Thursday, July 28th, 2016
NAB arrests former Quetta nazim Maqbool Lehri
QUETTA: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday arrested former nazim of Quetta, Maqbool Lehri, after the Balochistan High Court (BHC) cancelled his bail. Lehri was arrested from the high court’s premises and presented to an accountability court, which sent him on judicial remand. The former nazim was then shifted to District Jail Quetta. Earlier, Lehri’s counsel had requested that on account of his client’s poor health, he be shifted to the jail ward of Civil Hospital Quetta. But the court instead directed the concerned authorities to provide Lehri medicalRead More
Pakistan to try ’till last moment’ to halt Zulfiqar Ali’s execution: FO
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is in talks with Jakarta and remains hopeful about the possibility of clemency for Zulfiqar Ali, a Pakistani citizen who is likely to be executed in the next 24 hours on a prison island in Indonesia. Addressing a weekly briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Nafees Zakaria said Islamabad is in touch with top officials in the Indonesian capital and will keep up efforts to halt Ali’s iminent execution ’till the last moment’. Indonesia has rejected appeals from the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) toRead More
POA chief urges combined efforts to address alarming sports decline
LAHORE: Lamenting apathy and unprofessional attitude of the stakeholders that badly damaged sports in the country for long, Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) president retired Lt Gen Arif Hasan has called for united efforts by government and national federations in order to rid Pakistan sports of rapid decline and put them on the right track. “It is necessary to address all the issues hindering the promotion of our sports. [In this regard] the POA is writing a letter to the federal sports minister seeking a joint sitting of all stakeholders toRead More