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 …
TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday. The charred wreckage of the helicopter which crashed on Sunday carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was found early on Monday after an overnight …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) senior puisne judge Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Monday said that the intelligence agencies should shed the perception of their involvement in forced abductions. The IHC judge was hearing a petition seeking the recovery of Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad Shah. Shah was allegedly abducted from his home last week. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan …
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Mohammad Aurangzeb has termed the banking sector’s recommendations for three priority sectors — small and medium enterprises (SMEs), digital and technology, agriculture — vital for promoting growth and sustainability. In a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Banks’ Association (PBA), the minister stated that the purpose of this initiative was to encourage …
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, a former prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by the Islamabad police late on Sunday night. The arrest was made by the Margalla Police in connection with the FIR lodged by a member of the former premier’s family for “forceful entry and firing in [the] family property”. According to the FIR, Mr Ilyas, Aneel Sultan, …
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Energy Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Sunday said the government had no plans to end the policy of solar net-metering. The minister’s remarks came in the wake of media reports, claiming that the government was scrapping the policy and replacing it with a new gross-metering mechanism. Net metering allows consumers to sell excess electricity produced by …
LAHORE: Amid a low voter turnout in the by-election in NA-148 Multan on Sunday, the PPP’s Syed Ali Qasim Gilani is likely to win against Barrister Taimur Altaf Mahay who contested the by-poll from the platform of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). According to initial results, Ali Qasim Gilani, the son of former prime minister and current Senate Chairman Yusuf Raza Gilani, …
LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Saturday accused incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan of “backstabbing” him in 2013 by carrying out protest rallies despite initially assuring him of his cooperation post-elections. Addressing a meeting of the PML-N’s Central Working Committee (CWC) in Lahore, Nawaz said that upon assuming power in 2013, the first thing he did was go and visit Imran at …