ISLAMABAD: PTI Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan was injured in an attack in Islamabad on Tuesday. “Very shameful and reprehensible!!” the party said in a post on X. Video footage shared by the party showed Hasan bleeding from the face with anchor Shahid Masood with him. “This reprehensible act of violence is an assault on free speech, democracy, and the …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) senior puisne judge Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Tuesday observed that intelligence agencies can only “assist” police and the Federal Investigation Agency with their investigations, as he sought clarity on the former’s “operational methods”. Justice Kayani made the remarks while hearing a petition regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry on …
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: As over 500 students came back from Kyrgyzstan via special flights which landed in Lahore and Islamabad, the government assured them that it would facilitate their return to the Central Asian state once the “alarming situation” in its capital stabilises. After a mob targeted foreign students in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Pakistani students due to fear and panic started their …
ISLAMABAD: A local court on Monday acquitted former prime minister Imran Khan and other Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders in the cases nearly two years after they were registered for alleged violence, riots, obstructing public service and mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage during the May 25 Azadi March. Besides the ex-premier, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Qasim Suri, …
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Monday passed the Defamation Bill, 2024, rejecting all amendments proposed by the opposition amid protests by the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council and journalists covering parliamentary proceedings. The SIC members tore apart copies of the bill after the house passed it through a voice vote. Vetted by the Special Committee-1 in the absence of standing committees, the bill …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkiye on Monday set their sights on enhancing annual bilateral trade to $5 billion, besides intensifying their defense collaboration as the two countries prepared for their upcoming high-level bilateral summit. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, while speaking at the Foreign Office after a meeting with visiting Turkish FM Hakan Fidan, said the two sides …
ISLAMABAD: Any attempt to impose martial law in the country will be resisted, the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief vowed at a seminar on Monday. “So far we have faced three martial laws. I want to make it clear that if the Constitution is derailed again, we will take to the streets to protect it,” Mehmood Khan Achakzai said in …
ISLAMABAD: An election tribunal headed by a judge of the Islamabad High Court on Monday said the tribunal would issue arrest warrants against the returning officers of three Islamabad constituencies over their non-appearance and proceed ex parte on the poll petitions filed against the final results. The tribunal led by Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri issued notices to all the respondents, …
TEHRAN; Iran’s military chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri ordered on Monday a probe into the cause of a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage. Bagheri ordered “a high-ranking committee to launch an investigation into the cause of the president’s helicopter crash” that took place on Sunday, the ISNA news agency reported. Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed shock and extended his condolences on Monday over the sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. The helicopter, carrying President Raisi, the foreign minister, and other officials, went down in a foggy, mountainous region of northwest Iran, with all occupants pronounced dead after an hours-long search. The premier extended his …