Pakistan

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday granted bail to imprisoned MNA and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Ali Wazir in a sedition case registered in Charsadda district. It also stopped the provincial police from arresting the lawmaker in other cases. The orders were issued by two benches after hearing separate petitions of Mr Wazir, who has been behind bars since …

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday told the Lahore High Court that the wife of former federal minister Moonis Elahi was a nominated suspect in an case of alleged money laundering. A report submitted before the court by FIA Lahore Director Sarfraz Virk revealed that Tehreem Elahi, the wife of the former minister, was accused of committing alleged …

ISLAMABAD: The government has withdrawn security from the residence of former premier Imran Khan at Banigala and called back police personnel and paramilitary troops. Police’s public relations officer (PRO) confirmed that security in and around the former premier’s residence at Banigala has been lifted. Mr Khan has a private residence in Banigala but he has not been residing in Islamabad …

The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday condemned “in the strongest terms” the act of desecration of the Holy Quran by Danish politician Rasmus Paludan a day before, according to an official statement. Having strongly condemned recent such incidents in Sweden and the Netherlands, Pakistan today termed the abhorrent act done in Denmark “senseless and deeply offensive” while declaring Paludan an Islamophobe. In the …

PML-N senior vice president Maryam Nawaz returned to Pakistan today (Saturday) after a nearly four-month sojourn in London. Upon her arrival at Lahore Airport, she tweeted: “Pak sar zameen shad bad.”     Earlier, party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said Maryam was returning to begin the “reorganisation of the party”. She had left Pakistan for London in October last year, just a day after …

PESHAWAR/LAHORE: Hinting at a possible delay in holding elections, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali on Friday linked fresh polls with improvement of the province’s security and economic situation. Talking to journalists, Mr Ali also said political forces should focus on finding solutions to fix the financial and security situation and not the elections. While referring to terrorist attacks in the …

PPP leaders on Saturday announced plans to send a legal notice to PTI chairman Imran Khan, a day after he claimed PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari was behind a new plot to assassinate him for which the former president had “given money to a terrorist outfit. In a joint news conference, PPP senior leaders Nayyar Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar and Qamar Zaman Kaira criticised …

An Islamabad court on Saturday reversed an order of a judicial magistrate that denied police an extension in the physical remand of PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry and ordered investigators to re-produce him before the magistrate today for the pursuance of the request. Chaudhry was taken into custody on Wednesday for allegedly “inciting violence against a constitutional institution” — the ECP. A first …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari on Thursday said the province had approached the centre for signing an agreement with Afghanistan to crack down on extortion demands over phone from the Afghan soil. “Afghan SIM cards are used in 99 per cent of phone calls made to Pakistanis to demand extortion. As Pakistan and Afghanistan have …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain on Thursday said that without revolution and innovation in the education system, the development and stability could not come. Addressing at the inauguration ceremony of student facilitation centre and online attestation portal at the Secretariat of Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), the minister said that ladder of development of nations is education, …