NAB’s case against Zardari not according to law, remarks CJ Minallah on December 14, 2021On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court has disregarded the NAB’s reference against former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari declaring it ultra vires while directing the bureau to make a new reference, Daily Times reported. Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Amir Farooq heard a petition filed by Mr. Zardari seeking […]
Pakistani woman abused by a UK civil servant in mortgage case inquiry on December 4, 2021ISLAMABAD/LONDON: In the UK’s biggest mortgage fraud probe, a Senior UK civil servant working for Serious Fraud Office (SFO) made a British Pakistani woman a target of verbal abuse, and also insulted another ethnic female lawyer calling her a “dog”. The senior civil servant Jonathan Francis McGarry a lead lawyer within the Proceeds of Crime […]
India announces first two cases of Omicron variant on December 2, 2021India announced its first two cases of the highly infectious Omicron Covid variant on Thursday, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country. Top health ministry official Luv Agarwal said two men in southern Karnataka state, aged 66 and 46, had tested positive for the variant. “As […]
Pakistan to host OIC summit on Afghanistan on November 30, 2021Pakistan has offered to host a summit of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) next month to address the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. The United Nations has repeatedly warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and Qureshi said the […]
Nisar Afzal gets clean chit as SFO ends 15-year pursuit of fraud case on November 28, 2021The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) decided to end the high profile 15-year-long pursuit of British Pakistani businessman Nisar Afzal after concluding that the investigation involving £50 million mortgage fraud no longer met the test of prosecution as defined in the Code for Crown Prosecutors because there was not enough evidence against Nisar Afzal to prosecute […]
Italy bans visitors from southern Africa over new Covid variant on November 26, 2021Italy said Friday it was banning entry to those who have been in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, or Swaziland in the past fortnight due to fears over a new coronavirus variant. Health Minister Roberto Speranza said scientists were studying the new B.1.1.529 variant, “and in the meantime, we will follow the path […]
Shaheen Afridi fined for throwing ball at Bangladesh’s Afif on November 21, 2021Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi was fined 15 percent of his match fee on Sunday for throwing a ball at Afif Hossain of Bangladesh during a T20 encounter in Dhaka. The incident occurred during the third over of Bangladesh’s innings, when Afridi fielded the ball on his follow-through and threw it at Afif, hitting him […]
Blaming Turkey for Belarus border crisis ‘misguided’: Erdogan aide on November 13, 2021Blaming Turkey or its national airline for the humanitarian crisis at the Polish border with Belarus is “misguided”, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top foreign policy adviser told on Saturday. Ankara on Friday banned citizens of three Middle Eastern countries from flying from Turkish airports to the former Soviet republic because of “the problem of illegal […]
At least three killed in Afghan mosque blast on November 12, 2021At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province,a hospital official told. The blast for which no group has yet claimed responsibility underscores one of the many challenges facing the new Taliban regime in Afghanistan, with the UN warning the country is also […]
19 countries vow to end overseas fossil fuel finance on November 4, 2021Nineteen countries, including the United States, vowed Thursday to end direct funding for all unabated overseas fossil fuel projects by 2022, though major coal, oil, and gas funders China, Japan, and South Korea were absent from the pledge. G20 nations last month agreed to end financial support for new unabated coal plants abroad, but Thursday’s […]