Category: Pakistan

Pakistan Army has won an international military drill competition in the United Kingdom for a third consecutive year, the military’s media affairs wing announced on Wednesday. In a statement, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said that Pakistan Army won the Pace Sticking Competition held at the Royal Military Academy […]

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to Prime Minister Imran Khan for attending a ceremony of the PTI-affiliated Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) held in Islamabad last week. “The prime minister is the premier of the whole country, not of one particular group. Why is he misusing the state’s resources?” Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked while […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday defended the government’s foreign policy performance under his watch, saying the world was no longer “blindly” buying the Indian narrative due to Islamabad’s successful efforts to counter negative perceptions. Addressing an event tiled ‘Vision FO’ in Islamabad, he said a Strategic Communications Division was set up at the […]

Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani on Monday said security for slain seminary head, Maulana Dr Adil Khan, had been discussed multiple times but the provincial government was unable to provide the same because its hands were tied by a 2018 Supreme Court order by former chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar. Ghani’s statement comes two days […]

Police have arrested the main suspect in the rape and murder of a minor girl in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district, it emerged on Monday. The chief minister’s adviser on information, Kamran Bangash, and provincial Law Minister Sultan Muhammad Khad confirmed the development at a press conference in Peshawar. On Saturday, the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Zainab, […]

PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lambasted the PTI government on Friday for its “undemocratic attitude” and for “using [state] institutions as political props”. In a press conference in Karachi, a visibly charged Bilawal criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan for reiterating that all state institutions, including the army, stand by him. “I believe that Imran Khan should […]

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday directed authorities to give the custody of 10 Afghan children, who were smuggled into Pakistan, to the Afghan consulate and ensure they are reunited with their parents. The bench also told authorities to gather information about the children and submit it in the court. The case, which was […]

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Thursday observed that neither the Constitution nor any law entitled judges or senior members of the armed forces to receive plots or pieces of land. “It is trite, but needs restating that judges are not empowered to make law; they simply interpret it and if […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the opposition parties’ real issue with the military was that unlike other institutions, they were unable to “control” the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after the agency “found out” about their alleged corruption. Addressing a ceremony organised by the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) in Islamabad, he said PML-N supremo and […]

Pakistan has said that Hong Kong’s affairs are an internal matter of China, underscoring the importance of not interfering in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. Pakistan made the comments while speaking on behalf of 55 countries at a UN panel, in response to a statement by Germany urging China to respect the rights of Uighur Muslims […]