Fazl to defend his independence day statement before court

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman on Saturday said he would repeat the same before the court as well what he had said on streets, ARY News reported.A plea has been filed in a session court of Lahore against Fazl on his statement that he would not celebrate Independence Day.Levelling allegations of rigging in the elections, he had said he would not celebrate Independence Day for his party was robbed of...

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Shehbaz, Bilawal to be invited to Imran’s oath-taking ceremony: PTI

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday said heads of all parliamentary parties, including Shehbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, will be invited to Imran Khan’s oath-taking as prime minister.The PTI claims to have garnered support of 180 members of the National Assembly and 200 of the Punjab Assembly.Imran will take oath as PM on August 18.Fawad Chaudhary said the demands of opposition will be considered.“The...

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Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meets today to sight Zil-Haj moon

KARACHI: The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will meet in Karachi this evening to sight the Zil-Haj moon which marks the advent of the 12th month in the lunar Islamic calendar.Chairman of the Committee Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman will preside over the meeting.The Zonal Ruet-e-Hilal Committees will also hold separate meetings to collect evidence of sighting of the moon.Yesterday, Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court announced that the kingdom will mark August...

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Karnal Sher Khan’s brother bars Manzoor Pashteen from entering martyr’s tomb

SWABI: Criticisng his anti-army activities, brother of Kargil hero Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed stopped Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen from entering the martyr’s tomb in Swabi, ARY News reported. According to ARY News correspondent, the PTM leader arrived in Swabi to pay a visit to the martyr’s tomb but Sher Khan’s brother reached there and stopped Manzoor from entering the tomb’s premises.“I have been following...

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PTI’s ‘chaiwala’ MNA-elect speaks up about owning assets worth millions

BAJAUR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) MNA-elect Gul Zafar Khan on Friday spoke to ARY News about the reports that he owns assets worth millions despite being introduced as a ‘chaiwala’ (tea-seller) by his party during July 25 elections. Speaking during ARY News show ‘Sawal Yeh Hai’, Gul Zafar Khan said that he belongs to a noble family in tribal area bu back in 90s he rebelled against the prevalent system and had to leave his home...

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PTI consolidates position in NA as MNAs take oath tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The newly elected members of the National Assembly are set to take the oath on Monday (tomorrow).The leader of the lower house of parliament, who automatically becomes prime minister of the country, will be elected on August 17, according to schedule.After the oath of MNAs, the elections of the speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly will be held on August 15. Candidates up for the coveted posts will file their nomination...

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Islamabad, Rawalpindi receive heavy downpour

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad and Rawalpindi received heavy rainfall on Monday night. The incessant downpour flooded many streets in the low-lying areas of the twin cities which lead to locals experiencing great difficulties in commute. Scores of localities in Rawalpindi such as Shamsabad, Javed Colony, Committee Chowk and Sadiqabad are overflowed with water as it has entered houses, shops, mosques thus creating difficulties for the residents. The two...

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Petition in court seeks removal of ‘N’ from PML-N

PESHAWAR: A petition has been filed in the Peshawar High Court seeking the removal of ‘N’ from the name of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N).The petition was submitted by Khanzada Ajmal Zeb to the PHC, according to reports.The petitioner prayed the court to declare the word ‘Noon’ or ‘Nawaz’ with PML illegal and unconstitutional and “therefore, it should be expunged from the Pakistan Muslim League.”The petitioner told the court that Nawaz...

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ECP issues final list of election winners

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has notified the final results of the general election 2018, however, results of a few constituencies have been withheld due to pending disputes in courts.According to the ECP declaration (attached below), the results of all five constituencies contested by PTI chairman Imran Khan have been withheld. Khan had contested from NA-35 (Bannu), NA-53 (Islamabad-II), NA-95 (Mianwali-I), NA-131 (Lahore-IX)...

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IHC approves transfer of Al-Azizia, Flagship Investment cases against Sharif family

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday approved transfer of two pending references against former premier Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family to other courts, ARY News reported. According to details, a two-member bench of the IHC, comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mian Gul Hassan Aurangzeb, approved transfer of Al-Azizia and Flagship Investment references on the former PM’s plea.The deposed premier’s counsel had filed a petition...

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Shahbaz Sharif’s son-in-law declared absconder

LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday declared Imran Ali Yousaf, son-in-law of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif, an absconder in corruption case.Accountability judge Najamul Hassan gave the decision on the request of NAB-Lahore, which states that Ali has fled abroad while escaping the investigation into Punjab Power Development Company scandal. The court declared him absconder after he failed to appear in the...

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Former employee takes factory workers hostage, demands ‘unpaid salary’

KARACHI: An armed man took employees of a factory in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Maymar area over alleged unpaid dues by owners of the mill, ARY News reported. According to ARY News correspondent Salman Lodhi, the man who is a former employee of the factory claims that he was unjustly fired from his job and was not even paid at least three months salary by the owners of the mill.“I will blow myself and my colleagues up if I am not paid,” said the man...

