SIALKOT, April 25: The Pasrur Sadar police registered a case against its station house officer (SHO) and four policemen for allegedly killing a former union council (UC) nazim in a ‘staged’ shootout after a large number of locals protested the incident in front of the DSP’s office on Friday afternoon. SHO Roy Muneer Ahmad and […]
QUETTA, April 24: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani on Thursday allotted portfolios to 13 of the 38 ministers sworn in a day earlier. According to a notification, JUI-F’s parliamentary leader Maulana Abdul Wasey will be senior minister and hold the portfolio of planning and development. He held both the portfolios in the coalition government […]
ISLAMABAD: Stalemate on the restoration of sacked judges continued in the second meeting of the ruling coalition partners at Parliament House on Thursday. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said the talks continued smoothly and progress was encouraging, but the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said nothing could be said about the outcome of the negotiations. PML-N: […]
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik has said the government is holding talks with all tribal leaders in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Balochistan, including local Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, for lasting peace in the country. “We will give the nation good news very soon regarding the peace […]
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Speakers on Thursday urged the government to take steps for the promotion of book culture in the country, which they noted was the key indicator of an intellectually developed civilized society. Participating in a special discussion held to mark the World Book and Copy Right Day they said Islam’s glory was not […]
HYDERABAD, April 24: Lawyers’ boycott of courts across Sindh was continued on Thursday as they vowed to only accept the judiciary that existed before the November 3 of last year. Protest rallies were taken out in different parts of province in support of lawyers’ demand for reinstatement of deposed judges. In Hyderabad, lawyers did not […]
ISLAMABAD, April 24: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Aitzaz Ahsan has warned that lawyers would launch a long march if deposed judges were not restored through a resolution in the National Assembly. Presiding over the first meeting on Thursday of SCBA’s executive committee held at the Supreme Court building after the Nov 3 emergency, […]
ISLAMABAD, April 23: Differences between the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N over the issue of a proposed constitutional package might delay for a few days the tabling of a resolution in the National Assembly seeking the reinstatement of judges, sources told Dawn here on Wednesday. The sources said the first meeting of […]
TANK, April 23: The leader of Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, has ordered his fighters to “immediately cease their activities” in the tribal region as well as the NWFP. “Baitullah Mehsud has issued directives to all his comrades that in order to restore peace in the region, they should cease their activities forthwith both in the […]
Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq has constituted an “electoral reforms committee” under the chairmanship of Secretary ECP to review the existing electoral laws and propose reforms in them. Other members of the committee will be provincial election commissioners of Punjab and Sindh, joint secretaries (Elections, Administration and Local Government Elections), […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said he was ready to issue an executive order for the restoration of judges if the coalition leadership asked him. The prime minister was talking to members of the parliamentary party of the coalition government of the Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDA). Gilani said the PDA members […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed their resolve to reinstate the deposed judges through a resolution in the National Assembly within the timeframe stipulated in the Murree Declaration. They also announced setting up of a broad-based committee to give final […]
KARACHI, April 22: The newly appointed police administration has started preparing for the much-awaited strike against street crimes, which includes a proposal for installing more than 2,000 security cameras across the city. The police hierarchy is likely to take up business formally on Wednesday, when top cops will visit the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) for […]
ISLAMABAD, April 22: Repre-sentatives of different bar associations said on Tuesday that if the deposed judges were not reinstated by the deadline set in the Bhurban Declaration, the Pakistan Bar Council would decide its future line of action on May 3. Rejecting a statement by PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari that he did not believe […]
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