Category: Pakistan

Expressing his displeasure over the policies adopted by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the party’s senior leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has confirmed that he would not contest the upcoming general elections, slated to be held on February 8, 2024. Abbasi had stepped down from the party office soon after the appointment of Maryam Nawaz as senior vice president and chief organiser. The senior leader, however, rejects reports claiming differences with the party leadership. Abbasi said that he had resigned as the party’s senior vice president in an…

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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Thursday claimed that it had achieved a five-month target with Rs736 billion collected in November 2023, depicting a monthly growth of 38 percent. FBR Chairman Amjad Zubair Tiwana said that as per the agreed target with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the monthly target was set at Rs710 billion but the revenue board collected Rs736 billion. In a post on X, the FBR said that it achieved five-month target with Rs736 billion collected in November 2023 despite 54 percent higher refunds than…

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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.

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and senior lawyer Hamid Khan has slammed the incumbent caretaker governments in the Centre and provinces for challenging the Supreme Court’s decision declaring the military trial of civilians under the Pakistan Army Act 1952 as unconstitutional. Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Monday, Khan said the interim governments have no mandate to file review appeals against an SC verdict. His remarks came after the caretaker federal and provincial governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan on Friday filed intra-court appeals against the apex court’s…

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RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir on Friday warned that the use of force and armed action by any militia, entity or group other than the state is “unacceptable”, read a statement issued by the military’s media affairs wing. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army chief remarked during an interaction with the leading Islamic scholars of all schools of thought, who called on him at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi today. “Pakistan belongs to all Pakistanis without any religious, provincial, tribal, linguistic,…

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