Pakistan

QUETTA: After Jam Kamal Khan Alyani’s resignation from the office of chief minister and nomination of Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo by the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) for the top slot of next leader of the house, a political void has appeared in the provincial capital that different political parties are vying to fill. A coalition partner in Alyani-led government, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said neither the judiciary nor a jirga could be a substitute to the Islamic law of inheritance when “Deen-i-Elahi” (divine religion) had already settled the matter 1,400 years ago. “The law of inheritance in Islam is final and neither the courts nor any jirga can change this,” observed Justice Qazi Faez Isa, adding that …

RAWALPINDI: The district administrations of Rawalpindi and Islamabad blocked the Faizabad intersection on Tuesday midnight while the law enforcement agencies began sealing areas and roads with containers to prevent the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) protesters from entering the federal capital territory. On the other hand, the police started conducting raids at the residence/madressah of the chief of Rawalpindi chapter of the …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered the prosecution in the Noor Mukadam murder case to share statements of the witnesses and other relevant evidence with the accused. Justice Aamer Farooq, however, turned down a request seeking a copy of the CCTV footage that was used to implicate the domestic staff of the main accused and substantiated the allegations against …

The proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) central committee on Wednesday accused Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid of lying that matters between it and the government had been settled, adding that the protesters would now depart from Muridke soon for their announced destination of Islamabad. In a statement issued by the group’s central committee, TLP leader Syed Sarwar Shah Saifi said: “Sheikh Rashid …

SUKKUR: PPP leader Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah has said that appointing the director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the prerogative of the army and political parties should not even comment on it. Speaking at his first news conference at the local press club after being released from the Sukkur jail recently, he said the issue of appointment of the …

QUETTA: Following hours-long consultations, leaders of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) on Monday agreed to nominate Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo as leader of the house and Mir Jan Mohammad Khan Jamali as speaker of the Balochistan Assembly. Mr Bizenjo, the speaker, submitted his resignation to the governor after the assembly session in which no-trust motion against former chief minister Jam …

US Senator Bob Menendez said on Sunday that he had asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to urge President Joe Biden to have a conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan in an effort to rebuild the relationship with Pakistan. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee underscored the need for such conversations while speaking at a fundraising event …

LARKANA: Pakistan Peo­ples Party chairman Bilawal Bhu­tto-Zardari has said whenever and wherever prime minister goes crisis greets him and he brings in this wake devastation instead of change he had promised to people of Pakistan before general election. Bilawal said at a gathering of select party workers at the residence of a party leader in Garibabad locality on Monday that …

The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) has directed all airline operators in the country to comply fully with the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority’s (GCAA) Safety Decision 2020-20 on all flights to and from UAE airports, warning that failure to do so would lead to sterner action, including suspension of permission to operate flights along the route. In …