Category: Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will partially resume its flights to the United Kingdom from Aug 14 with a hired plane. PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez said on Wednesday that an agreement had been signed between Portugal’s airline and the national carrier. He said the PIA would operate flights with an Airbus A330, having a seating […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure at the performance of the Islamabad police and lambasted the capital city police chief for a report his department submitted regarding the abduction of senior journalist Matiullah Jan last month. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed had taken up police report as […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought complete record of appointments of different directors general posted at important regional directorates of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The appointments to senior posts of the anti-corruption watchdog caught the court’s attention when a two-judge SC bench questioned the appointment of NAB’s Rawalpindi director general Irfan Naeem Mangi. […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to provincial authorities and others on a petition challenging the second notification about extending the detention of four men set free by SHC after setting aside the trial court order in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, commonly […]

A Frontier Corps soldier was martyred while two others were critically injured in separate incidents of violence against Pakistan Army posts by terrorists and Afghan Border Police from across the border, the Foreign Office said in a statement late Wednesday. A press release dated August 5 said “terrorists operating from Afghanistan” resorted to firing mortar […]

KARACHI: An accountability court on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former petroleum secretary Arshad Mirza and two others in a reference about alleged illegal appointments to two key posts in the Pakistan State Oil (PSO). The National Accounta­bility Bureau (NAB) had filed the reference in March against Mr Abbasi of the Pakistan […]

Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, a seasoned diplomat, has been appointed as the new spokesperson of the Foreign Office, according to a notification issued on Wednesday. He will replace Aisha Farooqui who was appointed to the post in December last year. Farooqui is a career diplomat and joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1994. She had […]

At least 39 people were injured in a cracker attack on Jamaat-e-Islami’s rally in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, a spokesperson for the health department said on Wednesday. “One of the injured is in critical situation,” the spokesperson said and added, “majority of patients have very minor injuries”. According to police officials, unidentified motorcyclist hurled a cracker […]

RAWALPINDI: Indian troops resorted to another unprovoked ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday martyring an 18-year-old girl, resident of Fatehpur, while six others were injured. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Indian troops targeted the civil population along the LoC in the Hot Spring Sector. “An 18 years old girl, […]

Pakistan’s Ambassador to Lebanon Najeeb Durrani  said the explosion that rocked Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday also killed a Pakistani teenager and injured four other nationals. Durrani, in a statement, said that the teenage boy’s father, identified as Sajid, and his sister are currently at an ICU and receiving treatment for their injuries. He said […]