Pakistan

WASHINGTON: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) aims to push the government of Pakistan out of Khyber Pakh­tunkhwa and establish Sharia by waging a terrorist campaign against the military and state, a US State Department report warns. According to the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the TTP uses the tribal belt along the Afghan­istan-Pakistan border to train and deploy its operatives. TTP …

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday registered a case against Farhat Shahzadi, known as Farah Khan, on money laundering charges. The FIA booked Shahzadi on the recommendation of the Anti-Corruption Establishment. According to the FIR, the FIA says that during the inquiry, it transpired that Farhat Shahzadi had accumulated crime proceeds through corruption and bribery. Suspicious financial activity …

ISLAMABAD: As former prime minister Imran Khan arrived at the judicial complex to secure bail in multiple cases, fragile security measures put in place by the police provided Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supporters and some “unidentified individuals” who were armed with automatic weapons to storm the complex without facing resistance from police. The visit of the police chief and the DIG …

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered collection of toll tax from everyone, including politicians, judges and generals. Exemption will be given to on-duty personnel of the armed forces and police only. “No one should be exempt, including judges and generals visiting their homes and taking private trips,” said PAC Chairman Noor Alam Khan on Tuesday. The PAC chief …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday announced suspending the party’s Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement) in a move welcoming the Supreme Court’s 3-2 verdict of elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be held within 90 days. He said the party was suspending its “Jail Bharo movement and moving forward with election campaigns in KP and Punjab”. Imran further said, “It was …

LAHORE: The Punjab police on Tuesday revised security arrangements around Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence, slashed manpower around it by almost 70 per cent because, according to police, threat perception about the former prime minister underwent some changes. According to the new planning, around 200 policemen would guard his residence instead of 650 personnel [earlier]. “It is still much more …

ISLAMABAD: Two senior judges of the Supreme Court — Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Yahya Afridi — on Tuesday took exception to the sudden change in the composition of their bench, as well as the cases fixed before it, and summoned SC Registrar Isharat Ali to explain who determines the roster of cases placed before the benches. “If benches …

Veteran diplomat Mohammad Sadiq resigned as Pakistan’s special representative to Afghanistan on Wednesday. “After serving close to three years as Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, I have requested the government that the time had come for me to move on and focus on my personal pursuits — family, books and agriculture/environment,” he said in a series of tweets today. Sadiq …

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court on Monday rejected a bail plea of Haq Do Tehreek chief Maulana Hidayatur Rehman in a case pertaining to violence that resulted in the death of a police official. A division bench comprising BHC Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Gul HassanTareen rejected the post-arrest bail plea filed by defence lawyers, with the observation …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Monday expressed its concerns over growing population of stray dogs in the capital. The committee, which met here with Senator Mohsin Aziz in the chair, discussed various agenda items, including stray dogs in Sector D-12 and increasing incidents of dog bite, causing problems to the residents especially the senior citizens, women and children. …