ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed surprise that pardon documents of the Sharif brothers were produced by the Sindh advocate-general in the Supreme Court. He said his government had not issued any instruction in this regard to the provincial government. Sources said that Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had called […]
HYDERABAD: Panic and fear gripped the interior of Sindh as rumour that Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr. Qadir Magsi had been killed by police in Karachi spread like wildfire and brought normal life to a grinding halt in all districts and towns of the province on Wednesday. Without so much as confirming the rumour, […]
PESHAWAR – The death toll in Pearl Continental Hotel blast reached 19 on Wednesday, as six more bodies were retrieved from the debris on Wednesday. The bodies of a woman, three foreigners, hotel manager Syed Kamal Ahmad, and PIA captain Muhammed Ayub were recovered from the wreckage of the hotel. The hotel was damaged in […]
Karachi: Three political activists were killed as a result of firing by law-enforcers during a clash between the police and protestors in Gulshan-e-Maymar. Some 20 persons were injured including nine police recruits. During the crackdown, police rounded up some 40 miscreants and siezed arms and ammunation from them. Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza, taking notice […]
KARACHI: The counsel for Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) and Sindh Bar Council (SBC) has contended that the amendments made by Sindh government in the Sindh Judicial Service Rules regarding the appointment of judicial officers in subordinate courts are ultra vires to the Constitution and against the independence of the judiciary. SHCBA and SBC […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday was informed that the original record of the “plane conspiracy case” was tampered, which led to delay in lodging the FIR against Nawaz Sharif as it was registered after the lapse of one month from the occurrence. A five-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Justice […]
The Election Commission has postponed by-elections in NA-123 (Lahore) and NA-55, because of volatile law and order situation and serious threats of terrorist attacks. PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif who was recently declared by the apex court as qualified to contest election is a candidate for the NA-123 seat. Polling in the constituency was withheld because […]
By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: More senators on Tuesday backed what a noted legal figure among them called a constitutional military action against Taliban rebels in Malakand division on the third day of a debate in the upper house. But the harmony among the supporters of the month-old full-scale operation, which authorities say has cleared most […]
BISHAM: Explosive devices planted beside a police post in Changal area of Battagram district went off Monday. No casualty was, however, reported. Security forces arrived at the Puran bazaar of Shangla district and continued patrolling all the daylong and finally extended its patrol to other parts of the district including Dherai, Twa, Tangi, Sandvi and […]
NEW DELHI:India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday criticised Pakistani media portals for displaying “unsolicited” advertisements with its prime ministerial candidate LK Advani’s photographs asking for votes. BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, without knowing the advertisements were part of an automatic display on Google, asked the Pakistani media to ‘set your own house […]
ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission (BHC) in Pakistan said in a written statement on Friday that demands by local media that the UK government should apologise for the bringing of ‘false charges of terrorism’ against 10 Pakistani nationals were based on misrepresented facts. The statement said the British police may, during the course of any […]
By: Irfan Bukhari ISLAMABAD – Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira Tuesday said that Nizam-e-Adl Regulation (NAR) had been promulgated in Malakand Division with the backing of millions of Pakistanis and hoped that the system would deliver cheap and speedy justice to the dwellers of the region. “We will not let Swat fall in the […]
LAHORE: Lahore Police in cooperation with intelligence agencies have arrested three terrorists who were working as agents of the Indian intelligence agency RAW and were involved in different terrorist activities in the provincial capital. Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Pervaiz Rathore revealed this during a press conference at the Police Lines, Qila Gujjar Singh, on […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 29: Students, teachers and heads of public schools in the district are highly critical of an NGO’s project, allegedly backed by administration, under which it is collecting Rs30 from each of them promising provision of various educational facilities. The NGO, Saiban Women Development Organisation, reportedly launched the ‘project’ about a month […]
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