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LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said he is ready to talk to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir “in the best interest of the country”, but in the same breath added, “no one (in the establishment) is ready to talk to me”. While speaking to media persons at his Zaman Park residence on Friday, ex-PM Khan …

ISLAMABAD: Hours after President Dr Arif Alvi announced April 30 as the date for the general elections in Punjab in line with the Supreme Court’s verdict, the heads of three major ruling coalition parties met at the Prime Minister House to discuss the political options available to them. “Former president Asif Zardari and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman called …

ISLAMABAD: Militant attacks witnessed a surge in the month of February this year, but the resultant deaths were down as compared to January. An attack by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Karachi Police Headquarters was the most high-profile attack in the month of February. According to the statistics released by Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), militants carried out …

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday suspended a notification for by-elections on 24 National Assembly seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was previously scheduled to be held on March 16 and 19, respectively. Twenty-four former MNAs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had on Feb 23 filed a plea in the PHC against the acceptance of their resignations by the National Assembly speaker and their …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is most likely to propose holding of elections to the Punjab Assembly in the last week of April, informed sources told Dawn on Thursday. The commission, which met here for the second consecutive day after the Supreme Court’s verdict in a case relating to delay in the polls to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, decided …

Another alleged audio leak surfaced on Friday, this time linked to senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry — who has categorically rejected it — purportedly talking about superior court judges. “I have no connection with this audio,” tweeted Chaudhry. The leaked conversation, first publicly shared by journalists on social media, shows pictures of Chaudhry and his brother Faisal Hussain, identifying them as the …

Hours after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) wrote a letter to him suggesting possible poll dates, President Dr Arif Alvi announced on Friday that elections in Punjab will be held on April 30. “The president announced the date [for elections in Punjab] after considering dates proposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan. ECP had proposed a poll date between …

KARACHI: A six-year-old girl, who went missing earlier this week, was found murdered in the Bin Qasim area on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said. They said that the body was found in a drain off National Highway. The corpse was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors confirmed that she was brutally raped and then murdered. Area …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday granted time to a petitioner to file some documents in a petition seeking removal of a ban on media coverage of Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain. Citing the secretaries of ministries of interior, law and information and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) as respondents, Petitioner Aftabuddin Baqai stated that the MQM …

Girders of an under-construction flyover in the Bhara Kahu area of Islamabad collapsed on Thursday, less than a week after the bridge’s shuttering came apart leaving two labourers dead and three injured. Islamabad police confirmed the incident in a tweet, adding that there were no injuries or casualties. “The girders of an under-construction bridge have collapsed,” read a tweet by Islamabad Police. …