Pakistan

LAHORE: An accountability court on Saturday directed the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat central jail to provide home-cooked food, a mattress and all other entitled facilities under the law to Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz, an under-trial prisoner in a money laundering and illegal assets reference. Hamza’s counsel Amjad Pervez filed an application before the court pleading that …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Ryanair have signed an agreement under which the former will provide its Boeing-777 aircraft to the latter to operate cargo flights between Urumqi and Pakistan. PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez said on Saturday that PIA has cut down its flight operations because of travel restrictions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving many of its …

ISLAMABAD: Former Sen­ate chairman Mian Raza Rabb­ani has informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that an ordinance issued without meeting requirements of Article 89 of the Constitution can be scrapped. Senator Rabbani, an amicus in the petition filed against promulgation of ‘excessive’ ordinances, told the court that when an ordinance is promulgated in violation of the requirements of pre-promulgation of …

ISLAMABAD: After more than 30 years of effort, the African region was certified as free of wild polio in August this year, and Pakistan could be the next country on the journey to a polio-free world, World Health Organisation Country Representative Dr Palitha Mahipala said on Saturday. Dr Mahipala was speaking at an event on World Polio Day, observed to …

HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Planning Asad Umar has said regardless of judges’ observations in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, the response in verdict is positive as it says “questions about properties were indeed raised to approach the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC)”. The minister, who is a senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), said “the rest are details like use of …

ISLAMABAD: Months after expiry of an extended term of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Ordinance, legal status of the CPEC Authority was called into question in the Senate on Friday. “Under which provision of the law the CPEC Authority is operating,” PPP leader and former chairman of the Senate Senator Raza Rabbani asked while speaking on a call-attention notice. He …

TOBA TEK SINGH: An elderly woman submitted an application to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore on Oct 15 alleging that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Riaz Fatyana, his wife Ashfa Fatyana who is a minister in Punjab, their son Ahsan and two other individuals have grabbed her land measuring over a kanal with the connivance of revenue and police officials. Farhat …

KARACHI: The top law officer of the federal government on Friday assured the Sindh High Court that no development work on the project of twin islands along Karachi’s coast would commence without collaboration and cooperation of the Sindh government. Attorney General of Pakistan Barrister Khalid Jawed Khan informed a two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar that the Pakistan …

ISLAMABAD: Protesting university teachers from Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association called off their sit-in on Friday night after successful negotiations with Higher Education Commission (HEC). The sit-in had gone on for three days. “After successful meeting, we have decided to call off our sit-in,” association’s Secretary General Dr Kaleem Bareach told Dawn. HEC Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri, he …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakis­tan Nuclear Regulatory Authority could not frame its rules for about two decades since its establishment and recently the authority purchased a house for the PNRA chairman in violation of procurement rules, the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) disclosed. The PNRA was established under an ordinance in 2001. It is entrusted with the responsibility of controlling, regulating and …