Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Pakistani court has rejected a petition seeking the disqualification of former prime minister Imran Khan for concealing his alleged daughter Tyrian White while submitting his nomination papers for the 2018 general elections. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) took up the petition on May … Read more
File picture of police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, a district in the Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on March 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The Taliban defence ministry on Wednesday rejected Pakistan’s allegations that Afghans were involved in an attack on Chinese engineers, as ties between the … Read more
The price of milk at Karachi in fiscally-stressed Pakistan shot up to 10 per litre after the city’s commissioner approved a hike, acceding to the demands of the Dairy Farmers Association, ARY News reported. As per the commissioner’s directives, the price of milk has surged by PKR 10 per litre, with shops in Karachi now … Read more
A yoga session under way in in Islamabad. | Photo Credit: PTI After making global headlines, the ancient Indian physical, mental and spiritual practice of yoga has officially arrived in neighbouring Pakistan. According to the official Facebook page of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), which is responsible for the upkeep of Islamabad, the Metropolitan Corporation … Read more
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan sustained its nuclear modernisation efforts last year despite its economic turmoil as its contentious relationship with India continues to drive its defence policy, the top U.S. intelligence official told Congress. The remarks by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, Director of … Read more
This image made out of Google Maps locates the mining region of Khost in Pakistan. Two bodies have been pulled from a collapsed mine in southern Pakistan, rescuers said on March 20, with eight more people feared dead. A gas explosion rocked the private coal pit in the mining region of Khost, 80 kilometres (50 … Read more
Since the Sharif family and their party – the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) – are being patronage by the current military establishment, all the cases against them have either been closed or acquitted. | Photo Credit: PTI In a major relief to ex-Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s family, an anti-corruption court on March 14 cancelled … Read more
Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari was elected as Pakistan’s 14th President on Saturday, becoming the head of state for a second time. Zardari, 68, was the joint candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) while his rival Mahmood Khan Achakzai, 75, was the candidate of the Sunni … Read more
Former Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, executed by the military regime in 1979, did not receive a fair trial, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday. Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa announced the unanimous opinion of a nine-member larger bench of the apex court during the hearing of a presidential reference related to the death … Read more
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has come down hard on the powerful military’s commercial activities and sought a commitment from the government to ensure the armed forces exclusively focus on defence-related matters rather than business ventures. The assurance was sought by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, who was heading a three-judge bench in a … Read more