ISLAMABAD: An officer has been taken into custody and is facing disciplinary proceedings after a video showing him firing a pistol into the air during a confrontation with student protesters at a university in Islamabad circulated widely on social media, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jemima Goldsmith urges Britain to intervene over Imran Khan’s treatment in prison
ISLAMABAD: Jemima Goldsmith, the British socialite and former wife of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, called on the British government on Monday to intervene in her ex-husband’s treatment, saying Pakistan is defying its own Supreme Court and that the matter has become “a human-rights emergency.”
Domestic worker admits role in Hina Javed’s killing, but his story keeps changing
RAWALPINDI: The story investigators were first given was a burglary gone wrong. A frantic call to police. A household ransacked. A woman found dead.
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.
Family of slain businessman sues to block judicial commission, demands joint probe
KARACHI: The family of a 25-year-old businessman whose gunshot death last month has roiled this city’s police department went to court Monday, seeking to block a provincial judicial commission formed to review the stalled murder investigation.
Police widen inquiry into Rawalpindi woman’s death as husband, servant remain in custody
RAWALPINDI: A duty magistrate here ordered the husband and household servant of a young woman found dead in her apartment last week held in police custody for three additional days, as investigators press forward on a case that has drawn condemnation from the country’s first lady and members of its Parliament.
In Lahore, the daughter of a revolutionary poet fights to sell lunch
LAHORE: For one day last week, Tahira Habib Jalib ran a food stall in the Karim Block market here, selling home-cooked meals she had prepared herself. She made 2,800 rupees, or about $10. Then the city took the cart away.
Cricket greats urge Pakistan PM to honour court order on Imran Khan’s medical care
Twenty-two former international cricketers, including 21 who captained their countries, have written to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging his government to comply fully with a Supreme Court order on the medical treatment of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
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.
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.