Pakistan

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday granted bail to chief of the Haq Do Tehreek (HDT) Maulana Hidayatur Rehman who has been in detention for over three months on murder charges. Hidayutur Rehman made the headlines last year for leading a series of protests in Gwadar against illegal trawling in Gwadar’s waters, a high number of security checkpoints and …

ISLAMABAD: Info­r­m­a­tion Minis­t­­er for Marri­y­­um Aurang­zeb on Tuesday said ‘judicial bias’ was evident particularly in high-profile cases as reassuring words like ‘good to see you’ could be heard in cou­rtrooms only for PTI chairman Imran Khan on whose order arson, vandalism and attacks were planned and carried out on May 9. While addressing a news conference, she said no PTI …

ISLAMABAD: The El­­e­­­ction Commission of Pak­­istan (ECP) on Tues­day summoned PTI Chair­man Imran Khan to app­ear before it in person on May 23 in a case pertaining to contempt of the commission and its head. A four-member bench, headed by ECP member from Sindh, Nisar Durrani, heard the case. The ECP member from Balochistan during the con­tempt proceedings said Mr …

ISLAMABAD: After the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had ordered the authorities to release them from Adiala Jail, the capital police on Tuesday re-arrested Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Shireen Mazari and Senator Falak Naz from outside the jail and moved them to an “undisclosed” location. Apparently, a similar attempt was made to detain Fawad Chaudhry as well, who had gotten relief …

ISLAMABAD: Expressing displeasure over continuous absence of the Supreme Court’s Registrar from meetings of the Public Accounts Com­mittee, the PAC chairman issu­­ed “one last warning” on Tuesday asking him to appear before the body. The committee also asked the government to take action against ex-service members and retired government officials found guilty of involvement in the May 9 mayhem. Noor …

Justice Safdar Saleem Shahid of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday proposed to the chief justice that a larger bench should decide a petition filed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan against arrest in cases registered on or after May 9, when he was arrested from the premises of the Islamabad High Court in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The petition, a copy …

ISLAMABAD: The civil leadership and military top brass on Tuesday endorsed a decision made a day earlier during a meeting of corps commanders to invoke the Army Act and Official Secrets Act against people suspected of involvement in the May 9 riots which damaged the state and private properties across Pakistan. The National Security Committee chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also …

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Emba­ttled PTI on Tuesday alleged that last week’s arson attacks and shootings after former premier Imran Khan’s arrest were carried out by the “agencies men” so that a crackdown on the party could be justified. Separately, in video messages, Mr Khan said he would announce his “next plan of action” during a party protest at Muridke on Thursday (May …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has extended its order to prevent the arrest of PTI Chairman Imran Khan in cases filed against him after May 9. The extension is effective until May 31. Last week, an IHC bench accepted Imran’s bail petition in the Al-Qadir Trust case for two weeks, a day after the Supreme Court termed his arrest in the case “invalid and unlawful”. It …

Punjab Caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir on Wednesday said around “30 to 40 terrorists” who allegedly attacked military installations in the wake of PTI chief Imran Khan’s arrest last week were being sheltered inside Zaman Park and the party leadership has 24 hours to hand them over. “We have intelligence that some 30 to 40 terrorists who were involved in …