Pakistan

KARACHI: Amnesty Inter­n­a­tional has called for the im­mediate restoration of soc­ial media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) 29 days after the government blocked access to it. In a post on X, the human rights group said it has signed a joint statement with 28 civil society organisations for the restoration of X and urged “Pakistani authorities to uphold the rights …

KARACHI: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Afghanistan’s Interim Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Saturday agreed to continue working together in building on fraternal bilateral relations. “Expanding cooperation in connectivity, trade, security, counterterrorism and people-to-people contacts is a top priority for Pakistan,” the foreign minister posted on X, after he received a congratulatory call from the Afghan minister.     …

The funeral prayers of two army officers, who were among seven martyred yesterday in a terrorist attack on a security forces’ post in North Waziristan, were offered on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. At 6:15am on Saturday, a group of six militants stormed the Frontier Corps’ post in the Khaddi market area in North Waziristan’s Mir Ali area. The militants rammed an …

ISLAMABAD: United States Ambassador Dona­ld Blome paid a courtesy call on National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq at the Parliament House, where the meeting focused on a broad spectrum of issues concerning mutual interests. According to a statement, Mr Sadiq during the meeting reiterated Pakis­tan’s longstanding and broad-based relationship with the US, based on principles of mutual respect and trust. …

ISLAMABAD: A day after a protest was held outside the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in the US against the alleged rigging in the Feb 8 polls, PTI founder Imran Khan sought high treason proceedings against the officials who purportedly stole the people’s mandate in the general elections. Speaking to reporters after the hearing of the Al-Qadir Trust case in which his …

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Friday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of two directors of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and a former municipal commissioner of the District Municipal Corporation-Central in a case pertaining to the death of a motorcyclist who was struck by a falling signboard while passing through an underpass in the Nazimabad area last year. On …

LAHORE/TOBA TEK SINGH: An anti-terrorism court on Friday extended the pre-arrest bail of jailed PTI founder Imran Khan in three cases of May 9 riots. ATC-III judge Arshad Javed heard the bail petitions as a duty judge as the presiding judge of ATC-I, the relevant court, had been transferred. The judge simply adjourned the hearing till March 22 and also extended the …

ISLAMABAD: The second polio case in as many days has once again raised concerns over the efforts to end the crippling disease from Pakistan. The latest case has been repor­ted from Balochistan’s Chaman district, where a 52-month-old child has been paralysed by the wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). According to the Regional Re­­fe­rence Lab for Polio Eradication at the National …

QUETTA / BAJAUR: A senior police officer and a tribal elder were killed in two attacks in Sibi and Bajaur on Friday, according to officials. Sibi Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Khalid Zaman Marri was passing through the bazaar area in Sibi town when unknown assailants opened fire at his vehicle near the Chanak roundabout area. The police officer got …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday expressed resentment towards the interior ministry for not deporting a detained Indian national despite lapse of around seven years and warned that the interior secretary would be summoned if the deportation was not carried out. The court observed that the appellant was an Indian national while the ministry could not be able to …