Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Gurdwara Kartarpur Governing Council on Wednesday called on the federal government to ask India to ease travel of Sikh pilgrims to Pakistan. The fourth meeting of the council was held here under the chairmanship of Religious Affairs Secretary Sardar Ijaz Khan Jaffar. Officials of the ministries of foreign affairs, finance, interior, Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), Nadra and …

RAWALPINDI: An improvised explosive device (IED) was found near the railway station on Wednesday. A locally-made device, containing about 1kg of explosive material filled in a plastic bottle with a detonator, was described by bomb disposal experts as mobile device. It was lying adjacent to an under-construction building in the vicinity of Mithu Khan Ahata Saddar along Railway Road. The …

LAHORE: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate for the Senate elections from Islamabad and former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani met PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif at the accountability court here on Wednesday. The PPP and PML-N leaders discussed the next month’s Senate polls and Mr Gilani talked about his prospects of winning against PTI’s Hafeez Sheikh. Mr Gilani reportedly also asked Mr …

ISLAMABAD: As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) meets today (Thursday) on the NA-75 Sialkot IV by-election results controversy, the Elections Act 2017 empowers it to proceed against the highest state functionaries for any action that adversely affects the election process. The returning officer (RO) observed that “prima facie, it looked as if the result of NA-75 had been tampered …

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday issued a letter to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA from Karachi Faheem Khan, seeking an explanation from him for allegedly creating disturbance during the recent proceedings of the house. “A letter under Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007, has been issued to Faheem …

ISLAMABAD: Initiating a disciplinary action, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to senior party leader and former Sindh chief minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi for levelling serious allegations of corruption against the party leadership for awarding tickets for the Senate election. The notice has been issued to the veteran politician from Sindh by the provincial chapter …

ISLAMABAD: In view of the declining trend of Covid-19 cases prevailing in the country, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Wednes­day relaxed a number of restrictions on commercial activities and official work. According to a statement, the NCOC took comprehensive review of the existing non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Under the new directives, time limit on commercial activities has been …

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its opinion on the presidential reference seeking the apex court’s view on holding Senate elections through open ballot. The Supreme Court said it will send its opinion to President Arif Alvi. The lawyer for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) requested the court to give its opinion before February 28 so the process for …

ec The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday ruled that a re-election be held in the entire NA-75 Daska constituency after suspicions that the results may have been falsified. The ECP, while hearing an application by PML-N candidate Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar, declared the by-poll held in the constituency on February 19 as null and void. A five-member commission, headed by the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday asked the United Nations Human Rights Council and the international community to give up politically driven double standard on human rights, especially in Occupied Kashmir, and hold the abusers accountable for their actions instead of appeasing them. Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari, in a video statement at the high-level segment of the 46th …