Pakistan

MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate Ahmad Hussain Shah won by-election in the PK-30, Mansehra, constituency on Tuesday. Announcing unofficial results of the by-election, the returning officer said the PTI nominee secured 46,483 votes, while the runner-up was PML-N’s Mazhar Ali Qasim with 39,945 votes. There were seven candidates, including nominees of political parties and independents, for the PK-30 seat, which had …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has left the matter related to travel ban on a former ISI chief to the federal government. Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, disposing of a petition filed by retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani, ex-director general of the Inter Services Intelligence, directed the federal government to decide his representation filed before the interior ministry for review …

LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army on Wednesday returned weapons it had seized from Marwat and Betani tribesmen over two years ago to avert armed clash. A function was held for the purpose at the Lt Adnan Shaheed Sports Complex Tajazai, where civil and military officers, members of Marwat Qaumi Jirga and Behramkhel and Khankhel tribesmen were in attendance. Brigade Commander …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ordered the federal government not to send former agency surgeon of Khyber Agency Dr Shakil Afridi abroad in case of any secret deal with the US government. The orders were issued after a bench consisting of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Mohammad Ayub Khan accepted the petition of senior lawyer Mohammad Khursheed …

GILGIT: The Pak Army will start a search operation for the missing mountaineers at Nanga Parbat on Thursday (Today). Two foreign mountaineers, Daniel Nardi from Italy, and Tom Ballard from UK, who were attempting to summit Nanga Parbat through a new route, the Mummery Spur, went missing from the camp-4 on Feb 24 from, and are feared dead. Nardi and …

MUZAFFARABAD: Mohammad Razzaq Chaudhry was in the courtyard of his house in Horra’n village, located barely 7km from the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhimber district, at about 8:45am on Wednesday when the “smoke and sound” made him realise that a dogfight was going on up above in the sky. Upon watching them carefully, the 58-year-old …

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Many countries, including global powers, on Wednesday called upon Pakistan and India to exercise restraint and pull back from the brink of a full-fledged war as the White House National Security Council (NSC) warned that the risks of further military action by India and Pakistan were “unacceptably high”. Talking to journalists in Washington, an NSC official said the US …

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution unanimously amid slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, condemning the violation of the Line of Control by Indian jets and appreciated the timely and effective response by the Pakistan Air Force. The house resolved that any aggression on the part of the eastern neighbour would be dealt “with an iron hand”. Three resolutions …

MUZFFARGARH: A student of a religious seminary was allegedly kidnapped and subjected to torture and rape at Khangarh on Tuesday. In the FIR, a student of Madressah Ashrafia stated that he was going to the mosque to say Maghrib prayers when two men riding a motorcycle intercepted him near the seminary. The bikers, he said, blindfolded him at gunpoint and …

SUKKUR: The Sukkur Accountability Court on Tuesday sentenced a former executive district officer (EDO) of revenue and eight of his associates to different terms of imprisonment for embezzling public funds in the construction of the Sehwan-Ratodero additional carriageway, a scheme executed at a section of the Indus Highway. The former EDO (revenue) of Qambar, Raza Baloch was sentenced to two …