Category: Pakistan

Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Monday underscored the need for a greater communication network between the two countries in order to realise their bilateral trade potential, Radio Pakistan reported. The understanding was reached during a meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Uzbekistan Deputy Prime Minister Elyor Ganiyev, who arrived in Islamabad today for a two-day visit. The […]

MNA Ali Wazir, a day after his arrest during a clash between Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) workers and Army troops in North Waziristan tribal district, was produced before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Bannu on Monday. Special ATC judge Babar Ali Khan remanded Wazir in the custody of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) for eight days. According to […]

ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) plans to move a motion in the National Assembly seeking formation of a parliamentary committee to probe the recent controversy over some leaked audio and video clips involving National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal when the lower house of the Parliament will meet after a two-day […]

RAWALPINDI: The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has taken suo motu notice of a gang rape incident involving police officials and asked Rawalpindi police to submit a report to it. Three police constables, of Rawat police station are among four people suspected of gang-raping a woman working for a call centre. The four suspects, […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday accepted for hearing a petition filed by members of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) challenging the appointment of Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of ousted premier Nawaz Sharif, as a PML-N vice president. On May 3, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif approved major changes to the party’s structure, including Maryam’s appointment as vice president […]

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has reserved its order on an application seeking transfer of the Ali Raza Abidi murder case to a sessions court for trial. Former Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Abidi, was assassinated by armed motorcyclists near his residence in Defence Housing Authority on Dec 25, 2018. The Counter-Terrorism Department booked and arrested four […]

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed alarm over the “use of military force causing deaths of at least three Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) activists” in North Waziristan and called for a parliamentary commission to be “set up immediately” to inquire into the matter and “establish the truth”. On Sunday, following reports […]

National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) prosecutor, Waris Ali Janjua, on Saturday filed a reference against a man and his wife, naming them as the prime suspects behind the recent “propaganda” against the bureau’s chairman, Javed Iqbal, who along with six other complainants had allegedly been blackmailed and defrauded by the couple. According to the accountability watchdog, […]

KARACHI: In what appears to be a setback for his coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan that has been demanding a new province to be carved out of Sindh, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that he was against creation of another province in Sindh. Mr Khan hinted at introduction of a new local government […]

Pakistani peacekeeper Naik Naeem Raza, who served the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was martyred last year, was on Saturday posthumously awarded a UN medal by Secretary General António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres. Raza had embraced martyrdom during an ambush on a UN Convoy in January 2018, according to a […]