Pakistan jails human rights lawyer couple Imaan Mazari, Hadi Chattha for a decade over cricket security row
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced the human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to 10
Tehran talks spark parliamentary clash over defence policy and KP takeover
ISLAMABAD: Defence and interior ministers used both houses of parliament on Thursday to deny that this week’s talks in Tehran involved a defence pact, then turned on Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the religious party leader who has become one of the loudest critics of the federal takeover of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Govt says Imran Khan’s jailed sister is “fine” after hospital treatment
ISLAMABAD: The government has insisted that Imran Khan’s 70-year-old sister is “fine” after she was taken from prison to a cardiac hospital in Lahore, while his party said her family had been kept in the dark.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Pakistan’s fiscal surplus narrows to 0.8 percent of GDP on surging interest bill
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s fiscal surplus narrowed to 0.8% of gross domestic product at the start of the fiscal year, less than half the level of a year earlier, with a 36.6% jump in interest payments and a surge in development spending overwhelming a 90% cut in subsidies, the finance ministry said.
Nine dead after oxygen cylinder explodes inside ambulance in Thar region
THARPARKAR: Nine people have died after an oxygen cylinder exploded inside an ambulance at a rural health facility in southern Sindh province, officials said.