ISLAMABAD: Senior lawyer Munir A. Malik contended on Thursday that an order for the formation of a full court could be issued using “judicial powers” as an eight-member Constitutional Bench (CB) of the Supreme Court (SC) heard pleas against the contentious legislation. The Amendment was passed by the parliament during an overnight session in October last year, with the PTI …
ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said on Thursday that party founder Imran Khan has ordered the party’s lawmakers to resign from the chairmanships and memberships of standing committees in the Punjab Assembly. In August, Imran had said the party should not go into by-elections triggered by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualifying a large number of PTI …
ISLAMABAD: The PPP on Thursday said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had a phone call in which they discussed the “country’s prevailing political situation” amid the row between their two parties. The coalition allies have been trading barbs over how the PPP and PML-N have been providing aid to victims of the recent floods. The …
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah welcomed a high-level Saudi business delegation on Thursday and highlighted 12 priority sectors for investment in the province. The high-level business delegation from Saudi Arabia, led by Saudi-Pakistan Joint Business Council Chairman Prince Mansour bin Mohammad Al Saud, arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday to discuss trade, investment and collaboration. The development followed Pakistan …
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar on Thursday claimed that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Sohail Afridi has been nominated as the new chief minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to “support, promote, and enable” terrorism in the province. Yesterday, PTI’s Ali Amin Gandapur said he has resigned from his role as the KP CM while the party’s general secretary, Salman Akram Raja, confirmed …
ISLAMABAD: Former Jamaat-i-Islami senator Mushtaq Ahmad arrived in Islamabad on Thursday from Jordan wearing a keffiyeh and was accorded a hero’s welcome, with people showering him with petals and adorning garlands on the former lawmaker. The Pakistan embassy in Jordan, where he was deported to earlier, said late on Wednesday that Ahmad, who was detained by Israel last week after …
RAWALPINDI: Security in Rawalpindi was heightened on Thursday as tensions rose in Lahore and the religiopolitical party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) prepared for a large anti-Israel protest in Islamabad. On Wednesday night, violence broke out in Lahore after police launched a crackdown on the headquarters of TLP in a bid to arrest its chief, Saad Rizvi. The group had announced plans …
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Thursday that overseas workers’ remittances witnessed an increase of 8.41 per cent during the first quarter (July-September) of fiscal year 2025-26. The central bank said an inflow of $9.536 billion was recorded during July-September 2025 as compared to $8.796bn during the same period last year. On a year-on-year basis, the SBP …
RAWALPINDI: PTI’s Ali Amin Gandapur said on Wednesday that he will resign from his role as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister shortly after the party’s general secretary, Salman Akram Raja, confirmed that party founder Imran Khan directed Sohail Afridi to assume the role of provincial chief executive. “The role of the chief minister was Imran Khan sahib’s amaanat (entrustment) and as …
ISLAMABAD: The military’s top brass warned India on Wednesday that any “imaginary new normal” its leadership might be entertaining about bilateral dynamics would be met with a “new normal of swift retributive response”. The statement from the army brass, released after the 272nd Corps Commanders’ Conference (CCC) held at General Headquarters (GHQ), comes in the wake of last week’s provocative …