Pakistan

SARAJEVO: Bosnian prosecutors on Thursday charged seven people, including two Pakistani men, with people smuggling. The group is suspected of ferrying at least 46 people through Bosnia into EU member state Croatia, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. They made at least $40,800 from the trade, it added. One Iraqi and two Pakistanis, who allegedly ran the criminal group, …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz, her husband retired Capt Mohammad Safdar and some other party leaders met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the Kot Lakhpat jail here on Thursday. When Mr Sharif’s daughter arrived at the jail, the PML-N workers and supporters showered her car with rose petals and chanted slogans in favour of the party …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday issued warrants for the arrest of Kamran Kayani, brother of former army chief retired Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Paragon City Housing Society’s director Nadeem Zia and another in the Ashiyana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme scam. As the court resumed hearing on the reference in the housing scam, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) produced three suspects, including former …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has claimed that economic policies of the government have completely failed and the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. Addressing a press conference along with Marriyum Aurangzeb and Musaddiq Malik on Thursday, former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that everyone should think seriously about the future of the country after government spokesman on …

ISLAMABAD/WASHING­­TON: The Foreign Office on Thursday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s remarks on ties with Pakistan and said the government was keenly waiting for the engagement at the highest level. “We look forward to positive engagement with the US at the leadership level,” FO spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said at the weekly media briefing. He was giving his reaction to …

LAHORE: The Punjab government on Thursday reconstituted a new five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the 2014 Model Town incident. The team will be headed by Inspector General of National Highways & Motorways Police (NH&MP) Allah Dino Khwaja. The members of the committee included a representative of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Col Mohammad Attiqueuz Zaman, a representative of …

ISLAMABAD: Accusing the government of playing havoc with the economy and pursuing a policy of witch-hunt and rejecting what it described as the government’s plan to introduce a mini-budget, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Thursday asked the government to mend its ways or be ready to face the music. “We do not want confrontation, but want to see political …

LAHORE: Consumers in many urban and rural areas of Punjab faced a terrible situation for a second consecutive day on Thursday after different power plants, transmission lines and grid stations tripped again either due to dense fog or technical fault, forcing major power distribution companies (Discos) to resort to shutdowns and load management for several hours. As the tripped plants …

ISLAMABAD: The Cen­tral Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday cleared a revised $986 million polio eradication programme and deferred a decision on a Rs48 billion small dam project in Sindh due to unresolved issues. The CDWP meeting was presided over by Minister for Planning and Develop­ment Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar and attended by representatives of relevant federal ministries and provincial governments. …

KARACHI: Over 300 shops constructed illegally on Karachi Development Authority (KDA) land and drains in Korangi were demolished as the grand anti-encroachment operation to retrieve illegally occupied city land was under way in the neighbourhood. The KDA anti-encroachment staff began its operation in the morning on 1600 Road, a street in the Korangi No5½, and demolished the illegal structures constructed …