Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team visited PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the Adiala Jail on Sunday and interrogated him in connection with charges he faces in the 140 million pounds Al Qadir Trust case. A senior official of NAB while talking to said the questioning continued for over two hours. Officials from the anti-graft watchdog have been visiting Adiala …

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has informed an accountability court in Lahore that no evidence of wrongdoing was found against Ahad Khan Cheema — the special assistant to the caretaker prime minister — during an investigation in connection with an assets beyond means case from 2018, it emerged today. The development caps a remarkable turnaround as five years ago the …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has begun hearing arguments on PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s appeals against his convictions in the Avenfield Apartments and Al-Azizia references. In July 2018, as the then-prime minister, Nawaz was handed 10 years in jail in the Avenfield properties corruption reference for owning assets beyond known income and one year for not cooperating with the National Accountability Bureau …

By Raja Zahid A Khanzada Houston: Former federal minister and senator Babar Khan Ghauri’s mother, Anwar Jahan Begum, offered funeral prayers at the Hamza Mosque in Houston after the Dhuhr prayer. The funeral was attended by a large number of Pakistanis, including community leaders, Pakistan Association of Greater Houston officials & members, and Pakistani Americans as well. They expressed condolences …

KARACHI: Parts of the city, including districts East, South, Malir and Central, received light to moderate rain on Saturday evening under the influence of a westerly wave affecting southwest Balochistan, the Met department said. The areas including DHA, Clifton, I.I. Chundrigar Road, Saddar, Nazimabad, Orangi Town and Saadi Town received intermittent showers till late in the night. The maximum and …

GWADAR: A sessions judge in Turbat has ordered the police to register an FIR against Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) officials involved in the alleged encounter of four men. On Thursday, CTD claimed to have killed four ‘terrorists’ in an intelligence-based operation near the Pasni Road bus terminal in Turbat. The family of one of the victims, Balaach Mola Bakhsh, has disputed CTD’s version …

LAKKI MARWAT: Former provincial transport minister Malik Shah Mohammad Khan was sent to jail on Saturday after the Anti-Terrorism Court in Bannu rejected the police’s request for his further physical remand for investigation in the May 9 riot case. During the hearing, the police requested the court for a seven-day physical remand of Shah Mohammad, who is also Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s …

PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl is the most vulnerable among mainstream political parties to militant attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while next on the list are the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party, said the home and tribal affairs department in a report. Political leaders, who are businesspersons by profession, too, are threatened by militant groups into paying extortion, according to …

KHYBER: Cross-border movement of scores of daily wagers and porters has been badly affected after Afghan security officials confiscated passports from a large number of Pakistani and Afghan workers without citing any valid reason. Sources at Torkham told Dawn that the Afghan border security officials had started a crackdown on Pakistani daily wagers and porters some three weeks ago and forcibly took …

ISLAMABAD: The Sup­reme Court will decide on Dec 1 on the maintainability of a petition seeking restraining orders against the caretaker government’s decision to deport illegal Afghan nationals. Headed by Justice Sar­dar Tariq Masood, the bench, comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ayesha Malik, will take up the petition moved by former PPP senator Farha­t­ullah Babar through his counsel Umer …