Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday ordered delimitation of National and provincial assembly constituencies on war-footing, without waiting for the digital census to commence. The commission had earlier blamed the government for not cooperating and delaying the finalisation and publication of fresh digital census results, which subsequently led to a delay in delimitation. The commission, which met …

Pakistan has successfully conducted the flight test of surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-III, the military’s media affairs wing said on Saturday. “The test flight was aimed at re-validating various design and technical parameters of the weapon system,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated through its official Twitter account. Pakistan had conducted a test of the same missile last year in January as …

PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday against the “unlawful” removal of Punjab Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal and Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Rao Sardar Ali Khan. LHC Chief Justice Amir Bhatti has taken up the petition and will hear it on April 11. Yesterday, the federal government decided to transfer the chief secretary and IGP after …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sought a report from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on cases registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) till Friday (today). IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah while hearing identical petitions filed against the controversial Peca ordinance and its section 20, which criminalises defamation, observed that prima facie the FIA invoked …

ISLAMABAD: Though relations between the two countries had gone through a historic change since the inception of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), bloc politics may impact steadiness in the flow of relations between Pakistan and China. CPEC which is the flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to alleviate the socio-economic woes of Pakistan. This was highlighted by …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government was the third in the country’s history that tried to revise the capital’s master plan but could not get it completed. In December 2018, the PTI government had formed a commission to revise the master plan of Islamabad. Prime Minister Imran Khan held several meetings on the matter but the commission could not complete …

ISLAMABAD: Interim Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday the government was striving to ease the people’s lives. Citizens should have the assurance that the state would come to their rescue in case of any threat to life and property, he said while launching ‘Helpline 911’ emergency relief services through a single platform. He said Helpline 911 is a major …

ISLAMABAD: Outgoing Prime Minis­ter Imran Khan’s move to use a diplomatic cable for shielding himself against the opposition’s no-confidence motion did not work, but has left behind deleterious consequences for the foreign service that will be felt for a long time to come. Mr Khan had at a public rally on March 27 claimed that the move to topple his government was …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) coalition government in Punjab may now find it difficult to further delay the election of the chief minister after the Supreme Court nullified the National Assembly deputy speaker’s ruling on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Meanwhile, the same day the opposition pa­­­rties also managed to submit a no-trust motion against Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry …

ISLAMABAD: Applauding the Supreme Court’s verdict, the opposition parties on Thursday gave a call to the nation and their workers to observe thanksgiving day on Friday (today) and hold celebrations throughout the country over the ‘victory of democracy and the Constitution’ of the country. Dozens of workers and lawyers belonging to opposition parties, who had gathered outside the Supreme Court (SC) …