Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: PPP activists in Islamabad and Rawalpindi staged protests on Friday against price hike, increase in poverty and unemployment. The party organised the protests after Friday prayers on the call of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. In Islamabad, the demonstration was held in E-11 where workers and activists carried party flags, and chanted slogans against the government and in favour of …

Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) chief organiser Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali was elected unopposed as the Balochistan Assembly speaker on Saturday as no nomination papers were filed for any other candidate, the provincial assembly’s secretary said. The post had fallen vacant earlier this week after the previous speaker Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo stepped down as he was being considered for the …

Thousands of workers of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) continued their sit-in in Wazirabad for a second day on Saturday as they waited for instructions from their leaders to move ahead. The workers, who reached Wazirabad from Gujranwala on Friday, spent the night at the Zafar Ali Khan Bypass. Meanwhile, traffic and internet services remained suspended in the city while …

At least four people were killed and six others, including two women, suffered injuries in an explosion in Karachi’s North Nazimabad locality on Friday night, according to police and rescue officials. DIG West Zone Nasir Aftab told that the incident occurred at a petrol pump near Abdullah College. The senior officer said that the explosion occurred at the feul station’s …

ISLAMABAD: Ulema and scholars of Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat on Friday offered their cooperation in ending the government-Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) standoff and urged both sides to settle the issue through dialogue. A group of Ulema of the specific sect from all over the country met President Dr Arif Alvi when the TLP’s long march, started from Lahore, reached Wazirabad. Media reports …

KARACHI: After 15-storey Nasla Tower, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered demolition of an under-construction multi-storey building in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and gave the builder and authorities four weeks to implement its order. The court directed the Karachi commissioner and builders to demolish Tejori Heights Tower after the counsel for builders could not establish the ownership of the land being used for …

Consider reinstating suspended officials . Leaves of policemen cancelled . Plan defence lines at Rawat, Kak Bridge and Gulberg Green ISLAMABAD: Senior officials of the capital police are considering reinstating all suspended officials to ensure maximum manpower keeping in view the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) march on capital, sources told. Besides, leaves of all police officials have been cancelled. However, they …

MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet on Thursday approved an ordinance to repeal a law, enacted by the previous (PML-N) government, whereby an unspecified number of ad-hoc, temporary and contractual employees were regularised in the name of humanity. At a media briefing, Minister for Information Sardar Faheem Akhtar Rabbani said it was a discriminatory law aimed at benefitting …

KARACHI: Demolition of Nasla Tower seems to be imminent in line with an order of the Supreme Court with almost all families living in the multi-storey building having vacated their respective apartments. They are shifting to somewhere else to leave the building at the disposal of the district administration, which took over the 15-storey structure under escort of personnel from …

LONDON: Private channel New Vision TV, the broadcaster of ARY UK, has issued an apology to London-based PML-N leader Nasir Butt for airing a programme in which he was called a “criminal, a multiple murderer and a member of a drug cartel”. Just weeks after issuing an apology to former finance minister and PML-N leader Ishaq Dar, it emerged that ARY UK has apologised to Mr …