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  • LHC asks Imran Riaz’s father to tell concerns to probe body

    LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed Muhammad Riaz, the father of missing anchorperson Imran Riaz, to coordinate with a special working group of the Punjab police to narrate his reservations concerning the efforts to recover his son...

    CJ Muhammad Ameer Bhatti was hearing a habeas corpus petition by Mr Riaz, whose primary concern was the safe return of his son
  • Govt wants shutters down by 8pm, again

    ISLAMABAD: The government has, once again, decided to shut markets and commercial centres by 8pm daily to conserve energy, a decision quickly rejected by traders who say 8pm is when peak time starts...

    The government has also decided to include energy reforms in the budget for the next fiscal year to cut the country’s reliance on imported fuel
  • SC grills govt over veracity of audio leaks

    ISLAMABAD: Heading a five-judge Supreme Court bench, Chief Justice of Pak­is­tan (CJP) Umar Ata Ban­dial on Tuesday asked if the government, with all its reso­urces, had ever taken any step to find out who was beh­ind the audio leaks, particularly when such clips were being released through the Twitter handle of a hacker...

    “From where and how are these audio leaks coming forward and who is behind all this,” the CJP wondered during the...
  • Prohibited funding: ECP gives PTI one month to respond

    ISLAMABAD: The Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tues­day gave the PTI another month to file a response in a case related to the forfeiture of prohibited funds, received by the party...

    Appearing before a bench of the ECP headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, PTI counsel Anwar Mansoor sought more time saying that some ‘unidentified persons’ had taken away the record from the office
  • Television producer returns home 24 hours after being ‘picked up’

    Zubair Anjum KARACHI: Zubair Anjum, an executive producer at Geo News, who was allegedly picked up by plainclothes men accompanied by the police in the early hours of Tuesday, returned home early on Wednesday, the channel said...

    According to his family, Mr Anjum was at his home in Model Colony when two police mobiles and a double-cabin pickup arrived at around 1am, the victim’s brother Saadat Ali, told Dawn
  • SC allows woman’s review plea against harassment ruling

    ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred back a harassment complaint of a woman to President Arif Alvi, holding that the harassment law does not limit itself to sexual harassment alone, rather the real purpose behind it is to address gender-based discrimination at workplace...

    “It includes a broad range of conduct and behaviour which results in workplace problems with serious consequences, one of the main being gender...
  • US refrains from commenting on situation in Pakistan

    WASHINGTON: The US administration has said that it engages directly with its Pakistani partners on issues of regional and security importance, once again refusing to publicly comment on the current political situation in Pakistan...

    The statement, made at a US State Department news briefing on Monday afternoon, indicates that a PTI-led campaign to win favours has had little impact on the administration, although it has won them...
  • Qureshi ‘free’ to ponder party’s future

    • PTI vice-chairman freed on LHC orders, court asks police not to arrest him in old cases • Second-in-command expected to ‘share analysis, seek guidance’ from Imran today • Nine criminal cases registered against PTI leader in connection with May 9, court toldISLAMABAD / LAHORE: After spending almost a month in jail following the violent protests that occurred on May 9 after the arrest of the party chief, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood...

  • World Bank offers dimmer outlook for Pakistan’s economy

    • Sees GDP rising by 2pc next fiscal year, well below govt’s 3...

    5pc projection • Says floods, policy uncertainty and limited foreign exchange for imports have depressed activityISLAMABAD: The World Bank has projected Pakistan’s economy to grow by two per cent in the next fiscal year, compared to the 3
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