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  • Dar challenges accountability court indictment in Islamabad High Court

    Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday filed two petitions before the Islamabad High Court challenging his indictment by an accountability court in a reference pertaining to his ownership of “assets beyond his known sources of income”...

    Last Monday, the court had rejected a request by Dar’s counsel, Amjad Pervez, to grant them seven days to peruse the record, saying that since the Supreme Court had set a six-month deadline, he could...

  • Supreme Court, Islamabad High Court jurisdiction extended to Fata

    ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tues­day approved extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as a first step towards implementation of the long overdue reforms in the country’s restive tribal areas...

    In the initial draft that had been prepared in the light of suggestions of a six-member special committee that had proposed merger of the...

  • Meeting with Biden high point of COAS visit

    WASHINGTON: Army Chief Raheel Sharif crowned his five-day visit to the United States with a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday...

    The two leaders met in the Roosevelt Room and discussed “bilateral relations and the security situation” in South Asia, a senior official told journalists
  • Robust growth in car sales high point of auto sector’s stellar performance

    Massive increase in prices, high interest rates and curbs by the State Bank of Pakistan on auto financing from the last quarter of 2021 appeared to have not made any serious dent in buyers’ sentiments...

    Total jeeps/pickups sales in 9MFY22 were 32,769 units as compared to 22,474 units a year, showing tremendous focus of buyers towards high engine powered vehicles...

  • Pilgrims scale Mount Arafat in high point of biggest Covid-era Haj

    Huge crowds of Muslim pilgrims started praying on Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat early on Friday, the high point of the biggest Haj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers for two years in a row...

    On the mountain Friday morning, many of the worshippers wept as they prayed, and carried umbrellas in preparation for the high temperatures later in the day...

  • OIC adopts 70-point Islamabad Declaration

    ISLAMABAD: The two-day meeting of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers ended on Wednesday with affirmation of support for Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir disputes...

    OIC Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha, while speaking at a media conference at the end of the 48th meeting of the 57-member body, said: “Palestine remains high on the agenda of OIC and was discussed thoroughly...

  • Islamabad High Court concerned about spy agencies ‘tug of war’

    ISLAMABAD: The quest of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) spy to have the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) investigate his seniors for allegedly protecting terrorists may not yield the desired results, after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) noted on Wednesday that both agencies seemed to be involved in a “tug of war”...

    Earlier, during the Panama Papers hearings before the Supreme Court, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) had blamed the IB...

  • Plea for open trial of Islamabad High Court judge referred to chief justice

    A Supreme Court bench on Thursday referred to the chief justice a petition filed by a sitting judge of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking the constitution of a larger bench to hear a reference against him...

    The council was established under Article 209 of the Constitution to inquire into allegations leveled against judges of the apex and high courts over misconduct or an inability to perform their duties for reasons of mental or...

  • Islamabad High Court declares Faizabad sit-in ‘a terrorist act’

    ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday declared the ongoing sit-in at the Faizabad interchange an “anti-state activity” and “an act of terrorism”...

    Another show cause notice was issued to the interior minister for not implementing the court’s orders to clear Faizabad, observing that Ahsan Iqbal had “stopped the [Islamabad] administration from acting upon the order passed by this court...

  • Doctor moves Islamabad High Court against long working hours

    ISLAMABAD: A doctor has submitted a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the long working hours medical professionals are made to work, especially resident doctors across the country...

    Dr Hiba filed the petition through her counsel Saimul Haq Satti and has cites the minister of state for National Health Services Regulations and Coordination (NHSRC), secretary NHSRC, chief secretaries Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,...

  • Islamabad High Court to hear bail plea of US terror suspect on Friday

    The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear the bail plea later this week of an American citizen of Pakistani origin awaiting extradition to the United States for allegedly planning an attack on New York in connivance with the militant Islamic State (IS) group, the suspect's lawyer said on Tuesday...

    Ashraf said his client's father Haroon Rashid previously obtained a stay of his son's extradition from the same court...

  • Islamabad High Court reinstates Pemra chairman

    ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday reinstated Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed as the chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra)...

    Read: President sacks Pemra chairmanAccording to sources in the President House, Ahmed was removed as per the procedures chalked out by the Islamabad High Court (IHC)...

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