ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday gave Muttahida Qaumi Movement-P PIB faction leader Farooq Sattar till March 1 to submit his response in a petition filed against him by the Bahadurabad faction in the party. During the hearing, Bahadurabad faction lawyer Farogh Naseem argued that the intra-party …

LAHORE: The PML-N Central Working Committee (CWC) has elected Nawaz Sharif as the party “Quaid for Life” and Shahbaz Sharif as the interim president. A meeting of the CWC of which the Central Executive Committee (CEC) is a part was convened in Model Town on Tuesday. The meeting started at …

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but he stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. Arguing that a wider overhaul lacks congressional support, the …

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new initiative Tuesday that will target painkiller manufacturers and distributors who overprescribe and allow the misuse of prescription drugs by addicts. The initiative, Sessions said, will tackle the opioid crisis “at its root.” The Prescription Interdiction and Litigation (PIL) Task Force …

WASHINGTON — A top U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has given him no specific instructions to combat Russian meddling in the 2018 congressional elections that mirrors Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential contest aimed at helping Trump win. “I’ve never been given any specific direction to …

WASHINGTON – President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration got some help Tuesday when the Supreme Court ruled that it’s legal to detain non-citizens indefinitely, pending deportation. After reaching a 4-4 deadlock on the issue last year, the justices ruled 5-3 against a group of immigrants protesting detentions averaging 13 months. …

WASHINGTON — The United States cut back aid to Cambodia Tuesday to protest shrinking democracy in the Southeast Asia nation, where the party of longtime ruler Hun Sen swept Senate elections after facing no serious opposition. The White House said it was suspending or curtailing U.S. programs worth $8.3 million …

Toronto – A 35-year-old Toronto man who allegedly attacked and killed a man near Bathurst St. and St. Clair Ave. W. on Monday night is wanted by Toronto police for first-degree murder. Police were called to the area of Nina and Bathurst Sts. before midnight. Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said witnesses …

OTTAWA—The Liberal government has unveiled another free-spending budget that doubles down on a progressive agenda with billions to boost women in the workforce, to back a feminist foreign aid agenda, and improve Indigenous services, along with record support for science and innovation. The 2018 fiscal blueprint — revealed by federal …

OTTAWA—All governments live by a clock. It typically starts ticking loudly in the third year of a majority mandate, when there is still time to put in place the structural elements of a re-election platform. The next-to-last Liberal budget of the current Parliament begins to lift the veil on the …