Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Eleven more cases were registered against the PTI leadership, including Chairman Imran Khan, and scores of activists under different sections of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), police said on Friday. Besides, the Hassanabdal police registered a case against Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khursheed Khan, his chief security officer and around 4,000 other participants of the PTI long march for rioting …

ISLAMABAD: Just a day after hiking fuel prices to meet the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a relief package worth Rs28 billion for the poorest segments of society, in a televised address to the nation on Friday. In his first address since assuming office, he said the government was taking tough decisions in …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday came down hard on the inspector general of police for failing to trace out Dua Zehra and Nimra Kazmi, the two teenage girls who were allegedly kidnapped in Karachi and later surfaced in Punjab, directing him to recover and produce them in court on May 30. A two-judge bench comprising by Justice Mohammad …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Marriyum Aurang­zeb on Friday said that the narrative of Imran Khan had finished and he himself had admitted that his march to Islamabad had failed because he was not properly prepared. Addressing a news conference in response to the former premier’s media talk in Peshawar earlier in the day, she said Mr Khan had admitted …

ISLAMABAD: The coalition government defended on Friday the amendments to accountability laws, scrapping of electronic voting and explained the logic behind clipping the National Accountability Bureau’s powers of arrest. During a joint press conference, Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, Senator Kamran Murtaza of the JUI-F and Faisal Karim Kundi of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) highlighted the salient features of …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday testified in a special court hearing the Rs16 billion money laundering case against him that he refused to receive any salary or benefits when he was chief minister of Punjab, terming himself a “majnoo“. His son, incumbent Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz was also in court during the hearing of the case filed against …

Pakistani mountaineers Sirbaz Khan of Gilgit-Baltistan and Shehroze Kashif from Lahore summited Mount Makalu in Nepal, an eight-thousander that is the world’s fifth-highest peak, on Saturday morning. According to Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary Karrar Haidri, Kashif, 20. reached Makalu’s top, which is at a height of 8,485 metres, at 6:56am (PST). Following this feat, Kashif has become the world’s …

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday that the government’s relief package, which was announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif a day earlier, would help protect the poor people from the “storm of inflation” left by the previous PTI government and the recent hike in fuel prices. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he shared the criteria for availing the ‘Sasta Petrol, Sasta Diesel’ relief …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday congratulated the nation on the 24th anniversary of the country’s successful nuclear tests and vowed to make Pakistan an economic power. In his message on ‘Youm-i-Takbir’, the day Pakistan became an atomic power, he said, “Today in 1998, [then] PM Nawaz Sharif rejected pressures & inducements in a bold show of leadership & made …

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has said that he is not in favour of the de-seating of those members who had brought the no-confidence motion against him because they belong to his party and he will take steps for addressing their grievances which had forced them to take such a decision. Addressing a press conference at the …