Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday announ­ced the delimitation schedule for the National Assem­bly and provincial assemblies for the next general elections. As a first step, the boundaries of administrative units across the country have been frozen and the delimitation committees for all the provinces and the federal capital will be formed by April 16. The schedule …

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) order placing the names of key aides of former prime minister Imran Khan – including his former adviser on interior and accountability Shahzad Akbar and special assistant on political communication Shahbaz Gill and four others – on the “stop list”. According to media reports, the FIA had a …

PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday told the newly-elected government, which is being led by his party’s president, Shehbaz Sharif, to dissolve the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and hold its employees accountable. “NAB’s employees looted and tortured people for years. It’s time they should be held accountable,” he said at a media talk in Islamabad today morning. Abbasi came …

ISLAMABAD: Scores of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers and supporters brought out a rally on Sunday night to express solidarity with their leader Imran Khan, who according to them, was removed under an international conspiracy. Prime Minister Imran Khan was voted out through a no-confidence motion in the National Assembly on Saturday. Hundreds of charged PTI workers, including families, gathered at …

ISLAMABAD: Amid speculations about the fate of the health card scheme, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Sunday claimed that in the last two days around 17,000 patients were admitted to hospitals across the country and availing free of cost treatment. In a statement, the ministry stated that Qaumi Sehat Card empanelled hospitals were providing uninterrupted and free …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported fewer than 100 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the first time in more than two years and at a time when China and some European countries are battling the pandemic once again. The number of critical patients has also dropped to 273 and not a single death has been reported across the country for the last eight days. …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and allied parties are convinced that unlike Islamabad, Punjab will not see any legal and procedural impasse that may warrant judicial intervention for electing the new chief minister of the province. “The elements resisting and delaying the polls for electing the new Punjab chief executive are fairly weakened after abortive moves for manipulating the constitutional …

GILGIT: The opposition leader in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, Advocate Amjad Hussain, announced on Sunday that a no-confidence motion against GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid will soon be moved in the assembly. Mr Hussain, who is the president of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) GB chapter, was speaking to his party workers. He said it has been principally decided to submit …

ISLAMABAD: The PTI has decided to launch a countrywide protest campaign on Wednesday (April 13) against the removal of its government and the formation of the incoming administration, most likely to be headed by PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif. “We are going to start a nationwide campaign from Wednesday from Peshawar,” PTI leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry told Dawn on Sunday. …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday instructed Punjab Assembly speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Deputy Speaker Sardar Dost Mazari and Leader of the Opposition in PA Hamza Shahbaz to mutually finalise a date for the election of the chief minister. “All of them should sit in the office of the Punjab advocate-general and solve the matter amicably,” Justice Amir Bhatti …