Category: Pakistan

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. […]

Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umer Sheikh on Monday apologised to the motorway gang-rape victim for his earlier remarks implying that she shared responsibility for her rape.  Last week, two ‘robbers’ allegedly gang-raped a woman at gunpoint in front of her children in Lahore’s Gujjarpura area after she was stranded on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway. Following the incident, the […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan says rapists should be handed down the most severe punishments to curb rising sexual violence in the country, such as either hanging them publicly or chemically castrating them.  The premier expressed the views during an interview with Moeed Pirzada on 92 News HD broadcast on Monday, in response to a question about the motorway gang-rape case that […]