KARACHI: Bodies of 28 pilgrims, who died in a traffic accident in Iran on their way to Iraq, were brought to the country via a special flight on Friday night. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has announced Rs5 million each as compensation for legal heirs of the deceased persons and Rs1m for injured victims of the Iran accident. According to an official handout, the bodies of 28 pilgrims, who were killed earlier
The incident is the latest in a string of attacks on police officials and checkposts, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Attacks escalated after the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022 and vowed to target security forces. According to a list of the casualties issued by Dr Wakeel Sherani, the medical superintendent at Pishin Civil Hospital, two children were killed in today’s blast while
Four Pakistanis were killed while multiple others were wounded in a shooting near a Shia mosque in the Omani capital Muscat, officials said on Tuesday, a rare attack in the otherwise stable Gulf sultanate. Police said the overall death toll climbed to six today, adding that the three attackers were also killed. Monday’s shooting “resulted in the death of five individuals, the martyrdom of one policeman, and the death of
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday received Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, who touched down in Islamabad on a two-day official visit on the premier’s invitation. President Aliyev landed at Pakistan Air Force’s Nur Khan base where he was greeted with a red carpet welcome as PM Shehbaz along with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi received him. The foreign dignitary was also presented with a 21-gun salute. During his visit, President Aliev will
After the federal government announced hosting an all-parties conference (APC) to discuss the newly-launched anti-terror operation, Azm-e-Istehkam, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has blamed the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government for making grave mistakes in past which led to the resurgence of terrorism in the country. “Terrorism is rising in KP and Balochistan provinces, once again,” Bilawal said in a press conference in Peshawar on Monday. He added that
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday approved the Election (Amendment) Bill 2024, which empowers the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to appoint retired judges of high courts to election tribunals. Under the amendment to the Elections Act, 2017, the ECP would not need consultation with the respective chief justices for the appointment of retired judges as election tribunals. Through the Election Amendment Bill, the amendments were made in the
QUETTA: Lamenting that the burden of debt has mortgaged the future of nation’s generations, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said it will be a matter of great shame if Pakistan has to once again return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for another loan after three years. “To free ourselves from this cycle of debt, the federal and provincial governments, along with the relevant institutions, must work together,” the premier
PTI founder Imran Khan on Friday said that his party would participate in the government’s All Parties Conference (APC) to discuss Operation Azm-i-Istehkam. The reinvigorated and re-energised national counter-terrorism campaign was announced by the Central Apex Committee on the National Action Plan last month. The government vowed to unleash the full force of the country’s military, diplomatic, legislative, and socio-economic arsenal to decisively defeat terrorism and extremism. Azm-i-Istehkam is the latest
The military’s top brass on Friday expressed concern at what it said was “unwarranted criticism by some quarters and deliberate misrepresentation” of Operation Azm-i-Istehkam. The government announced the operation last month after a meeting of the Central Apex Committee of National Action Plan, vowing to unleash the full force of the country’s military, diplomatic, legislative, and socio-economic arsenal to decisively defeat terrorism and extremism. Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror
The Senate on Thursday passed the Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2024 with a majority vote, seeking the restoration of the original provision to allow the appointment of retired high court judges as members of election tribunals. The Supreme Court has taken up an appeal of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to settle a raging controversy over who should appoint tribunals to decide election disputes, the commission or the Lahore High Court (LHC).
