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Two Pakistan Army pilots were martyred on Monday after a training aircraft crashed in Quetta due to a technical fault, the military’s media wing affairs said. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said: “ midday, a Mushshak training aircraft of Pakistan Army Aviation crashed near Na...
A day after the federal government imposed governor’s rule and emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — formerly governed by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf — security across the city remains heightened, with containers placed on major roads in Peshawar, police deployed to maintain law and order, and educatio...
Now-suspended Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and some of his cabinet members were in preventative custody after the Centre imposed emergency and governor’s rule in the province, officials confirmed on Monday. The federal government took the measures under Articles 232 and 234 of the...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed jail authorities to provide heart medication to Dr Uzma Khan, sister of PTI founder and former premier Imran Khan. Imran’s three sisters, Aleema Khan, Noreen Niazi and Uzma, have been in detention for nearly three weeks under the Maintenance of ...
Now-suspended Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and some of his cabinet members were in preventative custody after the Centre imposed emergency and governor’s rule in the province, officials confirmed on Monday. The federal government took the measures under Articles 232 and 234 of the...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi co-chaired a meeting of the KP apex committee on Monday, a day after the imposition of the governor’s rule and emergency in the province. Addressing the meeting, Governor Kundi asserted that under the new set-up, tackl...
A day after the government imposed governor’s rule and emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar defended the move, saying it was not politically motivated but instead taken to curb terrorism. DPM Dar made the comments while addressing a seminar in Islamab...
The government is looking to push for the privatisation of five to six entities that could raise upwards of $1 billion, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told Reuters on Monday, stating that he expected the economy to grow by more than 4 per cent this fiscal year despite elevated oil prices. Pakis...
‘Sovereign is he who decides on the exception,’ wrote the notorious German thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922. Or, put simply, whoever gets to decide when the rules stop applying is the one actually in charge. Gifted with a big brain and sharp turn of phrase, Mr Schmitt went on to become a noted critic of...
KARACHI: Just days after kidnapped sailors from MT Honour 25 were reunited with their families, another Pakistani seafarer’s family is seeking the return of his mortal remains, following his demise after his ship came under attack near the Strait of Hormuz last month. Muhammad Hammad Obaida, a third...
LAHORE: The concerns of the Punjab Police personnel, already facing issues of bad food and missing facilities during deployment in Rawalpindi division to counter the PTI march, further deepened on Sunday on the ‘rumours’ that 25,000 of the total 40,000 would be moved from Attock (Punjab) to Khyber P...
PESHAWAR: Despite being in throes of violence for the past many decades, Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has most of the time enjoyed political stability. The violence came and went but political stability was always there despite the sabre-rattling with federal government and marches o...
