Pakistan

GILGIT: Residents of Dahimal and surrounding villages kept the Gilgit-Shandur Road blocked on Tuesday and Wednesday against the murder of a schoolteacher in Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Niat Amin, 28, a resident of Gupis Valley and a teacher at Hamaran Bathrait Government School being run by Shining Light Community Development Organisation, was murdered on Tuesday by unknown people when he …

LAHORE: The expected return of Nawaz Sharif remains the talk of the town, but legal opinion on what he can and cannot do upon his return seems to be divided. Criminal lawyers believe that Mr Sharif would have to go straight to prison, while sources within the PML-N’s legal team suggest they have ‘a way out’ and that the three-time …

KARACHI: Four Paws — an international team of veterinary experts who have been assisting the local authorities in animal care since 2021 — in a detailed statement on their Facebook page has called upon the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to let the organisation rescue and reunite zoo elephant Madhubala with her sisters at Safari Park. “It has been over a month since …

ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: A day after the federal government gave illegal immigrants the deadline to leave Pakistan by Nov 1, police in Islamabad and Quetta detained over 700 foreign nationals for allegedly living without legal documents. In a statement, an Islamabad police spokesperson said 1,126 people were interrogated during the operation, and 503 were allegedly found to be living illegally. They …

KARACHI: Unidentified persons attacked some policemen deputed outside the Karachi headquarters of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, called Insaf House, on Wednesday, police said. The PTI, however, distanced itself from any such act and said its workers had nothing to do with the attack. Tipu Sultan SHO Shoukat Ali said some 20-25 attackers on 10-12 motorcycles arrived at the PTI office …

LAHORE: PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday declared that party supremo Nawaz Sharif is coming back to Pakistan, not to settle scores with those who toppled his government, but to address the people’s problems. The former PM apparently took the driver’s seat to mobilise party workers for the much-anticipated Minar-i-Pakistan rally on Oct 21 after Maryam Nawaz could not put up an …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s domestic debt is estimated to have shot up by more than Rs7 trillion since January last year just because of an increase in the State Bank’s policy rate from less than 10 per cent to 22pc, a Senate panel was told on Wednesday. The Senate Standing Committee on Finance also sought separate reports from the State Bank of …

The Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday that the ongoing operation against illegal immigrants in the country was not targeted at any particular nationality. FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch made the remarks while responding to questions during her weekly press briefing in Islamabad, according to state-run Radio Pakistan. On Tuesday, the caretaker government gave an ultimatum to all undocumented immigrants, including Afghan nationals, …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking suspension of the trial court verdict in the Toshakhana case. The move comes more than a month after the IHC had suspended Imran’s three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case. On August 5, a trial court in Islamabad had found the PTI chief guilty of “corrupt practices” in a case pertaining to concealing …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has directed a lawyer of the Punjab caretaker government to seek instructions from the authorities concerned regarding the possibility of a meeting between Barrister Hassaan Khan Niazi, the nephew of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, and his father in the army’s custody. During the Sept 28 hearing of a petition by Hafeezullah Khan Niazi, the father …