Pakistan

PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday claimed that representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union routinely visit party chairman Imran Khan at Adiala Jail, where he is currently incarcerated. Elahi made this statement while speaking to reporters at a sessions court in Lahore. Elahi’s lawyer, Amir Saeed Rawn, confirmed to Dawn.com that the PTI president had made …

LAHORE: A judicial magistrate at Cantonment Courts on Tuesday sent a teenage boy to jail on judicial remand in a case of deadly road accident in Phase-VII of the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) that claimed lives of six of a family. The police presented the suspect, Afnan Shafqat, before the magistrate with his face covered. The investigating officer asked the …

RAWALPINDI: A special team, comprising police, special branch and intelligence agencies’ officials, has been formed to track down 758 ‘illegal’ Afghan nationals hiding in Rawalpindi district. However, 5,000 illegal immigrants have voluntarily left the Rawalpindi district while 65 have been deported to their home countries since Nov 1. According to sources, SSP Operations asked SPs, DSPs and SHOs that special …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Former MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir was arrested in Dera Ismail Khan, sources said here on Tuesday. He was picked when he was coming to Dera from Quetta in a private car. According to the sources, PTM leader Ali Wazir was arrested near the Darazinda tribal subdivision. He was arrested by the Daraban police. …

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday asked the newly appointed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, Arshad Hussain Shah, to provide all-out assistance to the Election Commission in holding free and fair general elections across the province. The premier made these remarks when Mr Shah, a retired judge, called on him at the Prime Minister’s House. It was their …

ISLAMABAD: With PTI Chairman Imran Khan now behind bars for 100 days, his party has alleged that the former prime minister was being persecuted for his unwavering commitment to haqeeqi azadi (real freedom) and adherence to his principles. In a statement, the party spokesperson claimed that Mr Khan was being punished for sticking to his principles and due to his …

ISLAMABAD: Mem­bers belonging to the country’s mainstream political parties on Tuesday lodged a strong protest in the Senate against the hasty passage of a controversial resolution by the House on Monday in support of military courts and called for its immediate withdrawal. Due to the strong protest by the senators and lack of quorum, Deputy Chairman Mirza Muhammad Afridi adjourned the proceedings …

QUETTA: At least two dozen prominent politicians from Balochistan joined the PML-N on Tuesday after a meeting in Quetta with its supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in the provincial capital on a two-day visit to woo ‘electables’ in the lead-up to the Feb 8 elections. The former prime minister, who returned from London in October following four years in …

LAHORE: After a brief respite, Lahore finds itself engulfed once again in a haze of hazardous air, with the air quality index (AQI) reaching alarming levels on Tuesday. The city, which had enjoyed five days of relatively normal air quality, experienced a sudden spike with a maximum AQI of 401 recorded at 9am, marking it as extremely unsafe for breathing. …

Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday said the government’s newly formed fact-finding commission, tasked with probing the 2017 sit-in by Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) at Faizabad, was empowered to summon the former prime minister, ex-army chief and then-CJP for investigation. “The commission can call anyone for investigation … no one is exempt,” he stated. The top judge’s remarks come as …