ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari approved the appointment of the governors for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Balochistan on Saturday. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had nominated two senior party leaders a day ago for the posts of the KP and Punjab governors as part of a deal reached with the PML-N before joining the coalition government. In Balochistan, Jaffar Khan Mandokhail, president of …
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday issued bailable arrest warrants for 14 suspects, who are on bail, for skipping trial proceedings of two cases related to May 9 riots. Judge Arshad Javed ordered the police to ensure the appearance of nine suspects in the Jinnah House attack case, and five others in Askari Tower case, on May 15. The …
LAHORE: As the Punjab government refuses to take responsibility for the ongoing wheat crisis, ruling PML-N founder Nawaz Sharif has summoned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at Jati Umra residence to discuss the issue. Meanwhile, the provincial government is exploring more ways and means to compensate the wheat growers, instead of revising upward its grain procurement target and announcing a date for …
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the UN General Assembly and the Security Council to address India’s new strategy of conducting cross-border assassinations. During a General Assembly debate on the “Culture of Peace” on Thursday evening, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram highlighted that India was also targeting Muslims, Christians, and other minorities within its borders. He stressed that India’s extraterritorial state …
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday approved retirement notification of former judge of Islamabad High Court Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, restoring his benefits and reputation that was marred due to his dismissal from service seven years ago. According to the Presidency, the president approved the notification with effect from June 30, 2021. “In the light of the Supreme Court …
ISLAMABAD: PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan has linked any potential dialogue with the return of his party’s “stolen mandate” and the release of “innocent imprisoned workers”. In his message from Adiala Jail, Mr Khan also urged the judges hearing his and his wife’s cases to expedite their rulings instead of delaying them unnecessarily. Mr Khan reiterated that he was “always …
ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: In a historic first, a Pakistani satellite will orbit the moon as part of China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission, which was launched from Hainan, China, on Friday. The mission, which aims to explore the moon’s “dark side”, will employ lunar research payloads from multiple countries, including Pakistan’s iCube Qamar satellite. The Institute of Space Technology (IST) on Tuesday said Pakistan’s “historic” …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Babar Sattar on Friday dismissed a plea filed by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in which it sought to withdraw its petition seeking the judge’s recusal from a case pertaining to audio leaks. During today’s hearing, it also emerged that the IHC had dismissed the IB’s plea seeking the judge’s recusal at the last hearing on April 29. …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a cabinet committee to ascertain the reasons for the import of the commodity during the last caretaker government. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the PM presided over a high-level meeting on wheat on Thursday and expressed gratitude to Allah Almighty for bestowing the country with a bumper wheat crop this year. “No …
KARACHI: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman made bold accusations on Thursday, claiming that apart from domestic reasons, external influences also played a significant role in the Feb 8 election results, alleging that his party was denied its true mandate by the establishment as the United States was angry over his engagements with Palestinian group Hamas and the Afghan Taliban. Mr …