Category: Pakistan

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday lambasting the ‘anti-people’ budget presented by the government said that it is incubment upon the opposition to prevent the budget from passing in order to “prevent economic suicide”. These remarks came during a press conference right after the PPP leader held a meeting with PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz on […]

ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) finally admitted on Saturday to the pendency of the presidential references that will be disposed of in the due course of time, copies of the government complaints have been sent to the two superior court judges. An informed source told Dawn that the copies of the references on which the […]

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah defended on Saturday his decision to burden people of the province with more taxes in the budget for fiscal year 2019-20, saying it was because of the “incompetence of the federal government”. “Yes, we have increased taxes in revenue and excise departments in certain areas as the […]

SHANGLA: A polio case has surfaced for the first time in the last two decades in Shangla district after the virus was detected in an 18-month-old boy, who lives in Dedal Kamach area along the bank of the Indus. Dedal Kamach is connec­ted to Buner and Torghar districts and is a border region of Shangla […]

ISLAMABAD: A sessions court in Rawalpindi has issued a death warrant for a mentally unwell prisoner for his execution on June 18, according to the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a human rights law firm. In a statement released on Saturday, the JPP urged the government to halt the execution of 36-year-old Ghulam Abbas who has […]

Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the spokesperson for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, was granted protective bail by the Islamabad District and Sessions Court on Saturday. Prior to Khokhar’s appearance in court today, roads leading to the court were blocked by police who made every attempt to arrest him. Khokhar has been accused of […]

ISLAMABAD: Mystery surrounds the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) which held a closed-door session on Friday to commence a preliminary hearing of government-sponsored references against two superior court judges as no official handout was released about the proceedings. At the conclusion of the SJC session, despite facing a volley of questions by chasing […]

The first police station in South Waziristan’s Wana town has started operations in the area, Director of Public Relations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Shahzada Farooq Kokab told DawnNews TV on Saturday. The police station has been established in a fort that was vacated by the Frontier Corps, he said. Kokab said that the police station is “fully […]

ISLAMABAD: Four days after the arrest of former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur was nabbed by the National Acc­ountability Bureau (NAB) here on Friday in connection with a case pertaining to money laundering thro­ugh fake bank accounts. Ms Talpur, a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, was not taken to NAB jail as Zardari […]

An Islamabad Accountability Court on Saturday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) nine-day physical custody of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s sister Faryal Talpur. On Friday, Talpur was arrested by NAB officials in Islamabad in connection with a case pertaining to money laundering through fake accounts. A five-member NAB team including female investigators had reached […]