Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan remained in prison on Tuesday despite his graft conviction being suspended, his lawyers said, claiming that a “manipulation of justice” was keeping him behind bars. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said the Islamabad High Court overturned a l...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani police authorities have accused the “enemy” country’s intelligence agency of being involved in recent violence against Christians and the burning of churches in the northeastern Punjab province. Addressing a news conference in the provincial capital Lahore, Punjab police chief Usman An...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Protesters blocked roads and staged rallies across Pakistan on Monday against the latest increase in power tariffs, with the country’s caretaker government mulling over giving some relief to inflation-hit citizens. Tens of thousands took to the streets in dozens of major cities and remote towns, blocked roa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Murder charges against former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan were dismissed on Monday, his lawyer said. Naeem Panjutha, lawyer of Khan, said in a message posted on X by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party that a court in Quetta city of southwestern Balochistan province dismissed the charges related to the murder of...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands took to the streets across Pakistan on Sunday to protest rising power bills, some violently, forcing the power companies to seek police security. Interim Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar summoned an urgent meeting with power authorities to “review” the situation after angry protesters block...
Peshawar, Pakistan – AFP The owner and operator of a cable car that dangled over a Pakistan ravine for more than 12 hours have been arrested after repeatedly ignoring safety warnings, police said Thursday. Six teenage boys were among eight people left stranded hundreds of feet in the air when two of the three chairlift […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) has defied the president’s call for an election date, insisting that it is its jurisdiction to fix the date. In a letter to President Arif Alvi, the ECP cited a recent amendment to the country’s Election Act by the outgoing government, empowering the commission to dec...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has said his country would continue its long-drawn fight against “terrorism” as “surrender is not an option.” “Pakistan will not surrender in front of radicalism, extremism, and intolerance no matter what. This is our home and we...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has invited the country’s top electoral authority for a meeting to fix a date for the next general elections. In a letter posted on the presidential X (formerly known as Twitter) account, Alvi invited Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja for a meeting… to set...
Kasur, Pakistan — AFP Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, emergency services have said. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. Emergency services have been working t...
