ISLAMABAD: Against a flurry of activities between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to boost trade ties, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is expected to arrive in Pakistan this month to conclude deals being negotiated between Islamabad and Riyadh. According to Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, dates for the visit had not been communicated to Pakistan, but media reports claimed that the visit was likely on May 10-15. “The crown prince had accepted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s invitation. The visit is on the cards, but no dates have been communicated to us as yet,” FM Dar said at a briefing on his participation in the World…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
ISLAMABAD: Justice Ayesha A. Malik of the Supreme Court has ruled that parliament lacks the legislative competence to make the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023, rendering the act ultra vires of the Constitution. In an additional note in the practice and procedure case, Justice Malik stated, “The rule-making power under Article 191 of the Constitution exclusively falls within the domain of the Supreme Court and is directly linked with the independence of the judiciary.” In a split decision last year, a 15-judge full court of the Supreme Court had upheld the PDM coalition-made law to regulate the affairs of the…
Lahore’s GPO Chowk on Wednesday became a battleground between riot police and lawyers after the latter staged a protest rally and attempted to enter the Lahore High Court (LHC). The lawyers’ attempts to gain entry into the high court were repelled by police, who baton-charged, fired tear gas at and used water cannons to disperse them. Rana Bilal, present at the scene, reported that violence erupted as lawyers, including members from the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), demanded the dismissal of a terror case filed against fellow lawyers, and protested against the shifting of a court to…
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday approved the request of former premier Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi seeking her transfer from their Banigala residence— which had been declared a sub-jail — to Adiala Jail, where her husband is currently incarcerated. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb pronounced the verdict, which had been reserved last week. Although Bushra Bibi’s petition had been disposed of last month due to her lawyers failing to appear before the court, a plea was filed the same day seeking its restoration. “She has already been shifted to a female ward of the jail on her own request,” PTI lawyer…
Gisele Bündchen, who is known to be a regular attendance at the annual biggest night in fashion, was missing at the 2024 Met Gala. The Brazilian supermodel skipped out on the event just one day after her ex-husband’s Netflix special, The Roast of Tom Brady, in which Hart made a dig at her new romance. “Gisele has told friends she’s struggling and to have her entire life mocked all because Tom wanted the spotlight of a comedy roast was the last straw,” an insider told InTouch Weekly. “She has a good thing going with [boyfriend] Joaquim [Valente] and it’s not fair that…
King Charles may have decided against meeting Prince Harry after talking about it with Queen Camilla and Prince William. Speaking to GB News, royal commentator Charlotte Griffith reflected on the 75-year-old monarch unable to find time in his diary to meet his youngest son, who flied to the UK yesterday She claimed it might have had something to do with the duke’s demands surrounding the meeting, including not wanting Queen Camilla around during the audience. “Although on the surface it looks like a snub, Harry made it very difficult for his father,” the editor-at-large on the Mail On Sunday told host Patrick Christys.…
Nikki Glaser, a comedian and actress, revealed that she wasn’t able to deliver all of the jokes she had prepared for the live comedy event during Netflix’s Tom Brady roast. Despite receiving praise for her performance, she shared some of the jokes that the audience missed during Sunday night’s event in an interview with Howard Stern on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. “Tom, I love your work — you’ve done on your face,” read one of Glaser’s jokes about the football star’s alleged plastic surgery that she cut. “Seriously, slow down. What is happening with your cheeks? You look like a…
King Charles is understood to have denied meeting with Prince Harry over fears of his upcoming event being overshadowed. The 75-year-old monarch is set to host a garden party for 5,000 people later today, as the Duke of Sussex gears up to attend service of Thanksgiving for Invictus Games sans family support. Speaking to The Daily Beast, a former palace courtier revealed: “Of course reconciliation between father and son is important. But the problem is that any meeting with Harry would have completely overshadowed Charles’ ongoing return to work this week, which is what his office, quite rightly, would see as…
Prince Harry and King Charles may be a stone’s throw away but the father-son duo will not be meeting. The Duke of Sussex is “very disappointed” that he would not be able to see his cancer-stricken father during his UK visit after reportedly being denied by the king himself. The reason behind the cancelled meeting appears to be Queen Camilla, according to a source cited by Daily Express. “Harry is of course extremely disappointed that he hasn’t been granted a meeting with his father this time,” the source said. “It’s even harder to wrap your head around when you consider that…
Keith Urban still feels hyped up in the presence of her lovely wife, Nicole Kidman. “It fires me up a bit more,” he told People magazine of his wife’s attendance at his shows, one day after the couple made a head-turning appearance at the 2024 Met Gala. “I try to impress her.” The couple has two children, Sunday, 15 and Faith, 13. They’ll celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary next month. Keith Urban still seeks validation from his loved ones, including his late father, Bob Urban, who passed in December 2015. “I feel like I’m still trying to make my dad…
