Pakistan

GILGIT: Amid a peaceful rally held in Skardu demanding the arrest of a cleric and the government’s announcement that the situation has turned normal, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan met with the delegations of Anjuman-i-Imamiya Gilgit and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat on Sunday as part of efforts to maintain law and order in the region. Though daily life in …

LONDON: As the party leading the former coalition government that made certain decisions whose impacts have recently come to the fore — chief among them being a nationwide fury over inflated power bills — the PML-N has been facing the brunt of public anger in Pakistan. Veteran politician and senior N-leaguer Khawaja Asif tells Dawn: “We are in our constituencies daily. We are …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz and US envoy to Pakistan Donald Blome on Sunday held a meeting at her Murree residence wherein both sides discussed matters of mutual interest, including economy and security. The picture of the meeting was shared by the PML-N social media account. It was also re-tweeted by the PML-N chief organiser. The …

LAHORE: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir on Sunday assured the business community of fostering transparency in dollar exchange and interbank rates. “The money exchanges would be brought under the purview of taxation, fostering transparency in dollar exchange and interbank rates,” the COAS said while talking to the business community at a meeting held at the Lahore Corps …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered authorities to inform the court before arresting human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir in any case. Imaan and former lawmaker Ali Wazir were arrested earlier this month. A pair of first information reports (FIR) were registered against the two at Islamabad’s Tarnol police station and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station. The arrests were made …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a show-cause notice for contempt of court to Islamabad Inspector General (IG) Dr Akbar Nasir Khan while hearing a plea for PTI President Parvez Elahi’s production in court. On Friday, Islamabad police had re-arrested Elahi near his residence soon after the LHC had set him free with a restraining order against his possible arrest …

Special Court Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who is hearing the cipher case against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, is on leave, it emerged on Monday. The cipher case pertains to a diplomatic document which reportedly went missing from Imran’s possession. The PTI alleges that it contained a threat from the United States to oust Imran …

Two Pakistan Navy officers and one soldier were martyred on Monday in a helicopter crash in Balochistan’s Gwadar, a spokesperson for the navy said. In a statement, the spokesperson said that the helicopter crashed during a training flight in Gwadar. “The helicopter crashed during the flight due to a possible technical fault,” the spokesperson said. “As a result of the …

KARACHI: Business and commercial activities remained largely closed in Karachi and other cities and towns of the province, especially in lower Sindh, on Saturday and public transport stayed off the road on the day of a shutter-down strike called by the Jamaat-i-Islami against inflated power bills and growing inflation in the country. However, most cities in upper Sindh remained unaffected from the strike call. …

BAJAUR: All Bajaur Peace Action Committee leaders on Saturday decided to extend their movement to all the merged districts for restoration of normalcy in the region. The leaders of the committee, including political and social activists, religious, trade leaders and elders, made the announcement during a meeting chaired by the body’s chairman Maulana Abdur Rasheed, the emir of JUI-F’s local …