Pakistan

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday he had been disqualified from parliament because he has been asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi tough questions about his relationship with Gautam Adani, founder of the Adani conglomerate. Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party responded by saying Gandhi had been punished under the law for a defamatory comment he made in 2019 …

ISLAMABAD: Underlining that Pakistan was a confident democratic country, the Foreign Office on Friday expressed confidence that outside voices could not influence the nation’s democratic polity and governance. “People of Pakistan are wise enough to make political decisions on their own and do not need outside advice,” Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a weekly …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to provide it the record of an agreement it signed with the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in 2007 under which the civic agency handed over 1,500 kanals to the DHA and was in return supposed to get more than 700 developed plots. However, the CDA has failed …

LAHORE: Visibly upset over the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to postpone the April 30 Punjab Assembly elections until October, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has asked how the situation would be any different five to six months from now. “Will the economic or the security situation improve by then,” he asked, saying the ground realities suggested that the situation would be …

ISLAMABAD: Directions have been issued to the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) to release the pending dues of employees before Ramazan 20. A Senate committee on Friday also suggested that vehicle owners should be charged up to Rs5,000 for subscription to Radio Pakistan because the national broadcaster needed to be steered out of a financial crises. A subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee …

ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court on Friday handed over the custody of Hassaan Khan Niazi to Balochistan Police in connection with a case registered with the Quetta police. Mr Niazi, the nephew of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, was arrested earlier this week on charges of intimidating and obstructing police officers from discharging their duties. The Quetta police have registered an FIR against Mr …

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: After Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Barrister Shehzad Ata Elahi quit the top law office on Friday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif went into a huddle with legal experts to discuss their strategy on the delayed elections in Punjab, when the matter is taken up by the PTI before the Supreme Court. Though there was no official information …

ISLAMABAD: The Ele­c­tion Commission of Pak­istan (ECP) in its detailed judgement released on Fri­day explained reasons for rejecting the Pakistan Tehre­ek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) application for cross-examination of witnesses, inclu­ding bank officials concerned, declaring that the process for confiscation of prohibited funds received by the party has started. The ECP in its order stated that entertaining the application for cross-examination at this …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday declined to give a blanket cover to the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in all the First Information Reports (FIRs) registered within the federal capital. IHC Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb disposed of the petition filed by PTI’s General Secretary Asad Umar and others seeking details of all the cases registered against the …

Barrister Shehzad Ata Elahi on Saturday clarified that it was “absolutely incorrect” that he was asked to resign as Attorney-General for Pakistan a day after the media reported he had quit the top law office. In a clarification sent to Dawn.com, Barrister Elahi confirmed that he had resigned, but rejected reports that he was asked to resign. The timing of his resignation …