Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will pay a four-day visit to China to attend the Belt and Road Forum and hold bilateral talks with the Chinese leadership on the new phase of the China-Pakistan Econo­mic Corridor (CPEC) and other issues of mutual interest. The Foreign Office, while announcing the prime minister’s visit, said Mr Khan would be “visiting China from …

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau chairman retired justice Javed Iqbal has said compensating the housing societies scams victims is the bureau’s top priority. Addressing the Ferozepur City Housing scam affectees among whom he distributed Rs730 million compensation at the bureau’s provincial headquarters at Thokar Niaz Beg on Wednesday, Justice Iqbal said: “We will not let any one become Double Shah …

PESHAWAR: Police investigators probing the Peshawar gun battle have identified four of the terrorists involved, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Four terrorists were killed the previous day and one on Monday night when security forces besieged a house in the city’s Hayat­abad area. A policeman also lost his life. The police official told Dawn that investigators had managed to identify …

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has disassociated itself from seven sub-organisations functioning in various parts of the world, declaring them “extra-constitutional bodies”. According to a “circular” issued with the signature of party’s central secretary general Arshad Dad here on Wednesday, these bodies have been functioning in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Holland (the Netherlands). The …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has criticised the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for adopting “double standards” in its investigation against politicians. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, PPP’s information secretary Dr Nafisa Shah said that while former president Asif Ali Zardari’s sister was being dragged in courts, NAB chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal had decided to send questionnaires …

SWABI: The police have arrested two persons for being part of a plan to sell a teenage girl to an aged person from Muzaffargarh district of Punjab. Parmuli police station inspector Liaqat Shah told Dawn on Tuesday that Mukhtiar Khan, an uncle of the 14-year-old girl named Rumaisa, after coming to know about the plan that his brother, Bakhtair Khan, …

KARACHI: The home department has sought proposals from the antiterrorism courts about funds and infrastructure needs required to conduct in-camera trial of rape cases across the province, Dawn has learnt. The registrar of the home department for the antiterrorism courts, Abdul Waheed Khoso, told Dawn that he had asked the presiding officers of the ATCs in the province to inform …

PESHAWAR: Police and security personnel killed five terrorists holed up in a house in the Hayatabad area here on Tuesday after a fierce gun battle lasting over 17 hours, which also left a police officer martyred. The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an email message issued here claimed that six of its members were involved in the gunfight with law enforcement …

LAHORE: To address reservations of the Punjab bureaucracy, National Accountability Bureau Chairman retired justice Javed Iqbal has decided not to summon bureaucrats in any case till strong evidence is gleaned against them and instead a questionnaire will be sent to them during investigation. The NAB chief also has taken back the powers from its director generals to arrest young bureaucrats …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday admitted to regular hearing three appeals challenging an anti-terrorism court’s decision to acquit two of the accused in Mashal Khan lynching case and seeking death sentence for two of the convicts. After holding preliminary hearing into the appeals filed by Mashal Khan’s father Mohammad Iqbal, a bench consisting of Justice Syed Afsar Shah …