Month: November 2023

ISLAMABAD: A special court, established under the Official Secrets Act 2023, on Tuesday announced, in a verdict, that it would hold cipher case hearings of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the Adiala jail.  Last week, the court ordered authorities to present the former prime minister and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Islamabad’s Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) today. However, today the Adiala jail authorities failed to produce the former prime minister before the court citing “security risks” in their report.

LAHORE: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday issued the arrest orders for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Marriyum Aurangzeb in a hate speech case and directed authorities to produce the former minister in court on December 9. ATC Judge Abher Gul Khan issued the arrest warrant for the PML-N leader and ordered the station house officer (SHO) concerned to execute the orders of her arrest.  The non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against the former information minister for not appearing before the court.  A terrorism case has been registered against Aurangzeb,…

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) outspoken leader Khawaja Asif on Sunday slammed the former Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for allegedly bringing the country’s economy to the brink of disaster and distorting the moral values of the young generation. Addressing the PML-N’s workers convention in Punjab’s Sialkot, the PML-N leader sought accountability of those behind the “PTI government experiment”. “The country suffered losses during the [PTI’s] four years. Those who performed the experiment should be held accountable”. The entire PTI leadership indulged in corruption during their tenure, he accused. “I…

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has raised concerns over caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar’s move to re-appoint Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Ishaq Dar as Leader of the House in Senate, sources told Geo News on Sunday. Dar was appointed to the post by then-prime minister Shehbaz Sharif in October 2022 a month after he returned to Pakistan ending nearly five years of self-imposed exile in London. The sources said the caretaker prime minister endorsed Senator Dar’s appointment to the key post in the upper house of parliament, a move irked…

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday ordered Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar to appear in person on Nov 29 in the Baloch students missing case. The court ordered the government to present the 55 missing Baloch students, as per the recommendations of the commission. The premier has been summoned due to the non-recovery of Baloch students. The order came during the hearing of the implementation of recommendations of the Baloch Enforced Disappearance Commission. Meanwhile, the additional attorney-general for Pakistan has requested the court not to summon the…

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker federal government has taken the final decision to remove IG Islamabad Police Dr Akbar Nasir Khan and Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon from their posts and there will be no further delay in this regard. Irfan Nawaz Memon is a Grade 19 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service while D. Akbar Nasir Khan is a Grade 20 officer of the Police Service. In the letter sent by the Election Commission of Pakistan to the Secretary Establishment Division on October 26, it was directed to remove the IG…