Pakistan

A judicial magistrate in Karachi directed the relevant authorities on Saturday to conduct a post-mortem examination of deceased lawmaker and television personality Aamir Liaquat Hussain, who passed away on June 9 and was buried the next day. In a copy of the order, which is available with Dawn.com, Judicial Magistrate (East) Wazeer Hussain Memon stated, “It is crystal clear that the cause of death of …

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Saturday said that Pakistan is now “one step away” from exiting the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list”, and the planned on-site visit is a procedural requirement. She was briefing the media a day after the watchdog acknowledged that Pakistan had completed the action plan items and had secured an on-site …

KARACHI: Marred by low turnout, mismanagement on part of the Election Commission and poor performance of the law-enforcement agencies, the by-election in Karachi’s NA-240 turned into a deadly episode on Thursday. Armed attacks, clashes between workers of rival parties and an assault on election camps left at least one man dead and over a dozen people injured amid complaints of …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has allowed a sales tax reference of JDW Sugar Mills, owned by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s estranged leader Jahangir Khan Tareen, against the Inland Revenue department of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). The mills filed the reference against an order passed by an appellate tribunal of the Inland Revenue on June 29, 2015. Advocate Sultan Ali …

PESHAWAR: Leader of opposition in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Akram Khan Durrani on Thursday claimed that the last federal government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan denied around 56 per cent of the Rs300 billion funds pledged for the development of tribal districts during its over three years tenure. “[Former prime minister] Imran Khan had pledged Rs100 billion every year …

LAHORE: The provincial kitty incurred expenses of more than Rs2.17 billion for providing security cover to the South African, Australian and New Zealand cricket teams as well as for the 7th edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and some internal security measures. Budget documents reveal that Rs330 million were paid for arranging security lights, tower and wires, fuel for …

ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of an inordinate delay in the launch of much-awaited multibillion-rupee 306km Sukkur-Hyderabad motor­way project, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reprimanded senior officials of the National Highway Authority and directed them to launch the project on a war footing. Presiding over a meeting held to review progress on road projects, the PM also instructed to initiate construction …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thu­rsday saw the PTI continuing with its policy of targeting the Election Com­mission of Pakistan, this time over issuance of poll schedule for a Senate seat from Sindh before it was officially notified as vacant by the secretariat of the upper house of parliament. PTI leader Azam Khan Swati, while raising the issue, termed the ECP …

A Lahore anti-terrorism court on Friday extended the interim bails of top Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders in a case pertaining to alleged violations of Section 144 and attacks on law enforcement agencies on May 25 — the day PTI workers marched to Islamabad. Last week, the court had issued non-bailable arrest warrants for PTI leaders Mian Akram Usman, Zubair Niazi, …

Earthquake tremors were felt in Islamabad and parts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday afternoon. The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.2, originated at 2:22pm. Its epicenter was the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region, and it had a depth of 220 kilometres, the Met Office said. According to, in addition to the capital, tremors were …