A prayer leader was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in Karachi’s Sachal area on Friday morning, officials said. Mohammed Arbab, 55, was coming out of the Minarul Huda Masjid in Sachal Goth near Murtaza Chowk after offering Fajr prayers when armed pillion riders opened indiscriminate fire on him and fled, said Malir SSP […]
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KARACHI: Although the family of nine-month-old Nashwa, who died after she was administered with a wrong injection at a private hospital last month, reached an out-of-court settlement with the Darul Sehat hospital on Wednesday, the police authorities on Thursday said that the final settlement needed the approval of the court concerned. The father of the […]
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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday granted approval for filing of four references. A meeting of the NAB Executive Board approved the filing of references against former press information officer Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmed, ex-president of the Bank of Punjab Naeemuddin Khan, secretary of the Karachi Port Trust Officers Cooperative Housing Society Ghulab Khan […]
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PESHAWAR: A lawyer has moved the Peshawar High Court challenging the recent legislation meant to protect the laws, which were enforced in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas, including one governing internment centres. In the petition, Shabbir Hussain Gigyani pleaded the court to strike down the KP Continuation of Laws […]
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QUETTA: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Thursday that Pakistan was going through an evolutionary process of its journey to enduring peace and stability after withstanding challenges in the recent past. Addressing student officers and faculty of Staff Course 2018/19 at Command and Staff College here, he said the process […]
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Prominent Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Khan Tareen in a wide-ranging interview on Thursday night said that the country’s economic situation is difficult but will improve as his party brings long-term reforms. Tareen appeared on DunyaNews show hosted by journalist Kamran Khan, who asked the former PTI secretary general questions ranging from his influence on the incumbent government to […]
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LAHORE: PPP leader and former Senator Farhatullah Babar says they are ready to review their protest plans against the government provided the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) agrees on an in-house change — replacing Prime Minister Imran Khan with some individual from the party. Mr Babar, also PPP general secretary, says the “in-house change will be […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday congratulated India’s premier Narendra Modi on his victory in the country’s national elections. “I congratulate Prime Minister Modi on the electoral victory of BJP and allies. Look forward to working with him for peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia,” the prime minister said on Twitter. Hours later, Modi […]
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A sessions court in Lahore on Thursday disposed of a petition seeking the registration of a first information report (FIR) against the participants of the Aurat March and ordered the petitioner to approach the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), saying that is the appropriate forum to address allegations of immoral pictures being uploaded on social media. […]
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Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa on Thursday took the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to task while rejecting the bureau’s appeal against the acquittal of a suspect in a corruption case and asked what the role of the accountability watchdog was. “What does the NAB do after all? Is NAB’s only purpose to make cases?” he […]
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