ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court ruled on Tuesday that petitions alleging former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were being held in solitary confinement at Adiala jail could proceed, and ordered prison officials to ensure neither is kept in isolation going forward.
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Second autopsy contradicts suicide finding in Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: A second post-mortem examination has found that the gunshot wound that killed a 25-year-old businessman in Karachi last month is inconsistent with suicide, contradicting the theory police pursued for weeks after his body was discovered — and reigniting a legal battle over who should investigate his death.
Health minister Kamal proposes ending permanent hospital jobs after fatal newborn fire
ISLAMABAD: The health minister called for eliminating permanent civil-service positions at government hospitals, proposing instead that a chief executive recruited from the private sector be given full hiring and firing authority — a sweeping restructuring plan floated just days after a fire killed 14 newborns at a hospital in the capital.
25 Pakistani fishermen freed from Indian jails, cross home through Wagah border
LAHORE: Twenty-five Pakistani fishermen walked back into their home country on Saturday afternoon, released from Indian prisons and escorted across the Wagah-Attari border crossing in a repatriation, the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi confirmed later in the day.
Pakistan cricket board threatened Lord’s Test boycott over Imran Khan interview
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board came close to pulling its team off the field during the second Test against England at Lord’s this week, after Sky Sports broadcast an interview with Imran Khan’s sons in which they spoke of fearing for their father’s life.
Kashmir’s ruling party fractures as Sharif taps political newcomer for premier
MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz appeared headed into Friday’s vote for a new Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister with its own house in disorder, after the party’s central leadership passed over two senior regional figures in favour of a young barrister barely four days into his legislative career — and those passed-over leaders responded by saying they would boycott the election entirely.
Security forces kill 11 militants in Bannu, South Waziristan, Balochistan raids
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 11 militants in a series of intelligence-based raids across the country’s volatile northwest and southwest on Thursday, the government said, the latest in a string of operations that officials describe as central to an intensifying campaign against insurgent groups along the Afghan border.
American mountaineer Sarah Mallory Geis’s remains brought down from Broad Peak
SKARDU: The body of an American mountaineer who died in an avalanche on one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks was airlifted on Tuesday, more than three weeks after she and nine other climbers were buried in a wall of snow and ice on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan.
FM Dar presses UN maritime chief over 10 Pakistani sailors held by Somali pirates
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar pressed the head of the United Nations’ maritime agency on Monday for “urgent and effective institutional intervention” to free 10 Pakistani sailors who have been held by Somali pirates since April, as the hostages’ families report worsening conditions aboard the hijacked tanker.
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.