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An Islamabad sessions court stated on Saturday that charges against former interior minister and PTI ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed will be framed on March 2 in a case pertaining to claims he made on television that former president Asif Ali Zardari was involved in a fresh assassination plot against PTI chief Imran Khan. The Islamabad police had arrested the former interior minister …

The Sindh police on Saturday constituted a five-member committee to investigate the attack on the Karachi police chief’s office last night and supervise the case’s progress. The hours-long combat between terrorists and law-enforcement agencies on Friday at the Karachi Police Office located at Sharea Faisal left four people martyred and 19 injured. In contrast, all three terrorists belonging to the banned militant …

PTI senior leader Dr Shireen Mazari has claimed that former army chief (retired) General Qamar Javed Bajwa wanted to “resettle” members of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country, following Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Mazari made these remarks on Dawn News programme ‘Doosra Rukh’, which will air at 7pm today. The statement from the former minister comes at a …

LAHORE / SAHIWAL: An explosion ripped through Jaffar Express on Thursday morning near Chichawatni, killing a woman and injuring seven others, the police said. The blast occurred inside the washroom of train’s coach No. 4 and was powerful enough to blow out its iron structure. The train — a 39UP Jaffar Express, which travels from Quetta to Peshawar — was …

The Islamabad Police on Friday opened a criminal investigation against an unknown person for “domesticating” a leopard, a day after it ran free and injured several people in an upscale residential area of the capital. Yesterday, video clips of the feline jumping across walls and navigating roads in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase II neighbourhood of Islamabad went viral …

The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department’s team in Mianwali’s Kalabagh came under attack by a group of armed militants be­longing to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP) on Thursday night, the CTD said. According to a statement issued by the CTD on Friday, the militants and security officials exchanged fire for 20 minutes during which a terrorist was killed. “The slain militant was …

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday suspended the transfer of Lahore police chief Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, observing that the chief election commissioner alone, without consultation of other members, cannot approve transfers. The orders were issued by a three-member bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Munib Akhtar. Dogar, as the Lahore CCPO was at the …

LAHORE: A day after the PML-N-led federal government presented a mini-budget imposing more taxes and hiked the price of petrol, the party’s chief organiser, Maryam Nawaz, distanced herself not only from the “unpopular” moves but also from the government. Talking to party workers and leaders in Model Town, she said, “This coalition government of nine parties is not our government. Our government …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday approved PTI ally Sheikh Rashid’s post-arrest bail application in a case pertaining to claims he made on television that former president Asif Ali Zardari was involved in a fresh assassination plot against PTI chief Imran Khan. The Islamabad police had arrested the former interior minister on Feb 2 after which the court had granted the police his …

Two gunmen who allegedly shot at a police checkpoint in Islamabad late last night and succumbed to their injuries on Thursday morning were suspects in the F-9 park rape, the Islamabad Police said on Thursday. The brazen attack in a park in the capital shocked the nation and renewed questions over the safety of women in the country. This morning, the police said …