Pakistan

PESHAWAR / DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three policemen were martyred and another one was injured in two separate attacks in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Dera Ismail Khan district. Police officials told Dawn that unidentified attackers targeted a police van in the Dag Lara area of Peshawar within the limits of Michni Gate police station late on Monday. A police official said …

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court’s Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar has observed that a defective investigation gradually contaminates the judicial process and poses a threat to human rights. The judge gave these rem­arks on Tuesday while heading a three-judge bench that took up the appeal filed by Ikramud­din Rajput, a former sub-ins­pe­ctor at Mominabad police station in Karachi’s District West. Mr Rajput had …

KARACHI: In the first phase, nine members of a 13-member new provincial cabinet, most of whom had served in the previous cabinet of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah’s last tenure, took the oath of office at Governor House on Monday. Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori administered the oath to the provincial ministers in a simple ceremony, which was attended among …

LAHORE: The Pak­istan Tehreek-i-Insaf has decided to form a shadow cabinet in Punjab to monitor the provincial government’s performance in each administrative department. Party’s senior leader Mian Aslam Iqbal, in hiding since the May 9 violent protest, says the party has decided to form a shadow cabinet to scrutinise the performance of the ‘stolen-mandate government’ in Punjab. Tweeting from his X handle, …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday stopped police and other law-enforcement agencies from arresting former MNA and National Democratic Movement chairman Mohsin Dawar until March 21 over any of the cases registered against him. A notice was also issued by a bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshid Ali and Justice Wiqar Ahmad to the provincial government seeking its report …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate of Pakistan passed a total of 43 bills during the parliamentary year that concluded on Monday (March 11), says a report released by the Senate Secretariat. According to the ‘Comprehensive Annual Report on the Completion of Parliamentary Year 2023-24’, there are 56 bills pending before various house committees “due to technical reasons”. The data provided in the …

ISLAMABAD: A mix of young and experienced players were sworn in on Monday as President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath of office to 19 members of the federal cabinet. There are a couple of surprises in the allocation of portfolios, as four-time finance czar Ishaq Dar is named foreign minister, while banker and former HBL chief Muhammad Aurangzeb has been picked to lead the government’s …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan on Monday alleged that violation of human rights was at its peak in Pakistan, announcing that police would be summoned in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). He also claimed that Bushra Bibi, wife of PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan, was confined to a small room in Banigala. He termed the president’s election …

Nine people were killed and two others injured when a three-storey building collapsed on top of another in Multan following a gas cylinder explosion, officials said. District Emergency Officer Dr Kaleemullah told Dawn.com that the bodies and injured were rescued from the rubble following a five-hour operation in which 70 rescue personnel participated. He added that five individuals of a family were …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate will remain dysfunctional for at least three weeks, as 52 lawmakers — over half the strength of the upper house of parliament — retired on Monday night. The term of a senator is six years, but half of them retire every three years and elections are held to fill the vacancies. These elections normally take place days …