Pakistan has laid out an action plan before the United Nations Security Council to tackle nationalist groups including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the parent group of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) — that “pose a clear [..] danger to regional and international peace and security”. Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram on Tuesday told the 15-member Security Council …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed his Turkish counterpart at the Foreign Office in Islamabad on Wednesday and discussed a host of bilateral and international issues ahead of the trilateral meeting today between Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan, Radio Pakistan reported. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had arrived in Islamabad last night on a three-day visit, his third to Pakistan in as many years, …

Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah presented the resignation of his cabinet to the country’s ruler on Wednesday, days before the premier was due to be questioned in parliament over his choice of ministers and other issues. The standoff between the government and parliament less than a month after the cabinet was appointed poses the first big challenge to Emir …

ihc ISLAMABAD: The appointment of Naeem Bokhari as the Pakistan Television (PTV) chairman appears to have been made in violation of guidelines set by the Supreme Court (SC), observed the chief justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday. Hearing identical petitions against appointment of Mr Bokhari, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah advised the counsel for the PTV chairman to …

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the United States Capitol by the president’s supporters. Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those that encouraged or engaged in the violence in Washington, DC. Trump’s channel is now …

KARACHI: The already strained relationship between the centre and Sindh soured further on Tuesday after the provincial authorities ruled out any possibility to return control of Karachi’s three major health facilities to Islamabad. The resolve was expressed during a press conference by Sindh government’s spokesman Barrister Murtaza Wahab when he clearly denied any compromise over the administrative control of the …

KARACHI: While Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blamed the federal government for an acute gas shortage as well as plundering the province’s resources, Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh told the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that the province would run out of natural gas in the next 12 years. Tuesday’s proceedings witnessed uproar and a chaotic situation when Speaker Agha Siraj …

LAHORE: The Punjab Health Facilities Management Company (PHFMC) allegedly violated the laid-down merit to help an ex-bureaucrat top the list for the chief executive officer of the company. The selection committee, headed by PHFMC chairman Sohail Ahmad, not only changed the advertised [marks] criteria but also put the ‘favourite’ candidate at the top of the panel right after the interview …

• Expresses no confidence in institution • Cabinet forms body to look into Broadsheet’s revelations • Tabish told to continue working as SAPM on power ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday expressed no confidence in the office of Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP), with Prime Minister Imran Khan saying that corruption amounting to over Rs180 billion had been unearthed in …

ISLAMABAD: Highlighting paralysis of system of governance due to bureaucratic machinations, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday rejected the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Nandipur reference against Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser Dr Babar Awan and former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf, terming it arbitrary. “It is in the public interest to protect the governance system from arbitrary exercise or abuse …