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Awami Muslim League (AML) chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid said on Friday that matters with regards to snap polls have been settled. “Instead of by-elections, matters on new elections have been settled,” he tweeted. “The nation will soon hear about the date for elections in October, formation of a new election commission and a caretaker government.” In an …

PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Friday that a delegation comprising members of the Pakistan Democratic Movement, PPP and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan met Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officials and urged them to release the verdict in the prohibited funding case against the PTI at the earliest in line with the electoral watchdog’s “constitutional responsibility”. “We told the ECP …

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wed­­nesday decided to withdraw the curat­ive review petitions filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court, observing that the action was taken by the previous go­­vernment through “unfair use of authority”. The cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, also decided that the record in this respect should be made public after …

DERA GHAZI KHAN / QUETTA: Six villagers lost their lives when violent currents of a hill torrent brea­ched a protection dyke in Dera Ghazi Khan late on Tue­sday night while families aff­ected by rain in parts of Sin­dh and Balochistan on Wed­­nes­day awaited government help or tried to reach safe places on a self-help basis. As details of destruction wrought …

PTI leaders on Thursday condemned the arrest of Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh, calling it “pure fascism” perpetrated by the “so-called” democratic government. Sheikh was arrested and taken into custody by officials of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Jamshoro yesterday in connection with a land transaction in Malir. He was later brought to Karachi and shifted to Aziz …

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Thursday that his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, had tested positive for Covid-19. “He is fully vaccinated, boosted, isolating with mild symptoms and undergoing treatment. We are praying for his swift recovery,” Bilawal said on Twitter. Earlier this week, Zardari had travelled to Dubai to celebrate his 67th birthday with his nine-month-old grandson. The …

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday directed the investigating officer to produce teenage Dua Zehra in court on Wednesday (today) amid full security. Judicial Magistrate (East) Aftab Ahmed Bughio passed this order on an application filed by her purported husband, Zaheer Ahmed, under Section 17(2) of the Sindh Child Protection Authority (Amendment) Act, 2021 read with Section 3 of the …

ISLAMABAD: The United States, which has already provided 61.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, will further donate 16 million doses of paediatric Pfizer vaccine to Pakistan besides an additional $20 million to supplement Pakistan’s vaccination drive. According to a statement issued by the health ministry on Tuesday, this was revealed during a US-Pakistan Health Dialogue hosted by the US State Department, …

ISLAMABAD: The capital’s security remained on high alert during and after the announcement of the Supreme Court (SC) judgement against the ruling of the Punjab Assembly’s deputy speaker in the election for the chief minister of the province, police said. Officers said well-equipped police, including Anti-Riot Unit and Counter-Terrorism Department, were deployed at a dozen sensitive and important places with …

ISLAMABAD: While the ruling coalition rejected the Supreme Court’s verdict on Punjab chief minister’s election and called it a day of “start of another phase of independence of judiciary”, the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) termed the decision “supremacy of the Constitution” and decided to observe ‘thanksgiving day’ on Wednesday (today). Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders said on Tuesday that the …