The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday granted bail to Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz in a money laundering case, ordering the jail authorities to release him after the submission of bail bonds. A two-judge bench of the LHC announced the order after the counsel for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) completed his arguments in today’s hearing. …

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan on Tuesday feared that the entire exercise of hearing the presidential reference on open ballot for coming Senate elections by the Supreme Court would turn academic if the proceedings were not closed by Wednesday (today). Otherwise, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would not be left with ample time to complete …

TAXILA: The fact that India claims to be a large democracy is false and merely an attempt to hoodwink the international community, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Mohammad Farooq Haider Khan said on Tuesday. Addressing participants of a public meeting in Wah Cantt, PM Haider said: “India is a terrorist state with an aggressive posture and expansionist …

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan has “shifted its geo-political priorities into geo-economic priorities”, while speaking about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Sri Lanka. The foreign minister was briefing the media about the premier’s maiden visit to Colombo. Qureshi said that Pakistan has offered a credit line of $15 million to Sri Lanka for defence and security …

The PML-N has submitted a petition to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), demanding a re-election in the entire NA-75 constituency instead of 20 polling stations, the party’s vice president Maryam Nawaz told the media on Wednesday, adding that agencies falling under the premier were involved in the rigging. While speaking to the media in Lahore, Maryam accused the ruling …

ISLAMABAD: As Pakis­tan continues to see a fall in Covid-19 cases, a website has placed the country on the 29th position in the list of 30 countries that have conducted the most number of tests per million population (PMP). The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has, meanwhile, recorded 1,050 patients who contracted the virus and 41 deaths over the …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed on Wednesday observed that matters related to ballot secrecy had been left to the parliament and would be decided by it. During the hearing on the presidential reference on holding Senate elections through open ballot, being heard by a five-member bench of the top court, CJP Ahmed said: “We are not the parliament …

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) chief Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar has said action was taken against officers responsible for the escape of former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan from military custody last year, BBC Urdu reported. Speaking to journalists affiliated with foreign media outlets at his office on Wednesday, Iftikhar said that Ehsan’s escape was a “very serious” matter that had been …

Haltom City police are investigating the death of a man whose body was retrieved from a creek, officials said. Officers responded to an area east of Dogleg and Fairway Circles 11:30 a.m. Tuesday after they received a call about a possible dead body in Big Fossil Creek. First responders retrieved the body of a man from the creek, police said. …

In what could be a quick but competitive contest, candidates to finish the unexpired congressional term of the late Ron Wright are emerging from both political parties. Wright’s widow, Susan Wright, is expected to announce her bid for the District 6 seat as early as Wednesday. The Republican and community activist will be considered a frontrunner in the contest, analysts …