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Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Friday vowed that he would not let the “bad times return” to Karachi a day after an improvised explosive device blast killed one person and left 10 wounded. Last night, an explosion shook Karachi’s bustling Saddar market near the city’s oldest United Bakery. The blast caused substantial damage to property, including vehicles, in the area. …

ISLAMABAD: While former prime minister and chairman PTI Imran Khan on Thursday approached the Supreme Court with a plea to recall its setting aside of the April 3 ruling of then deputy speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Suri on a no-trust move the apex court held contrary to the Constitution, President Dr Arif Alvi wrote to the chief justice …

The country was in the grip of a heatwave on Friday, with parts of the nation previously scalded by temperatures of nearly 50 degrees Celsius as officials warned of acute water shortages and a health threat. Swathes of the country have been smothered by high temperatures since late April, in extreme weather the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned is …

President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday approved the reconstitution of the Council of Common Interests (CCI), which will be headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. A statement issued by the President House today stated that Dr Alvi had reconstituted the council on the advice of the premier under Article 153 of the Constitution. The law states that four chief ministers …

PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday claimed that he and former finance minister Shaukat Tarin had warned the “neutrals” that the “fragile economic recovery would go into a tailspin” if the conspiracy against the PTI government succeeded. Taking to Twitter, Imran said: “Rupee at all time low Rs193/$ (from Rs178 on March 8); interest rates at …

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday claimed that a night before the National Assembly (NA) passed the no-confidence motion against former prime minister Imran Khan, one of his ministers had threatened him to either accept early elections or face martial law. “I would like to share with this house that the night before the no-confidence motion [was passed], I was …

Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday stopped the police from registering more cases against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leadership under the country’s blasphemy laws over the Masjid-i-Nabwi incident, stressing that “religion should not be dragged into politics”. He made the remarks as the court resumed hearing the petition filed by PTI leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry …

Four people have died due to a cholera outbreak in Dera Bugti district’s Pirkoh tehsil because of the unavailability of clean drinking water, according to a health official. Dera Bugti District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Azam Bugti told that four people, including a two-year-old and a woman, had died after drinking contaminated water from a puddle. He said the first …

PML-N Vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Thursday said that the army chief should be a person who had a “flawless reputation”, free from any criticism or doubts. Maryam made these remarks in a press conference outside the Islamabad High Court on Thursday while answering a question about Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s comments, wherein he had said that former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) …

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday decided not to prosecute Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz in the Rs16 billion money laundering case three days before a special Lahore court was scheduled to frame charges against the PML-N leaders. According to a written application submitted in court, the FIA director general (DG), via the investigating …