Pakistan

• Alyani owns Rs728.41m assets including foreign properties • Buzdar owns properties in Multan, Taunsa Sharif and DG Khan • Punjab food minister’s family keeps assets in UK, UAE ISLAMABAD: Key leaders of Balochistan, including its incumbent and former chief ministers, are not only multi-millionaires but also own foreign properties, it emerged on Wednesday. Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said a recent survey conducted by Gallup Pakistan had concluded that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf would win upcoming elections in Gilgit-Baltistan scheduled to be held on Nov 15. In a meeting with his spokespersons, the prime minister expressed satisfaction over the survey and said ruling PTI will make its government in the GB. A participant …

GILGIT: Election campaign across Gilgit-Baltistan is in full swing as polls draw nearer and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and Federal Minister Murad Saeed have continued to address rallies in different parts of the region. The PPP and PML-N leaders criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan in their speeches while the minister and Special Assistant to Prime …

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday asked state institutions to convince Prime Minister Imran Khan to hold a “grand national dialogue” with the opposition parties so that the country could move forward. He also appealed to Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa that people of Karachi had pinned great hopes on him and …

ISLAMABAD: The PPP on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement giving Gilgit-Baltistan interim status of a parovince, saying this was given in 2009, by the PPP government in the centre. At a press conference, PPP Information Secretary Dr Nafisa Shah said her party’s ties to the people of GB go back three generations. She added the decision to attend …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued the bail granting order for Editor-in-Chief of Jang Group of Newspapers Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman in a 34-year-old plots reference with certain conditions. A three-page order authored by Justice Mushir Alam, who headed the SC bench which heard Mr Rehman’s post-arrest bail application, directed him to furnish a bond of Rs10 million with two sureties. …

KARACHI: Pakistan Railways is all set to resume the Karachi Circular Railway operation from November 16. In the first phase the trains will run along 60 kilometres distance from Pipri to Orangi stations with four trains in up and down directions. Passengers will be able to commute between Pipri and Orangi stations with a uniform gap of three hours. The …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in two public interest petitions challenging an old practice called two-finger test (TFT) for examination of sexual assault survivors for being disrespectful, inhuman and violative of fundamental rights of the women. Before closing the hearing, Justice Ayesha A. Malik expressed her displeasure over the Punjab government’s slackness towards legislation to abolish …

• Imran, Abbasi no more billionaires as they declare assets’ cost instead of worth • Seven among 12 MNAs belong to ruling coalition • Landlords, capitalists dominate the National Assembly ISLAMABAD: Landlords and capitalists dominate the National Assembly with the majority of its members possessing huge pieces of land, precious properties and massive investments in stocks, shares and industrial units and …

ISLAMABAD: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth approached the Supreme Court on Tuesday to highlight that he had legitimate expectancy to be elevated to fill the recently vacated post in the SC. “The petitioner has a lawful right to be considered for the appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the available vacancy …