ISLAMABAD: Two more cases were registered on Saturday against former prime minister Imran Khan and a number of Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) parliamentarians in connection with the party’s May 25 ‘Haqiqi Azadi March’, police said. One of the cases was registered at the Margalla police station under sections 186, 353, 148, 149, 506ii, 341, 188 and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code …

LAHORE: Punjab has questioned the criteria adopted for measuring water flows in River Indus by a sub-committee of the National Assembly’s Stan­ding Committee on Water Resources during a recent field visit to Taunsa and Guddu barrages, claiming the river point selected in Sindh was irregular while its representative was excluded from monitoring the flows at the regular point. MNAs Khalid …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan has posted on Twitter a video montage of alleged police brutality on his Azadi marchers on May 25 and termed it “condemnable and unacceptable”. Imran Khan’s march for haqeeqi azadi — true freedom — was preceded by the authorities invoking of Section 144, a measure used to curb gatherings. Shipping containers were put in place on major thoroughfares to …

Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday accused the government of amending accountability laws to protect the “corrupt elite class”, claiming PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be “direct beneficiaries of the changes”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Qureshi alleged the amendments made by the government to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 were the …

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday clarified that the government had not imposed a ban on sanitary pads or diapers — or their raw materials — and that the restrictions only applied to “some luxury or non-essential goods”. In a tweet this morning, he said that there is no ban on “any industrial raw material”. “The ban is only on …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that the audio recording of the alleged telephone conversation between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari and property tycoon Malik Riaz had “exposed” PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s “hypocrisy and double standards”, asserting that his predecessor’s “lies stand exposed”. The leaked audio recording — in which the voices were believed by many …

Britney Spears’ lawyer slams Jamie Spears for attempting to “traumatize his own daughter” through continued legal requests. Britney’s legal counsel, Mathew Risengart made these claims in a court filing to call attention to the “improper and abusive” legal strategies being employed by Mr Spears. According to Insider, “Mr Spears has purported to serve on his daughter 145 document requests and …

Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez  calls Amber Heard a “deeply troubled person.” Inside the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom Mr Depp’s lawyer, Camille Vasquez claimed, “There is a victim of domestic abuse in this courtroom. And it is not Ms. Heard. … Mr. Depp experienced persistent physical, verbal and emotional abuse. … she said it in her own words.” “She is a deeply …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their second child, Lilibet, last year but the little one has yet to meet her royal relatives, and according to one royal expert, Harry’s upcoming trip to the UK will serve that purpose. Royal expert Duncan Larcombe told OK! Magazine recently that the Sussexes upcoming trip to the UK for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations …

Kim Kardashian is flaunting her designing skills while revealing a ‘fan fact’ about her stunning look for   Kourtney Kardashian’s wedding to Travis Barker. The 41-year-old reality star oozed her charm in a black gothic outfit and left onlookers in Portofino, Italy jaw-dropped. Spilling beans on her gorgeous attire, Kim took to Instagram on Saturday to reveal that she recycled the …