PESHAWAR: At least six people, including five Chinese nationals, were killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in the Bisham area of Shangla district on Tuesday, a top police officer said. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp …
ISLAMABAD: Tensions brewed within the ranks of the PTI as members expressed dismay over what they alleged were damaging remarks made by fellow party colleague Sher Afzal Marwat. The matter came to a head during a heated exchange at the party’s core committee meeting on Monday. Sources privy to the meeting revealed a sharp exchange of words between PTI members …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed the resolve on Tuesday to bring macroeconomic stability and put Pakistan the path of growth. Addressing the Tax Excellence Awards ceremony in Islamabad, the premier said ensuring export-led growth through joint efforts was the only solution to make the country debt-free. The prime minister also said the government will strive to elevate productive sectors such …
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan expressed his willingness on Tuesday to remain in jail while urging authorities to release other leaders of his party. Speaking to the media during the hearing of the £190 million reference, Imran again urged Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa to hear PTI’s May 25 petition and form a judicial commission to investigate …
RAWALPINDI: A soldier of Frontier Corps Balochistan was martyred and four terrorists were killed as security forces repulsed an attack on a naval base in Turbat, said a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday. The military’s media wing said terrorists attempted to attack PNS Siddique in Turbat on Monday night but the attempt was foiled due to …
ISLAMABAD: A court in Islamabad issued production orders on Monday for PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for April 4 as it heard their counsels’ appeals for the two to be presented in court. The appeals were filed in connection with Imran and Bushra’s bail pleas in six May 9 violence cases and a Toshakhana fake receipts case, respectively. …
PESHAWAR: Pakistan has begun preparations to launch the second phase of its repatriation drive to send nearly one million ‘documented’ Afghans back to their homeland, with directives to district authorities and police to map and collect data of their whereabouts across the country, documents reveal. An official privy to the development said instructions had been issued to district administrations and police to …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed authorities to ensure foolproof security for workers of the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project and for the logistics and transport from the project’s site to Gwadar port. Mr Sharif issued the directive while chairing a meeting on the Reko Diq project in Lahore, the PM Office said in a statement on Sunday. A delegation from …
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has demanded that a team of doctors from the province be allowed to medically examine PTI leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and determine the truth behind his injuries. A report submitted by the deputy superintendent of Adiala Jail, where Mr Elahi is incarcerated, claimed that the PTI leader fell in his cell’s washroom on March 17 …
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leadership has decided to reorganise the party at regional and districts levels as it is currently being run by office-bearers having acting charges of their portfolios. PTI Central Punjab secretary general Hammad Azhar, who has been directed by the party’s founding chairman Imran Khan to continue with his duties, on Sunday announced that the party would be …