Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday submitted a complaint with the Kohsar police station informing them that his life was in danger, police said. In his complaint, Mr Ahmed said some suspicious people had been seen outside his house in F-7/4. “I am a former interior minister and am receiving threats from the incumbent Rana Sanaullah,” he …

ISLAMABAD: Faced with an acute port congestion and fuel supply constraints, the ministry of energy is seeking berthing of oil vessels and their quality testing at the jetty of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) currently abandoned for well over seven years now. Senior government officials told Dawn that the issue had been discussed in detail by secretaries of the petroleum division and industries …

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said elements involved in the suicide attack at Karachi University (KU) were threatened by the idea of Pakistan and China achieving economic prosperity. This was pointed out by National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, who visited The Chinese embassy to condole the deaths of Chinese academicians who were killed in the blast. …

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb reacted strongly on Sunday to PTI chief Imran Khan’s remarks made earlier in the day, particularly his defence of Farah Khan, and alleged that sloganeering in the courtyard of Masjid-i-Nabwi earlier this week was made at the behest of the former prime minister. Addressing a press conference at the Press Information Department (PID), mainly in …

A man was injured when a fire erupted at Customs intelligence office on Quetta’s Airport Road on Sunday, the city’s senior superintendent of police (operations), Abdul Haq Imrani, said. The SSP was speaking to the media following a visit to the site after the fire, which erupted reportedly after an explosion. While there were reports that the fire was caused …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Sheikh Rashid Shafique, nephew of former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, was arrested on his arrival at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) from Saudi Arabia in connection with a blasphemy case on Sunday. Mr Shafique was later remanded in the custody of the New Airport police for a day on the charge of posting a …

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema has called former chief minister Usman Buzdar’s resignation – typed and addressed to prime minister – as a real “fitna” (mischief) behind the constitutional crisis in Punjab. He described the consequent oath-taking ceremony “after taking Governor House hostage” as unlawful and unconstitutional. He said prime minister’s son Hamza Shehbaz used the Punjab police and …

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division on Sunday announced that it had ended power cuts across the country by injecting about 2,500MW additional electricity into the system. “In line with commitment of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, loadshedding has been brought to zero with effect from 05:00am on May 1,” said Power Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan. However, in a tweet, he added, …

PTI leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday filed a writ petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), calling for cases registered against the party’s leadership under the country’s blasphemy laws to be termed “illegal”. These cases were registered after some Pakistani pilgrims chanted slogans at Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation during their visit to the …

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Saturday took up a hurriedly filed intra court appeal (ICA) of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and suspended the observations regarding the conduct of the president of Pakistan and the Punjab governor passed by a single bench in an order for oath taking of Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz. Sibtain Khan and 16 other MPAs of …