ISLAMABAD: In a recent reshuffle, the federal government has replaced Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Akbar Nasir Khan, with Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi, a BS-20 officer currently posted in Punjab. According to the notifications issued by the Establishment Division, Dr Akbar Nasir Khan was posted to the Establishment Division “with immediate effect and until further orders”. Khan had been …
ISLAMABAD: PTI central leader Asad Qaiser has advised his party’s chief minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to snap all ties with the federal government as the Centre will not accept any of his demands. The advice came a day after KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur met Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Peshawar and discussed a joint strategy to fight terrorism. “This is …
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s former MNA Aliya Hamza Malik and social media activist Sanam Javed were reportedly rearrested on Friday in a new case of May 9 riots before their release from Kot Lakhpat jail following bail in Shadman police station attack case. This time, sources said, the PTI’s both women had been implicated in a case of torching Kamar Mashani police station …
ISLAMABAD: Retired Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, a former chief justice, was on Saturday appointed the head of the inquiry commission that will investigate charges of interference into judicial independence by the intelligence apparatus. On Tuesday, six Islamabad High Court judges — out of a total strength of eight — wrote a startling letter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) members, regarding attempts …
GUJRANWALA: A Gujranwala anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced 51 convicts to five-year prison terms in a case pertaining to the attack on Gujranwala cantonment following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan on May 9 last year. More than 100 civilians are under trial for their alleged role in attacks on army installations during the riots that followed Imran’s arrest on May …
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), on Thursday presented certificates of order to promote two military officers to the rank of general. The promoted officers are Wang Renhua, secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CMC, and Xiao Tianliang, president of the University of National Defense. Zhang Youxia, vice …
NEW YORK: Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Thursday that he will soon finish his five-year term in the post and return to China. According to a statement released by China’s Permanent Mission to the UN, Zhang called his UN posting “a great honor and heavy responsibility.” His UN tenure started in 2019. “It …
BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Japan to promote regional peace and stability when meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday in Beijing. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, appreciated Fukuda, former chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia, for his care about the development of the …
PESHAWAR: Reflecting the emergence of a working relationship between the political rivals who rule in the Centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, against the backdrop of surging terrorist attacks in the region, Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur received Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi here on Thursday. During the meeting, CM Gandapur said KP had suffered the most during the war against …
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent bid to avoid a retrial in the cipher case, the counsel for former prime minister Imran Khan and foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday endorsed the cross-examination of key witnesses by state-appointed counsel. The move comes as a surprise, as it contradicts the stance earlier adopted by the PTI legal team, which has maintained that the …