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LAHORE: Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the attempt on former premier Imran Khan’s life in Wazirabad, the Centre has rejected the new team formed by the Punjab government and suggested that it reconstitute the body by giving intelligence officials a role to ensure fair investigation. In a strongly-worded communique sent to the Punjab government …

ISLAMABAD: Mother of slain journalist Arshad Sharif, in a written letter to the Human Rights Cell of the Supreme Court (SC), has pointed out that she was unaware of any ongoing investigation on the murder of her son. Riffat Ara Alvi, in the letter written to the cell’s director general, states: “I am a housewife and am not aware of …

LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has ‘stepped back’ from the issue of new army chief’s appointment and said “we are looking at the process from the fringes”. Speaking to senior journalists at his Zaman Park residence and later virtually addressing the party’s long march rallies in Jehlum, Sargodha and Mardan on Wednesday, the PTI chief regretted that PML-N supreme leader …

THE calamitous Pakistan floods of 2022 were the tenth most expensive climate disaster to have buffeted a nation over the last decade, according to risk modelling firm RMS. The floods inflicted an estimated loss of $3 billion on the country, caused over 1,700 deaths and displaced eight million people. Poor countries like Pakistan, which saw around eight million people displaced, …

The United States has asserted that there had never been any truth to former premier Imran Khan’s allegations of Washington orchestrating a regime change conspiracy to oust his government and reiterated its resolve not to let “misinformation” and “propaganda” come in the way of its bilateral ties with Pakistan. “As we’ve previously said, there has — there is not and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ex-Ser­vicemen Society (PESS) on Tuesday disassociated itself from the presser by its patron-in-chief Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Ali Chisti on the debate regarding the appointment of the new army chief and growing political polarisation in the country. “Press Conference of Lt Gen Faiz Ali Chishti, Patron-in-Chief Pakis­tan Ex-Servicemen Society-PESS, was conducted in his personal ca­­pacity. Unfortunately Gen Chishti …

ISLAMABAD: Since its establishment four years ago, the Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) received the highest number of appeals against the Defence Ministry, out of the total 2,474 filed by citizens, followed by the Ministry of Finance. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) saw a tie with an equal number of complaints filed against both entities. …

ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Balochistan informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that in an earlier Reko Diq litigation, the court was requested to stay out of the matter and wait for the outcome of an international arbitration that commenced soon after cancellation in 2011 of a mining lease awarded to Tethyan Copper Company Pakistan (TCCP). But Additional Attorney General Chaudhry …

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry announced on Wednesday that his party will be initiating legal proceedings against Dubai-based businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor in the Gulf state and Jang Group in London, as he denied allegations that PTI Chairman Imran Khan had sold a state gift to the former. However, he acknowledged that the gift was “legally” sold “in the market”. The explanation came …

LAHORE: Confusion appears to be the order of the day for the Punjab government after it reconstituted for a fourth time the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe into the assassination bid on former prime minister Imran Khan in Wazirabad. On Tuesday, the provincial government appointed Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar as the team’s head. …