At least 11 people were killed and two others were injured on Tuesday after gas cylinders exploded at a perfume factory in Shahdara area of Lahore, setting the entire building ablaze, confirmed officials. One of the injured, identified as 30-year-old Zahid, was shifted to Mayo hospital in critical condition. The fire also caused the roof of the building to collapse, …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has ruled that the concept of trial in absentia is not only inconsistent with the doctrine of Islamic justice enunciated in the Holy Quran and Sunnah but also against the golden principles of natural justice. A full bench of the high court made the observation in its detailed judgement released on Monday on a petition …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has expressed reservations over Prime Minister Imran Khan’s foreign visits funded by his ‘friend’ and demanded that the issue be debated in the National Security Committee. In a statement on Monday, PPP secretary general Nayyar Hussain Bukhari said the prime minister had put national security at stake by paying official foreign visits whose expenses …

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid to submit in court a business plan to uplift Pakistan Railways from its current condition, giving the minister two weeks time to do so. While hearing a case pertaining to losses incurred by the national organisation, a three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan …

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Division Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Monday said the presidential ordinance that excluded the business community from the ambit of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) might be extended beyond four months of its constitutional term. Mr Akbar, while speaking to journalists in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), said that the …

LAHORE: More than 10,000 personnel of the Punjab police deputed for the security of nearly 4,000 Chinese experts at various sites of CPEC across the province have been declared vulnerable to coronavirus. Special Protection Unit (SPU) Director/DIG Umer Sheikh in a letter to Inspector General of Punjab Police Shoaib Dastgir has sought medical advice and logistic support for over 10,000 …

ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel defending Justice Qazi Faez Isa pleaded before the Supreme Court on Monday to lay down principles defining procedures for forwarding references to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against superior court judges on misconduct or no one will be secured in future. Rasheed A. Razvi, who was representing the Sindh High Court Bar Association and the Pakistan …

A Peshawar court on Tuesday ordered Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen’s transfer to a Dera Ismail Khan jail, a day after he was arrested and sent to Peshawar Central Jail on a 14-day judicial remand. District and sessions judge Muhammad Younis accepted the DI Khan police’s request for permission to shift the PTM chief to DI Khan, where a first …

Amid uncertainty over the future of his post, Sindh’s police chief Dr Syed Kaleem Imam on Tuesday said that he would not be transferred from his position so easily, adding that a “big conspiracy” was being staged against him. Addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Sindh Police Martyrs Memorial at Central Police Office (CPO) in Karachi, the Sindh police chief …

A day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani shared his concerns over the arrest of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen, the government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan deemed his comments “equivalent to interfering in Pakistan’s internal affairs”. Ghani on Monday, via Twitter, had said that he was “troubled by the arrest of Manzoor Pashteen and his colleagues”. The Afghan president had tweeted …