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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