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A Lahore High Court division bench granted pre-arrest bail till June 17 to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, a day after a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) raided his Model Town residence to arrest him in cases related to money laundering and assets beyond known sources of income. During the hearing, …

KARACHI: Lamenting the lethargic attitude of the authorities concerned despite promises both from the federal and the provincial governments, affected residents of Model Colony’s Jinnah Garden, where a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed on May 22, on Tuesday called for early rebuilding of their damaged houses and compensation for their properties. Speaking at a press conference at the site of the …

HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) information secretary Moula Bux Chandio, his wife and son were tested positive for novel coronavirus on Tuesday. All three isolated themselves within their house. The tests were conducted and the report was prepared by the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) diagnostic and research laboratory. PPP Hyderabad district information secretary Ahsan Abro said …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday directed a committee to submit a status report on the progress in scrutiny of the PTI’s foreign funding within a week. The scrutiny committee was formed in March 2018 to audit the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s foreign fund accounts. The directives were issued by the ECP during the hearing of miscellaneous petitions linked …

People on Twitter, including politicians, on Wednesday demanded justice for an eight-year-old girl who succumbed to injuries inflicted by her employers ⁠— who allegedly tortured her for accidentally setting their parrots free. Zahra, who was a domestic worker at a household in Rawalpindi, was brought to the Begum Akhtar Rukhsana Memorial Hospital on Sunday in an injured state by her employer. According …

LAHORE: Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif on Monday approached the Lahore High Court for pre-arrest bail with an apprehension of his arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in an investigation of assets beyond means against him. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Muhammad Tariq Abbasi and Justice Farooq Haider is likely to hear the bail petition on …

Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Munir Khan Orakzai passed away from heart failure in Kurram on Tuesday, just days after the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) lawmaker had recovered from the coronavirus, according to his family. Irfanullah Khan Orakzai, the deceased lawmaker’s nephew, said his uncle had tested positive for the coronavirus in April but made a full recovery and last …

ISLAMABAD: Red Zone has partially been sealed and only one road remains open for entry that too after strict verification and checking. Senior police officers told Dawn that except one all roads leading towards the high security area had been closed. On the directives of the deputy inspector general of police (DIG) operations Waqaruddin Syed, a high alert was declared …

• Overseas Pakistanis allowed to return with ease in quarantine policy • Covid-19 cases jump to 74,320, with 1,574 deaths ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday announced the reopening of tourism industry and allowed all overseas Pakistanis to return home after the National Coordination Committee gave the go-ahead to self-quarantine policy for Covid-19 patients among them. Over the past 24 …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked the Sindh government to furnish a complete report comprising all evidence along with its appeal which has challenged the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) April 2 decision of overturning the conviction of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh for allegedly kidnapping and killing Daniel Pearl — the slain journalist of The Wall Street Journal. Headed by Justice …