LAHORE: A banking court on Monday expressed resentment over the cousins of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for failing to appear in a case against them for allegedly defaulting on bank loans. Judge Munir Joya warned that the accused persons’ identity cards, passports, and bank accounts will be blocked if they do not appear in court in a personal capacity. For the last ten months, they have been getting the case adjourned through their lawyers without showing up, he observed. Adjourning the case until September 7, the court ruled thatRead More

KARACHI : The election commission has started preparations for by-election on two vacant seats of Sindh Assembly after given go-ahead from the provincial government. Two Sindh Assembly seats, PS-88 and PS-52 in Malir and Umerkot districts, had been lying vacant after the deaths of MPAs Murtaza Baloch and Ali Mardan Shah. Sindh Human Settlement Minister Ghulam Murtaza Baloch lost his life to the novel coronavirus in June this year, while Syed Ali Mardan Shah, a former provincial minister was died of cardiac arrest in January. The Election Commission of PakistanRead More

KARACHI : The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) on Monday has resumed its work to clear sewerage drains in Karachi ahead of heavy rain forecast. The FWO teams along with heavy machinery are currently working on to clear Gujjar Nullah. Meanwhile, the operation to remove illegal structures built over sewerage drains in the city has been postponed. The drive was set to resume today, but was postponed due to rain forecast in the city, sources privy to the development said. The decision to kick-off an anti-encroachment drive at sewerage drains willRead More

ISLAMABAD : A delegation of Afghan Taliban arrived in Islamabad on Monday to discuss the Afghanistan peace process with senior Pakistani officials. The delegation reached the capital from Qatar at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliberate the Afghan peace process and other related issues. Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry, a spokesperson for the Foreign Office, had confirmed the other day that an Afghan Taliban delegation will be visiting Pakistan to discuss the way forward in the peace process. In October last year, a 12-member delegation of the AfghanRead More

SUKKUR : The accountability court Sukkur on Monday deferred indictment of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Shah in assets beyond known sources of income case. The hearing of the case was presided over by AC Judge Farid Anwar Qazi. PPP leader Khursheed Shah and other accused appeared before the court. At the outset of the hearing, NAB’s counsel requested the court to defer the indictment as more evidence has been gathered against Shah and others. Accepting NAB’s request, the court adjourned the hearing of the case till SeptemberRead More