Pakistan

PESHAWAR/LAHORE: Hinting at a possible delay in holding elections, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali on Friday linked fresh polls with improvement of the province’s security and economic situation. Talking to journalists, Mr Ali also said political forces should focus on finding solutions to fix the financial and security situation and not the elections. While referring to terrorist attacks in the …

PPP leaders on Saturday announced plans to send a legal notice to PTI chairman Imran Khan, a day after he claimed PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari was behind a new plot to assassinate him for which the former president had “given money to a terrorist outfit. In a joint news conference, PPP senior leaders Nayyar Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar and Qamar Zaman Kaira criticised …

An Islamabad court on Saturday reversed an order of a judicial magistrate that denied police an extension in the physical remand of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry and ordered investigators to re-produce him before the magistrate today for the pursuance of the request. Chaudhry was taken into custody on Wednesday for allegedly “inciting violence against a constitutional institution” — the ECP. A first …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari on Thursday said the province had approached the centre for signing an agreement with Afghanistan to crack down on extortion demands over phone from the Afghan soil. “Afghan SIM cards are used in 99 per cent of phone calls made to Pakistanis to demand extortion. As Pakistan and Afghanistan have …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain on Thursday said that without revolution and innovation in the education system, the development and stability could not come. Addressing at the inauguration ceremony of student facilitation centre and online attestation portal at the Secretariat of Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), the minister said that ladder of development of nations is education, …

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Thursday indicted Dania Shah, the widow of late politician and anchorperson Aamir Liaquat Hussain, for leaking his indecent videos online. Judicial Magistrate (East) Mukesh Kumar read out charges to the suspect, Dania Shah, who was produced from the prison. However, she pleaded not guilty and opted to contest. Therefore, the judge summoned the witnesses of …

LONDON: Amidst fanfare and the sound of dhol, PML-N senior vice president and chief organiser Maryam Nawaz left London on Thursday evening to begin the journey back to Pakistan, where she will resume her political activities and kick off the party’s election campaign. Dozens of PML-N workers gathered outside Avenfield House later in the evening, carrying posters of Maryam Nawaz …

KARACHI: Cairo’s Al Azhar University joined a number of Muslim countries on Thursday in condemning the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands and Sweden and called for a boycott of their products. The Organisation of Islamic Coopration (OIC) condemned the incidents and said vile acts, like the burning of religious books, cannot be justified under the guise of …

LAHORE: There seems to be not many takers of the PML-N’s new narrative against former generals and judges within the party. Federal Minister Javed Latif, a close aide of party’s chief organiser Maryam Nawaz, and her husband retired Capt Safdar have been vehemently targeting former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, former ISI chief Faiz Hameed, former chief justice of …

ISLAMABAD: The United States on Thursday vowed to continue supporting Pakistan in overcoming its unprecedented economic crisis and post-flood challenges. The assurance from the US was given by its ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, during his meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The Prime Minister Office in its official press release quoted the ambassador as saying: “The United States will …