RAWALPINDI: An accountability court on Friday deferred the indictment of former premier Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi in GBP190 million corruption case till Feb 27, as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is set to take up appeals against their conviction in Toshakhana and cipher cases on Feb 26. The newly appointed judge, Nasir Javed Rana, who has rep­laced Judge Mohammad Bashir as he is retiring in …

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Secretary Shakeel Qadir Khan has warned that action will be taken against officers concerned if vaccination coverage during the seven-day anti polio campaign, starting on Monday, is found to be low in any district. The warning was given at a meeting of the provincial task force for polio eradication on Friday. The meeting, presided over by the …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday took exception to the ‘bid’ of the Punjab police’s personnel to arrest PTI’s nominee for Punjab chief minister’s office and MPA-elect Mian Aslam Iqbal in Peshawar despite the issuance of protective bail to him by it and directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa inspector general of police to ensure that if those police officials make …

KARACHI: Even with the party’s political future in turmoil, it seems that the upper echelons of the PTI are still not ‘on the same page’. On Friday, a day after it was revealed that party founder Imran Khan had backed Barrister Ali Zafar for the post of party chairman, firebrand Sher Afzal Marwat questioned his fellow lawyer’s ability to manage the party’s …

GILGIT: The two major roads connecting Gilgit-Baltistan to other parts of the country were reope­ned for traffic on Friday after days of blockade due to snowfall and landslides, an official told Dawn. Life in the region star­ted returning to normalcy after the reopening of the Karakoram High­way (KKH) Balt­is­tan Road and other link roads. Agricul­tural activities in the region have also resumed on …

ISLAMABAD: The Ju­­dicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on Friday recommended the elevation of Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court Naeem Akhtar Afghan as a judge of the Supreme Court. Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, the JCP also recommended the elevation of Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan as the new Chief Justice of the Lah­ore …

QUETTA: The sit-ins by an alliance of four nationalist parties across Balochistan continued on Friday against the alle­ged rigging in the Febru­ary 8 general elections. The protest has been continuing for over two weeks in different parts of Balochistan including the provincial capital, Quetta. Supporters of the four-party alliance continued the sit-in outside the office of the Quetta district returning …

LAHORE: An MQM-P delegation called on PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed a power-sharing formula with him. The delegation from Kara­chi comprised Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori, Farooq Sattar and Mustafa Kamal. The MQM-P reportedly came to meet Mr Sharif, who is the candidate of six parties for the post of the prime minister, to get his assurance that the …

KARACHI: The Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday named Syed Murad Ali Shah for the post of chief minister of Sindh with party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari directing the MPAs-elect to be “hard on corruption” and “engage with opposition parties”. The call for the incoming PPP government to be tough on corruption apparently came because of serious accusations of corruption hurled …

Amid protests and arrests, newly elected representatives were sworn into the 16th Sindh Assembly on Saturday. The Sindh Assembly was the second to have its lawmakers take oath after the February 8 general elections, with at least 313 MPAs being elected to the Punjab Assembly a day ago. According to the results issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, the PPP is …