NEW YORK: China on Wednesday urged the United Nations to take collective actions to promote multilateralism and create a shared future for mankind. Speaking at a special event commemorating the “International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace,” Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, emphasized the critical need for genuine multilateralism in today’s complex global landscape. “The …
KARACHI: Amidst the controversy over alleged interference by intelligence in judicial affairs, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Thursday said he had received no complaints of meddling during his tenure so far as the country’s top judge. “Since I’ve been chief justice, I have not received a single complaint from any high court judge that there has been interference …
ISLAMABAD; Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has rejected PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan’s claims that former premier Imran Khan was being pressured to accept a ‘deal’. In an interview published on Wednesday on Independent Urdu, Asif said, “There is no truth in claims of pressuring Imran Khan to come to the negotiating table. Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House on Tuesday, Gohar had first …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday once again referred a set of intra-court appeals (ICAs) back to the three-judge committee against an Oct 23 ruling, which had deemed the trials of civilians in military courts ‘illegal’. The committee on formation of benches is now expected to form a larger bench to hear the case, as demanded by the counsel of different …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has accepted another plea against the PTI’s intra-party elections, sources told on Wednesday. The electoral watchdog seems to be meting out ‘special treatment’ to the party, as it has been issued a notice over alleged irregularities in intra-party polls, conducted on the ECP orders on March 3. The party had filed documents related to its intra-party …
ISLAMABAD: A day after Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb called for broadening the tax net and expressed concerns over the delay in the cases of tax recoveries, the government on Wednesday tabled a bill in the National Assembly to expedite the process of the recovery of over Rs2 trillion held up in litigation before the Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue (ATIR). The bill, titled …
KARACHI: Announcing 150 buses for the metropolis, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the federal authorities to remove all bottlenecks in the revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and assured the Sindh government to resolve all of its financial and development related issues pending with the federal governments. The prime minister, who arrived in the provincial metropolis on …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the absence of the investigation officer during the hearing on the petition seeking post-arrest bail for former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in a £190 million corruption case. The IHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, resumed hearing on the …
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), in collaboration with five other opposition parties, will launch a mass protest movement against what it calls “worst-ever rigging” in the general elections and subsequent by-polls, on Friday (tomorrow). On Wednesday, an online meeting of PTI Punjab office-bearers, MNAs, MPAs and ticket-holders was held to discuss the issue and chalk out a plan for Friday’s …
BEIJING: Recently, Europe and the United States have begun to amplify the notion of China’s supposed “overcapacity” in the production of electric vehicles and solar panels, asserting that it poses a threat to the global market. Given this, a commentary in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (New Journal of Zürich) on April 23 pointed out that the West’s complaints about China’s …