Pakistan

GWADAR: Four people, including a security man and three civilians, were injured in a grande and rocket attack on an FC checkpoint in Turbat area, late on Monday night. Police officials said miscreants riding a motorcycle hurled a grenade at a checkpoint of Frontier Corps at Jusak Board area. The armed men later fired RPGs at the post, leaving an …

LAHORE: A lawyer has filed a petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking contempt proceedings against PML-N senior vice president Maryam Nawaz for her alleged attempts to scandalise the judges of the Supreme Court. Advocate Shahid Rana, the petitioner, submits that the respondent in her speech at a recent public meeting in Sargodha used ‘contemptuous’ words against the judges of the …

QUETTA: A Levies man was martyred and six others sustained injuries in a landmine blast in the Kohlu area, while another Levies man was injured in a gun attack on a checkpoint in the border town of Chaman, on Monday. Levies officials said a landmine planted in the Jannat Wali area of Kohlu district went off when a security pick-up …

BAHAWALPUR: The Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur bench, while issuing orders to shift Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders Senator Azam Swati and Muhammad Khan Madni from death cells, has sought record of their arrests and detention in far-off jails. In addition, a division bench has also been constituted for the hearing of their cases. Justice Anwarul Haq Panno on Monday heard the joint …

Quetta: Unknown armed men gunned down four coal miners and injured three others in Harnai district on Monday. Officials said armed men targeted the workers with automatic weapons near a mine in Khost early in the morning. The assailants set 11 coal mines on fire before fleeing the scene, according to Assistant Commissioner Majeed Jogezai. Law enforcement agencies rushed to …

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed PTI and the coalition government to sit together and come up with a date for elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab — which have been under caretaker governments since the provincial assemblies were dissolved in January — by 4pm. “Even if we take a decision [on the matter], the litigation will continue and this …

ISLAMABAD: Only days after Prime Minister Sheh­baz Sharif announced a national austerity plan amid a severe financial crisis, the National Assembly was informed on Monday about the exorbitant expenditure on foreign junkets of cabinet members and the purchase of protocol vehicles, during the government’s first nine months in power. The ‘partial’ and ‘incomplete’ information was provided by the government thr­o­ugh written replies …

GUJRAT: A 25 years old expatriate was killed as a result of kite string cut on his throat while riding a motorbike in the precincts of Nekapur police station of Sialkot on Sunday. Rescue 1122 officials said that Shams was on his way to the city from a nearby village and as soon as he reached a banquet hall along …

GUJRAT: More than 40 people, including former minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal and ex-lawmakers, belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) courted arrest in Gujranwala on Sunday whereas the “district leadership” of the party stayed away from jails, reportedly on the orders of the party high command. On the fifth day of the PTI’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’, hundreds of party workers from …

QUETTA: The Marri woman who last week was rescued from captivity along with her children after spending years in a private jail in Barkhan town narrated her ordeal on Sunday, recalling that the family was subjected to torture, kept separately in small rooms and weren’t allowed to meet with each other. “It was a horrible experience that we can’t forget,” Granaz Bibi, …