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PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was arrested outside his residence in Lahore on Thursday in connection with a corruption case. Television footage showed Elahi being forcefully taken away on a road during the arrest, which came after multiple futile raids at his house.   View this post on Instagram   Confirming his arrest, Punjab caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir told Geo News that the …

• Asif calls PTI chief ‘internal enemy’, brands him more dangerous than Modi • Marriyum ridicules ex-PM for throwing party activists under the bus for violence ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday went after PTI chief Imran Khan with all guns blazing, accusing him of everything — from maligning law enforcement agencies to abandoning his workers high and dry in the …

Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) warned on Friday that if the court’s order to recover Mirza Murad Akbar, brother of former PM Imran Khan’s aide Shahzad Akbar, was not complied with, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif would be summoned to court. The judge issued the remarks while hearing a petition seeking the recovery of Murad, who …

ISLAMABAD: The country is inching towards streamlining the moon sighting process as the National Assembly on Wednesday passed “The Pakistan Ruet-e-Hilal Bill 2022” banning the establishment of private committees and announcement of the status of new moon ahead of the official declaration. The bill, which had been pending in the lower house of parliament since 2021, was moved by Minister …

LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the crackdown initiated against the PTI in light of the May 9 demonstrations has the opposite of the desired effect, as all it was “doing is adding to sympathy for [the] PTI and increasing its vote bank”. In a series of tweets, the PTI chairman lashed out at the government for forcing the …

At least six people died and two others were wounded on Thursday in an explosion inside a house in the Daira Din Panah area of Punjab’s Kot Addu district, the police said. Muzaffargarh District Police Officer (DPO) Syed Hasnain Haider, while confirming the incident, told Dawn.com that all of the deceased individuals belonged to the same family, which used to deal in …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party made a major political gain in Punjab on Wednesday when at least 24 former legislators and ticket holders, mostly from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), joined the party after meeting former president Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday. Most of them belong to south Punjab — 10 from Muzaffargarh district alone — while others were from …

Two soldiers were martyred when terrorists attacked a security forces’ check post in the Singwan area of Balochistan’s Kech district along the Pakistan-Iran border, the military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a group of terrorists opened fire at a check post. “Since troops at the post were already …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a set of petitions against the Supreme Court (Practice & Procedure) Act, 2023 — aimed at limiting the powers of the top judge — till next week after Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan said the federal government had decided to review the legislation. …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday asked Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan which “public authority or agency” should be held accountable for tapping phones without legal cover. The court raised the question in a seven-page order issued on a petition filed by Najam Saqib, son of former chief justice Saqib Nisar, against a National Assembly committee tasked with …