Pakistan

PTI senior leader Dr Shireen Mazari has claimed that former army chief (retired) General Qamar Javed Bajwa wanted to “resettle” members of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country, following Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Mazari made these remarks on Dawn News programme ‘Doosra Rukh’, which will air at 7pm today. The statement from the former minister comes at a …

KARACHI: Academic activities would remain suspended at Karachi University (KU) for a fourth consecutive day on Friday as “trust deficit and skepticism” marred the negotiations held between the protesting teachers and the vice chancellor on Thursday, sources told Dawn. The meeting was held in the backdrop of media reports that the chief minister had granted permission to the university to …

ISLAMABAD: A report on the plight of Pakistanis in the Gulf States said low-wage migrants working abroad were at the mercy of their employers, subjected to discriminatory and inhumane working conditions and inadequate consular assistance from their diplomatic missions. Titled, “The cost of living: migrant workers’ access to health in the Gulf”, the report was launched at an event in …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday gave two days’ time to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor to file reply to the petitions seeking orders for him to fix the date for the provincial assembly’s elections. A bench consisting of Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Justice Syed Arshad Ali fixed Feb 20 for the next hearing into two petitions against a delay …

LAHORE / SAHIWAL: An explosion ripped through Jaffar Express on Thursday morning near Chichawatni, killing a woman and injuring seven others, the police said. The blast occurred inside the washroom of train’s coach No. 4 and was powerful enough to blow out its iron structure. The train — a 39UP Jaffar Express, which travels from Quetta to Peshawar — was …

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Thursday dismissed for non-prosecution a petition of PTI chairman Imran Khan seeking protective bail in a criminal case by the Islamabad police, whereas a single bench allowed him an opportunity to appear on Monday in another petition of bail in a similar case. “The case was taken up at 5pm when the …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah asked the judiciary to take steps to “prevent an irreparable loss to its credibility” after audio clips emerged on Thursday in which PML-Q leader Parvez Elahi was purportedly heard asking his lawyers to fix a corruption case before a particular Supreme Court judge. Mr Sanaullah played the audio clips at a press conference and said …

The Islamabad Police on Friday opened a criminal investigation against an unknown person for “domesticating” a leopard, a day after it ran free and injured several people in an upscale residential area of the capital. Yesterday, video clips of the feline jumping across walls and navigating roads in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Phase II neighbourhood of Islamabad went viral …

The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department’s team in Mianwali’s Kalabagh came under attack by a group of armed militants be­longing to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP) on Thursday night, the CTD said. According to a statement issued by the CTD on Friday, the militants and security officials exchanged fire for 20 minutes during which a terrorist was killed. “The slain militant was …

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday suspended the transfer of Lahore police chief Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, observing that the chief election commissioner alone, without consultation of other members, cannot approve transfers. The orders were issued by a three-member bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Munib Akhtar. Dogar, as the Lahore CCPO was at the …