By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is gearing up for a historic general election on February 8, with a record number of 28,626 candidates vying for 1,085 seats in the national and provincial assemblies.
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Govt releases Baloch protesters amid outcry over police violence
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police said on Sunday that they had released all the Baloch protesters who were detained during a demonstration earlier this week that demanded an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of ethnic Baloch people.
Top court grants bail to ex-PM Khan in cipher case
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday granted bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a case that accused them of leaking state secrets to the public, but Khan remains in jail facing other charges.
Baloch marchers released after police crackdown sparks outrage
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government on Thursday released hundreds of protesters who had been arrested a day earlier in the capital after a march against alleged human rights abuses in the troubled province of Balochistan turned violent.
PM Kakar defends mass repatriation of migrants amid criticism
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The interim prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Tuesday defended the country’s controversial program to repatriate millions of undocumented migrants, mostly Afghans, amid criticism from human rights groups and Western democracies.
Islamabad court sentences man to death for killing Canadian wife
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court sentenced a man to death on Thursday for killing his Canadian wife in a high-profile murder case that has drawn international attention to the plight of women in the country who face violence at the hands of their partners.
Pakistan seeks Afghan crackdown on militants after 25 troops killed in border attacks
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Military said on Tuesday that 25 of its soldiers were killed and several others wounded in three separate terrorist attacks in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan.
Imran Khan asks court to summon US official, General Bajwa in cipher trail
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan, who faces charges of leaking state secrets, asked a special court on Monday to summon the US embassy representative and a retired army general as witnesses in his defense.
Imran Khan’s jail trial in cipher case ruled illegal by Islamabad High Court
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ruled that the jail trial of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is accused of possessing a classified diplomatic cable, was illegal and ordered his transfer to a regular court.
Jail trial for ex-PM Khan over land bribery case
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved the trial of former prime minister Imran Khan in jail over allegations that he received land worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a property developer through a charity trust run by his third wife, a spiritual healer.