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Atif Aslam receives flak for singing Indian song at Independence Day parade

Singer Atif Aslam has received immense criticism for singing a Bollywood song during an Independence Day parade in New York.Many Pakistani citizens were disappointed after Atif sang an Indian song and left the concert midway. The singer also faced immense criticism on social media.Renowned singer Muhammad Ali Shaikhi said that it was inappropriate to sing an Indian song at an event held to mark Independence Day.He said national and patriotic...

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Karachi police baffled by mysterious child kidnapper

KARACHI: Police in Karachi’s Quaidabad area are looking for a mysterious kidnapper who is abducting children only to torture them for hours before release, ARY News reported.According to police, at least three children were temporarily abducted, tortured and then released after being severely tortured sending shock-waves among residents of Quaidabad area’s Sherpao colony.Medical reports suggest children were tortured using electric wires and...

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LHC rejects Firdous Ashiq Awan’s plea for vote recount

LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Tuesday rejected a request by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Firdous Ashiq Awan seeking votes recount in the NA-72 Sialkot constituency.LHC judge Justice Mamoon Rasheed Sheikh was hearing the case filed by Ms Awan against the victory of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Chaudhry Armaghan.The petition stated that Awan lost the election securing 91,392 while the winning candidate secured 129,041 votes...

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Bangladesh: Mass student protests after deadly road accident

Bangladeshi students burn an effigy of Bangladesh's Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, who is also a transport workers' leader [AM Ahad/AP] Tens of thousands of students in Bangladesh have rallied for a fifth consecutive day after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus.The demonstrators, mostly students in their mid-teens, chanted "we want justice" on Thursday as they defied pouring rain to march in the capital, Dhaka, bringing traffic to...

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Protesters paralyze parts of Bangladesh after a speeding bus kills two students

Last weekend, after a speeding bus struck and killed two students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, their peers began to pour into the streets to demand justice.Since then, tens of thousands of students, many dressed in school uniforms, have essentially shut down the capital, blocking roads and preventing transit through much of the city. They're calling for improvements to road safety in Bangladesh, where around 12,000 people are killed in road accidents...

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1992 world cup champions to be invited for PM’s inauguration

ISLAMABAD: The recently held general elections put cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in a comfortable position to form government at the Centre, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the help of independents and small coalition partners. With the PTI scooping 115 seats in the 272-member lower house of parliament, Khan is set to be elected as 21st prime minister of the country.The PTI chief has directed that...

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SAI aircraft carrying stranded Pakistanis takes off from China

ISLAMABAD: More than 200 Pakistanis, who were stranded in a Chinese city for over a week, heaved a sigh of relief when an aircraft of the Shaheen Air International (SIA) carrying them took off from Guangzhou airport on Monday, ARY News reported.The aircraft reached Guangzhou this morning to bring back 214 passengers stranded there. It is expected to touch down at Lahore airport by 6:00 pm today.The issue surfaced when the Civil Aviation Authority...

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Ghinwa Bhutto, the wife of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s deceased eldest son Mir Murtaza Bhutto, drew ire of Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith after the former took exception to Jemima’s alleged trip to Israel, when it was actually not the case. It all started when Ghinwa, through a tweet, alleged Jemima of vacationing in Israel with her family. In response, Jemima clarified that she was in Mexico and not Israel. And here’s what she wrote in an apparent...

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‘MQM won the election, and we need them’: Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Making a firm stance on retaining electoral alliance with the former foes, senior leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf Fawad Chaudhry says that Muttahida Qaumi Movement has won the election and PTI need them.Speaking to journalists here, the PTI leader said his party would prefer to go forward with the MQM as a stakeholder.He said the process of Imran Khan’s oath-taking was very important. He informed that the party’s parliamentary committee...

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PTI officially nominates Imran as prime minister

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership and MNAs-elect on Monday formally nominated Imran Khan as party candidate for the office of prime minister. The high-level huddle of the PTI parliamentary party is currently underway at a local hotel.It is also likely to pick the candidates for speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly.The PTI claims to be enjoying the support of 125 MNAs which include at least nine independent...

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Fehmida Mirza retains NA-230 Badin seat after recount

  KARACHI: Former National Assembly speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza has retained the NA-230 seat in Badin following recounting of votes ordered by the Sindh High Court (SHC).Dr Mirza of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) bagged 95,064 votes while Pakistan Peoples Party’s Haji Rasool Bakhsh Chandio secured 93,999. According to unofficial results, Mirza retained the seat with a lead of 1,065 votes.On Friday, the SHC had dismissed a petition of the...

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PTI seeks UK, UAE help to recover looted money

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday confirmed that an important point of discussion in Imran Khan’s recent meetings with envoys of UK and UAE — who visited Bani Gala to congratulate him over his party’s victory in general elections — was money laundering.“Imran emphasised that these countries [UK and UAE] should cooperate with Pakistan to identify those Pakistanis who piled up properties worth billions of rupees abroad....

