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ISLAMABAD: PML-N leaders remained hopeful that the party supremo Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan and even lead the election campaign despite the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the law to expand the scope of a review petition. The court said the parliament had gone beyond its legislative competence by enacting the Supreme Court (Review of Judge­ments and Orders) …

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Monday echoed for an umpteenth time with the opposition’s concern over the water scarcity in Karachi as the provincial government informed the house that the shortage would continue to persist until the completion of the K-IV, or Greater Karachi Water Supply Scheme. Six call attentions notices of the opposition members drew attention of the provincial …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday strongly condemned yet another incident of the desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, vowing to launch a campaign to end the sacrilege of holy books in the Nordic state. The government will help create a common strategy to eradicate evil from the platform of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the prime minister said. …

ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: Lawmakers in the National Assembly voiced their concern over the worsening law and order in Wadh city of Khuzdar district for the second consecutive day on Friday due to a tribal feud, calling upon the government to intervene immediately to prevent the situation from getting out of control. Wadh has been engulfed by an armed conflict since …

PESHAWAR: Three persons were killed and eight others were injured in rain-related incidents in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two persons were killed when wall of their house collapsed in Manshera while a woman was killed and six others were injured in Buner due to roof collapse. Separately, two other people were injured in Mardan due to roof collapse. In …

JERUSALEM: Israeli defence exports hit an all-time high of $12.5 billion last year, with Arab countries that recently established ties accounting for nearly a quarter of purchase contracts, officials said on Wednesday. The defence ministry, which oversees and approves the exports of Israel’s defence industries, said one quarter of deals were for drone systems, with “missiles, rockets and air defence …

ISLAMABAD: Turning the capital into a ‘zero’ out-of-school children (OOSC) city by June 30 seems to be a tough task as the number of such children was much higher than the estimated figure of 57,000. Earlier, the education ministry, based on various surveys and reports, had set the target of bringing 57,000 OOSC in schools by June 30. However, sources …

ISLAMABAD: The release of Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Vice Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has been delayed due to his apparent reluctance to provide an undertaking to refrain from engaging in ‘unruly’ protests. IHC Justice Miangul Hassan Auran­g­zeb had set aside the detention order of Mr Qureshi and the spouse of PTI leader Sheharyar Afridi. The judge also sought an undertaking …

Justice Safdar Saleem Shahid of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday proposed to the chief justice that a larger bench should decide a petition filed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan against arrest in cases registered on or after May 9, when he was arrested from the premises of the Islamabad High Court in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The petition, a copy …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: A series of violent protests provoked by the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan caused damages to the tune of Rs250 million to private and public property, whereas the Rawalpindi police have arrested 76 suspects allegedly involved in the attack on the General Headquarters in the garrison city. According to a report issued by the capital police, armed miscreants burnt …