Pakistan

SUKKUR: Baloch Yakjehti Committee leader Mahrang Baloch along with around 300 unknown campaigners for the recovery of missing Baloch citizens was booked in a sedition case at the Wada Machhiyoon police station of Khairpur district on Friday. SHO Sarfaraz Khoso lodged the FIR on behalf of the state under Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code. The complainant alleged that …

LAHORE: In a significant political development, leaders from various parties joined the PPP after meeting former president Asif Ali Zardari at Peoples House in Multan on Friday. Among the prominent leaders who joined the PPP are former city nazim Abdul Majeed Chanar, Malik Usama Advocate and Malik Mumtaz Chanar of the PTI; Abdul Aziz Khulung, Abubakar Khulung, Rubina Shaheen, Khan …

RAWALPINDI: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) Chief Manzoor Pashteen, who was granted post-arrest bail on Tuesday by a sessions court in Islamabad, was re-arrested by the police soon after he was released from Adiala jail on Thursday night. According to sources, the PTM chief was taken into custody by the Jhelum police, who drove him away to an undisclosed location. Earlier, …

A day after Senate adopted a resolution seeking delay in Feb 8 general elections, a new resolution was submitted in the Senate on Saturday, emphasising the need to adhere to “constitutional requirements” and ensure the timely conduct of the polls. The upper house of the parliament had on Friday passed the resolution seeking to delay the polls due to security concerns. PML-N Senator Afnan …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa said on Saturday that the practice of taking every matter to the Supreme Court (SC) must end. Speaking in Islamabad at an event at the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA), where the CJP is chairman, he stressed the need to raise the status of the lower courts in order to reduce the burden on courts higher up. …

KARACHI/PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: In a major relief to the embattled PTI, scores of its aspirants, notably Imran Khan’s ‘No. 2’ Shah Mehmood Qureshi, were cleared to take part in the Feb 8 polls by various election tribunals (ET), on Friday. In Karachi, the appellate tribunal overturned decisions of returning officers (RO) against Mr Qureshi (NA-214, Tharparkar), the party’s Sindh president Haleem Adil …

The Cabinet Division on Saturday formed a five-member committee tasked with identifying the “role of mastermind, planners, facilitators and executors” of May 9, 2023 incidents that saw countrywide violence following the arrest of former premier Imran Khan. On May 9 last year, Imran was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau with the help of the paramilitary Rangers at the Islamabad High Court …

ISLAMABAD: Former premier Imran Khan’s net worth is estimated to be around Rs315.95 million, according to documents he submitted alongside his nomination papers. Meanwhile, PML-N leader Mary­­am Nawaz Sharif is close to becoming a dec­lared billionaire, with the total worth of her assets going over Rs850 million. The submissions revealed that the former prime minister paid Rs15.59m income tax during …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday regretted that constitutional amendments dealing with the disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62(1)(f) were thrust upon parliament under peculiar circumstances, without any debate. “I have repeatedly emphasised that there is a need to understand the broader picture and the way such amendments in the Constitution were brought in,” the CJP observed, adding …

LAHORE: The federal government has decided to procure 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, amid a possible resurgence of a new variant of the virus in various countries, officials have confirmed. The procurement of Pfizer vaccines from the US was planned on the recommendations of the Eme­r­gency Operation Centre’s (EOC) technical advisory group following the emerging threats of the JN.1 variant. …