Pakistan

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) by the federal government to look into the Wazirabad attack on former prime minister Imran Khan. A writ petition filed by Punjab PTI president Dr Yasmin Rashid claims that the constitution of the new JIT is against the law and …

An Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday sent PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry to Adiala jail on a 14-day judicial remand in a case over alleged incitement of violence against a constitutional institution. The court on Wednesday night had granted police an initial two-day physical remand of Fawad, hours after he was arrested. The former information minister was taken into custody after …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced by-elections on March 16 for 33 National Assembly (NA) seats. The seats were vacated after NA Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf swiftly moved to accept the resignations of PTI lawmakers and AML chief Sheikh Rashid, pending since April 2022, in an apparent bid to scuttle the opposition’s purported plan to bring a …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja on Wednesday vowed to rectify anomalies in the results of the Jan 15 local government elections in Karachi and also promised to take action against those responsible for committing alleged irregularities. A three-member bench headed by CEC Raja heard the petition of Jamat-i-Islami regarding anomalies in the Jan 15 local government elections in Karachi. The Election …

LAHORE: Police have registered a case under terrorism charges against former MNA Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, the younger brother of PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, and his son Musa Elahi for allegedly plotting to kidnap some women lawmakers. An FIR was lodged at Ghalib Market police station on Tuesday night on the complaint of a citizen, Muhammad Bilal, who sought action …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has observed that the courts can only act upon evidence and material presented before the judges and the judiciary cannot be blamed if the “executive/ police fail in their duty”. The observation came in the detailed verdict of Naqeeb Ullah Mehsud murder case in which the ATC acquitted all the accused, including former SSP Rao Anwar, for …

DADU: Power supply was affected in several towns after a high-voltage electricity transmission tower collapsed in Khanoth town of Jamshoro district, the police said on Wednesday, but there were conflicting reports about what caused the incident. The affected power line runs from Jamshoro’s 500kV grid station to Dadu. Officials of the National Transm­ission and Despatch Company (NTDC), which manages the …

SWAT: The members of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) staged rallies in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday against the acquittal of Rao Anwar, the former SSP of Malir district, in Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case. In Swat, a demonstration was held outside press club. The protest was led by president of PTM local chapter Mir Inam Khan. The demonstration was addressed …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has delayed the launch of the country’s first-ever digital census by a month, citing “unavoidable circumstances” and “ground realities”. The seventh population and housing census, earlier scheduled for Feb 1, will now begin from March 1 and will continue for a month, the bureau said. Meeting this timeline will also depend on the …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday strongly condemned the despicable act of desecration of a copy of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands. A day after a similar act was committed by Sweden’s far-right politician Rasmus Paludan in Stockholm, Edwin Wagensveld, who heads the Dutch chapter of a German anti-Islam group, tore pages out of the holy scripture in The Hague during …