Sahiwal tragedy: CTD accused of ‘pressuring’ family to retract case on January 29, 2019The heirs of those killed in Sahiwal ‘encounter’ have accused the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of trying to save their colleagues by exerting pressure on the family to drop the case. Talking to reporters here, the family and its lawyer Shahbaz Bukhari claimed that the CTD is threatening them with dire consequences if the case is […]
Money laundering: Zardari, Talpur challenge SC ruling on January 29, 2019Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) supremo Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur on Monday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court’s January 7 decision in the ongoing money laundering case. The apex court, in a ruling passed in the case on Jan 7, had referred the JIT report and evidence collected to the […]
SC hears petition against Asia Bibi’s acquittal today on January 29, 2019The Supreme Court will on Tuesday (today) hear a review petition filed against the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman charged with blasphemy, amid stringent security arrangements including the deployment of paramilitary troops in Islamabad’s sensitive areas. The bench which will take up the review petition is headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa […]
SC rejects Bahria Town’s offer to pay Rs 358b on January 23, 2019The Supreme Court on Tuesday again rejected an offer by Bahria Town to pay Rs 358 billion for the legalization of its housing society in Karachi and avoiding legal proceedings for the illegally acquired land. A three-judge special bench headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed heared a case pertaining to the implementation of apex court’s […]
Questions arise over credibility as probe begins into Sahiwal killings on January 22, 2019Authorities on Monday opened an investigation into the police killing of four people, including a woman and a child, in a shady encounter near Sahiwal that has drawn accusations from the public of police brutality. Police investigators were expected to deliver a report on Wednesday. “The policemen involved in the shooting have not been identified. […]
Nobody can bar me from joining PAC: Sh Rashid on January 21, 2019Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Sunday said he has requested to be made a member of parliament’s top accountability panel, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), in order to keep a check on the body headed by the National Assembly Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif. “I have requested a seat on the PAC. Legally and constitutionally, no one […]
Police guns down four family members in shady encounter on January 20, 2019Police on Saturday gunned down three family members and their friend in what it called a shootout with ‘terrorists’ near Sahiwal. While Khaleel, his wife Nabeela, elder daughter Areeba and friend Zeeshan were killed on the spot, the couple’s minor son sustained a bullet injury and two other daughters remained safe. The family was travelling […]
Opp walkout from NA a pressure tactic to seek NRO: PM on January 16, 2019Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday termed the opposition’s Monday’s walkout from the session of the National Assembly a ‘pressure tactic’ to seek another NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance). On his Twitter account, the prime minister said the opposition wanted ‘to evade accountability for corruption’ in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases, which were not initiated by […]
CJP casts doubt on govt’s ‘seriousness’ toward Nai Gaj dam on January 16, 2019Hearing a case pertaining to the construction of Nai Gaj Dam, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Tuesday cast doubt on the federal government’s ‘seriousness’ towards building the dam. “You people cannot work as your love for the country has lessened,” the top judge remarked while addressing Finance Minister Asad Umar. “The bureaucracy also does not […]
Sindh: political wheeling and dealing in top gear on December 31, 2018KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Political temperature ran high in Sindh on Sunday as leaders from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continued taking jibes at each other amid reports of the latter striving to extract support from allies and other like-minded lawmakers to bring in an in-house change in the province. PTI Sindh Chapter General […]