ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar will not proceed to New York for the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly due to important diplomatic commitments and preparations for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit to be held in Islamabad. Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has once again approached the Supreme Court, filing a petition regarding the allocation of reserved seats. PTI’s lawyer, Uzair Bhandari, submitted the petition, arguing that the amendment to the Election Act does not apply to the Supreme Court’s decision on 12 July and that the Election Commission is bound to implement that decision. PTI’s petition seeks …
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram, stated that Pakistan remains committed to maintaining its ties with the Taliban, despite any differences. Speaking in an interview with a US broadcaster, Munir emphasised that the mistakes of the Afghan government should not be borne by the Afghan people, highlighting Pakistan’s enduring relationship with its neighbour. Munir pointed …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that national or provincial assemblies cannot make prospective or retrospective laws that are against fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The observations came from Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, who was heading a three-judge bench, which heard a set of appeals challenging the amendments made in 2019 to Section 65B of the Income Tax …
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), has said he rejected the government’s proposed constitutional amendments, criticising the draft for limiting fundamental rights and expanding the military’s role. The JUI-F leader made the statement while speaking to the media in Multan on Friday, highlighting his concerns over the draft received from the government. …
ISLAMABAD: Party positions in Pakistan’s National Assembly have shifted following a letter from Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to the Election Commission of Pakistan. The reshuffle, announced by the National Assembly Secretariat, sees 80 members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – previously under the category of ‘Independent’ candidates – are now listed under the Sunni Ittehad Council. The new party positions, …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Friday said that President Asif Ali Zardari has signed off on the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Amendment Ordinance 2024 that amended the law to clip the top judge’s powers of bench formation, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. In October 2023, the Supreme Court had upheld the SC (Practice & Procedure) Act, 2023 which was …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the city’s deputy commissioner to decide by 5pm upon PTI’s petitions for permission to hold a rally in the provincial capital tomorrow. A three-member bench, constituted by LHC Chief Justice Aalia Neelum, took up the petitions a day ago and sought the personal appearance of top civil brass, including the Punjab …
ISLAMABAD: Six soldiers embraced martyrdom while 12 terrorists were killed during two encounters in North and South Waziristan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday. According to the military’s media wing, security forces on Thursday detected the movement of seven terrorists trying to infiltrate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in North Waziristan’s Spinwam …
RAWALPINDI: The United Nations has awarded two Pakistani female peacekeepers with the Gender Advocacy Award for their “outstanding performance”, a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. In a statement issued on Thursday, the ISPR said the awards were presented to Major Sania Safdar, part of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Cyprus, and Major Komal Masood, who served in …