post. The chief justice recommended the removal of retired district and sessions judge Nuzhat Ara

at the house of Senator Nuzhat Sadiq in F-10.“ This is not a katcha area rather the federal capital

Join our Whatsapp channel LAHORE: The Pakis-tan Peoples Party has demanded that the Election Commission of Pakistan hold early elections to the 11 Senate seats presently lying vacant.In a letter written to the chief election commissioner on Thursday, PPP Central Election Cell in-charge Senator Taj Haider asked the former to hold elections to the 11 vacant seats of the Senate as soon as possible. Senator Haider said the upper house of the bicameral parliament is incomplete because its 11 seats, o

The MNA said the road was the main link between rural and urban areas as it connected Alipur Farash with Jagiot.... The road is meant to link Islamabad with Haripur.... That’s why the road is popularly known as Alexander Road. According to CDA, the widening and overhauling of the existing Shah Allah Ditta to Kenthla road was to be carried out....

KARACHI: A sessions court has ruled that the evidentiary value of a DNA test is not acceptable in a case falling under the penal provisions of zina punishable under the Hudood laws, which had its own “ standard of proof ”.... 4 of Surah Al-Noor, ” ruled Additional District and Sessions Judge( East) Ghulam Mustafa Laghari.He made these observations in a detailed judgment in retrial of three men in the 2008 Mazar-i-Quaid gang rape case.... “ Prosecution has failed to produce sufficient evidence

“ Our roads, our parks, our homes should be safe for all women, children, transgenders and men.... Our society is not to tolerate this kind of behaviour, ” he said. Habibuddin Junaidi, president of Peoples Labour Bureau, said that it was an act of barbarianism and extremist behaviour.... The fact that around 400 men got away with leaving a woman traumatised for the rest of her life, shows how the cycle of gender-based violence has been enabled by the system of the patriarchal mindset....

He was also found to be staying at Sindh House, along with many other PTI MNAs, ahead of the no-trust vote.... On Monday, the ECP had issued notices to the 20 dissident MNAs, asking them to appear before it on April 28. The ECP also issued notices to 26 dissident PTI MPAs from the Punjab Assembly, asking them to appear before the electoral watchdog on May 6.... References against them were sent to the ECP by Punjab Assembly Speaker Chauhdry Parvez Elahi....

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday that the government would file a reference in the Supreme Court, asking it to interpret Article 63( A) of the Constitution, which is related to disqualification of parliamentarians on grounds of defection.... Read: No-trust move — Can the NA speaker dismiss votes of dissident lawmakers?... If confirmed by the CEC, the member" shall cease to be a member of the House and his seat shall become vacant". The government has alre

NO doubt, Pakistan is far from alone in that each reported atrocity is rapidly and of necessity replaced in the headlines by a newer act of anarchy.... It is an illustration of how the siege mentality increasingly being reported amongst Pakistan’s millions can work against them.... Outside the IGP’s house are always a couple of police dalaas, and round-the-clock police guards....

He demanded that T.M Khan Hospital be given the status of a district hospital. MQM-P member Ijazul Haq said that the work being done in Karachi was not seen.... The MPA, who hails from Orangi Town, said that there was nothing for his constituency in the budget book.... “ We have repeatedly demanded a trauma centre for Qatar Hospital, but to the deaf ears, ” he lamented. The MQM-P member said 60 per cent of the five million people in Orangi Town did not have any infrastructure of water supply..