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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for hearing a petition seeking the removal of PTI Chairman Imran Khan after his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference. The LHC had on Thursday reserved the verdict on the maintainability of the plea, filed by Advocate Mohammad Afaq. Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi announced the decision today and served notices to the attorney general and advocate general …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday acquitted six senior leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and some others in three cases pertaining to organising and listening to the controversial speeches of London-based party found Altaf Hussain in 2016. Senior leaders Dr Farooq Sattar, Amir Khan, former Karachi mayor Wasim Akhtar, Rauf Siddiqui, Khawaja Izharul Hasan, Mehfooz Yar Khan and some others were …

LAHORE: It seems that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s campaign for ‘real freedom’ could be a protracted one, after he hinted on Wednesday that the long march could last for 10 months instead of simply culminating upon reaching Islamabad. Addressing participants of the rally at Gakharmandi on the sixth day of the travails, the former prime minister asked the …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will take up on Thursday (today) a petition seeking removal of former prime minister Imran Khan from the office of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman following his disqualification in Toshakhana reference. Mohammad Afaq, a lawyer by profession, filed a three-page petition in Urdu pleading that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified the former prime minister and de-seated …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court on Wednesday desc­ribed the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes’ (ICSID) $6.5 billion award against Pakistan as a “nuclear bomb” since it could be taken up anywhere in the world for implementation. The observation came when a five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Umar Ata Bandial, was hearing the …

The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh police claimed on Thursday to have arrested a suspected terrorist who allegedly intended to kill a Chinese doctor in Hyderabad and was associated with the perpetrators of a similar attack on Chinese dentists in Karachi in September. A statement by the CTD spokesperson, the department’s personnel and a federal intelligence agency conducted an operation in …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday reserved its verdict on the maintainability of a petition seeking the removal of Imran Khan as the PTI chief after his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference. Justice Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi presided over the hearing to decide whether the plea was admissible for further proceedings. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had disqualified Imran in …

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi has accorded his assent to three bills earlier passed by parliament, the Presidency said in a press release on Tuesday. The bills included Torture and Custodial Death (Prev­e­­ntion and Punishment) Bill, 2022; Anti-Dumping Duties (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and Trade Organisations (Ame­n­­­dment) Bill, 2022. The bills, approved under Article 75 of the Constitution, became laws after the …

China will continue to support Pakistan in stabilising its financial situation, state media quoted China’s President Xi Jinping as saying on Wednesday. China and Pakistan should move forward more effectively with the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as well as accelerate the construction of infrastructure for the Gwadar Sea Port, state media reported Xi as saying. The Chinese …

LAHORE: With the start of ‘fifth season’ of smog, the provincial capital of Lahore was spotted as the most polluted city in the world with hazardous levels of air quality when this report was filed at 8pm on Tuesday. Once termed the city of gardens, the air quality level of Lahore is continuously falling to hazardous levels. On Monday, the …