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ISLAMABAD: Police teams have left for different cities and towns of Punjab on an apparently impossible mission to arrest Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah leaders and activists nominated in separate cases in connection with the Faizabad sit-in of last year. As many as 28 cases have been registered against Khadim Hussain Rizvi and 480 other leaders and activists of the religious group in the police stations of Industrial Area, Kural, Khanna and Aabara in Islamabad. The trial courts, including the anti-terrorism court of Islamabad, have issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of the…

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday removed Farooq Sattar as the convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), approving the petitions filed by a rival faction of his party against his election to the post. A five-member bench headed by the chief election commissioner also rejected Sattar’s application challenging the commission’s jurisdictionto hear petitions involving internal matters of the party. Accepting the petitions filed by MQM-Bahadurabad — the faction rival to Sattar-led PIB group — leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Kanwar Naveed Jameel, the ECP nullified the intra-party elections held…

The Supreme Court on Monday asked senior lawyers to help decide whether the lawyer’s licence of PML-N loyalist Nehal Hashmi should be cancelled over his fresh outburst against the judiciary. Hashmi, a former PML-N senator, was issued a second contempt of court notice by the SC and a first information report (FIR) was registered against him on court orders for his speech on February 28 targeting the judiciary. Hashmi made the speech after his release from Adiala Jail following a one-month prison sentence for contempt of court. At the outset of…

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal appeared before the Supreme Court on Monday for the hearing of a suo motu case regarding overseas Pakistanis being charged an extra amount as an issuance fee for Pakistan Origin Cards (POC). “Are you angry at coming to the Supreme Court?” Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar asked the minister who responded in the negative. Iqbal then put forward his own request for the court to look into the delay in construction of a school in Narowal on the orders of a high court judge. The CJP…

Chairman Kashmir Council EU Mr Ali Raza Syed has said, there are many challenges in the context of a successful move on Kashmir issue in Europe and for that there is need of an effective strategy on the issue. While talking to media persons at Press Club Mirpure, Azad Kashmir, Ali Raza Syed added, We do our best to realize the Europeans about real facts on Kashmir dispute. Chairman Kashmir Council EU visited the Press Club in order to congratulate the newly elected office bearers of the club. New President…

Brussels, Belgium / Mirpure, AJK (PR, 25 March 2018) Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan met Chairman Kashmir Council Europe (EU), Mr Ali Raza Syed at his residence in Mirpure, Azad Kashmir. During the meeting, struggle on Kashmir in Europe, specially efforts rendered by Kashmir Council EU and as well as situation in Indian Held Kashmir came under discussion. Earlier, the Prime Minister was warmly welcomed on his arrival at the residence of Mr Ali Raza Syed. On the occasion, both sides expressed serious concerns over the severe…

A joint military parade to mark Pakistan Day is being held at Parade Ground near the Shakarparian hills in Islamabad, as the nation celebrates the day with zeal and fervour on Friday. National anthem was played after the arrival of President Mamnoon Hussain, the chief guest of the ceremony. He has inspected the parade. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Defence Minister Khurrum Dastagir, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi and Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee…

Former interior minister and disgruntled PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar on Thursday issued a sharp warning to party supremo Nawaz Sharif saying that his daughter Maryam’s “sharp tongue” was steering the party into a dead end. Nisar, who appeared to have developed differences with the party last year following Nawaz’s disqualification from public office, said that although he had removed himself from national politics, he remained involved in politics at a constituency level. The former minister expressed regret that he had been the target of personal attacks originating from a very…