PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday summoned two federal ministers, an aide to the premier and two others over two identical petitions seeking their prosecution for committing contempt of a special court, which had awarded death sentence to former military ruler retired General Pervez Musharraf last year for high treason. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and …

It’s finally happening! After much hoopla on social media with users falsely claiming Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari got engaged in secret, the day has finally arrived. The bride to be tweeted ahead of her engagement which is slated to take place at 4 pm today at Bilawal House in Karachi. “Very sentimental and emotional day. So grateful for everyone’s love and prayers. Especially …

LARKANA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that people have the right to run their country’s affairs whereas the establishment has to do its own job. Addressing the 26th ‘Shaheed-i-Islam Conference’ — an annual party event to pay homage to its slain general secretary Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro — at the Municipal Stadium here on Thursday, he said …

Five suspects were shot dead in a shootout between police and alleged robbers in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighbourhood early on Friday morning, according to officials. Gizri Station House Officer (SHO) Agha Mashooq said the suspects had entered a bungalow near Yasrab Imambargah in DHA Phase 4 with the intention of committing burglary. Upon receiving information, police surrounded the …

GILGIT: Amjad Hussain Zaidi of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was elected speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly and Nazir Ahmed of the same party deputy speaker through secret voting on Thursday. PTI candidate Zaidi secu­red 18 votes while Ghulam Mohammad, joint candidate of the PPP, PML-N, JUI-F and Balawaristan National Front-Naji for the post of speaker, obtained eight votes. Six …

ISLAMABAD: With nearly 46,000 tests carried out in a single day, which is a record, the daily cases of Covid-19 have surged to 3,300 after a gap of four-and-a-half months and the number of active cases have reached 43,963 across the country; the positivity rate has been recorded at over 7 per cent. At a time when millions of people …

The thought of anything of ours getting hacked is a scary one — and so we feel deeply for Jibran Nasir who shared that his WhatsApp has been compromised! “My WhatsApp got hacked today and I don’t have access to it anymore,” he wrote on his social media. “Few friends of mine have reported the same issue. Please beware of …

The positivity rate of coronavirus tests in Peshawar has exceeded 19 per cent and is the highest in the country, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was told on Friday. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa capital has a positivity rate of 19.65pc, the forum was told in a meeting today. Peshawar is followed by Karachi, where the positivity rate stands 17.73pc. …

NEW YORK — The coronavirus pandemic has upended many traditions this holiday season, but the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade parade will march on with balloons, dancers, floats, Broadway shows and Santa — albeit heavily edited for safety. “Traditions like this are comforting and they’re uplifting,” said Susan Tercero, executive producer of the parade. “New York has always been a …

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat. “Certainly I will. …