RAWALPINDI: Heavy rain and hailstorm in the twin cities on Friday morning brought relief from the hot and humid weather of the past four days, with the Met Office predicting more rain and hailstorms in the next 24 hours. Heavy clouds overpowered the sun at 7am, and rain and hailstorm lashed the twin cities at 8am for an hour. The cool winds brought a pleasant change in the weather, and the temperature dropped to 28 degrees Celsius, while in the last four days, the daytime temperature had increased to 38 degrees Celsius. The Met Office recorded 15mm of rain at…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
QUETTA: National Democratic Movement (NDM) leaders Mohsin Dawar and Afrasiab Khattak have said the February 8 general polls were the “worst elections” where the mandate of people was “trampled upon”. They expressed these views in a meeting with the former Balochistan chief minister, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, on Friday. The NDM leaders expressed condolences over the demise of the former CM’s elder brother and prayed for the departed soul. While discussing the existing political situation, the NDM leaders cautioned that “mandate theft” would further deteriorate the existing crises. Unity among political forces urged They lamented that leaders of major political parties have…
RAWALPINDI: Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Justice Jawad Hassan has clarified what constitutes a “step in proceedings”, stating that it requires an “unequivocal intention” by either party to proceed with the suit. The matter pertained to the definition of Section 34 of the Arbitration Act, 1940, which states that in cases where arbitration agreements exist between two parties if one of them initiates legal proceedings, the other party “at any time before filing a written statement or taking any other steps in the proceedings” can file an application for a stay order to halt the case. If it is satisfied, the…
ISLAMABAD: The PTI core committee has said the recent press conference by the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) was “unconstitutional and illegal”. In a rejoinder to the press conference in which Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif linked dialogue with PTI to a “public apology”, the PTI core committee said security agencies should end “the absurd tradition of interfering in politics”. According to an official announcement by the PTI’s central media department, the party’s top leadership also “unanimously rebuffed” the ISPR DG’s demand for an apology. The forum said a “propaganda” was underway against the PTI under the guise of a “false…
GILGIT: In a heart-wrenching incident, a PIA flight from Islamabad to Skardu left behind the body of a six-year-old boy at the capital’s airport on Friday, while his parents continued their journey, unaware of the shocking mistake. The parents of the deceased boy were shocked and fainted at Skardu airport when they came to know that their son’s body had been left behind in Islamabad. Mujtaba, a resident of Katshi village of Kharmang district, was diagnosed with a tumour at a hospital in Skardu and doctors referred him to Rawalpindi for treatment a month ago. His father Muhammad Askari and…
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to set up an authority under the Pakistan Climate Change Act, 2017, within a fortnight and complete the establishment of funds intended to address the dangers of climate change. “Considering that failure to establish the authority has serious implication on the fundamental rights of the people of Pakistan, we direct the federal government to establish the authority within a fortnight and thereafter complete the establishment of the fund,” said an order issued by a three-judge Supreme Court bench the other day. The bench consisted of Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice…
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: The ruling coalition in Punjab led by PML-N on Friday lost dozens of reserved seats in the provincial assembly when the speaker suspended 24 women and three minority MPAs elected on reserved seats and barred them from joining the house proceedings. Twenty-three of the suspended MPAs belonged to PML-N, two to PPP and one each to PML-Q and IPP. Speaker Malik Mohammad Ahmed Khan took the decision on a point of order raised a day ago by opposition lawmaker Rana Aftab of PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) during the house proceedings. The opposition member had argued that…
An accountability court in Islamabad on Saturday granted President Asif Ali Zardari immunity from criminal proceedings in two cases of the National Accountability Court (NAB). According to the court order, a copy of which is available with, since Zardari was elected to the president’s office this year, no criminal proceedings can be launched against him and any proceedings already underway have been stayed or paused. The president had last month petitioned the court under Section 248(2) of the Constitution, which states that no criminal proceedings can be launched or continued against a sitting president or governor. The prosecutor “did not…
Justin Bieber appeared to be ‘protective’ of his pregnant wife, Hailey Bieber, from his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez’s controversies. On May 9, the couple shared joyous news in a joint post on Instagram that they are expecting their first child together after six years of marriage. Only hours after Justin and Hailey’s pregnancy announcement, the Calm Down singer seemingly reacted to her ex-lover’s baby news by sharing a sweet photo with her new beau, Benny Blanco. Now, analysing the adorable video and photos shared by Biebers to reveal the baby news, body language expert, Inbaal Honigman, claimed that the two appeared protective of…
Cillian Murphy’s upcoming spine-chilling horror film will be creeping on the big screens next year. Sony Pictures announced on Friday that the third instalment of Danny Boyle’s 28 film series named 28 Years Later will be released in summer 2025. The movie is a sequel to the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later and the 2002 film 28 Days Later and is directed by Boyle and written by Alex Garland. Previously, rumours suggested that Boyle and Garland intended for this instalment to serve as the start of a new trilogy. Original producers Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice will return, as well as Murphy as executive producer. Bernie Bellew…
