Pakistan

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday blamed the security issue in the province on the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government in April this year. It also flayed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration on the criticism of the province’s police and counter-terrorism department over the seizure of the CTD centre in Bannu. Accompanied by adviser to the chief minister on home Babar …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has set aside the proceedings against more than a dozen officials of the provincial departments initiated by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for their role in the alleged rigging committed in the 2021 by-poll of NA-75, Daska. “Despite repeated queries, learned counsel for the commission has not been able to convince this court that …

As Pakistan faces a resurgence in terror incidents, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to deal with the problem with “iron hands” and asserted that the state would not bow down to any militant groups. “Attempts to spread chaos in Pakistan through terrorism will be dealt with iron hands,” he said in a statement carried by state-run Radio Pakistan on Wednesday. The premier noted …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday reiterated that the next general elections would be held in Oct 2023 based on the 7th digital population and housing census 2022. Addressing digital media influencers, the minister said the last general elections were held on the basis of an old census and the province of Sindh had …

LAHORE: In the face of the Punjab Assembly speaker’s intention not to comply with the governor’s directive requiring Chief Minister Parvez Elahi to obtain a vote of confidence from the house, the interior minister has claimed if the order isn’t followed through the governor may notify the CM ceasing to hold office. On the other hand, the Pakistan Democratic Movement …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that certificates of domicile should always be given preference in the recruitment process, as the entire concept of domicile will become redundant and meaningless if national identity cards are preferred to ascertain the permanent abode of a candidate. “The domicile of a person is treated as a parent document for recruitment to ascertain the …

KARACHI: As armed robbers shot at and wounded another young student in the city for putting up resistance to a robbery on Tuesday, the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government and police were blasted by all major opposition parties for their ‘failure’ to curb the fast spiralling street crimes. Within a week two young boys studying engineering and law were killed …

Islamabad police have said that officials are investigating a break-in at the home of anchorperson Shiffa Yousafzai on Tuesday night. In a video statement released on Tuesday night, Yousafzai had alleged that a group of armed men scaled the wall of her home and barged into the premises. The journalist, however, said that she was out with her parents when …

ISLAMABAD: The joint session of the parliament on Tuesday passed 10 bills amid boycott of the session by PTI lawmakers. The Global Change Im­­pact Studies Centre (Amen­dment) Bill, 2022, moved by Minister for Climate Chan­­ge Senator Sherry Rehman, was the first of the 10 bills passed by the parliament. Other bills approved by the parliament were: the Public Procurement Regu­latory …

An Islamabad court dismissed on Wednesday the bail plea of PTI Senator Azam Swati, who has been in detention since late November over his controversial tweets about senior military officers. Swati was arrested on November 27 after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) booked him in Islamabad over a “highly obnoxious campaign of intimidating tweets […] against state institutions”. It was the second …