LAHORE: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, on Saturday deplored that successive governments in Pakistan had shown little interest in improving the lives of ordinary citizens, saying policymaking remained trapped in “elite capture”. “Everything that is done is elitist to satisfy or protect industry or perhaps pressure groups, but an ordinary person is not …
ISLAMABAD: Ambassador Tahir Hussain Andrabi is poised to succeed Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan as the Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson, according to a source familiar with the matter. Mr Khan, the current spokesperson, will replace Ambassador Faisal Niaz Tirmizi as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this month. Ambassador Tirmizi, in turn, will move to Moscow, succeeding Ambassador Khalid …
ISLAMABAD: Reaffirming judiciary’s commitment to ensuring access to justice across most remote regions, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi undertook a visit to Upper Chitral, the farthest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where he discussed the ongoing judicial reforms. Speaking to judicial officers and members of the Bar at Booni, CJP Afridi observed that Booni had been chosen in view …
LAHORE: PML-N ministers on Saturday lashed out at former prime minister Imran Khan, blaming him for the resurgence of terrorism in the country and demanding that he be held accountable. “Imran Khan is responsible for the return of terrorism in Pakistan. It was Imran Khan who brought terrorism and terrorists back into the country, and for this, he should be …
DERA ISMAIL KHAN/PESHAWAR: Seven policemen were martyred and 13 others injured, while eight militants were killed in two separate encounters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Saturday. According to senior police officials, the first encounter took place in Dera Ismail Khan district’s Ratta Kulachi area when militants stormed the Police Training School (PTS) late Friday night. They said the attackers, …
LAHORE: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) supporters reached Muridke on Saturday afternoon as they continued attempts to reach the federal capital to stage a protest in ‘solidarity with Palestinians’. Clashes between supporters of the religious party and police were reported in the Shahdara area of Lahore earlier today. At least 40 police personnel have been injured today, while the TLP claims that …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday assailed the PTI-led KP government for “facilitating terrorists, sowing division, and undermining national security,” stressing that the sacrifices of Pakistanis in the fight against terrorism will not be in vain. The information minister’s remarks come a day after the spokesperson for the military’s media wing, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, without naming anyone, …
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi said on Saturday that the resignation of PTI’s Ali Amin Gandapur has been “duly received and acknowledged” by the Governor’s House. On Wednesday, Gandapur said that he resigned from his role as the provincial chief executive, while the party’s general secretary, Salman Akram Raja, confirmed that party founder Imran Khan directed Sohail Afridi …
LAHORE: Notorious gangster Khawaja Tareef Butt, alias Teefi Butt, was killed in an alleged gun battle with police in the early hours of Saturday in Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan district. Butt was a proclaimed offender who fled to the United Arab Emirates after he was accused of being involved in a murder in Lahore last February. A probe carried out …
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has left for the United States to participate in the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), state-run Radio Pakistan reported on Saturday. The visit comes after a IMF mission concluded talks with Pakistani authorities on reviews of two lending programmes totalling $8.4 billion without announcing a staff-level agreement …