A Pakistani rights group Sunday urged Pakistan’s new government to immediately release dozens of people its security agencies have secretly detained as part of President Pervez Musharraf’s cooperation with the US in its “war on terror”.
ISLAMABAD: The government is reviewing the situation over India’s offer of out-of-court settlements of 60-year-old dispute of Nizam’s funds involving millions of pounds lying frozen in London Bank, The Post learnt on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD: Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday emphatically declined to tender his resignation as chief justice of Pakistan till his retirement in 2013. The deposed chief justice conveyed this message while meeting a delegation of lawyers from Sahiwal, who called on him at his residence here on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD: Shoaib Saddle has been named as the Sindh Inspector General (IG) Police in the wake of the key-posts reshuffling being done by the new government.
LAHORE: Dost Muhammad Khosa of Pakistan Muslim League (N) has been elected as unopposed Chief Minister Punjab here on Friday. Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal told APP here this evening that all the five nomination papers of Dost Muhammad Khosa during the process of scrutiny were found in order and were accepted while […]
ISLAMABAD: Finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday that the government’s economic targets cannot be met because the previous administration ‘fudged’ its figures.
KARACHI: Newly elected Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah Wednesday ordered to arrest in 24 hours the elements responsible for today’s violence in the city.
KARACHI: The number of casualties in Karachi in the aftermath of violent disturbances rose to seven with the recovery of five burnt bodies from Tahir Plaza near City Court here on Wednesday.
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly session has began here on Wednesday, the parliamentary leader of PPP Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani elected unopposed for the top slot will take oath as eleventh Chief Minister of Balochistan later today.
LAHORE: The inaugural session of Punjab Assembly is underway with speaker Afzal Sahi in chair.
About 353 parliamentarians including 268 male, 75 female and 10 minority members including one-woman member took oath from the outgoing PA speaker.