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PTI MPA-elect dies of brain haemorrhage

MULTAN : Sardar Tariq Khan Dareshak, an MPA-elect of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on Sunday passed away at the age of 66.The funeral prayer was offered in his ancestral town in Punjab’s Rajanpur district. DSP Ibrahim Khan Daresak said that his brother suffered from a brain haemorrhage five days ago, after which he was shifted to intensive care unit (ICU) of a private hospital in Multan. He spent the last three days on a ventilator, the brother...

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Khan Sahib where are the women?

Bushra Maneka is in purdah. It means Pakistanis will not see their First Lady stand beside her husband when he takes the oath of prime minister or walk shoulder-to-shoulder with him at national events. Meanwhile, all we have is a meandering story from Imran Khan’s second wife. It’s the story of an ambitious divorced wife allegedly wronged by her two husbands. Reham Khan’s attacks on IK are getting more virulent and desperate as he’s slotted...

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Nine 'militants' arrested for burning down Diamer schools

PESHAWAR: Nine suspected militants involved in torching schools in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Diamer district were taken into custody by local police on Saturday.During the operation in the Tangir area this morning, Arif Hussain, a police official, was killed in a shoot out with the culprits.Two suspected militants were taken into custody from the house, sources say.“We have managed to apprehend a total of nine suspects up till now,” an official...

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MQM-P's defeat was a joint effort of humans, aliens: Sattar

 KARACHI: Leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) have alleged that the combined efforts of “aliens and humans” were behind their defeat in the 2018 general elections from Karachi. They demanded that reelections be held in the constituencies where rigging has taken place.A large number of the party’s supporters and workers, led by Dr Farooq Sattar, Faisal Subzwari, Rauf Siddiqui, Mehfooz Yar Khan, Abdul Haseeb and Amir Khan,...

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'Land grabbers' set eyes on government school in Gulshan-e-Iqbal

KARACHI: Land grabbers allegedly tried to occupy Ali Muhammad Iqbal Government School’s building in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, block 10 on Thursday morning.“When we reached the school in the morning the gates were locked and we had no option but to return,” said Ali Muhammad, a student of the school. It was then that the headmaster, Tariq Javed, came and decided to conduct the classes on the road just outside the school.The news of the alleged attempted...

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Edhi Foundation receives 50 ambulances from Australian chapter

KARACHI: The Edhi International Foundation Australia donated 50 new ambulances to the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan. The Australian community donated 32 ambulances last year, confirmed Faisal Edhi. He added that they will also be contributing towards a training institute and a 100-bed hospital in Lyari in the coming days.At a ceremony at the North Karachi’s Edhi centre on Tuesday, Faisal thanked the foundation’s Australia chapter and the donors...

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Meet Rana Hamir Singh, PPP's first pick on minority reserved seat in Sindh

KARACHI: Known for his royal air as he belongs to the former ruling family of Amerkot, now Umerkot, Rana Hamir Singh is the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) first pick on the reserved seats for minorities in the Sindh Assembly. Singh, the 26th Rana of Dhat, was crowned after the demise of his father Rana Chandar Singh in 2010.The lawmaker’s family home is being flocked by people belonging to Muslim and non-Muslim communities from Tharparkar,...

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AJK University holds debate on UNHRC report

MUZAFFARABAD: University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Kaleem Abbasi on Wednesday said that the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s report significantly highlighted the Kashmir issue at the global level. He was addressing a roundtable debate jointly organised by the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmir liberation cell. The participants of the debate including Kashmir liberation cell Secretary Muhammad...

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MIRPUR: Brisk preparations are afoot for the three-day Summer Tourism Festival, which will be inaugurated by Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on April 27 here at Asifa Bhutto Park.

MUZAFFARABAD: Renowned clinician Dr Bashir Kanth, who performed more than 10,000 surgeries and produced 50 civil and army surgeons, has finally won his right to be granted BPS-22 official grade after a seven-year legal battle. Dr Kanth, who served the profession from 1977 to 2010, was deprived of his right to retire in the said grade as the region’s top bureaucracy created hurdles for him.“In 2010, the then Prime Minister Farooq Haider hailed...

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MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said the government is focusing on economic development with emphasis on promoting and developing the tourism industry in AJK.

MIRPUR: Brisk preparations are afoot for the three-day Summer Tourism Festival, which will be inaugurated by Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on April 27 here at Asifa Bhutto Park.The festival is being organised by the AJK Tourism Department in cooperation with the Mirpur District Administration and other nation-building departments.Addressing a press conference here at the Kashmir Press Club, AJK Minister for Sports...

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MUZAFFARABAD: The 15th death anniversary of Azad Jammu and (AJK) Kashmir Ghazi-i-Millat founding president Sardar Ibrahim Khan was observed across AJK on Tuesday.

MIRPUR (AJK): Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said the government is focusing on economic development with emphasis on promoting and developing the tourism industry in AJK.He expressed these views while inaugurating a three-day grand tourism gala – the Summer Tourism Festival 2018, hosted by the AJK Tourism Department in Mirpur.Speaking on the occasion, the AJK president said, “Kashmir is a beautiful area with huge potential...

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