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ISLAMABAD: The national judicial policymaking committee and the governing body of Access to Justice Development Fund (AJDF) on Friday regretted lack of proper training, professionalism of police and prosecutors as key factors in the underperformance of the criminal justice system. Presided over by Chief Justice of Pa­­k­­­istan Umar Ata Bandial, the comm­it­t­­e­­e resolved that the process of pro­secution of cases …

A special court in Lahore acquitted on Saturday Interior Minister Rana Sanullah in a narcotics case filed against him during the PTI government’s tenure. The minister was arrested in July 2019 under the previous government by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). It had claimed to have recovered 15kg of heroin from his vehicle. During the hearing today, ANF Assistant Director Imtiaz Ahmed and …

ISLAMABAD: The talks between the government and the PTI remained shrouded in confusion as the two sides maintained polar opposite stances on early elections amid reports of a ‘backdoor’ contact. Several private TV channels on Friday reported that talks between the two sides have begun as PTI Chairman Imran Khan and the government have sent ‘one representative each’ to President …

PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif on Saturday broke his silence on the apology issued by the British publication The Mail on Sunday and news site Mail Online — regarding the “error” in an article it had published in 2019 — and said it was evidence of innocence. Talking to reporters in London, Sharif said that the people PTI chief Imran Khan accused of corruption have …

Sindh’s Qambar police on Saturday said detained PTI leader Azam Swati — who was arrested last month for controversial tweets against senior military officials — is now in its custody. Senior Superintendent of Police Saddam Hussain Khaskheli, while confirming the development, told Dawn.com that two cases have been registered against Swati in the city. “He was taken into custody from the Sukkur airport,” he …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) while hearing appeals against the convictions in the Noor Mukadam murder case asked the prosecutor to play the CCTV footage in the courtroom to determine the role of the security guard who had stopped Ms Mukadam from leaving the house. On Feb 24, a sessions court sentenced Zahir Jaffer to death and security guard Mohammad Iftikhar …

ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government has announced a grant of over $3.87 million for the polio eradication programme in Pakistan and procurement of essential oral polio vaccine to reach more than 18.61 million children under five years of age living in endemic and outbreak districts. The notes of the grant were signed and exchanged between the Jap­an­ese government and the UN …

MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling PTI clinched victories in most rural and urban councils of Mirpur division where polling was held on Thursday in the third and last leg of local government (LG) elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) amid a largely peaceful environment. The PTI was followed by PML-N and PPP and a sizable number of independent candidates, as unofficial …

The Balochistan High Court directed police on Friday to quash all five first information reports (FIRs) registered against PTI Senator Azam Swati in the province over his controversial tweets against top military officials and release him if he was not booked in any other cases. Swati — who was arrested in Islamabad by the Federal Investigation Agency on November 27 for the …

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday declared an agreement signed between the Pakistan government and two international firms — Antofagasta PLC and Barrick Gold Corporation — in March for the revival of the long-stalled Reko Diq mining project as legal. The verdict was pronounced by a five-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, on a presidential reference …