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 …
WASHINGTON: In a turbulent world, China chooses Chinese modernization at home and forge a community with a shared future for mankind internationally, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said on Saturday, calling the U.S. side to work with China and find a right way to get along in the new era, based on the principles of mutual respect, …
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday arrived in Karachi on a day-long visit, where he is expected to hold meetings with the Sindh chief minister and governor, state-run Radio Pakistan reported. Upon his arrival at the Karachi airport, Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori and Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah welcomed PM Shehbaz. The prime minister visited Mazar-i-Quaid, where he laid a floral …
ISLAMABAD: The administration of Islamabad High Court (IHC) has initiated the process to send back District and Sessions Judge Abul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain to his parent department, the Lahore High Court (LHC), over alleged misconduct. Judge Zulqarnain convicted former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case and sentenced them to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment each, …
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seeking his response to a petition of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz against the recent authorisation of expenditure by the provincial government for a month. Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Shahid Khan held a preliminary hearing into the joint petition of two PML-N …