Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shehryar Afridi was arrested by police in the wee hours on Tuesday morning according to news reports. Afridi’s apprehension comes amid the ongoing crackdown on the party’s leadership, workers and supporters in connection to the May 9 violent protests, as chaos ensued in the wake of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest on the same day. …
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (EW): A week-long door-to-door anti-polio immunisation campaign has been started in various Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan districts on Monday. According to the health department, trained polio workers will go door-to-door in various districts nationwide to administer polio vaccine to children under the age of five years. According to the details, more than two million …
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (EW): With the government and the law-enforcement agencies showing a lenient view towards the activists from the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) parties, the latter entered Islamabad’s Red Zone on Monday despite imposition of Section 144 in the federal capital. A large number of PDM workers entered Islamabad’s Red Zone by foot as well as in …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has informed the provinces that no further extension would be granted to the 7th Population and Housing Census field operations ending Monday (today). During the meeting of the Census Monitoring Committee, it has been decided that the census field operations of the country’s first-ever digital census would not be extended beyond this date …
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (EW): The first Hajj flights will depart from Islamabad and Karachi for Saudi Arabia on May 21 as the first batch of assistants will leave on May 17. According to the ministry officials, last year, 80,000 people performed the pilgrimage while the number has now swelled to 175,000 this year. Federal Minister for Religious Affairs has feared …
ANKARA, May 15 (Reuters): Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year rule of the NATO-member country. Neither Erdogan nor Kilicdaroglu cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a second round, to be held on May …
The Supreme Court (SC) will take up the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) plea today (Monday) seeking to revisit its April 4 order of holding elections in Punjab as the May 14 deadline set by the top court expired on Sunday. Last month, a three-member bench of the top court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata …
A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday granted PTI Chairman Imran Khan two-week bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case, a day after the Supreme Court termed his arrest from the IHC premises “invalid and unlawful”. A division bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the PTI chief’s bail plea at …
KARACHI, May 12 (EW): After Thursday’s historic decline in the Pakistani rupee’s value, the local unit gained Rs12.43 against the US dollar in a “dramatic twist” in early trading session on Friday. The dollar was being traded at Rs286.50 during the inter-bank trade around 10:15am. On Thursday, the dollar reached all-time high of Rs298.93 after gaining Rs8.71 in the …
ISLAMABAD, May 12 (EW): Islamabad police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shireen Mazari in the wee hours of Friday. Imaan Hazir-Mazari, the daughter of Mazari, shared a video on Twitter that showed men in civvies forcefully entering Mazari’s home in Islamabad to take the former minister for human rights into custody. Another video popped up on Twitter showing female …
