Constitutional court bars Peshawar court from hearing detention cases of Imran Khan supporters
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court has barred the Peshawar High Court from hearing challenges to the detention of Imran Khan’s supporters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the army was deployed under emergency rule last month.
Punjab to hold first local elections since 2015 on February 7
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: The election commission has fixed 7 February 2027 for the first phase of local government elections in Punjab, the province’s first
Pakistan confirms ninth polio case of year, with virus traced to Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded its ninth polio case of the year, with genetic tests linking the latest infection, in a seven-month-old boy, to the virus circulating across the border in Afghanistan, health officials said on Thursday.
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- 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
PM Sharif orders licences pulled from pumps that deny fuel subsidy
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered authorities to cancel the licences of petrol pumps that refuse to serve motorists enrolled in a fuel subsidy program that has now disbursed Rs28.6 billion.
Late Pakistan fightback falls short against India in Dhaka
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan scored twice in stoppage time, one of them a spectacular overhead kick from Alamgir Ghazi, but still lost 3-2 to defending champions India in the opening match of the SAFF Championship at the National Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday.