Plaintiff Mian Shabbir filed a plea in the LHC through his lawyer Azhar Siddique. The Chairman of the Senate, the speaker National Assembly, the Election Commission of Pakistan, and others have been made respondents in the case. The plea stated Parliament passed an amendment in the Election Act with a simple majority, while such legislation […]
MQM-P has decided against fielding candidates in 15 constituencies five national and 10 provincial of Karachi to accommodate the allied parties, mainly the PML-N. However, NA-242 remains the point of contention after both PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and MQM-P Senior Deputy Convener Mustafa Kamal filed nomination papers for the constituency. MQM-Pakistan has named Mustafa Kamal […]
A delegation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling party in India, headed by Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani, left for a two-day official visit to Saudi Arabia in an unusual show of diplomatic grace. Middle East Eye reports that when the party was allowed entry to the Muslim holy city of Madina, which […]
The National Electric Regulatory Authority (Nepra) is anticipated to take the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) to court for their carelessness in enforcing mandatory safety rules, which include grounding high-tension (HT) and low-tension (LT) poles. Regarding the start of legal action against the distribution firm of Faisalabad for breaking the safety code, which resulted in […]
The political rivalry between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), who were formerly partners, is intensifying as the polls on February 8 draw closer. This is because Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his rivals “always try to run away from polls.” The former foreign minister launched his pre-election salvo […]
The media affairs wing of the Pakistan Army reported that two troops were killed in a gunfight with terrorists in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. Two terrorists were “sent to hell” during the firefight, according to a news release from Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), as “own troops effectively engaged the […]
On Wednesday, US Ambassador Antony Blinken informed Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas that Washington is in favor of “tangible steps” that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state. In subsequent discussions in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba, Abbas is scheduled to address a “push for an immediate ceasefire” alongside King Abdullah II […]
The characteristic pink buses will soon be driven by trained women on Karachi’s streets. At Mehran Depot, the last stage of training for female drivers is now in progress and is scheduled to end on January 15. Even though gender equality is still a problem in Pakistan, brave women in Karachi are actively trying to […]
On Ahmad Ali Butt’s podcast Excuse Me, Fawad Khan, the leading man in Pakistani entertainment, revealed some shocking details about the nation’s favorite drama, Humsafar, including the fact that he didn’t want to perform it at all. Khan went back to the beginning of his trip, when social media was nonexistent and people used movies […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty that a special court had imposed on former president General Pervez Musharraf. A few minutes after it was reserved, the top court’s four-member bench—Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Aminuddin Khan, and Justice Athar Minallah—announced the verdict, upholding the […]
