SAHIWAL: Over the past 30 hours, some 170 individuals, including district and tehsil office-bearers, ticket-holders, workers, and activists of Tehrik-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), were arrested by police and law enforcement agencies across the Sahiwal division. The arrests were made by police and different law enforcement agencies personnel from various police stations jurisdictions across the division’s seven tehsils. As per the latest …
LAHORE: The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) began its protest march in Lahore on Friday, with the plan to reach Islamabad and hold an anti-Israeli demonstration outside the US embassy there. A correspondent in Lahore reported on Friday evening that the protesters were trying to remove obstacles at the city’s Chauburji Chowk and march ahead. A statement by Edhi spokesperson Younis Bhatti …
RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said on Friday that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should work on protecting the people of the province instead of “begging Afghanistan” for security. The DG ISPR made these remarks while addressing a press conference at Peshawar Corps Headquarters. He said governance gaps in KP were being paid …
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Friday said that Pakistan’s recent engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “constructive”, adding that there appeared to be no “showstoppers” so far. An IMF mission led by Iva Petrova met with Pakistan’s economic team in Karachi and Islamabad from September 24 to October 8 to review the implementation of the $7 billion …
RAWALPINDI: Thirty terrorists involved in the Orakzai incident earlier this week — during which 11 security personnel, including two officers, were martyred — were killed in a “retribution operation”, the military’s media affairs wing said on Friday. The incident in Orakzai took place on Tuesday night when security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Orakzai district on the …
ISLAMABAD: The authorities are hopeful for the finalisation of a staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s upcoming visit to the United States, subject to the consensus on the external account and verified flood-related losses, as well as their fiscal adjustment across central and provincial accounts. Official sources confirmed that the IMF had …
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A railway employee was killed and train services were suspended on Thursday when a bomb exploded on a railway track near Dera Murad Jamali, connecting Balochistan to the rest of the country, marking the fourth such incident in a month, according to officials. Officials said unknown militants planted an IED on the track near a railway bridge …
ISLAMABAD: The continued boycott by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and a noisy protest by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) members over the alleged biased attitude of Deputy Chairman Syedaal Khan Nasar on Thursday disrupted the Senate proceedings as the sitting was adjourned without completing agenda due to lack of quorum. The PPP senators, who had been boycotting the Senate …
PESHAWAR: Despite Imran Khan’s instructions, Ali Amin Gandapur technically remains the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until his resignation is accepted by the provincial governor. His resignation letter, which was shared with the media the previous night, has apparently gotten lost in red tape, with Governor House denying having ever received it. Officials at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat told that …
ISLAMABAD: Senior lawyer Munir A. Malik contended on Thursday that an order for the formation of a full court could be issued using “judicial powers” as an eight-member Constitutional Bench (CB) of the Supreme Court (SC) heard pleas against the contentious legislation. The Amendment was passed by the parliament during an overnight session in October last year, with the PTI …