Pakistan

One cop was martyred while three others were injured in an exchange of fire with terrorists in Mardan’s Katlang tehsil during the early hours of Tuesday, according to an official. Speaking to Dawn.com, Mardan District Police Officer (DPO) Najeebur Rehman said that a police team headed by Rural Superintendent of Police (SP) Aijaz Khan Sherpao headed to the Mata Katlang area …

An Islamabad district and session court on Tuesday granted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) five-day remand of journalist Asad Ali Toor in a case pertaining to an online campaign against the judiciary. In January, the car­e­taker government had formed a five-member joint investigation team (JIT) to “ascertain facts behind a malicious social media campaign” against the judiciary in the aftermath of the Supreme …

Senators on Tuesday called for strict action against those levelling “false allegations” of blasphemy and decried “ignorance” after a young woman wearing a shirt with Arabic calligraphy was saved from a mob attack in Lahore. On Sunday afternoon, a mob had gathered outside a shop in Lahore’s crowded Ichra Bazaar after someone alleged that a woman’s shirt had Quranic verses printed on …

PTI leader Omer Ayub on Tuesday said party founder Imran Khan had nominated Amir Dogar for the position of National Assembly speaker while Junaid Khan was picked for the slot of deputy speaker. The announcement was made after Ayub and other party leaders held a string of meetings with the imprisoned PTI chief at Adiala Jail. Dogar served as the …

A Rawalpindi accountability court on Tuesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190 million corruption case. Judge Nasir Javed Rana, who has rep­laced Judge Mohammad Bashir as he is retiring in a few weeks, presided over the hearing in Adiala Jail, where the PTI founder is currently incarcerated. In December, the National Accou­n­t­a­bility Bureau (NAB) …

ISLAMABAD: Reaffir­ming Pakistan’s resolve to protect all children from the disability-causing poliovirus, the health ministry on Sunday launched the second nationwide polio vaccination campaign of the year. The campaign will formally start from today (Monday), aiming to vaccinate over 45.8 million children under the age of five. The campaign, starting from today, will end on March 3 in most of …

QUETTA: A coalition of four Baloch, Pashtoon and Hazara nationalist parties protesting the alleged vote rigging has announced plans to shift their ongoing protest in front of the Balochistan Assembly, where newly elected members are set to be sworn in on Wednesday (Feb 28). The four parties — the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awa­mi Party (PkMAP), Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), National Party …

ISLAMABAD: With its founder Imran Khan in prison, the leadership role has become a conundrum for PTI, as it has taken a U-turn and once again nominated Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for the party’s top post. Mr Gohar was elected as PTI chairman after securing Mr Khan’s backing in the December 2023 intra-party elections, which led the party to being …

LAHORE: Timely action by police saved a teenage girl wearing a dress with Arabic calligraphy printed on it from attack by a charged mob, alleging she committed blasphemy, in the crowded Ichra Bazaar here on Sunday. The situation turned ugly after someone alleged that the girl’s dress was bearing Quranic verses. However, some shopkeepers defended the girl and sheltered her …

ISLAMABAD: Amid public outcry, the state-run Utility Stores Corporation (USC) has reduced the prices of about 40 essential items by up to 17 per cent with immediate effect to slightly lower than prices in the open retail market. This will be followed by price cuts ahead of Ramazan. Before this reduction, there was a negligible difference between the prices of …