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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 …

The federal government told the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday that records of the buyers of the Toshakhana gifts since 2002 were being “declassified” and would be uploaded on a website. After initially expressing reluctance over submitting the records, the government had on Feb 21 submitted details of the Toshakhana gifts to the court during the hearing of a petition seeking to make …

Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial said on Thursday that the Supreme Court will not tolerate the violation of the Constitution as the top court began its suo motu hearing to determine who has the constitutional responsibility and authority to announce the date for elections to a provincial assembly after it was dissolved in different situations, under the Constitution. …

QUETTA: The Barkhan triple murder saga saw dramatic twists on Wednesday after police arrested the provincial minister accused of being behind the deaths of a woman and three young men that were allegedly being kept in his private jail. Sources told Dawn late on Wednesday night that levies personnel had recovered three members of Khan Muhammad Marri’s family, including his wife and …

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Wednesday that PML-N’s legal team will be approaching two judges of the Supreme Court to recuse themselves from hearing the cases against the party leadership. In a series of tweets, Sanaullah named the judges and alleged that they “have a biased attitude towards the PML-N”. Sanaullah recalled that one of the judges had been …

PTI leaders presented themselves for arrest on Wednesday as the party’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive) commenced from Lahore, which according to ex-premier Imran Khan is aimed at countering the “attack” on the party’s fundamental rights and the economic “meltdown”. The PTI shared footage of party leaders, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and Senator Azam Swati, sitting inside …

Marri tribesmen continued their sit-in outside the Red Zone in Balochistan’s Quetta for the second consecutive day on Wednesday after bullet-riddled and charred bodies of a woman and her two sons were found in a well near Barkhan. The situation stemmed from the discovery of the bodies late on Monday night — said to be the wife and two sons …

ISLAMABAD: Top lawyers’ bodies will file references against the sitting Supreme Court judge who is purportedly a subject in the matter of recent audio leaks. The country’s top regulatory body of lawyers, Pakistan Bar Council, along with all provincial bar associations will submit six separate references before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on the misconduct of the judge under Article 209 …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that only “one or two items” were remaining in the competition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement and asserted that Pakistan would soon strike a deal with the global lender. Pakistan is eyeing a staff-level agreement with the IMF this week which will pave the way for much-awaited credit flows from other bilateral and …

An Islamabad district and sessions court deferred — for a second time — on Tuesday PTI chairman Imran Khan’s indictment in the Toshakhana reference on medical grounds as the judge remarked that if this delay continued, his trial would continue indefinitely. Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Zafar Iqbal has instructed Imran to appear before the court in person on …