Pakistan

LAHORE: The accountability court on Saturday allowed the NAB to interrogate Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif in jail for another inquiry against him on charge of accumulating assets beyond means. The NAB prosecutor said since Sharif was in jail on judicial remand in Ashiana Housing Scheme scam another inquiry regarding assets beyond means was in process …

HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo has accused Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of playing the provincial autonomy and Sindh ‘cards’ to hide its corruption, and warned that “Sindh is no more a playing card for anyone nor will the people of Sindh allow themselves to be misused”. Mr Palijo was speaking at a convention of Sindhi Shagird Tehreek …

The PML-N, through its official Twitter handle on Saturday, tried to convey its message to the ruling PTI that it was time for the party “to stop being arrogant and unprepared” and advised them to do their “homework, decide on a course and stick to it without taking [anymore] U-turns”. The PML-N’s Twitter onslaught was in response to a similar …

RAWALPINDI: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Naeemul Haq on Saturday distanced the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) from the announcement by Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed that he would challenge in court the appointment of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman. Speaking at a news conference …

PESHAWAR: Six people, including two women, were injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a street in the Peshawar cantonment on Saturday morning, police said. The blast occurred at around 8.45am on Qazi Street, a narrow lane connecting Kali Bari Road with the Sunehri Masjid within the jurisdiction of the West Cantonment police station. The improvised explosive device (IED) …

ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed the Rs35 billion fake accounts case requested the Supreme Court on Saturday to order freezing of assets of the Zardari Group Pvt Ltd — which include Bilawal House in Karachi and Lahore and Zardari House in Islamabad — as well as those of the Omni Group. Both groups, the JIT alleged in …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari called on Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence on Saturday before leaving for Karachi. This was the second meeting between the two leaders in as many days as earlier they had met at a wedding ceremony in Islamabad on Friday. Aamir Fida Piracha, a spokesman for former …

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has told a representative of the federal government that the decisions — like reducing life of solar and wind projects from 20 to 15 years — taken by the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) are illegal and unconstitutional. The chief minister made this observation during his meeting with Special Assistant to the …

KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail said on Friday that the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government was supposed to bring buses for the Green Line bus rapid transit project, but so far it had failed to do so. Talking to reporters at the Pakistan Lifestyle and Furniture Expo exhibition, he said that the share of the federal government in the Green …

KARACHI: Expressing its extreme displeasure over absence of suspects from the hearing of cases pertaining to the May 12, 2007 mayhem, an antiterrorism court on Friday directed the authorities concerned to ensure their appearance on the next date. The suspects — including Umair Siddiqui, Raees, alias Mama and Mirza Naseeb Baig, alias Rizwan Chapati — have been booked in the eight …