Pakistan

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on appeals of PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and her husband retired captain Mohammad Safdar against their conviction in the Avenfield reference after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor filed an application for the same. This is the second time the hearing was adjourned without any arguments. On November 24, the court …

A day after the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was upset on multiple seats in the first phase of local government elections held in Khyber Pakhtun­khwa, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said his party “made mistakes” as he pinned the blame of a lackluster poll performance on “wrong candidate selection”. To make sure the mistakes are not repeated, the prime …

Pakistan has conducted a successful test of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur cruise missile 1B, the military’s media affairs wing said on Tuesday. According to The Associated Press, the cruise missile has a range of more than 900 kilometres, twice the distance of an earlier missile of the same model. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations …

A Lahore High Court (LHC) judge on Tuesday lambasted the witnesses in the Sahiwal firing case, in which six personnel of the Punjab police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) allegedly gunned down four people, for giving “false statements”. Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz — who is part of a two-member bench along with Justice Mohammad Amjad Rafiq — made the remarks during the …

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday allowed booster shots for people over the age of 30 years as Covid-19’s latest strain, Omicron, infects 58,000 people in 95 countries. On the other hand, as a large number of people have been denied travel by several countries because of vaccine “discrimination”, mix-and-match booster vaccine shots have been permitted …

By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada FortWorth Texas:The leader of American Muslim Democratic Caucus Syed Fayyaz Hassan filed his nomination papers with Tarrant County Democratic Party office in Fort Worth for the office of District Clerk. Texas State Representative Terry Meza, Democratic activist and former Dallas Peace Center President Aftab Siddiqui, Deborah Spell Amjad and Nadia Bhular and Muslim Caucus media …

RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Sunday the 17th extraordinary session of OIC foreign ministers was extremely important to channelise international efforts and save Afghanistan from a humanitarian crisis. The army chief said this during a meeting with the Saudi foreign minister. He reiterated that Pakistan valued its historical and brotherly relations with …

KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday announced that it would protest against the recently passed Sindh Local Govern­ment Amendment Bill 2021 and stage a sit-in outside the provincial assembly on Dec 31 in an effort to compel the Pakistan Peoples Party ‘dictatorship’ to reverse the ‘black law’. The announcement came at a JI rally titled ‘Karachi Bachao March’ staged against the LG …

TAXILA: Police arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly making disparaging remarks against a companion of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). The man was arrested after a delegation comprising local religious leaders led by Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s area president Yasir Mehmood Rizvi informed the Wah Saddar police that the suspect had allegedly used derogatory language against one of the …

RAWALPINDI: Police have registered a case under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and other charges in connection with the alleged police encounter with a gang of suspected robbers which left two suspects dead and three police officials injured in Bahria Town Phase VIII early on Saturday morning. Meanwhile, raids by specialised units of Islamabad police were underway to arrest the …