ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice is set to take up 10 private member’s Constitution amendment bills, mostly moved by opposition members, in its meeting scheduled for Thursday (Dec 23). Through these bills, the movers have suggested some crucial changes to various provisions of the Constitution related to the promulgation of ordinance, increase in the powers of …

LAHORE: An accountability court on Monday indicted a co-suspect in the money laundering reference against Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and his family. The co-suspect, Ahmad Ali, denied the charges against him and decided to contest the trial. Presiding Judge Sajid Ali Awan directed the prosecution team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to present its witnesses …

ISLAMABAD: The Islam­abad High Court (IHC) on Monday asked the additio­nal attorney general (AAG) to take up the missing persons’ cases with the federal cabinet and inform the court about the government’s policy in this regard. An IHC division bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb was hearing an intra-court appeal filed by the federal government against …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court suspended on Monday the Sindh government’s July 19 notification of raising the minimum wage for workers to Rs25,000 per month, but decided to set up a three-judge bench to hear the matter next month. A two-judge Supreme Court bench, consisting of Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Yahya Afridi, issued notices to Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Khalid …

Renowned haematologist Dr Tahir Shamsi passed away in Karachi on Tuesday, almost a week after suffering brain haemorrhage and being admitted to a hospital. He was 60. Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Secretary General Dr Qaiser Sajjad told Dawn.com that Dr Shamsi was admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital last week. He said that Dr Shamsi experienced partial paralysis and was operated …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on appeals of PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and her husband retired captain Mohammad Safdar against their conviction in the Avenfield reference after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor filed an application for the same. This is the second time the hearing was adjourned without any arguments. On November 24, the court …

A day after the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was upset on multiple seats in the first phase of local government elections held in Khyber Pakhtun­khwa, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said his party “made mistakes” as he pinned the blame of a lackluster poll performance on “wrong candidate selection”. To make sure the mistakes are not repeated, the prime …

Pakistan has conducted a successful test of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur cruise missile 1B, the military’s media affairs wing said on Tuesday. According to The Associated Press, the cruise missile has a range of more than 900 kilometres, twice the distance of an earlier missile of the same model. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations …

A Lahore High Court (LHC) judge on Tuesday lambasted the witnesses in the Sahiwal firing case, in which six personnel of the Punjab police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) allegedly gunned down four people, for giving “false statements”. Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz — who is part of a two-member bench along with Justice Mohammad Amjad Rafiq — made the remarks during the …

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday allowed booster shots for people over the age of 30 years as Covid-19’s latest strain, Omicron, infects 58,000 people in 95 countries. On the other hand, as a large number of people have been denied travel by several countries because of vaccine “discrimination”, mix-and-match booster vaccine shots have been permitted …