ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Olympic javelin champion Arshad Nadeem was honoured with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Sports Award in the Global Breakthrough Athlete category on Monday at the World Sports Summit in Dubai, capping a year of triumphs for the athlete who shattered records at the Paris Games.
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Rights lawyer asks judicial council to probe IHC judge over son’s release after fatal hit-and-run
ISLAMABAD: A human rights lawyer has lodged a formal complaint with the country’s top judicial oversight body accusing a high court judge of misusing his office to secure the release of his son after a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed two young women, according to documents reviewed by a local newspaper.
Army major martyred leading raid against militants in Pakistan’s northwest
ISLAMABAD: An Army major was martyred in a firefight with militants in the restive northwestern district of Bajaur on Monday, military said, as security forces pressed ahead with operations against insurgents they accuse of being backed by foreign powers.
PCB takes over Multan Sultans for next PSL season
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will take direct control of the Multan Sultans franchise for the upcoming 11th edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), following a bitter ownership dispute, board chairman Mohsin Naqvi said on Sunday.
PCB clears 10 bidders for two new Pakistan Super League franchises
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday announced it had approved 10 bidders to vie for two new franchises in the Pakistan Super League after a technical evaluation of proposals from investors across the globe.
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, trailblazing economist and first female governor of Pakistan’s central bank, dies at 71
KARACHI: Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, a pioneering figure in global finance who shattered barriers as the first woman to lead Pakistan’s central bank and held top posts at the World Bank and the United Nations, died on Saturday of cardiac arrest. She was 71.
LHC curbs govt power to inactivate passports, long travel bans
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has struck down the federal government’s power to inactivate citizens’ passports and impose travel bans lasting five years or more by placing individuals on the Passport Control List, declaring such measures beyond the bounds of existing law.
Top judicial body set to recommend high court judge transfers without consent-report
ISLAMABAD: The judiciary is bracing for a significant reconfiguration in the coming weeks, as the Judicial Commission of Pakistan prepares to recommend the transfer of high court judges under a contentious constitutional amendment that strips away the need for their consent, according to sources in the judicial bureaucracy.
Exiled former aide to jailed Imran Khan is assaulted at his home in Britain
ISLAMABAD: Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a former special assistant to ex-prime minister Imran Khan, was assaulted at his home in Cambridge on Wednesday morning, sustaining fractures to his nose and jaw in what his political allies described as a brutal attack amid escalating threats against critics of Pakistan’s powerful establishment.
UN expert warns Bushra Bibi faces life-threatening conditions in Adiala Jail
ISLAMABAD: A United Nations expert warned on Wednesday that the wife of former prime minister, Imran Khan, was being held in detention conditions that could gravely endanger her physical and mental health, calling on the authorities to intervene immediately to safeguard her well-being.