TAXILA: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday reiterated the PTI-led government’s commitment to not becoming part of bloc politics and to have cordial relations with all powers. He was talking to newsmen at the ninth orange festival organised at Zaildar House on Friday. Commenting on the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to Russia and the premier’s recent remarks that the United States always used Pakistan for its purposes, Mr Qureshi said: “Whenever the US needed us, they established relations and Pakistan became a frontline state, and then abandoned and slapped sanctions on us when its purposes were…
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has set aside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) order that the World Health Organisation (WHO) does not enjoy immunity in a dispute over customs clearance of vehicles brought into the country for relief work in the wake of 2010 floods, with the observation that determination of scope, limits and extent of diplomatic and state immunity clauses of different statutes needs further deliberations. In an appeal moved by WHO Islamabad through its counsel Chaudhry Mohammad Ashraf Gujjar against Mohammad Ansar Iqbal of Multi Logistics Services, Rawalpindi, the apex court in its order noted that giving a finding…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday expressed displeasure over the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) for the slow pace of work on the Kashmir Avenue Apartments Project in G-13. The project was inaugurated by the prime minister in April 2019. The prime minister paid a surprise visit to the site without protocol on Friday morning and found no one present there. The project director was called who briefed him. Sources said Mr Khan showed his displeasure over the slow pace of work and directed the authority to speed it up. Imran reaches site, finds no one at work…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Gen Nadeem Raza at the Joint Staff Headquarters as part of his ongoing engagement with the armed forces. Military officials said the two discussed issues pertaining to regional and national security. No statement was issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations on the meeting that reportedly took place on Thursday. Mr Qureshi has over the past few weeks visited Air and Naval Headquarters. Those visits had taken place ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China. During his meetings at PAF and PN Headquarters, the foreign…
ISLAMABAD: A Chinese man was arrested on charge of raping a woman, police said on Friday. Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the suspect’s house. Station House Officer (SHO) of Kohsar police station Sub-Inspector (SI) Shabbir Tanoli said the police had received a call from the woman, who is an Afghan, after which a team, including policewomen, raided the house and found her in one of the bathrooms. In response to the FIR, the suspect, who is in his 50s, was arrested and weapons recovered on the basis of information provided by the woman. Both were later shifted to…
KARACHI: In a historic development, the Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously passed the Sindh Students Union Bill 2019 paving the way for restoration of students’ unions in educational institution after over 38 years. The ban on students’ unions was imposed in 1984 during the regime of military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq. It was lifted during the Benazir Bhutto-led Pakistan Peoples Party’s first government in 1989, but in 1993 the Supreme Court put a blanket ban on political activities by students on campuses. Sindh will be the first province to revive the students’ union after enactment of the law. All opposition…
ISLAMABAD: As the World Health Organisation (WHO) praised Pakistan’s response to Covid-19, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that the government ensured protection of economically downtrodden people by enforcing smart lockdowns instead of complete shutdown during the pandemic. WHO Representative in Pakistan Dr Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala at a press conference appreciated the commitment of the government and the NCOC to fight Covid-19 and said they had done a great job in coordinating the response to the pandemic. The prime minister told a top-level meeting convened to review the Covid-19 situation in the country that at a time when the…
ISLAMABAD: Senators of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), an ally of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led ruling coalition, staged a walkout from the upper house of parliament on Friday warning the ruling party that they could not move forward if they were not given due representation at the federal level. “We cannot move forward like this. We will support you only if we are taken seriously, otherwise, we do not need to attend sessions,” said Senator Prince Ahmed Umar Ahmadzai before announcing a walkout from the Senate. Seeking his party’s exclusion from what he called The Grey List, the senator said the BAP…
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Friday issued a show-cause notice to TV channel News One for airing “derogatory/demeaning remarks” about federal Minister for Communications Murad Saeed “without any editorial check” in a programme. Saeed was singled out for particular praise by Prime Minister Imran Khan for the performance of his Ministry of Communications which ranked first in a ceremony on Thursday to celebrate the top 10 best performing federal ministries. The Pemra notice, a copy of which is available with , said that News One had aired a show, G for Gharidah, on Thursday at 10:05pm where the anchor and panelists had questioned the…
Shah Rukh Khan’s children, Aryan and Suhana, are attending Indian Premier League auction on behalf of their father. IPL auction 2022, which is scheduled for Saturday, had a briefing session a day before where all team owners were requested to join. While Kolkata Knight Rider’s Shah Rukh Khan was in absence, his presence was filled by eldest son Aryan and daughter Suhana. The kids decked up in casual attire and masks as they attended the event for KKR. The outing comes Aryan’s first appearance in the limelight after his jail release in 2021. Take a look:
