Pakistan

SWABI: Unknown motorcyclists shot dead a local leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz here on Sunday, the police said. Abdus Salam alias Kokanay, who was also president of Islahi Jirga Zaida, was driving a jeep when he was attacked, SHO Chota Lahor city police station Ajab Durrani said. He said the motorcyclists, who were chasing the vehicle, opened fire at the …

The sources have revealed a new date for the wedding ceremony of Siddharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani; the D-day was reportedly going to take place on February 6. As per reports, the grand wedding will now take place on February 7 in Jaisalmer. The couple arrived in the city on February 4 along with their close family members and relatives. …

KARACHI: The Cantonment Board Clifton has informed the Sindh High Court that a sewage treatment plant (STP) has been installed at Seaview to treat the wastewater before discharge into the sea. The CBC informed a two-judge bench that a ‘sump pump’ discharging sewage directly into the sea at the same point had been demolished. The bench headed by Justice Aqeel …

SWAT: The female students, who studied in various Afghan colleges and universities, on Saturday appealed to the government to accommodate them in medical colleges in Pakistan on humanitarian grounds. Some of the students are from Swat and other areas of Malakand division. Talking to Dawn here, they said of the total 105 female students, who studied in different medical and dental colleges …

ISLAMABAD: The bench hearing the lawsuit of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has been reconstituted. According to the cause list issued by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) administration, the new bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Arbab Mohammad Tahir will hear the case on Feb 9. Earlier, …

GWADAR: A soldier was martyred and seven others were injured in a landmine explosion and subsequent ambush by armed militants in the Jiwani area of Gwadar district. According to officials, Coast Guards personnel were travelling in their vehicle when it hit a landmine in the Duran area on Saturday. After the blast, armed men on motorcycles ambushed the vehicle and …

Islamabad police on Sunday issued a sketch of one of the suspects involved in the rape of a woman in the capital’s F-9 Park on Thursday night, days after a case was filed against two unidentified men. A first information report (FIR) had been filed under Section 376 (punishment for rape) at the capital’s Margalla police station at 11:40pm on …

ISLAMABAD: As Imran Khan continues to put pressure on the government to give a date for general elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtun­khwa, Prime Mini­ster Sheh­baz Sharif and Pakistan Dem­ocratic Move­ment (PDM) lea­der Maulana Fazlur Rehman met on Saturday to chalk out a strategy regarding the upcoming elections in both provinces, as well as the National Assembly seats vacated by their rivals. According to …

LONDON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Muneer arrived here on Saturday on a five-day visit. The COAS will attend meetings on defence-related issues, being held between February 5 and 9. Gen Muneer is in London to attend a conference at Wilton Park, an executive agency created by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office to foster open …

LAHORE: Apparently running out of options to press the PML-N-led government to hold elections in two provinces and stop it from ‘political victimisation’, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Saturday announced a ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive). At the same time, the PTI has told the Shehbaz Sharif administration that it may attend the Feb 7 multi-party conference …