LAHORE: Thirteen Afghan medical students filed suit against Pakistan’s top medical regulator on Thursday, asking a provincial court to block an order that would send them home to Afghanistan before they finish the degrees they have spent years pursuing.
top-people
Sindh minister apologises to judicial panel probing Mir Raza Ali’s death
KARACHI: The Sindh home minister stood before a judicial commission Thursday and apologised without qualification, seeking to put to rest a dispute that had briefly stalled the panel’s inquiry into the death of a 25-year-old businessman whose family has insisted for weeks that he was murdered.
Eleven militants killed as security forces foil highway ambush and raid bomb-making hideout
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 11 militants and seized nearly three tonnes of explosives in two operations in restive Balochistan province, the military said, in the latest in a string of raids as the south-western region grapples with a marked rise in violence.
Fire guts Karachi mayor’s office, reigniting questions over city’s safety standards
KARACHI: A fire tore through the office of Karachi’s mayor on Tuesday morning, gutting the room and destroying its furniture, in an incident that has once again drawn attention to fire safety standards in Pakistan’s largest city.
Kashmir dispute resurfaces in unlikely venue: a fight over world maps
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Monday that India’s assertions about the disputed Kashmir region carry no legal weight, the latest exchange in a decades-old standoff that found new life this week in an unlikely arena: a United Nations vote on how continents are drawn on a map.
Pakistan condemns demolition of century-old mosque in India, citing 1992 Babri Masjid destruction
The Foreign Office on Sunday condemned the demolition of a century-old mosque in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, calling it part of what the government described as an “Islamophobic and Hindutva-driven campaign” to erase Islamic heritage from the country.
ISI’s No. 2 officer takes reins of sidelined counterterrorism Nacta
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday abruptly moved one of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency’s most senior officers, Major General Faisal Naseer, out of his post overseeing the spy service’s internal wing and into the top civilian job at the National Counter-Terrorism Authority, a body that has spent more than a decade struggling to fulfill the mandate lawmakers gave it after some of the country’s darkest days of militant violence.
LHC judge resigns years ahead of retirement to focus on judicial research
By Staff Reporter LAHORE: A Lahore High Court judge has resigned from the bench, more than a decade before he was due to retire, saying
Sindh High Court rejects push for special probe team in Mir Raza Ali murder case
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday turned down a petition from the family of Mir Raza Ali asking judges to order the formation of a joint investigation team to probe the young businessman’s death, ruling that the decision to create such a body belongs to the provincial government, not the courts.
Pakistan court orders jail not to keep Imran Khan, wife in isolation
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.