LAHORE: Noted naat khwaan Mehboob Ahmed Hamdani passed away here on Wednesday. He was 72. Mr Hamdani was suffering from cancer and fighting the deadly disease for the last many months. He had also suffered a brain haemorrhage and died at Ittefaq Hospital on Wednesday. He is survived by two daughters and two sons. Mr Mehboob’s younger brother, Marghoob Hamdani, …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Wednesday directed the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail to allow home-cooked food, medicines, a mattress and a revolving chair to Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif in addition to other facilities permitted under the rules. The court had on Oct 20 sent Mr Shehbaz to jail on judicial remand after rejecting the National Accountability …

• Three-judge bench bars adjournments in graft cases • Expects NAB to ensure timely production of witnesses • CJP apprised of top law officer’s meeting with PM ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered all the 24 accountability courts to expedite proceedings in corruption references without granting any adjournments to parties. Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, a …

ISLAMABAD: Continuing their war of words on the Karachi incident, the government and the opposition on Wednesday accused each other of bringing state institutions face to face only to achieve political gains. Two key federal ministers alleged that the Sindh government was behind the whole incident whereas the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alleged that Prime Minister Imran Khan had once …

Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Thursday rejected “false media reports” regarding Saudi Arabia’s role in the assessment of Pakistan’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) action plan. The spokesperson “categorically rejected the story circulating on a segment of the media as false and baseless”, said a press release. Earlier in the day, Azhar Mashwani, Punjab chief minister’s focal person …

PML-N leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday said that institutions such as the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Pakistan Rangers take their orders from the country’s prime minister. Abbasi was commenting on the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Captain Safdar. Speaking to the media in Islamabad, he said that the responsibility of the whole incident fell on Prime …

ISLAMABAD: Gatherings are the main cause of the spread of Covid-19, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services (NHS) Dr Faisal Sultan told a Senate committee on Wednesday. While briefing the Senate Standing Committee on NHS, Dr Sultan claimed that educational institutions were following standard operating procedure (SOP) to limit the spread of Covid-19. However, the committee, …