Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: In an act of open defiance, the National Assembly and the federal cabinet — dominated by members of the ruling coalition — refused to abide by the Supreme Court ruling that fixed May 14 as the election date in Punjab, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif calling the verdict a “murder of justice”. Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, …

LARKANA: Hinting at the possibility of intervention if the prevailing crisis continues, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned on Tuesday that neither Shehbaz Sharif nor Imran Khan will come to power next time around, and it would be the people of Pakistan who will have to bear the consequences. Addressing a select gathering in Naudero House to mark the 44th death …

MANSEHRA: Dasu hydropower project’s warehouses and residential camps of Chinese engineers and workers were gutted in a heavy fire in the Barseen area of Lower Kohistan in the wee hours on Tuesday. The fire, which started due to short-circuit at about 4:30am in the morning, ripped through the residential camps of Chinese engineers and workers. No loss of life was …

After Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz has also taken exception to remarks made by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial during the Supreme Court hearing on the postponement of polls in Punjab. For over a week, the top court heard the PTI’s petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to postpone polls …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Memorial Hermann Hospital is asking for the public’s help in finding the family of a man who was admitted on March 31. The hospital shared the man appears to be a white man between his late 40s to early 50s. He’s about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. According to the hospital, the …

At least one person was killed and 30 injured, many seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50 people derailed in the Netherlands early on Tuesday after hitting a construction crane, officials said. Rescue teams were seen ferrying away the injured in pre-dawn darkness at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague. The accident happened …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Monday took notice of the lapses and loopholes in the investigation of the F-9 Park rape case wherein a woman was raped by two men at gunpoint. Reviewing the rape at F9 Park, which happens to be third in the line of two similar incidents that took place in 2018 and …

ISLAMABAD: Voices have started emerging from within the ruling coalition calling for de-escalation and finding ‘amicable solutions’ to the prevailing political, economical and judicial crises. Six parties in the ruling alliance, Pakistan Democratic Move­ment, on Monday urged the political forces to sit together after a meeting with a civil society group, Mediators, at the National Press Club. The meeting was …

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to its leader Nabeel Gabol for making an insensitive comment about rape in a podcast. The notice issued by PPP Sindh president Nisar Khuhro asked Mr Gabol to explain his remarks within three days. In case of non-clarification, it added, organisational disciplinary action will be taken against him. “Inappropriate …

ISLAMABAD: Apprehen­ding an unfavourable decision by the Supreme Court (SC) in the polls’ delay case, the ruling coalition on Mon­day termed the proceedings by a three-judge bench “aga­inst the principles of justice”. It asked Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to first put his “own house in order” before asking politicians to sit together. “Any verdict announced in …