Pakistan

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited’s (PTCL) building in Balochistan’s Noshki district was damaged in a grenade attack on Tuesday, police said. City Station House Officer (SHO) Ali Ahmed Bugti told Dawn.com that two unidentified men, on a motorcycle, threw a grenade at the PTCL building which caused a blast. “As a result, the building was damaged,” he said, adding that no casualties …

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial observed on Tuesday that an independent judiciary was a main component of the Constitution. He made the remarks as an eight-member larger bench of the Supreme Court heard a set of plea challenging a bill, which has since become an act of Parliament, seeking to curtail the powers of the CJP. The …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday directed the Punjab police chief and the director general of the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) to submit a detailed report regarding the late-night raid at the home of ex-Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi. The orders came during the hearing of a petition filed by Elahi’s son, Rasikh Elahi, against the raid at his father’s …

Shakira’s former beau Gerard Pique reportedly does not want to spend 10 days with his boys despite fighting with singer over their custody for months. After long negotiations, it was finalized between the Waka Waka singer and the former Barcelona player that their kids will stay with Shakira and Gerard can meet them for 10 days each month. However, it is being …

LAHORE: After PTI chief Imran Khan demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly by May 14 to pave the way for a successful outcome of talks, the federal coalition termed his ultimatum ‘imp­racticable’ and asked him to be more flexible for the success of this dialogue bet­ween the government and the opposition. Ahead of the third round of talks between …

PESHAWAR: A constable of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s elite force was martyred when he came under attack while going home in Tarnab area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday evening, officials said. The city police station officials said that Mohammad Ibrar Khan, a resident of Meher Gul village of Tarnab, was deployed at the office of an …

SAHIWAL: A prayer leader and head of a seminary along with his senior student gang-raped a minor boy in the Hamayatabad area of Khanewal City. The head of the Madressah Jamia Al-Habibia left the nine-year-old boy home in critical condition on Sunday morning. When the victim child’s uncle, Ghulam Abbas, asked him about the bleeding, he told him about the …

RAWALPINDI: The cost of a cup of tea has been raised from Rs50 to Rs60 for the third time in the last 18 months, forcing many people, particularly traders and office employees, to stop taking tea or offer it to their visitors. The first increase in the cost of cup of tea was in the last months of 2021 when …

ISLAMABAD: At least 140 cases of threats and attacks against journalists, media professionals and media organisations were reported in Pakistan over the past year, a report showed on Sunday, indicating an annual increase of over 60 per cent. The annual Pakistan Press Freedom Report, prepared by the media rights watchdog Freedom Network, showed that Islamabad was the riskiest place to …

PESHAWAR: No evidence of terrorism and militancy was found in the blasts inside the police station of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Swat, according to a report submitted by the fact-finding committee. The fact-finding committee, formed following blasts inside CTD police station in Swat, has submitted its report to the government, saying no evidence of sabotage was found in the explosions. Officials …