Pakistan

A team from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday returned to the Shahbaz family’s 96-H Model Town residence in Lahore to arrest Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Hamza Shahbaz. Following a nearly five-hour standoff outside the house, the NAB team returned around 4pm after the Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a short order, granting interim bail to Hamza until April …

NAWABSHAH/KARACHI: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has said contesting cases in courts is an art and he knows the art well. “Cases have to be fought with a cool mind,” said Mr Zardari while addressing workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Nawabshah on Saturday. He said there had always been conspiracies against the PPP and he knew how to …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has urged the government to disclose conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before signing an agreement for economic assistance with the organisation. “Pakistan is not a corporate company on which the decisions of a board can be imposed. This is a issue related to the future of 220 million people and the …

The family of a 10-year-old boy, who was killed on Friday after getting caught in an exchange of fire between police and an alleged criminal in Karachi, has demanded justice for their loss. Ten-year-old Sajjad Khan had sustained a gunshot wound to the head after being caught in the crossfire that ensued when police say they came across a “wanted criminal” named …

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau, Lahore, on Friday summoned PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif in the income-beyond-means investigation against him and his sons for April 9. In a notice against Mr Sharif, his sons Hamza Shahbaz and Salman Shahbaz and others in the investigation into assets disproportionate to their known sources of income and money laundering, NAB sought from Shahbaz Sharif …

MUZAFFARABAD: Six civilians, four of them young children between the ages of six and 14 years, were injured in two sectors of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Thursday after Indian troops resorted to shelling from across the Line of Control, local police and military said on Friday. The Indian troops targeted civilian population in Chirikot sector in yet another …

ISLAMABAD: Over a dozen live shells of an anti-aircraft gun were found from a plot located about half a kilometre from the Banigala residence of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Police said a senior officer of a foreign mission spotted the ammunition lying in the plot adjacent to the prime minister’s house and informed the police. A patrolling team reached the …

KARACHI: A sessions judge on Friday awarded life imprisonment to a convict for killing his co-worker after a botched rape attempt. M. Sabir was found guilty of abducting the woman and strangling her to death for resisting a sexual assault within the remit of the Gizri police station in 2009. On Friday, the additional district and sessions judge of the …

KARACHI: Police on Friday told the Sindh High Court that the number of absconders in the province was 57,000 and over 22,000 of them were in Karachi alone. A superintendent of police filed a report in this regard before a single bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar. Last month, the bench had directed the police to submit the details of …

PESHAWAR: The Rescue 1122 has planned a clampdown on the people making hoax and obnoxious calls to it in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Officials said the emergency service, which operated in 10 districts of the province, faced several issues due to a large number of hoax calls made to its toll-free number. Rescue 1122 director general Dr Khateer Ahmad told Dawn that …