Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Opposi­ti­­o­­­n lawmakers in the Senate were up in arms on Friday over the recent massive increase in the prices of petroleum products and power, while the treasury held the former ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) responsible for the current economic mess and urged it to suggest a way forward instead of political point-scoring. The issue was raised by Leader of …

GWADAR / QUETTA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed displeasure over the slow pace of work on development projects in Gwadar and said the previous government did not pay any attention to the completion of the international airport in the city among other projects. He said big cargo ships could not anchor at the deep-sea port here due to a reduction …

The counsel for the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) confirmed to a special court in Lahore on Saturday that the agency wanted to arrest Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case. The counsel’s confirmation was in response to presiding judge of the Special Court (Central-I) Ijaz Hassan Awan’s query …

President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday returned two bills seeking to reverse the controversial changes made in the election laws by the previous PTI government regarding the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and i-voting for overseas Pakistanis and clipping the vast powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), to the prime minister for “reconsideration and detailed deliberation by the …

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday restrained Islamabad police from arresting former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser and former minister Hammad Azhar over first information reports (FIRs) registered against them in connection with violence carried out in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) long march on May 25. Mr Azhar had sought protective bail, while Mr Qaiser had sought details of …

LAHORE: The PML-N as well as Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz who had been blaming President Dr Arif Alvi and former governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema for a delay in formation of the cabinet are now showing no urgency in this respect after the issues related to ‘important portfolios’ cropped up within the party as well as with its coalition partner, the …

An employee of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday wrote a letter to the head of the agency seeking permission to bring a donkey cart to work after the government’s recent fuel price hike rendered him unable to use personal transport. In a letter addressed to the director-general of CAA, available with Dawn.com, Raja Asif Iqbal — who says he …

A special committee of the federal cabinet has deliberated filing a sedition case against former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and the chief ministers of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for allegedly planning an “attack” on the federation during the party’s ‘Azadi March’. According to an Interior Ministry statement reported by state-run APP yesterday, the meeting was chaired by Interior …

A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred during an exchange of fire with terrorists who attacked a military post in the Datta Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on the night between June 1 and June 2, the military’s media affairs wing said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) late Thursday night, Pakistan Army …

LAHORE / HYDE­RABAD: As the canal system in Punjab faces a 49 per cent water shortage, Sindh also observes a major dip in its water flows that is apparently impacting its barrages, showing an overall 49.5pc shortage till Thursday. Thus, the Sindh irrigation ministry has again urged the Indus River System Autho­rity (Irsa) to release extra water to the province, …