ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday suspended two senior officers of Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) over their alleged negligence and failure in ensuring transparency in wheat purchase. Presiding over a high-level meeting to review the demand and supply and procurement of wheat by the federal government, the PM ordered the suspension of Passco’s managing director and general …
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab home department has imposed a ban on meeting of relatives and others with all prisoners in the Central Jail Adiala for three days owing to security concerns. Jail authorities confirmed that the three-day ban was imposed from Monday. In addition, a ban on providing any items to prisoners was also banned. Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday confirmed interim pre-arrest bail of former prime minister Imran Khan in a criminal case of attacking a police team outside his Zaman Park residence. Justice Muhammad Amjad Rafiq directed the incarcerated PTI founding chairman to furnish bail bonds of Rs500,000. Earlier, Barrister Salman Safdar appeared on behalf of Mr Khan and denied charges …
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir on Monday said the nation owed its independence and security to the sacrifices of its martyrs, according to a news release by the military’s media wing. He made these remarks while addressing a ceremony to confer military awards on personnel for their acts of gallantry during operations. Senior army officers and families of …
LAHORE: PTI Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid has written a letter to the chief justice decrying “political victimisation” and repeated arrests of her party colleagues. Ms Rashid, who has been in prison for almost a year now, wrote the letter on Monday, reminding CJP Qazi Faez Isa that many female PTI workers were still languishing in jail “without trial and basic right …
ISLAMABAD: The incarcerated founding chairman of PTI and former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday warned the government that countrywide protests would be launched if the government would further increase power and gas tariff. Pakistan’s economy could not be stabilised unless the government is formed in accordance with the public mandate, Imran Khan said while talking to the media at Adiala jail. …
ISLAMABAD: A week after the Supreme Court suspended the Peshawar High Court’s judgement depriving the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) of reserved seats for women and minorities, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday suspended victory notifications of as many as 77 members of the national and provincial assemblies elected on those seats. The suspended lawmakers include 44 from PML-N, 15 from PPP, …
BEIJING: China and the United States will hold the first intergovernmental meeting on artificial intelligence (AI) in Geneva, Switzerland on May 14 local time, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Upon agreement, the two sides will exchange views on the technological risks of AI, global governance and other issues of concern. According to the ministry, the meeting is being …
BEIJING: Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday expressed Pakistan’s resolve to advance cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on security and development, the Foreign Office (FO) said. The development comes as the foreign minister met with SCO Secretary General Ambassador Zhang Ming in Beijing, where he arrived earlier today. According to Radio Pakistan, Dar reaffirmed Pakistan’s “unwavering commitment” to the …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday stepped aside from his position as the PML-N president, saying stated that “the time has come” for his brother Nawaz Sharif to retake his “rightful place as the president of the party”. Nawaz was removed as the president of the party in 2018 after a Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by then-chief justice …