Pakistan

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) took PTI President Parvez Elahi into custody from jail on Wednesday and took him to a Lahore sessions court where they sought his 14-day physical remand in a money laundering case. Elahi had secured bail from an anti-corruption court in Lahore yesterday but could not be released as his release orders were not delivered to the prison …

In the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2023, Pakistan has been ranked 142 out of 146 countries — with a 57.5 per cent gender parity — the highest since 2006. The annual report benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political …

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for PTI Chairman Imran Khan and six other leaders of the party in two cases relating to the May 9 attacks lodged by Model Town and Naseerabad police. Other suspects include former federal ministers Hammad Azhar and Murad Saeed, Jamshed Iqbal Cheema and his wife Musarrat Jamshed Cheema, former provincial …

LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: While PTI President Parvez Elahi secured relief from an anti-corruption court in Lahore, his senior colleagues — Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, and Asad Qaiser — were not as fortunate as a sessions court in Islamabad refused to grant them pre-arrest bail in cases registered against them in connection with the violence on May 9. However, Mr …

ISLAMABAD: The Pu­­blic Accounts Committee on Tuesday criticised a controversial draft law seeking increases in perks and privileges for former and future heads of Senate, arguing that it would burden an already troubled economy. “Pakistan is running from pillar to post for loans. Rest assured, all the members will challenge and reject this bill seeking in­­c­r­eases in privileges of heads of the …

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah promised on Tuesday that the investigation into the Greece boat tragedy would be completed within a week as authorities arrested two more traffickers allegedly involved in human smuggling. Last week, an Italy-bound fishing trawler reportedly carrying at least 800 people — including hundreds of Pakistanis — capsized off Greece. Only 104 people are known to have …

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has taken an exception to the Hindu festival of Holi being celebrated at a university, claiming that it had “caused concern and disadvantageously affected the country’s image”, it emerged on Wednesday. The commission made the remarks in a letter, dated June 20, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, sent by HEC Executive Director Shaista …

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday said it arrested two more “human smugglers” allegedly involved in trafficking people to Libya, including those who had died in a shipwreck earlier this year. There have been two notable incidents of boats drowning off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea this year in which several Pakistanis had lost their lives. …

The PTI on Tuesday issued a statement disputing Asad Umar’s claims that he left his party positions due to Chairman Imran Khan’s “confrontational” policies. The statement issued by PTI Information Secretary Raoof Hasan came hours after the former party secretary general told a private news channel that he had quit his party positions over the political strategy adopted by Imran …

An anti-corruption court in Lahore on Tuesday granted PTI President Parvez Elahi post-arrest bail in a case pertaining to illegal recruitments in the Punjab Assembly. The former Punjab chief minister was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in Gujranwala earlier this month on allegations of taking Rs15 million in bribes as the speaker of the provincial assembly for making out-of-merit appointments on …