Pakistan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday approved three projects totalling $658.8 million to help Pakistan achieve its goal of more inclusive and sustainable growth and development. The projects approved this week, will focus on improving domestic resource mobilisation; rehabilitating schools damaged by the devastating August 2022 floods; and enhancing agricultural productivity to improve food security, ADB said in a press …

RAWALPINDI: PIA got back one of its two aircraft stranded in Indo­nesia on Tuesday night, when Airbus A320 plane landed at Islamabad International Airport. The Airbus A320, bearing registration number AP-DLG with two pilots and a crew member took off from Jakarta and after refueling from Bangkok and then the aircraft landed at Islamabad around 10:45pm. Senior officials of PIA …

  By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada FORT WORTH TEXAS : Clive Stafford Smith, the lawyer of Pakistani Dr. Aafia imprisoned in the United States, has alleged that Dr. Aafia was sexually assaulted and raped twice at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The government of Pakistan is also aware of this, he told Geo/Jang in a special interview …

KARACHI/LARKANA/ISLAMABAD: The Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Monday joined the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) in their criticism against the final delimitation of electoral constituencies and demanded that the Sindh election commissioner be removed forthwith. All the major parties in Sindh, except the Pakistan Peoples Party, have expressed …

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided in principle not to launch a probe against civil servants on ‘anonymous complains’ and without taking the chief secretary on board. NAB Chairman retired Lt-Gen Nazir Ahmad Butt said this during an interaction with officers at the Punjab Civil Secretariat here on Monday. “The inquiry against any bureaucrat will be kept secret …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi once again approached the Supreme Court on Monday, expressing his intent to pursue the constitutional petition he moved earlier seeking to quash the revised show-cause notice (SCN) issued by the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The fresh application was filed in response to a Nov 30 notice from the registrar’s office, requiring information on whether the …

At least six people, including four children, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on Peshawar’s Warsak Road on Tuesday morning, officials said. Warsak Superintendent of Police Arshad Khan confirmed the number of injuries to Dawn.com. He said the wounded persons had been moved to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital. Two children are in critical condition, LRH spokesperson Mohammad Asim …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday was requested to initiate contempt proceedings against Defence Secretary Hamooduz Zaman Khan for allegedly disregarding the Oct 23 unanimous decision which had declared unconstitutional military trials of 103 civilians allegedly involved in May 9 violence. The contempt petition was fil­ed by senior counsel Faisal Sid­diqui on behalf of Fahim Zaman Khan, Mahnaz Rahman, Prof Dr A. …

RAWALPINDI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Chairman Sohail Nasir on Monday said Rs600 million had been recovered from Arain City Housing Society and cheques distributed among 40 affected people in the first phase. He stated this at a function organised to distribute cheques among the victims of Arain City Housing Society, Fatehjang. NAB Rawalpindi Director General Mirza Irfan Baig and …

ISLAMABAD: A current and a former Supreme Court judge have been appointed to a committee tasked with devising criteria for appointing judges to the superior courts. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and former judge Manzoor Malik will be the committee’s chairman and co-chairman, respectively. The unanimous decision was made on Monday in the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting chaired …