Pakistan

The number of apps downloaded by Pakistanis in 2022 rose by 35.4 per cent compared to the preceding year, making the country the fastest-growing apps market in the world, according to a report by Data Darbar, a private markets intelligence platform. The growth rate, which had been 26.8pc in 2021 and jumped to 35.4pc last year, was almost three times that of the …

PESHAWAR: Parents of the martyred students of the Army Public School on Wednesday demanded of the government to implement the National Action Plan (NAP) in letter and spirit. They said that the NAP was devised in consultation with all the stakeholders after the gruesome attack on the APS in which 148 students and staff members were martyred. The parents gathered …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received 340 recommendations from UN member states on its fourth periodic report on the human rights situation in the country, and the government will examine these recommendations and report back to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in its forthcoming meeting. A draft report prepared on Wednesday by the Working Group on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Sheh­baz Sharif on Wednesday blamed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for its failure to equip police and civil armed forces to counter militants, questioning how the provincial government spent funds to the tune Rs417 billion it received from the Centre since 2010. The premier made this observation during a weekly meeting of the federal cabinet which only had …

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Chief Moazzam Jah Ansari said on Thursday that the police was “closing in” on the terror network behind the suicide attack on a mosque in the Peshawar Police Lines area, revealing that the bomber “was clad in a police uniform”. On Jan 30, a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Peshawar’s Red Zone area where between 300 and …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday decided to constitute a larger bench to hear a petition seeking PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s disqualification for not mentioning “his daughter Tyrian Jade White” in his nomination papers. A day ago, Imran had submitted a response to the IHC requesting the petition against him to be dismissed, arguing it was “not maintainable” on legal grounds. …

Anchorperson Imran Riaz was arrested in Lahore in the early hours of Thursday on charges of “hate speech” and making a “violence-inducing statement” aimed at creating “a rift between the general public and the state institutions”, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said. Earlier, Riaz’s counsel Mian Ali Ashfaq told Dawn.com that his client was taken into custody from the Allama Iqbal International …

PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has called on President Dr Arif Alvi to take notice of the “brazen interference by intelligence agencies and some sections of the establishment” in the political sphere, it emerged on Thursday. “The most recent reflection of this was the KP governor’s statement saying he can not give a date for elections to the KP …

Awami Muslim League (AML) leader and PTI ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday was presented in an Islamabad judicial magistrate court, hours after he was arrested by the city police in connection with remarks he made against former president Asif Ali Zardari. Ahmed was arrested on a police complaint filed by Raja Inayat-ur-Rehman, a vice president of PPP Rawalpindi Division, …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) dismissed on Thursday PTI’s petition challenging the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) verdict in the party’s prohibited funding case. The short verdict, which was reserved at the previous hearing, was pronounced by a three-member larger bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Babar Sattar. The detailed judgment is still awaited. Last …