Pakistan

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) clarified on Wednesday that no “final decision” had been reached in the meetings held between the leadership of the ruling coalition parties — PPP and PML-N — in Dubai. The statement from PPP leader and Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Shazia Marri comes days after it was reported that the meetings between PML-N and …

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday ordered a joint investigation by four major departments, including an intelligence agency, into the issue of $3 billion in zero markup loans given to approximately 620 individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic. A heated exchange of words followed when PAC Chairman Noor Alam Khan directed the departments concerned, which included the Federal Investigation …

PESHAWAR: Prominent lawyer and former senator Barrister Zahoorul Haq expired here in the wee hours here on Tuesday. He was 94. His funeral was held here at the University Town which was attended by people in large number including present and former judges of the superior courts, lawyers, government servants and others. Prominent among them were former chief justice of …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan managed to secure some temporary relief in the Toshakhana case on Tuesday. Setting aside the trial court’s order against Mr Khan’s challenge to the maintainability of Toshakhana case, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq remanded the case back to the judge to re-examine the matter within seven days, keeping in view eight legal questions …

PESHAWAR: People from different walks of life held protest rallies across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday against the desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden. The legal fraternity also observed one-day strike across the province on the call of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council to condemn the incident. In Peshawar, activists of various political parties and civil society organisations gathered outside Peshawar Press Club …

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday gave the police until July 25 to find anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, whose whereabouts remain unknown since his arrest on May 11. The order was passed by LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti as he resumed hearing a plea seeking to find the anchorperson, who was among the individuals apprehended in the wake of protests that …

KARACHI: A woman died of gastroenteritis in a Malir village and hundreds of people across the city have fallen ill due to the infection over the past few days, it emerged on Tuesday. Health experts told Dawn that the situation seemed to have developed mainly due to the consumption of contaminated food and water coupled with the unhygienic conditions that were developed …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial said on Wednesday that the boat tragedy on Greek shores — which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 Pakistanis — was a matter of human rights. He passed these remarks as a two-member bench, comprising the CJP and Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, took up petitions pertaining to the trafficking of minors. …

Ahead of the election for the new chief minister, police officials entered the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly on Wednesday, sealing the premises and evacuating journalists and lawmakers present. A day earlier, the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court had disqualified Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid on charges of obtaining a licence from the region’s bar council based on a fake degree. Subsequently, the PTI had nominated Raja Azam …

ISLAMABAD: Two Supreme Court judges who were on the initial nine-judge bench formed to take up petitions against military courts issued separate notes late Tuesday evening, with Justice Sardar Tariq Masood stating he had not recused from the larger bench, whereas Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah said he decided to sit on the new seven-judge bench with certain reservations. The …