Pakistan

Police said on Thursday that “no loss of life or property” was reported in a blast that took place last night at the Deputy Commissioner camp office in Gilgit Baltistan’s Diamer district. On Wednesday night, there was a loud explosion at the DC camp office premises, prompting the security guards present to open fire in the air. Speaking to Dawn.com, Diamer …

National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf told a PTI delegation on Thursday that the party’s lawmakers would be summoned individually for verification of their resignations as the latter insisted on them being accepted in one go. The PTI had announced mass resignations from the National Assembly in April, a day after party chief Imran Khan’s ouster as the prime minister through a no-confidence vote …

LONDON: A UK high court has awarded legal costs and damages of around GBP 75,000 to two London-based journalists after settling a defamation case in their favour. The claimants had filed the lawsuit against two individuals and a law firm after they were accused of corruption, violence and hooliganism in a press release circulated via social media. The defamation suit …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has returned a petition seeking a restraining order against Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi from allocating public development funds to districts belonging to his family members, insisting that the petitioner could not identify which questions of public importance were involved in seeking the restraining order. In the petition filed last week, Advocate Mian Dawood also …

RAWALPINDI: In order to avoid a repeat of the Jan 7 tragedy, the police and emergency services were reviewing their readiness to handle the scenario in view of the forecast of rain and snowfall in Murree in the coming days. Nasir Mehmood Satti, the regional police officer (RPO) for Rawalpindi Division, has asked the police to take necessary precautions in …

ISLAMABAD: In order to boost the defence of the federal capital still reeling from a suicide bombing that left a policeman and taxi driver dead, the capital police have decided to link cameras installed at metro bus stations with the Islamabad safe city network to enhance surveillance. In addition to this, the police will also make videos of passengers travelling …

QUETTA: The Pashtoon­khwah Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) stood formally divi­ded on Tuesday after its sacked dissidents annou­n­ced a new faction at a congress held in Quetta and elected its leaders. Khushal Khan Kakar, the son of former senator and PkMAP’s provincial president Usman Kakar, was elected as chairman of the new faction and Mukhtar Khan Yousafzai was elected as co-chairman. …

KARACHI: A young man was shot dead by police after a chase as he allegedly refused to stop his motorbike during snap-checking and tried to speed away in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday, officials and hospital sources said. The manner with which two policemen of Shaheen Force shot the man twice not on any road but inside an apartment complex cast doubts …

LAHORE: The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has arrested PML-N MNA Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf in a land fraud case. ACE Director General Nadeem Sarwar said on Tuesday that Chaudhry Ashraf had grabbed over 157 acres of state land by forgery and fraud in connivance with Patwari Muhammad Saleem and Gardawar Riast Ali. “MNA Ashraf has been arrested in Sahiwal after allegations …

RAWALPINDI/KARACHI: Foggy weather conditions and poor visibility continued to disrupt air, railway and road traffic across the country on Tuesday as four inbound international flights were diverted to Islamabad from Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot, while several trains got delayed in reaching their destinations. According to a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-248 from …