Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Vice Chairperson, Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA), Jahan Ara Manzoor Wattoo held an important meeting in Islamabad with Country Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Coco Ushiyama.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar Thursday confirmed that incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan underwent a medical procedure for an eye ailment at Islamabad’s PIMS hospital on Saturday night.

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Thursday announced that a judicial commission will be established to investigate the Gul Plaza fire, which claimed 80 lives in Karachi.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday categorically ruled out joining the Abraham Accords and reaffirmed that its participation in the Gaza Board of Peace does not signal any shift in its long-standing policy on Israel.

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday underscored the importance of sustained dialogue and diplomatic engagement for promoting peace, security and development in the region.

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan engaged with delegations from the District Bar Associations of Mansehra and Kohat on Thursday as part of an ongoing stakeholder consultation process aimed at advancing judicial reforms and improving access to justice.

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and its partner organisations on Thursday published a joint statement condemning the “arbitrary arrest” and conviction of lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chatta, and called for their release. Imaan and Hadi were sentenced on January 24 under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act’s (Peca) sections 9 (glorification of an offence), 10 (cyberterrorism), and 26-A (false and fake information). They were handed a total of 17 years in jail, with the longest sentence being 10 years, and fined Rs36 million each collectively. The joint statement released on Thursday — signed by the Balochistan Bar Council, the Hyderabad Bar Association, the Karachi Bar Association, the Sindh High Court Bar Association and other global bodies — condemned the “arbitrary arrest and subsequent conviction” of Imaan and Hadi, calling for their immediate release and measures to ensure the conviction was set aside. “Both lawyers have faced targeted reprisals, including harassment th...

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RAWALPINDI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, who reached a police picket near Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on Thursday afternoon, announced that he, along with PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and other party members and supporters, would be camping at the spot overnight. Afridi, who has been seeking a meeting with the incarcerated prime minister since he assumed office of the provincial chief executive in October last year, but to no avail. He again reached Factory Naka — a police picket near the Adiala jail — today in yet another attempt to meet Imran, with Thursday and Tuesday being court-mandated dates for meeting with the former prime minister. However, he, as well as Imran’s sisters and lawyers, have been barred from meeting him for the past several weeks — a restriction that has made sit-ins and protests near the prison a usual occurrence. On several occasions, police have also used force to disperse the protesters, who often camp at Factory Naka. Speaking to the media on Thursday, A...

A major breakthrough has emerged in the Kohistan financial scandal in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as 10 accused individuals appeared before an accountability court and submitted applications to surrender assets valued at hundreds of millions of rupees.

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