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Police raids on PTI offices, leaders’ houses continue across Punjab

LAHORE/GUJRAT: The Punjab police on Monday continued raiding the PTI election offices, as well as houses of the party leaders and supporters, besides allegedly...

10 cops martyred, 6 injured in attack on police station...

Ten cops were martyred while six were injured in a late-night attack on the Chodwan police station in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday, police...

Elections 2024: A Family Affair

It is not just major politicians who will be contesting in the upcoming elections with their younger family members. Political parties in Pakistan are often...

Army personnel to guard polling stations on Feb 8

ISLAMABAD: The caretaker federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the dep­loy­ment of troops and civil armed forces personnel on polling stations and sensitive constituencies during...

Court freezes properties of Malik Riaz, PTI leaders in £190m case

ISLAMABAD: An Isla­m­abad accountability court on Monday froze properties of five accused, including property tycoon Malik Riaz and his son, who have been declared...

SC rules against lifetime disqualification; Nawaz and Tareen eligible to contest...

In a 6-1 majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday quashed lifetime disqualification for lawmakers under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution, which effectively rendered...

Pakistan writes to The Economist over article by former PM Imran...

By: Shashank Pandey The Pakistani Government raised concerns in a letter to The Economist on Friday regarding an article purportedly written by former Pakistani Prime...

Kabul asks Pakistan to ‘stop being cruel’ to refugees

PESHAWAR: Calling on the Pakistani authorities to end their “cruel attitude” towards Afghan refugees, Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, the acting prime minister of the...

Pakistan deported Afghans waiting for US resettlement: report

The caretaker government’s huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an advocacy group and Afghan applicants...

Peshawar High Court suspends ECP order stripping PTI’s ‘bat’ symbol

By: Abdul Hakeem The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday suspended the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) declaration of the PTI’s intra-party polls as unconstitutional...

Exports to Middle East jump 29pc in July-November

ISLAMABAD: Exports to the Middle East bounced back with a growth of 28.98 per cent to $1.257 billion in the first five months of...

Suicide bomber attacks police station in northwest Pakistan, killing 23 officers...

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 23...

Nawaz gets clean slate after final acquittal

ISLAMABAD: The conviction of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case — one of the three refe­ren­ces instituted against him in light...

Khawar Maneka files case against Imran, Bushra Bibi for ‘fraudulent marriage’

Khawar Maneka, the ex-husband of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s wife Bu­­s­h­ra Bibi, on Saturday filed a case against the former prime minister and first...

IHC to hear case against former army chief Bajwa, spymaster Faiz...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has fixed for hearing a plea against former army chief Gen (rtd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-spymaster Lt Gen (rtd)...

Confusion within PTI as party denies senior leader’s claim that Imran...

The PTI on Tuesday denied its own Senior Vice President Sher Afzal Khan Marwat’s claim that party chief Imran Khan, who is currently incarcerated...

Pakistan, UAE sign ‘historic’ MoUs worth ‘multi-billion dollars’

Pakistan, UAE sign ‘historic’ MoUs worth ‘multi-billion dollars’. The development came in a meeting between caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar and UAE President Sheikh...

Imran also ‘arrested’ in Toshakhana, Al-Qadir cases

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is already imprisoned in Adiala Jail in the cipher case, has also been arrested by the National Accountability...

Pakistani fisherman becomes millionaire overnight after selling rare fish

Haji Baloch, who lives in the impoverished Ibrahim Hyderi fishing village, and his workers caught the fish known as golden fish or “Sowa” in...

Economic cost of deporting Afghans

The widespread departure of illegal aliens, spurred by the caretaker government’s abrupt decision to crack down and deport individuals lacking valid documents in Pakistan,...