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LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf claims Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has given the IG police a task to conduct raids in Faisalabad division (to arrest workers) ahead of the party’s protest plan for Friday (today). “The PTI will hold a protest demonstration in Faisalabad as well as all other districts in the province,” asserted PTI Central Punjab general secretary Hammad Azhar. …

LAHORE: Aiming for a 50-50 ratio of men and women in the police force, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif caused quite a stir on Thursday when she arrived at a passing-out ceremony for women constables and traffic assistants decked out in a Punjab police uniform. Addressing the graduating class at Police Training College Chung, the chief minister said she …

ISLAMABAD: The first regular session of the Senate after its most recent election turned out to be hot and cold where opposition and treasury benches traded barbs but also agreed on working together to pull the country out of the economic quagmire. The session on Thursday started with 11 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seats vacant since the election wasn’t held there over …

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad on Thursday ordered former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi to refrain from speaking against the establishment and the judiciary, and also asked the media not to highlight “political or inflammatory” statements made by the accused. Judge Rana Nasir Javed, while disposing of a petition seeking a fair trial in the Al-Qadir …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Friday said that there had been an “alarming surge in provocative statements from Indian leaders asserting unwarranted claims over Azad Jammu and Kashmir”, adding that Pakistan rejected such claims. The remarks by the FO spokesperson did not mention any specific statement by an Indian leader. However, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that …

ISLAMABAD: Presi­d­ent Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called on Chi­nese and Australian investors to capitalise on opportunities across various se­c­tors in Pakistan, inclu­d­ing agriculture, trade, economy, and infrastructure. During a meeting with Luo Zha­o­hui, chairman of the China Inter­national Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), who met Mr Zardari at Aiwan-i-Sadr along with a delegation, the president said Pakis­tan and China enjoyed …

ISLAMABAD: Brother of senior journalist and anchorperson Mateen Haider went missing on Wednesday, with the family expressing fears that he had been abducted. Talking to Dawn, Mateen Haider said his brother, Prof Arfeen Haider, who taught history and Pak Studies at OPF College, was taken away by a group of men from a metro station on The Mall in Rawalpindi on …

LAHORE: The Pakis­tan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), in collaboration with five other opposition parties, will launch a mass protest movement against what it calls “worst-ever rigging” in the general elections and subsequent by-polls, on Friday (tomorrow). On Wednesday, an online meeting of PTI Punjab office-bearers, MNAs, MPAs and ticket-holders was held to discuss the issue and chalk out a plan for Friday’s …

LONDON: MQM sup­remo Altaf Hussain appe­ared in a UK High Court on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of a two-day hearing in his appeal against the MQM-P in a case related to London properties. The court heard arguments from both sides and reserved its verdict, which is expected this week. Last year, the MQM-P had triumphed over Mr Hussain when the court …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has accepted another plea against the PTI’s intra-party elections, sources told Dawn on Wednesday. The electoral watchdog seems to be meting out ‘special treatment’ to the party, as it has been issued a notice over alleged irregularities in intra-party polls, conducted on the ECP orders on March 3. The party had filed documents related to its intra-party …