SWAT – Former senator of Awami National Party (ANP) Amarjeet Malhotra has been held for police investigation in relation to the assassination of Pakhtunkhwa CM’s Special Assistant on Minority Affairs Sardar Sooran Singh. Amarjeet’s name was included in the list of suspects involved in the killing of Singh, by DIG Malakand Division Azad Khan. An […]
PESHAWAR – At least 18 people including three seminary students were injured in an attack on a mosque in the Thakal Bala area of Peshawar on Monday. Cantonment’s Superintendent of Police Muhammad Kashif said that students, teachers and worshipers were having dinner at the Baitul Mukarram on the completion of the seminary course when some […]
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s (PPP) senior leader and Senator Maula Bakhsh Chandio talked to press on Sunday and said that the shortage of electric supply in Sindh is compounding the problems in the province. Talking to the media he said that artificial crisis of electricity is being created in Sindh and if electricity supply is […]
LAHORE: Human rights activists have asked the Punjab government to establish juvenile courts on immediate basis, rather than anti-terrorism courts, for children in conflict with law. In this regard, a non-governmental organisation, Sanjog, said the government should take legislative and administrative measures for implementation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000. “Sanjog appreciates the steps […]
LAHORE: A search operation was conducted in Punjab on Wednesday for the recovery of barrister Owais Ali Shah, the kidnapped son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah. The search operation was conducted by Punjab police to recover Owais Ali Shah. IG Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera said that for the recovery of Owais […]
ISLAMABAD: More than 200,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan this year, nearly half of them in September alone, UNHCR said on Tuesday, the highest number since the US toppled the Taliban in 2002. The tsunami of refugees returning to the war-torn country comes after Pakistan tightened its border controls in June and began […]