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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday ordered Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar to apprise it of progress on the recovery of anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan by 12pm tomorrow (Friday). After he was arrested on May 11 from the Sialkot airport, Riaz’s whereabouts have remained unknown for a week now. He was among those taken into custody following the violent …

At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in an explosion at a motorcycle workshop near the Ring Road in Peshawar on Thursday, according to police. Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harood Rashid confirmed the injuries and fatalities to Dawn.com. He said the explosion occurred in the jurisdiction of the Peshatakara police station. According to the official, …

ISLAMABAD: The centre has sought to delink the distribution of divisible pool resources among the provinces from the population-based National Fina­nce Commission (NFC), as the seventh national census showed over 2.8pc population growth pushing Pakistan to become the “fastest growing country in the world”. Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal at a news briefing on Wednesday said: “The existing …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has alleged that the forum of National Security Committee (NSC) has been ‘hijacked’ as its meeting had political purposes. The PTI’s central media department in a statement issued on Wednesday said it was decided at the NSC meeting to crush a peaceful movement and take a decision against the opposition party. On Tuesday, civil and …

ISLAMABAD: Punjab police on Wednesday detained PTI leader Ali Mohammad Khan from Jhelum, Maleeka Bokhari from Rawalpindi and Dr Shireen Mazari from her house in the capital after they were released from custody on court orders. Dr Mazari was detained by a contingent of the police from her residence at about 10pm after she was granted bail by the Islamabad …

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday granted bail to chief of the Haq Do Tehreek (HDT) Maulana Hidayatur Rehman who has been in detention for over three months on murder charges. Hidayutur Rehman made the headlines last year for leading a series of protests in Gwadar against illegal trawling in Gwadar’s waters, a high number of security checkpoints and …

ISLAMABAD: The civil leadership and military top brass on Tuesday endorsed a decision made a day earlier during a meeting of corps commanders to invoke the Army Act and Official Secrets Act against people suspected of involvement in the May 9 riots which damaged the state and private properties across Pakistan. The National Security Committee chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also …

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Emba­ttled PTI on Tuesday alleged that last week’s arson attacks and shootings after former premier Imran Khan’s arrest were carried out by the “agencies men” so that a crackdown on the party could be justified. Separately, in video messages, Mr Khan said he would announce his “next plan of action” during a party protest at Muridke on Thursday (May …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has extended its order to prevent the arrest of PTI Chairman Imran Khan in cases filed against him after May 9. The extension is effective until May 31. Last week, an IHC bench accepted Imran’s bail petition in the Al-Qadir Trust case for two weeks, a day after the Supreme Court termed his arrest in the case “invalid and unlawful”. It …

Punjab Caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir on Wednesday said around “30 to 40 terrorists” who allegedly attacked military installations in the wake of PTI chief Imran Khan’s arrest last week were being sheltered inside Zaman Park and the party leadership has 24 hours to hand them over. “We have intelligence that some 30 to 40 terrorists who were involved in …