Pakistan

Hong Kong announced a two-week ban on incoming flights from eight countries, including Pakistan and India, and tightened restrictions on Wednesday as authorities feared a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. The restrictions were announced as health authorities scoured the city for the contacts of a Covid-19 patient, some of whom had been aboard a Royal Caribbean ship that was ordered …

GWADAR/QUETTA: Over 300 hou­ses were badly damaged, rendering hundreds of people homeless, as heavy winter rains badly affected the coastal areas of Makran division on Tuesday. A new weather system entered Balochistan on Monday night, bringing heavy rains and snowfall to many parts of the province. The heavy rains paralysed life in many areas of Makran division and blocked highways, …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed has said that the rule of law is a weapon to ensure good governance in the country. The CJP was speaking at a thanksgiving ceremony organised by the outgoing body of the Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) in connection with the proposed construction of Lawyers Complex here on Tuesday. Islamabad Bar Council (IBC), …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a member of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP), has advised Chief Justice of Pakistan (JCP) Justice Gulzar Ahmed to first determine the criteria for nomination of judges for appointment to the top court and then consider elevation of Justice Ayesha A. Malik of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in the commission’s meeting on Jan …

The Women in Law Pakistan initiative has issued a statement with respect to the seniority debate on the appointment of Justice Ayesha A. Malik of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to the apex court, saying the idea that seniority is a legal requirement is a myth and “there is no requirement in law and Constitution to appoint the senior most …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday clubbed together the case of Arif Gull and the matter concerning the status of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Action in Aid of Civil Powers Ordinance 2019 after the KP government produced before it the person detained at an internment centre in Kohat since 2019. On Monday, a three-judge SC bench, headed by Chief Justice (CJP) …

The ongoing spell of winter showers in Karachi entered its second day on Wednesday, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecasting that the spell would continue till January 7. According to the Met department, the highest amount of rainfall during the last 24 hours — 35.7mm —was recorded in Surjani Town, followed by Gulshan-i-Hadeed (32.0mm) and Quaidabad (28.0mm). Moreover, Nazimabad …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday welcomed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny of PTI’s funding, which he said came through donations from overseas Pakistanis. “The more our accounts are scrutinised, the more factual clarity will emerge for the nation to see how PTI is the only political party with proper donor base premised on proper political fundraising,” he …

A sessions court in Islamabad on Wednesday reserved its verdict on an application filed by the legal team of Zahir Jaffer — the primary accused in the Noor Mukadam murder case — seeking the constitution of a medical board to determine his mental health. Noor, 27, was found murdered at a residence in the capital’s upscale Sector F-7/4 on July …

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar on Wednesday said that fencing of the Pak-Afghan border will continue as planned, adding that the blood of martyred soldiers was involved in erecting the fence. Maj Gen Iftikhar made these remarks in Rawalpindi during a press conference, his first of 2022, on the day the world observed Kashmiri people’s …