Pakistan

QUETTA (Monitoring Desk): An additional sessions court on Friday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Senator Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti in a case relating to kidnapping of a minor girl. The court expressed anger over non-appearance of the senator and directed Quetta police to arrest the accused and present him in court. The arrest warrants came a…

ISLAMABAD (TLTP): Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Friday held Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan responsible for the ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) by several countries. “The ban on PIA imposed by several countries, with the US being the latest, is a consequence of mindless & ill-thought-out speech by…

F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan has promoted Air Vice Marshal Aamir Masood of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to the rank of Air Marshal; while, 10 Air Commodores have been promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal. According to Pakistan Air Force (PAF), The promoted Air Officers from GD (P) branch included Air…

ISLAMABAD (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi here on Friday summoned the Senate session on July 13 Monday at 10:30 am. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 54 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the president has been pleased to summon the Senate to meet in the Parliament (House) Building, Islamabad, on…

LAHORE (APP): The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday released detailed judgment on Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s bail petition in illegal plots allotment case. In its 19-page judgment, the bench headed by Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem dismissed the bail petition after terming it as meritless. The bench held that the approval for exemption of 54…

ISLAMABAD (APP): Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday directed interior ministry to decide an application in accordance of law seeking to deport an American citizen Cynthia Dawn Ritchie on expiry of her visa and submit report ill July 15. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah conducted the hearing on the petition filed by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)…

LAHORE (APP): The Punjab government, in a cabinet committee meeting held here on Friday, decided to keep parks and recreational places closed on Eid-ul-Azha. The cabinet committee meeting on coronavirus and dengue was held to review a proposal of smart lockdown during Eid-ul-Azha, on the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar. A permission…

KARACHI (APP): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said 36 more patients of coronavirus died and 1468 persons contacted with the virus lifting the death toll to 1231 and tally of the cases to 102,368. This he said on Friday in a statement issued from the CM’s House, said a statement. According to…

LAHORE (APP): The Punjab Cabinet Committee on Legislative Business has approved the proposal to rename Nicholson Road (from Bohrwala Chowk to Haji Camp) in Lahore as Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan Road and Kotha Sawira Road as Zulfiqar Ali Shaheed Road. The approval was accorded at the 29th meeting of the committee held at the Civil Secretariat…

LAHORE (NNI): Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has said that it seemed the government could not survive more than four or five months as bad governance has reached to the level that the PTI ministers and advisors are saying it is complete failure. In a statement issued from Mansoora on Friday, he said the government…