Month: March 2018

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday called for “political decisions to be taken in polling booths, not in courts” as he took another dig at PML-N’s rivals for getting the party’s former president Nawaz Sharif disqualified and ousted from the PM office. The PM’s remarks come in the wake of his recent meeting with Chief Justice (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar — a rendezvous that had raised many eyebrows in political circles. The meeting, and Justice Nisar’s subsequent referring of the PM as a supplicant, had also irked Sharif, who later publicly…

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday fixed separate contempt of court petitions against former premier Nawaz Sharif, PTI Chairman Imran Khan and former chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for hearing on April 4. Senior lawyer Naseer Ahmed Kayani has filed a petition against Imran Khan, accusing him of committing contempt of court by using derogatory language against former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Riaz Hanif Rahi — the lawyer who has challenged the appointment of Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court — has filed two separate contempt of court petitions against…

A visibly emotional Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel laureate in history, couldn’t contain her disbelief upon finally returning home after more than five years away following a Taliban attack in Swat in 2012. “I have dreamed of returning to Pakistan for the past five years,” said a teary Yousafzai in a homecoming speech on Thursday at a function at Prime Minister House in Islamabad. A car carrying Malala Yousafza and her father Ziauddin Yousafzai leaves for Prime Minister House ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in…

Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Wednesday said that if a ‘Bajwa doctrine’ exists its scope is limited just to the security aspect in Pakistan. At a press conference in Rawalpindi, the DG ISPR was asked about the doctrine that bears the incumbent army chief’s name and whose existence was purportedly confirmed in the chief’s recent meeting with some media personnel. “When the media interaction took place, things were lumped together and made a part of the Bajwa doctrine,” said Maj Gen Ghafoor, who had mentioned the said…

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…