Pakistan

LAHORE: A team of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials from Rawalpindi office on Friday visited Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence to take the receiving of summons from him in Tosha­khana gifts investigation. The NAB recently called Mr Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, on March 9 to record their statements in the Toshakhana gifts case. Mr Khan’s …

KHYBER: Hundreds of frustrated Afghans thronged the Torkham border crossing on Friday afternoon after border security officials of both Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to partially reopen the border for pedestrian movement on both sides. Sources at Torkham told Dawn that the issue of resumption of bilateral trade, however, remained unresolved during the talks held on the Pakistan side of the border. Officials …

• Calls for full court bench to hear suo motu in NA speech, asks judiciary to revisit Panama Papers case verdict • Holds Bajwa, Faiz responsible for Nawaz’s ouster, rise in terrorism ISLAMABAD: Defence Minis­ter Khawaja Asif on Friday held the judiciary and the military establishment directly responsible for bringing the country to a “grinding halt” due to prevailing economic …

QUETTA: Hundreds of Marri tribesmen, who had been protesting for the last five days in the city’s Red Zone along with three bodies found in the Barkhan area, called off the sit-in on Friday evening after the wife of Khan Muhammad Marri reunited with him along with their children at the sit-in camp and authorities accepted their demands. Moving scenes …

RAWALPINDI: After Lahore and Peshawar, PTI’s Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement) moved to Rawalpindi on Friday, but an ‘unimpressive’ show resulted in only five leaders courting arrest. The leaders along with 42 party workers, who voluntarily presented themselves for arrest, were booked for one month under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance, 1960, Rawalpindi division RPO Syed …

ISLAMABAD: The country’s top civil and military leadership have forged a consensus that terrorism, economic revival and political stability are interconnected and without political stability and economic progress, there can be no peace. A meeting of the Central Apex Committee was held on Friday, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The committee — which comprises top civil and military leadership …

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday accused PTI Chairman Imran Khan of “misusing” his interim bail to skip court hearings as it petitioned a banking court hearing his prohibited funding case to form a medical board to examine the former prime minister. The FIA had in October 2022 booked Imran and other PTI leaders in connection with their party allegedly receiving …

Two labourers were killed while three were injured as a pillar of an under-construction flyover in Islamabad’s Bhara Kahu collapsed on Saturday, Islamabad police said. According to a tweet by the police, two labourers were taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where one succumbed to injuries. Three other labourers were taken to Polyclinic Hospital where one could not …

PESHAWAR: President Dr Arif Alvi was briefed here on Thursday on the state of security and law and order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Officials told Dawn that the president was briefed during a meeting attended by Caretaker Chief Minister Mohammad Azam Khan, Chief Secretary Imdadullah Bosal, Police Chief Akhtar Hayat and other officials at the chief minister’s house. Various aspects of …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday sought a report about the service record, recruitment process and qualification of five brothers working on different posts in the Sindh Assembly secretariat. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Iqbal Kalhoro sought such details while hearing a petition filed in April 2022 against their alleged illegal appointments in the assembly secretariat and …