ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is bracing for its biggest security operation in years, with tens of thousands of police officers, hundreds of shipping containers and a arsenal of riot equipment being mobilised across the federal capital and neighbouring Punjab ahead of a planned opposition march that the government has vowed, in the words of one insider, to “fix… for good”.
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Pakistan names retired general to lead Makkah Defence Alliance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has appointed a retired lieutenant general who once commanded the country’s turbulent north-west to lead a fledgling defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as the kingdom grapples with the most serious Houthi assault on its territory in years.
KP minister vanishes after gunmen storm his car in broad daylight
PESHAWAR: Masked gunmen opened fire on a provincial minister’s car and dragged him away on a Pakistani motorway in broad daylight, in an incident that has plunged the country’s restive northwest into a fresh political turmoil and will now be examined by judges after his family went to court demanding his return.
Pakistan’s top court rules dowry payments are a wife’s unconditional legal right, not a bargaining chip
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ruled that the Islamic dower a husband owes his wife under her marriage contract is a mandatory legal entitlement rather than a payment he can attach conditions to, in a judgment that also orders an overhaul of how the country’s marriage registrars record and enforce such payments.
Two police officers shot dead guarding polio team in Balochistan attack
QUETTA: Two police constables were shot dead on Tuesday while guarding a team of female polio workers in the restive south-western province of Balochistan, in the latest attack on officers protecting vaccinators in one of the last countries where the disease remains endemic.
Doctor who examined murdered businessman’s body barred from making further statement to inquiry
KARACHI: A high court judge has refused to let the doctor who carried out the first, disputed autopsy on murdered businessman Mir Raza Ali make a further statement to the judicial inquiry investigating his death, accusing him of trying to “throw mud” at a colleague and the region’s chief minister.
Two young Army officers among six soldiers martyred in Hangu firefight as militant violence grips northwest Pakistan
Two Army officers, a captain of 23 and a lieutenant of 22, were martyred on Sunday leading their troops into a firefight with militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, part of a battle that left six security personnel and eight insurgents dead, the military said.
Jamaat-i-Islami begins march on Pakistan’s capital over fuel levy
Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, the leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, boarded a train at Cantonment Station on Sunday bound for Islamabad, opening a march that he warned could grow from a protest over fuel taxes into an effort to bring down the government.
Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former prime minister, detained days ahead of planned capital march
By Staff Reporter LAHORE: Police detained Aleema Khan, the sister of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in Lahore on Sunday, and a district official
Pakistan says 23 kidnapped people freed and five militants killed in Balochistan highway operation
QUETTA: Security forces have killed five militants and rescued 23 kidnapped people during an operation on a highway in the south-western province of Balochistan, the military said on Sunday.