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Two labourers were killed while three were injured as a pillar of an under-construction flyover in Islamabad’s Bhara Kahu collapsed on Saturday, Islamabad police said. According to a tweet by the police, two labourers were taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where one succumbed to injuries. Three other labourers were taken to Polyclinic Hospital where one could not …

ISLAMABAD: A Lahore-based lawyer has filed a reference against Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) seeking an inquiry into his assets. Mian Dawood, the complainant, requested the SJC to initiate proceedings against the Supreme Court judge under Article 209 of the Constitution. The reference alleged that the judge used his “influence to facilitate” his sons …

An anti-terrorism court in Gujrat issued bailable arrest warrants for Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday for allegedly threatening the judiciary and government officials in his public speeches. The directives were issued by Accountability Judge Rana Zahid. A terrorism case was registered against Sanaullah in August last year. The first information report (FIR) stated that during his speeches on April 15, 2021, …

PESHAWAR: A day after at least 81 supporters in Lahore went to prison as part of the party’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’, PTI workers and leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not appear too keen to give up their freedom for the sake of ‘real freedom’, as the day ended without any arrests. During the day, the venue of the court arrest …

The coalition government on Friday asked Supreme Court’s Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi to recuse themselves from a larger Supreme Court bench that is hearing suo motu proceedings regarding the delay in the announcement of a date for elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The request was presented in a joint note by the PPP, …

The coalition government on Friday asked Supreme Court’s Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi to recuse themselves from a larger Supreme Court bench that is hearing suo motu proceedings regarding the delay in the announcement of a date for elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The request was presented in a joint note by the PPP, …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the local administration to end a food street being set up in the evening on a portion of Burns Road and open the key thoroughfare to vehicular traffic. While allowing two petitions filed against the closure of the road due to a food street, the two-judge bench headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a set of appeals seeking a probe into the cipher, billed as evidence of foreign conspiracy to topple Imran Khan’s government. The order was announced by Justice Qazi Faez Isa during the first-of-its-kind open hearing, held inside his office chambers. Syed Tariq Baddar, advocate Zulfikar Ahmed Bhutta, and Naeemul Hassan through their petitions had urged the …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday initiated a suo motu proceeding to determine who has the constitutional responsibility and authority to announce the date for election to a provincial assembly after it was dissolved in different situations, under the Constitution. Keeping in view the importance of the matter, the CJP set up a nine-judge Supreme …

PESHAWAR: As Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has launched its ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive) from Lahore, the leaders and workers of the party in Peshawar region will present themselves for court arrest today (Thursday). Peshawar region president of PTI Mohammad Atif Khan has asked all the leaders and workers, who have enrolled their names for the court arrest, to reach Gul …