KARACHI: Karachi Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Javed Alam Odho said on Monday that the city’s roads would be cleared of protest sit-ins before Maghrib prayers, saying that citizens had “suffered enough” for the last three days. The sit-ins, which have been ongoing for the past week, blocked major roads to protest the Parachinar killings, demanding measures including reopening …
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq will chair an in-camera meeting between negotiating teams representing the federal government and the PTI on January 2, a notification from the NA secretariat read on Monday. This will be the second meeting between the negotiating parties, discussing the PTI’s demands to release jailed party workers and the formation of a judicial commission …
ISLAMABAD: Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday announced that the government will launch the National Economic Transformation Plan for the next five years tomorrow, Radio Pakistan reported. During a 2022 briefing, Iqbal presented the former government’s four-point plan for revitalising the economy which included increasing exports, encouraging foreign investment, improving the tax-to-GDP ratio, and dealing with the loss-making, government-owned industries. …
RAWALPINDI: An army officer was martyred, while 13 terrorists were killed during three separate security operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Thursday. After the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022, the country witnessed a sharp uptick in the number of attacks targeting security forces and …
RAWALPINDI: Military courts have sentenced another 60 civilians to prison terms ranging from two to 10 years for their involvement in violent attacks on military installations during nationwide riots on May 9 last year, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. Today’s announcement comes less than a week after the ISPR announced that 25 civilians …
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Sahibzada Hamid Raza has said that the PTI will formally give the government time until January 31 to conclude ongoing negotiations. After winning the polls in February, PTI-backed candidates faced problems joining any political party registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan. PTI founder Imran Khan sent his winning candidates in the …
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad district and sessions court on Thursday granted bail to Bushra Bibi, the wife of PTI founder Imran Khan, in cases related to last month’s violent protest staged by the party. On Nov 13, Imran issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate, the release of detained party …
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday said that Pakistani forces conduct “operations in border areas to protect the people of Pakistan from terrorist groups”, a day after the Taliban administration accused the country of carrying out an airstrike on its territory. Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been strained due to frequent border skirmishes and Islamabad repeatedly demanding Kabul …
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban regime on Wednesday lodged a strong protest with Islamabad over an air strike, carried out by Pakistani jets near the Pak-Afghan border the previous day, warning that Afghanistan’s territorial sovereignty was the red line for the ruling Islamic Emirate, Kabul’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. “The foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate of …
LAHORE: Apparently paying the price for standing up to two powerful federal ministers, a grade 21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan has been removed from the post of inspector general (IG) motorway police and made an ‘officer on special duty’ — a euphemism used by the bureaucracy to refer to officials who have been ‘punished’ by high-ups. A …