LAHORE: The head of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party said on Sunday that his organisation would call for a nationwide shutter-down strike once a major Islamic religious observance concludes this week, sharpening a confrontation with the federal government over fuel prices that has kept protesters camped outside government buildings in four provincial capitals for more than a week.
Aamir Ashraf
Police say father, brother orchestrated TikTok star’s killing
RAWALPINDI: For nine days, the killing of a TikTok star known to more than a million followers as Ayesha Gilamana had the shape of a familiar tragedy: a young woman gunned down by men chasing an unpaid debt, her grieving father the one who ran to police.
By Saturday, investigators were telling a different story. The father, they said, was the one who ordered her death.
Petition asks Islamabad court to bar under-16s from social media
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani man has asked the Islamabad High Court to order the federal government to write a law barring children and teenagers under 16 from opening or running their own social media accounts, his lawyer said Sunday, arguing that the country has no real way to stop kids from signing up and no way to protect them once they do.
Pakistan’s army chief heads to Tehran in new push to revive US-Iran peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, will travel to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, according to a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry, in the latest sign that Islamabad is trying to keep alive a fragile diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran even as the two governments show little appetite for direct talks.
Snowstorm strands rescue team, delays return of mountaineer Asma Mushtaq’s body from Karakoram peak
GILGIT: A punishing snowstorm swept across one of Pakistan’s most formidable peaks on Sunday, driving back a six-member rescue team for the second time in three days and leaving the body of a British-trained Pakistani physician stranded above 20,000 feet, more than 72 hours after she collapsed during her descent from the summit.
Dar heads to London as hostage crisis with Somali pirates drags on
ISLAMABAD: Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, will travel to the United Kingdom this week for a five-day diplomatic mission that will put him face to face with the officials he hopes can help free ten Pakistani sailors still held captive by Somali pirates more than four months after their ship was seized.
Sindh seeks judicial inquiry into Mir Raza Ali’s death after family challenged police investigation
KARACHI: The Sindh government said Sunday it will ask the chief justice of the province’s high court to form a judicial commission to examine whether the investigation into the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali has been conducted fairly, a decision that follows weeks of accusations from the victim’s family that police tried to bury the truth behind his death.
Pakistan authorises six-month army deployment in Rawalpindi under emergency powers
ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army to Rawalpindi for six months, according to an interior ministry order dated August 21 and confirmed on Saturday.
Imran Khan’s family files contempt petition against PM Sharif and officials over ignored medical transfer order
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s family and party filed a contempt of court petition against prime minister and a string of senior officials on Saturday, accusing them of defying a Supreme Court order that directed the jailed former leader be moved to a private hospital for treatment.
Husband and servant held after Rawalpindi woman found dead with hands bound, wire around neck
RAWALPINDI: Police in Rawalpindi have detained a woman’s husband and the family’s domestic servant after she was found dead at an apartment in the city’s Lal Kurti area, in a killing her family says was made to look like suicide.