Pakistan

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) provincial Aimal Wali Khan on Saturday said intelligence agencies and police had told him to restrict movement over threats to his life. Mr Aimal told a presser at Wali Bagh in Charsadda district that the intelligence agencies intercepted phone calls about those threats. “The police and intelligence agencies have communicated an alert about a possible …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Abdul Qadir Patel in an unprecedented step has directed the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) and other stakeholders to make arrangements to provide an opportunity to child prisoners to become doctors, nurses and study allied health sciences. He said children confined in jails across the country should have been allowed to take admission to …

Suleman Shehbaz, the absconding son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, returned to Pakistan in the early hours of Sunday after four years of self-exile in London, according to the PML-N. His return comes days after the Islamabad High Court barred the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and NAB from arresting him in an assets-beyond-means reference, while hearing his petition for protective bail that would enable …

ISLAMABAD: As the upper house of parliament will meet after a seven-week hiatus, a stormy session is expected on Monday. President Dr Arif Alvi has summoned the Senate session on Dec 12 under Article 54 of the Constitution. The house is likely to witness fireworks as important developments have taken place since it last met on October 21. The recent …

UNITED NATIONS: The arrival of winter has intensified the needs of more than 20 million flood victims in Pakistan, said a UN official while reminding the international community that more resources are urgently needed to deal with this humanitarian crisis. “Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that critical humanitarian needs in Pakistan remain, even as floodwaters recede, and the needs are …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday addressed a press conference in Lahore where he compared his government’s performance with that of the incumbent PDM government, as he pilloried the rulers on their economic policies as well as the looming threat of a default. “The reason of my media talk today is to make the people aware of the direction that …

National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Sunday he would not be accepting the resignations of any lawmakers from the PTI, which announced mass resignations from the lower house of parliament in April, unless he was sure they weren’t tendered under any pressure. “The law dictates that even if a member says in my presence they want to resign but I …

A judicial magistrate in Qambar remanded PTI Senator Azam Swati in police custody for three days on Sunday in two cases over his controversial tweets about senior military leaders. Swati was arrested over a “highly obnoxious campaign of intimidating tweets […] against state institutions” by the Federal Investigation Agency on November 27 and has been in detention since and continues …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become the first province to approve an action plan to implement the multilateral environmental agreements. The plan has been approved by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan to implement the actions required to be taken under various MEAs signed by the federal government with the clear roles defined for both federal and provincial entities, according to officials. They …

ISLAMABAD: PPP Sen­a­tor Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday called for a parliam­e­­­ntary inquiry into the rat­ionale behind the policy of the previous PTI governm­e­­nt to hold talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pak­­­istan (TTP) without taking parliament into confidence. Talking to reporters here, Mr Rabbani demanded im­­m­ediate summoning of a joint sitting of parliament to discuss the matter and find the …