Pakistan

LAHORE: The country’s top court on Sunday suspended Lahore High Court’s order rejecting the new nomination papers drafted by the Parliament and directing Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to redraft the forms. During the hearing of petitions filed by former speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq and ECP, Chief Justice of …

Nearly four days before Pak-Afghan officials met in Islamabad to continue their revived dialogue under the Afghan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS), most in the local and foreign media missed a unique , though stringing critique – near indictment – of the US-led Nation-Building project in Afghanistan. …

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) approved on Thursday a 30-day physical remand of suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar in the Naqeebullah Mehsud killing case. The decision came as police escorted Anwar to the court under strict security. Anwar, wanted in the extrajudicial murder case, was brought to court in an …

Lahore: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ruled that there was ‘no merit’ in the Sindh government’s appeals against a Sindh High Court (SHC) verdict that had granted Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) AD Khawaja complete autonomy over the provincial Police Department. Chaired by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, a …

ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Thursday said that denial of seven-day exemption to Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz by an accountability court was a negation of fundamental rights. The minister made these remarks while talking to the media at the Ladies Gala organised by the Parks …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that the Pakistan came into being consequent to a democratic struggle and its security, solidarity and prosperity was also linked with the democracy. In his message to the nation on Pakistan Day annually observed on March 23, the prime minister urged his countrymen …

ISLAMABAD: The successful holding of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in Pakistan is a great achievement of the government which testifies to the prevalence of better law and order situation in the country; an outcome of the policies pursued in conformity with the vision of former prime minister Muhammad …

ISLAMABAD: Moody’s does not expect Pakistan’s inclusion in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list to have a material impact on its external financing. Pakistan had previously been included in the list between 2012 and 2015 but managed to negotiate when its entered into an IMF program Moody’s does …

GUJRANWALA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday said that Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif was next in line for disqualification after the ouster of his brother and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. “Punjab should be cleansed from the Sharifs in the upcoming general elections,” he told workers at …

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said that the Supreme Court judge’s remarks about the Panama case were not an ‘ordinary thing’. He was referring to the remarks of Justice Qazi Faez Isa made while hearing a lawmaker’s disqualification case on Tuesday that the Panama case was about the …