Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Urging the judiciary to confine itself to only interpreting the Constitution, a multi-party conference on Wednesday agreed that elections should be held across the country on the same day and urged all political forces to decide a date through dialogue. The participants of the conference, organised by the Awami National Party, expressed regret over “a judicial crisis and divide …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday restrained the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) from arresting former chief minister Usman Buzdar in any undisclosed case registered against him and also sought a reply from the agency. Buzdar’s counsel argued before the court that the ACE conducted a raid to arrest the petitioner in a case not known to him. He said the …

ISLAMABAD: Wild polio­virus of Afghan origin has been detected in sewage samples from Pesh­awar and Hangu districts in Khyber Pakhtun­khwa (KP) province. The virus was found in environmental samples collected from Naray Khuwar site in Peshawar and from Civil Hospital-Jani Chowk site in Hangu on April 10. So far this year, Pakistan has reported one human case and five environmental …

HOUSTON, Texas — Jose Altuve resumed some baseball activities this week, but there still isn’t a timetable for when Houston’s star second baseman will return to the team. Altuve fractured his right thumb in the World Baseball Classic and had surgery to repair the injury March 22. After his surgery, Astros general manager Dana Brown said he’d be out at least …

Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the police action at Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s Lahore residence last week. Last week, police and Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) teams conducted a late-night raid at PTI President Parvez Elahi’s Gulberg residence and arrested 12 people. The raiding party used an armoured vehicle to break down …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) filed on Wednesday a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the latter’s order on holding polls in Punjab on May 14, saying that the verdict was “per incuriam (lacking regard to the law or the facts) to the Constitution, law and previous judgments”. In a una­n­imous judgment on April 4, a three-member bench …

The trailer for the much-anticipated horror anthology TV series, Siyaah, has been released and it includes an exciting lineup of star-studded stories. Imran Raza Kazmi, the producer of the 2013 movie Siyaah, announced in 2021 that he is creating a drama with 25 stories with every episode having a different storyline and different actors. Turns out, the actors are some of the biggest names in …

The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday directed PTI Chairman Imran Khan to appear in court tomorrow (Thursday), allowing him a day’s extension after earlier ordering him to appear today. The directive was issued during the hearing of Imran’s bail pleas in nine cases — two of which were heard by IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Aamer Farooq and seven by a …

Just a day after the government and the opposition reached some semblance of consensus on country-wide polls, the PTI on Wednesday submitted a letter to the Supreme Court seeking the implementation of the SC’s order on holding elections in Punjab on May 14 “in letter and spirit” and stated that “in spite of the best efforts of parties, no solution within the …

National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has formed a 10-member committee — which will be led by Aslam Bhootani — to probe the audio of an alleged conversation featuring a PTI leader and the son of ex-chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar that surfaced on social media. Last week, an audio clip purportedly featuring Nisar’s son had surfaced, wherein he was demanding a …