Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thurs­day reserved the judgement on a petition filed by Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani challenging the election of Sadiq Sanjrani as Senate chairman. The IHC division bench, comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, will announce the judgement on Friday (today). Mr Gilani, who also contested for the …

ISLAMABAD: Final show-cause notices are being issued to dissident lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s directions calling for taking a decisive action against them. According to the PTI’s central media directorate, the notices requiring the dissident lawmakers to explain their position by 12 noon on Friday (today) are being issued under Article 63-A of …

KARACHI: The Sindh government is considering releasing the interned Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader MNA Ali Wazir to enable him to cast his vote in the no-confidence motion moved against Prime Minister Imran Khan by the opposition, official sources and party leaders said. PTM-Karachi leader Sher Mehsud told that their MNA Wazir was informed on Wednesday night by the jail administration that he …

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday accelerated his efforts in the turbulent political scenario to woo opposition lawmakers for not only his own election as the Punjab chief minister, but also to protect the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government in the province. Prime Minister Imran Khan has already sought the resignation of incumbent CM Usman Buzdar and sent it …

ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic subsides, Prime Minister Imran Khan formally shut down the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), which has overseen the government’s pandemic response and kept the nation updated on daily cases, deaths, recoveries, number of vaccinations, etc. The announcement came just four days after the centre marked two years of its establishment and two weeks after …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday congratulated his party for “overwhelming success” in the second phase of local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying “people of KP have emphatically rejected the traitors who sold out to foreign masters”. The premier’s felicitation came after initial results from 41 councils showed PTI emerging victorious in at least 20 tehsil councils. On the …

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday that a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Imran Khan had been reported by security agencies. “After these reports, the prime minister’s security has been beefed up as per the government’s decision,” he said. Earlier this week, PTI leader Faisal Vawda had made similar claims, stating that a conspiracy was being hatched to assassinate the …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday stressed the importance of an independent foreign policy, stating that it was “multi-dimensional” and necessary for a nation to progress. Addressing the Islamabad Security Dialogue, he began his address by highlighting the importance of the event. “In our minds, security was defined as military [might],” he said, adding that it was, in fact, “multi-dimensional”. …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services (NHS) on Tuesday unanimously passed the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissue (Amendment) Bill 2021, requiring the National Database and Registration Authority to display the consent of potential donors on their national identity card. Whereas the Prime University of Nursing Sciences and Technology (PNUST) Islamabad Bill 2021 was referred to the …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday sentenced two men to death for plotting terrorist attacks on key government installations at the behest of Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in 2021. The court found Zahidullah alias Suleiman, said to be a would-be suicide bomber, his handler Col Bismillah alias Haji Lala of Afghan intelligence, Mohammad Qasim alias Haji …