Pakistan

LAHORE: Police have yet to register a case over the death of PTI worker Ali Bilal, even after his postmortem examination report showed excessive injuries that resulted in his death. However, police sources told Dawn on Friday that they had the two men — who brought badly Bilal’s badly-injured body to hospital — in custody, adding that they claimed he was injured in a …

A nine-year old special needs child was found raped and murdered in Karachi’s Korangi area on Saturday, following which police detained two people for investigation, according to police and hospital officials. Zaman Town police said the body of the child was recovered from the rear seat of a parked Suzuki Cultus car. The body was bluish and foaming from mouth. …

ISLAMABAD: The government has planned to amend the National Accountability Ordinance — the law that governs the National Account­ability Bureau (NAB) — to empower accountability courts to decide the fate of over 200 undecided, dormant references. Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar at a press conference on Friday disclosed that the government had proposed amendments to sections …

ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar has claimed that a complaint has been filed with the Cyber Crimes Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for recovery of his ‘hacked’ WhatsApp account, it emerged on Friday. The complaint was filed ‘online’ with the CCW by his son, the ex-CJP said. However, talking to Dawn, the former CJP …

CHINIOT: As the government’s financial team struggles to cope with the massive challenges facing the economy, a senior PML-N politician on Fri­day volunteered to replace the embattled finance minister, Ishaq Dar. Qaisar Ahmad Sheikh, a thrice-elected MNA from Chiniot who has also served as chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance for several years, said that it seemed …

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Friday questioned who was the “most powerful” person in the country, who he claimed was busy bulldozing court orders, sabotaging the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the attempt on his life, and now trying to cover up party worker Zille Shah’s death. Calling his political opponents Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and …

Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar on Saturday rejected allegations levelled by the PTI blaming the provincial administration for the alleged custodial killing of a party worker, insisting the incident was purely a road “accident case” which, he said, was “unfortunately misinterpreted” publicly. A PTI worker, Ali Bilal, also known as Zillay Shah, died, several others were injured and many picked …

New details continue to emerge about the woman who was arrested in the stabbing of five children in an Ellis County home, killing three of them and hospitalizing two. The slayings happened Friday after a Child Protective Services worker decided to remove the children from the home, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office said. Court documents released Thursday reveal what the CPS worker told authorities she saw, …

WASHINGTON – Glenn Beck, conservative radio host and co-founder of Irving-based Blaze Media, said he is now the owner of an archive detailing the path to securing abortion rights in Roe vs. Wade. The collection belonged to Linda Coffee, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit on behalf of “Jane Roe,” the Dallas woman blocked from terminating her pregnancy under a …

KHYBER: Pakistani and Afghan authorities have agreed to work together to improve and facilitate cross-border trade and pedestrian movement. The agreement came during a meeting of the Pak-Afghan Border Management Committee in the Afghan customs offices in Gumrak area on Wednesday. The Pakistani delegation comprised Lt-Colonel Mujtaba, retired Colonel Sattar of the National Logistic Cell, ADC Rizwan and officials of …