Justice Kayani resigns, saying executive has tightened its grip on judiciary
LAHORE: A senior Lahore High Court judge has resigned, telling the president that constitutional amendments have given the executive growing control over the country’s courts.
PTI to contest every ward in Islamabad local elections
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to field candidates in every ward of all 125 union councils in Islamabad’s local government elections on 20 December.
Nine militants killed in two Balochistan operations – ISPR
QUETTA: Security forces have killed nine militants in two operations in Balochistan on Monday, the military said, describing the dead terrorists as members of groups sponsored by India.
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
Wheat cargo docks in Karachi, testing government pledge on prices
KARACHI: Pakistan received 51,000 tons of imported wheat at Karachi on Wednesday, with higher grain prices adding to an energy shock from the US-Iran war and straining efforts to contain inflation.
Lahore again tops world pollution ranking, with Cairo and Delhi close behind
LAHORE: Lahore returned to the top of the world’s most polluted major cities list on Wednesday, with smog thickening over the eastern city as temperatures dropped.