Pakistan

GUJRAT: Wazirabad police suspects an honour-related issue behind the brutal murder of a youth who had gone missing three days ago and his mutilated, half burnt body was found in Rasul Nagar locality in Ahmed Nagar police precincts on Sunday. A senior police official says the mobile phone of the victim was being unlocked for the call data and to …

ISLAMABAD: Around 110,000 children and adolescents died from AIDS-related causes during 2021, United Nations Children Fund’s (Unicef) global snapshot on children and HIV and AIDS said on Monday. Meanwhile, another 310,000 were newly infected, raising the total number of young people living with HIV to 2.7 million. Unicef has warned that ending AIDS among children and adolescents will continue to be a …

KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho on Monday told the Sindh Assembly that the cases of hepatitis C were increasing in the province, but the provincial government did not have any shortage of funds to deal with the disease. While furnishing statement and replies to the lawmakers’ written and oral questions, she said hepatitis C was curable and …

KARACHI: While over two-dozen MPAs of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf submitted their resignation to their parliamentary party leader Khurram Sher Zaman on the call of former prime minister Imran Khan, nearly half of them attended the Sindh Assembly session, took part in the business and then staged a walkout in protest over the attitude of the chair on Monday. The situation …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered the capital police to quash 11 first information reports (FIRs) against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur registered in different police stations of the federal capital in connection with alleged violence in the May 25 protest. IHC Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, while deciding the petitions of Mr Gandapur, ordered the …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Monday passed the Islamabad Capital Territory Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Bill 2022 moved by Senator Walid Iqbal and Senator Sadia Abbasi. The meeting of the committee, chaired by Senator Mohsin Aziz, was held at Parliament House and attended by Senators Rana Maqbool Ahmed, Moula Bux Chandio, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Rubina Khalid, Seemee …

PESHAWAR: Opposition parties in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have announced that they will employ all constitutional and legal means to prevent the dissolution of the provincial assembly by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. Leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Awami National Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party met at the residence of Opposition Leader in the provincial assembly Akram Khan …

LONDON: MQM leader Altaf Hussain on Monday faced former party loyalists in a UK high court over a property case. The case has been brought by MQM-P leader and Federal Minister Syed Aminul Haque, former convener of the Altaf-led MQM Nadeem Nusrat and ex-confidante Tariq Mir. The case centres around seven north London properties to the tune of £10 million …

An Islamabad court on Tuesday extended the physical remand of PTI Senator Azam Swati for four days till December 3. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested Swati over the weekend on Sunday — the second time in less than two months — over strongly worded tweets against senior military officials. Separate FIRs were registered against the PTI leader in Balochistan and Sindh …

General Asim Munir took over as the new chief of army staff (COAS) at a ceremony held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Outgoing COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa passed the baton of command to Gen Munir, making the latter the country’s 17th army chief.     Gen Munir was selected by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to succeed Gen …