Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Although the PTI is planning a protest along with its allies in the opposition, the party’s chairman made it clear on Wednesday that rather than being a disruptive force, they would be taking a parliamentary route this time around. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the PTI was in talks with parties such as …

The government on Thursday announced a three-day and four-day holiday for Eidul Fitr for offices observing five and six working days a week, respectively. As per a notification released by the Cabinet Division, the holidays have been scheduled from Wednesday, April 10, to Friday, April 12, for offices observing a five-day work week. Meanwhile, for offices observing six working days …

A day after a senior Afghan Taliban leader urged the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamabad to sit together and negotiate for peace, the Foreign Office (FO) ruled out talks with the militant group. On Wednesday, Muhammad Nabi Omari, deputy interior minister of the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan, made the remarks at an Iftar gathering in the southeastern Khost …

A man who allegedly raped a 13-year-old boy while he was in Aitkaf in Muzaffargarh has been arrested, police and the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) said on Thursday. Muzaffargarh police spokesperson Waseem Gopang confirmed the arrest, adding that it was made within 24 hours of lodging a case against the suspect. The spokesperson said the suspect had initially …

Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Thursday was elected as the sixth emir of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) for a five-year term, the party said in an announcement on its official account on X. It said that he would serve as the party chief from April 2024 to April 2029. He had previously served as the chief of the party’s Karachi chapter. The …

The Japanese government on Thursday announced an additional grant of approximately $4.43 million for a project pertaining to extending maternal and child healthcare facilities in Sindh. According to a press release from the Japanese embassy, the additional grant was for the “Project for the Extension of Maternal and Child Healthcare Facility in Sindh” which was initially announced in August 2021 at an …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that the government would launch a probe into letters laced with a “suspicious powder” received by the judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts in Islamabad and Lahore. On Tuesday, letters were delivered to all eight Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges in white envelopes sealed with cello-tape. The names of the judges and …

President Asif Ali Zardari assured Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong on Thursday that Pakistan would take necessary measures to ensure the security of Chinese nationals working on projects in the country. The meeting between the two comes a week after five Chinese engineers — and their Pakistani driver — were killed in a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bisham while travelling between Islamabad …

LAHORE: A high-level police inquiry into the case of attempted rape of a 12-year-old boy in Tandlianwala, Faisalabad, has declared the acquittal of the suspect nominated in the initial FIR on the mediation of a ‘Jirga/Panchayat’ a blatant violation of the Supreme Court’s judgment, Dawn has learnt from reliable sources. The Supreme Court’s landmark judgment had appeared in January 2019 when the legal status of the …

ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Tuesday denounced the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to postpone the Senate polls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and called it a continuation of the “mandate theft” plot. In a statement, a party spokesperson said the postponement of Senate elections for not administering the oath to members on reserved seats in the provincial assembly was “ridiculous” because …