Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday was urged to seek details of individuals acquitted in corruption cases and the references returned by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as a result of ordinances promulgated by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) during its four-year tenure. Makhdoom Ali Khan, who is representing the federal government in a petition against changes to NAB law made by the …

• Blames former army chief for current political, economic instability; claims he’s not in contact with new military leadership • Says govt will be forced to hold polls in April KARACHI: Former prime minister Imran Khan once again apportioned blame for the recent resurgence of terrorism in the country on the unwillingness of the current government to abide by the commitments made …

The government on Thursday recorded its apprehensions before the Lahore High Court (LHC) regarding Toshakhana gifts, saying the public disclosure of such articles could cause “unnecessary media hype, which might be potentially damaging to the interests of Pakistan in the conduct of international relations”. The concern was raised by the government in its report submitted before the single-judge bench during …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Tired of sleeping in their bars with shotguns, owners pleaded with Houston City Council to do more to combat the rising bar break-in numbers. Houston bar break-ins rise after declining during pandemic The ABC13 Neighborhood Safety Tracker looks at crime statistics across Houston. Our data can look into the number of burglaries and break-ins that took place at bars …

MANSEHRA: Irrigation minister Arshad Ayub on Tuesday inaugurated the Kotkay small hydropower project after the completion of work at the cost of over Rs2 billion. “Not only will this initiative generate power but it will irrigate large tracts of barren land as well,” the minister told the inauguration ceremony here. He said for the first time, the provincial government produced …

ISLAMABAD: The parliam­ent’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will seek action against the former Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) head for ‘implicating’ Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah in a drugs’ case , the committee’s chairman warned on Tuesday. The PAC, which is an oversight body on the use of government’s funds, also sought a report from the Ministry of Narcotics Control about the case …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A police patrol vehicle suffered slight damage after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the road went off in the Khoi Bahara police station in the merged area here on Tuesday. A police official said the militants had planted an IED on the roadside to target the armoured vehicle of the Khoi Bahara police. After the …

LAHORE: After Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz forwarded the names of two ‘loyalists’ of the federal coalition to the governor as nominees for the caretaker chief minister, which were rejected outright by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and PML-Q, the governor wrote to the assembly speaker on Tuesday to constitute a parliamentary committee to come up with a …

PESHAWAR: In the ‘last’ cabinet meeting before the dissolution of the provincial assembly, the cash-strapped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday approved the upgradation of over 130,000 teachers at the annual cost of several billion rupees. The cabinet met with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair and ministers and administrative secretaries in attendance. Spokesman for the government Barrister Mohammad Ali …

ISLAMABAD: The suicide bomber, who blew himself up in the capital last month got trained in Afghanistan before conducting the attack, Dawn has learnt. Sources close to the investigation of the bomb blast in the capital’s sector I-10/4 on Dec 23 said that the bomber received his militancy training in Afghanistan in 2022. After the training, he returned from Afghanistan …