Category: Pakistan

Top government ministers on Monday held a press conference, a day after the country’s major opposition parties announced launching of a three-phased anti-government movement under the banner of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asked the opposition not to “drag national institutions into politics”. “It is not good for the country, it is […]

The multiparty conference, hosted by the PPP and attended by almost all major opposition parties in the capital on Sunday, attracted the ire of the PTI leaders and government members, who termed it an attempt to “put pressure on the government […] for personal gains”. The conference was held at a five-star hotel in Islamabad and was […]

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Sunday, while addressing the much-hyped PPP-hosted multiparty conference in Islamabad, said that the opposition’s struggle was not against Prime Minister Imran Khan but those who brought him into power through the 2018 elections. He was addressing the conference, aimed at devising a strategy to oust the PTI-led coalition government, via […]

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) released its 2018 tax directory for parliamentarians on Friday. The directory details the amount of taxes paid by provincial and federal lawmakers in the year 2018, personally as well as by the associations of persons (AOPs) they are members of. Several parliamentarians have shared income as members of AOPs, considered a […]

Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab chapter’s president Salman Haseeb on Friday railed against the government and health authorities after a medical professional was terminated for allegedly abusing and threatening a female doctor on social media. Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Haseeb said that the YDA “will not allow [anyone] to steal a person’s livelihood”. […]

PML-N leader Hamza Shehbaz, who was diagnosed with the coronavirus last week, was taken to Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital on Friday for a medical checkup. PML-N had earlier demanded that Hamza be shifted to a hospital till his recovery from the virus. Speaking to Dawn.com on Friday, Jinnah Hospital Medical Superintendent Yahya Sultan said the PML-N leader underwent a CT […]

The government on Wednesday managed to pass three crucial Financial Action Task Force (FATF) related laws in a joint session of the Parliament that was marred by the opposition’s protests. Prime Minister Imran Khan also attended the joint session which was chaired by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser. Leader of the Opposition in the National […]

The Senate on Wednesday rejected the Anti-Terrorism Act (amendment) Bill, 2020, a day after it was passed by the National Assembly, making it the third Financial Action Task Force-related legislation to have been blocked by the opposition-dominated upper house. Last month, the 104-member Senate had rejected the Anti-Money Laundering (Second Amendment) Bill and the Islamabad Capital Territory Waqf […]

The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday expressed strong displeasure over the absence of Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umer Sheikh, who recently garnered widespread criticism over his remarks shifting the blame of the motorway gang-rape on the victim. Last week, two robbers on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway had gang-raped a mother of two in […]

ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench on Tuesday referred a set of appeals against the overturning of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh’s death sentence in the Daniel Pearl case to Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed with a request to fix the hearing within two weeks as his 30-day detention under the anti-terrorism law will end on Sept 30. […]