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ISLAMABAD: A day before announcement of first budget of the new coalition government, the ruling allies on Thursday expressed full confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. They expressed their confidence at a dinner hosted by PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari for all political parties in the coalition government. “The current political situation in the country was discussed. …

A Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday approved interim bails of top leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Punjab a day after it issued non-bailable arrest warrants for them over multiple charges including alleged violations of Section 144 and attacks on law enforcement agencies on May 25 — the day PTI workers marched to Islamabad. According to the court …

A police surgeon would be conducting an examination of deceased lawmaker and television personality Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s body, his family’s lawyer told Dawn.com on Friday after the matter of the deceased MNA’s autopsy was taken up by a judicial magistrate at the City Court in Karachi following the family’s refusal to an autopsy. Hussain, 50, passed away at his house in Karachi’s Khudadad Colony …

Islamabad Inspector General of Police Dr Akbar Nasir Khan on Friday submitted a report to the Supreme Court, detailing the events leading to PTI workers’ arrival at D-Chowk during the party’s ‘Azadi March’ which ended on May 26. In the report, the police chief said the crowd was “organised to enter D-Chowk under the PTI leadership who had reached Express …

A group of unidentified people vandalised a Hindu temple in the Korangi area of Karachi on Wednesday night, desecrating an idol. According to an FIR registered at the Korangi police station, five men on motorcycles stopped by the temple late last night and inquired about the whereabouts of the pundit (caretaker). “At that time, there were just two workers inside …

President Arif Alvi on Thursday appointed Ahad Cheema, a former civil servant and senior bureaucrat, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s adviser on establishment. Cheema’s was the first high profile arrest in Punjab by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) before the general elections of 2018. The bureau had arrested him on February 21, 2018, when he appeared before its investigation team in an …

ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers on Wednesday passed 11 bills — many of them dealing with issues of a serious nature, in a non-serious environment — without discussion and without even having quorum on a dull private member’s day in the National Assembly. Of the 11 approved bills, eight were adopted by the lower house after suspending rules and without referring them to …

The Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the federal government on two separate petitions pertaining to loadshedding and inflation, as people across the country continue to roil from prolonged power cuts. The Judicial Activism Panel filed the two petitions — on loadshedding and inflation — which were taken up by Justice Shahid Karim today. The petitions were …

MNA and famous television show host Aamir Liaquat Husain has passed away in Karachi, DIG East Muquddas Haider told Dawn.com on Thursday. He was 50. The police officer said Husain’s condition deteriorated early in the morning after which he was taken to the Aga Khan University Hospital, where he was later declared dead. He added that preliminary reports show no foul play, …

ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of Denmark in Islamabad together with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) launched a project aiming to support Pakistan to implement sustainable, rights based border management practices in the area of document security and control of national borders. The project ‘Rights Based Border Management in the Silk Routes Countries’ seeks to equip a number of …