The Pakistan Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in illegal marriage case. They were accused of marrying before the mandatory three-month waiting period after Bibi’s divorce. Khan’s lawyer celebrated the decision on social media. The couple had been sentenced to s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s government seeks to ban the party of jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, and try him along with former President Arif Alvi for treason, the information minister said on Monday, a move likely to further deepen an ongoing political crisis in the South Asian country. Addressing a news conference in...
London, United Kingdom – AFP Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai called for Pakistan to stop deporting undocumented Afghans, saying she was especially concerned about the “dark future” awaiting women and girls sent back. “It is deeply concerning that Pakistan is forcing Afghan refugees based in Pakistan back into Afghanista...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA)- Pakistan on Wednesday disputed UN refugees agency Chief Filippo Grandi’s claim that Islamabad has suspended repatriation of illegal foreigners, mainly Afghan immigrants. “This is not true,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement. “It may be noted that no such underst...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The High Court in Kenya has ruled that the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif by the Kenyan police in 2022 was “unlawful” and “unconstitutional.” Justice S. N. Mutuku noted that the actions of the Kenyan police were in violation of Sharif’s rights. Sharif, 46, was a well-known journalist...
Karachi, Pakistan — AFP Pakistan’s tax authority has blocked 210,000 SIM cards of users who have not filed tax returns in a bid to widen the revenue bracket. Only 5.2 million people of the more than 240 million population filed income tax returns in 2022. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) passed the edict in […]
The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has criticized the prosecution of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The group says it lacks legal grounds and is politically driven. The charges relate to alleged concealment of gifts from the Toshakhana during his tenure as prime minister, as well as undervalued jewelry. The Toshakhana ...
Baba Island, Pakistan — AFP On a densely populated island off Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi, a group of pregnant women wait in punishing heat for a midwife to arrive from the mainland. Each week Neha Mankani, the only midwife available to these women, comes by boat ambulance to Baba, an old fishing settlement and reportedly [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – On the eve of Eid al-Adha, Pakistanis were left numb when they found a “barbaric” landlord had chopped right leg of a camel. At least five persons have been arrested after the “horrible” incident took place in Sanghar district of southeastern Sindh province of Pakistan, official said Sunday. According to Sorath Sindhu, [&hellip...
Lalamusa, Pakistan — AFP A year after the disappearance of his brother in one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, Suleman Tariq wants answers. But, like other young Pakistanis, he is also determined to make it to Europe. Dozens of families gathered at a wedding hall in the Punjabi town of Lalamusa to mark […]
