ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Monday was informed that the area that was being used by the management of Monal Restaurant would be converted into a Visitors Information Centre for children’s education and awareness on protection of wildlife. The Monal Restaurant was built by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and leased it out to a private firm for 15 years. The lease expired last year. A few years before the expiry of the lease, Remount, Veterinary and Farms Directorate of General Headquarters (GHQ) claimed ownership of the land where the restaurant was built on. Last month, the Islamabad High Court…
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the commission set up by the court under the head of Justice Mansoor Alam for missing persons, including a journalist Muddasir Naro, to submit its progress report and its terms of reference (TORs). The court also summoned Attorney General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan on next date of hearing for assistance in the case. At the outset of the hearing, Chief Justice Athar Minallah, inquired about the representative of Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disapearances (CIOED). Additional Attorney General Qasim Wadood negatively answering submitted that that the court order was received late.…
ISLAMABAD: The alleged killer of Noor Mukadam has accused her father Shaukat Mukadam of implicating him in the murder case. Zahir Jaffer, as per police challan, has confessed to killing Noor Mukadam for rejecting his marriage proposal. The accused, however, backtracked from the confession while recording his statement under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). The principal accused submitted his statement in writing to the court on Monday. The statement stated: “I want to bring on record that I am innocent in this case and I along with other co-accused have been falsely roped in this case in order…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take a decision by Tuesday (today) on the second phase of local government (LG) elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after hearing the respondents and those aggrieved at the new election schedule. Through a Feb 9 notification, the ECP has already further extended the date for the second phase of LG elections in KP from March 27 to March 31 after the apex court had suspended the Feb 1 Peshawar High Court’s order postponing the polls. On Monday, the Supreme Court observed that it would not like to set…
LAHORE: The Factory Area police lodged a case against 150-200 ‘attackers’ in the wake of death of a Christian boy here on Monday. The police acted after residents of Walton Road allegedly tortured Pervez Masih following a minor dispute of standing in the street. Police said Pervez suffered critical head injuries and died in hospital. Police have mounted security in the area to defuse tension when members of the Christian community took to the street against the attack. Police have registered a murder case against 150-200 ‘attackers’ after consulting a team of lawyers of the Christian community. The complainant said…
Television host and journalist Syed Iqrarul Hassan on Tuesday accused officials of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of detaining him and members of his team for hours at their Karachi office and subjecting them to extreme forms of torture after he attempted to expose alleged corruption within their ranks. Hassan’s ordeal came to light when pictures of him bloodied up, in torn-up clothes and receiving medical treatment on a hospital bed emerged on Twitter. Later, his fellow TV journalist Waseem Badami shared a video of him visiting Hassan at the hospital, by which time the injured journalist had been bandaged up,…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the newly-reconstituted selection board of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) from finalising appointment of the commission’s executive director till a decision by the apex court. Headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan, a three-judge bench, however, granted leave to appeal to the federal government against the Jan 18, 2022, Islamabad High Court (IHC) restoration of Dr Tariq Javed Banuri to the post of the HEC chairman with a direction that the appointment being made by the selection board under the chairman would be subject to the outcome of the apex court decision. Dr Banuri was…
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday again directed former Gilgit-Baltistan chief justice Rana Shamim to submit a written statement regarding an affidavit of his in which he accused former chief justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar of colluding to deny bails to top PML-N leadership before the 2018 general elections. The court issued the directions during the hearing of a contempt of court case against the former jurist. The case is related to a news report published in The News International last year based on Shamim’s affidavit. The affidavit in question alleged that ex-CJP Nisar had made a phone call to a judge of the…
Punjab police rounded up on Tuesday 10 more primary suspects in the case of lynching of a man over blasphemy allegations in a village of Punjab’s Khanewal district last week. According to a statement issued by the Punjab police spokesperson, the recent arrests have taken the number of total detained suspects in the case to 112, among whom 31 are primary suspects. The statement said the arrests were made in raids on different locations. Initially, police had arrested 85 suspects, after Prime Minister Imran Khan had taken notice of the incident, and took six more into custody on Monday. All the arrested suspects would be…
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday decided to ease coronavirus curbs in cities with a positivity rate of less than 10 per cent in light of “improved disease trends”. However, curbs will remain in place in six cities with a positivity of more than 10pc, including Karachi and Hyderabad. In a statement, the forum said that today’s meeting carried out a detailed stock of the disease situation and the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) currently being enforced. “In view of improved disease trends, NPIs are being eased out for cities with less than 10 per cent positivity,” the statement…
