMABAD: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has distanced itself from Pakistan government’s claims of lending $3.4 billion loan to Pakistan in budgetary support. ADB’s country director for Pakistan Xiaohong Yang said in a statement “These discussions are ongoing and the details of the plans as well as the volume of the ADB’s financial support, once finalised, […]

RAWALPINDI: General Han Weiguo, Commander People Liberation Army, Ground Forces of China , People Republic of China visited GHQ on Monday and called on Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Inter Services Public Relations, the media wing of the military, said in a statement that during the meeting matters related to regional security […]

Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday stayed the execution of a mentally ill prisoner, Ghulam Abbas, who was to be hanged on June 18, confirmed Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a non-governmental organisation working for Pakistani prisoners at home and abroad. The order was issued on an application filed by JPP after the Punjab Home […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday pledging strict action against corrupt elements said those who burdened the country with heavy debts would be treated as ‘national criminals’. Chairing the parliamentary party meeting here at the Parliament House, the Prime Minister said the high-powered commission would investigate the hefty 24,000 billion rupees debt, borrowed by […]

Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday said that the current interpretation of the life imprisonment law was flawed and expressed the intent to reexamine it at an “appropriate time”. During the hearing of a review petition of a murder case, Khosa said that the span of life imprisonment is limited to 25 […]

The military has announced a number of high-level appointments and transfers in its ranks, most notably the appointment of Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed as the new director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to a government spokesperson on Sunday. He will be replacing Lieutenant General Asim Muneer, who has been given charge of Commander Gujranwala Corps. […]

LAHORE: A duty judicial magistrate at district courts on Saturday refused to record confessional statement of an approver in a money laundering case against Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz as officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) insisted to stay in the courtroom during the proceedings. The NAB officials presented Mushtaq Chene, […]