LAHORE: PTI leader Hassaan Khan Niazi, party founder Imran Khan’s nephew, on Wednesday moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) against his military custody, a court martial carried out against him and the full operation of the military court. Niazi was handed over to the military for trial in 2023 over his alleged involvement in the May 9 riots at Lahore’s …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday stressed the need for formulating a comprehensive roadmap and strategy to overcome the challenges posed by climate change in view of the human and economic losses caused by the ongoing floods in the country. “We cannot deal with climate change overnight,” he said while chairing a federal cabinet meeting in Islamabad, adding that …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has fixed its three-month summer vacation for 2026 under the newly framed Supreme Court Rules 2025 , even as debate continues within the top court over the scope and regulation of judges’ leave. The annual vacation will run from June 15 to Sept 14, 2026, under Rule 4 of Order II of the new rules, which …
ISLAMABAD: A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Wednesday reissued an arrest warrant for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in an illegal arms and liquor case after he failed to appear before the court. The case , which dates back to October 2016, accuses the PTI leader of possessing illegal arms and liquor after Islamabad police claimed …
QUETTA: All political leaders and workers arrested during the wheel-jam and shutter-down strike — following clashes with police and road blockades — were released on Tuesday after successful negotiations between the provincial authorities and opposition party leaders. Both sides reached an agreement under which the government agreed to release all detained workers and supporters of opposition parties and withdraw cases …
DOHA: Israel’s military said it conducted a strike targeting senior Hamas leaders on Tuesday, as Qatar condemned an attack on buildings housing members of the Palestinian militant movement in the capital. Qatar said Israeli strikes targeted the homes of several members of Hamas’s political bureau residing in the Gulf country, where the militant group’s senior leadership is based. A Hamas …
LAHORE: At least 13 people, including five children, died as floods devastated Jalalpur Pirwala, where more than 50 villages have been badly affected by the Chenab and Sutlej rivers. Shops and houses collapsed, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed, and rescue teams struggled to reach stranded populations, authorities said. Relief Commissioner Punjab Nabeel Javed said that due to severe …
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Tuesday acquitted former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi while sentencing Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry and others to 10 years in prison over yet another May 9 riots case, pertaining to the burning of police vehicles near Jinnah House. Following the arrest of ex-premier Imran Khan on May 9, 2023, from the Islamabad …
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah Khan won the Senate by-election from Punjab on Tuesday, according to unofficial results. According to Form-56 of the election results, the government candidate Sanaullah won after getting 250 votes. The polling was held at the Punjab Assembly. Out of 363 members of the provincial legislature, 251 cast their ballots …
PESHAWAR: School teachers across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa will soon require a licence to continue teaching, as part of the government’s efforts to ensure high educational standards, the province’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said on Tuesday. Last year, Sindh became the first province to introduce a teaching licence test under its teaching licence policy — introduced in 2023 — in a …