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.
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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.
Imran Khan’s hospital visit descends into blame game as govt accuses PTI of flouting court order
ISLAMABAD: The government and the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan traded fresh accusations on Saturday over his court-ordered medical examination, as a broken piece of hospital equipment and a disputed hospital transfer threatened to overshadow the underlying question of his health.
PM Sharif reprimands Islamabad’s top officials over ‘colonial-era’ horse buggy entrance at Independence Day event
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reprimanded Islamabad’s two most senior officials after footage of them arriving at an Independence Day ceremony in a horse-drawn buggy prompted accusations of colonial-style excess.