Pakistan

QUETTA: A day after boycotting the federal cabinet meeting over the issue of Reko Diq, Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal has decided to convene his party’s central executive committee meeting to take a final decision about quitting the coalition government. A senior party leader said the date for the CEC would be announced within a couple of …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday observed that registration of several first information reports (FIRs) of single occurrence is against the law. Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, while hearing petitions filed by Information and Broadcasting Secretary Shahera Shahid, Pakistan Television Managing Director Sohail Ali Khan and Director News Rashid Baig over registration of FIRs against them in Punjab, remarked that the high …

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to implement the Police Order 2002 in order to stamp out unease among the public owing to growing crimes and barred premature transfers and posting in the police department. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Athar Minallah issued these …

The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) on Thursday directed the Ministry of Human Rights to constitute a child protection unit for transgender children to ensure the provision of due rights to them. A two-member bench of the FSC, comprising Chief Justice Dr Syed Muhammad Anwer and Justice Khadim Hussain Shaikh issued the directive while hearing a set of petitions challenging the …

An Islamabad district and sessions court extended the judicial remand of PTI Senator Azam Swati — who has been in detention since Nov 27 over his controversial tweets about senior military officials — for 14 days and directed the investigating officer (IO) to submit a challan at the next hearing. Swati was initially booked by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Islamabad …

The father of slain 7-year old Athena Strand has filed a lawsuit following his daughter’s disappearance and death last month. Athena was reported missing from her home Nov. 30 in Wise County, about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Her body was found two days later, and authorities said 31-year-old Tanner Horner, a contract FedEx driver, confessed to kidnapping and killing her …

ISLAMABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed on Tuesday proposed the establishment of a “Pakistan Window” at the University of Oxford to facilitate Pakistani students and researchers to increase their footprint in the prestigious institution. The delegation of renowned scholars of academia, researchers and Pakistani-origin professors at Oxford separately called on the HEC chairman, the federal education minister …

SLAMABAD: Many students of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) took classes at the construction site of the Bhara Kahu bypass in protest against the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the federal government for using a portion of the university land. An official of the university said some classes were held at the construction site and from Wednesday more classes will be held …

TAXILA: After a four-year long hiatus, estranged PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has re-emerged in the political arena after having back to back meetings with his supporters in his two different constituencies by announcing that “he is not out of the political game” and he would contest the upcoming general election. The veteran politician contested the 2018 general election …

QUETTA: Lawmakers of opposition parties in the Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday continued to protest against the resolutions adopted by the provincial assembly on Dec 10 despite a clarification given the chief minister at a parliamentary leaders’ meeting the other day. The Balochistan Assembly on Dec 10 adopted two constitutional resolutions to promote and encourage investment and hand over the provincial …