RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday took notice of the low wages of the labourers during her visit to the Holy Family Hospital and directed the authorities to pay the labourers according to the Punjab Minimum Wages Act. She also asked the communication and works department to complete the construction work in Holy Family Hospital as soon as …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Wednesday nominated senior counsel Farooq H. Naek to represent the party before the Supreme Court in the case related to seats reserved for women and minorities, which was filed by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). On May 6, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah had suspended the …
ISLAMABAD: Amid renewed heated debate in Parliament’s upper house over the judiciary and contempt of court, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Wednesday called for the matter regarding the conduct of judges to be sent to the Senate Secretariat so that a report could be prepared for future course of action. The Senate session today devolved into a continuation of …
ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Hammad Azhar reappeared on Wednesday after almost a year away from the public eye. Azhar, a former finance minister under the PTI government, went into hiding last year after the state launched a crackdown against the party leadership last year following the incidents of May 9. “I received a message from Imran Khan last night after the attack …
ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Wednesday rejected the first information report (FIR) registered by Islamabad police for the attack on the party’s central information secretary Raoof Hasan by unknown persons outside the office of a news channel a day earlier. Following the incident on Tuesday, the capital police said in a statement that Hasan had his face slashed with a blade and cited …
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said that the number of Pakistani students who fled Kyrgyzstan following the May 18 mob attacks has surpassed 3,000, and is expected to exceed 4,000 by midnight. His press conference in Islamabad comes after his visit to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Tuesday where he spoke to officials …
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan on Tuesday rejected the Punjab government’s defamation law, saying the people cannot be deprived of the constitutional rights. “The state means the country, not any institution,” he asserted addressing a gathering hosted by Insaf Lawyers Forum in the Lahore High Court Bar. Mr Ayub said oppressive and tyrannical laws were …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday gave government four days for the recovery of missing poet Ahmed Farhad. Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani accepted the request of Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan of four-day adjournment in order to enable the federal government to apply available resources for the recovery of Farhad. The federal minister for law and justice a …
ISLAMABAD: Despite the issuance of contempt notices to pliable politicians who had criticised the judiciary for its supposed failings, a couple of lawmakers used their privilege as parliamentarians to assail the conduct of judges on Tuesday, with Senator Faisal Vawda moving a motion against a sitting Supreme Court judge. During a hearing last week, Justice Athar Minallah of the Supreme Court had taken exception to Mr …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has dismissed a petition seeking the disqualification of former prime minister Imran Khan for concealing his alleged daughter, Tyrian White. A three-member bench comprising Justices Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Arbab Mohammad Tahir and Saman Rafat Imtiaz took up the petition on Tuesday after a gap of almost a year. The court issued the order on the grounds …