With a dozen EU countries already facing lower Russian supplies, Brussels is urging member states to save gas News Desk BRUSSELS:  European Union countries approved a weakened emergency plan to curb their gas demand on Tuesday, after striking compromise deals to limit the cuts for some countries, as they brace for further Russian reductions in supply. Europe faces an increased gas squeeze from Wednesday, when Russian’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) has said it would cut flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to a fifth of capacity. With a dozenRead More

ISLAMABAD, JUL 26: The coalition government Tuesday strongly responded to the Supreme Court’s verdict to place Pervez Elahi as Punjab’s chief minister, removing Hamza Shahbaz from the province’s top office. “Judicial coup,” PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz said in a tweet, who had hours before the verdict asked the government to take a firm stand on the matter. She also termed the decision “the murder of justice.” In his tweet, Labour Minister Sindh and PPP leader Saeed Ghani said he was amazed that the top court instructed either the governorRead More

ISLAMABAD, JUL 26: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari’s ruling in the Punjab Chief Minister election and ruled that the Pervez Elahi is the chief minister of the province. Earlier Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial had said that the judgement would be issued at 5:45pm and later it was scheduled to be announced at 7:30pm. However, the verdict was announced after a three-hour delay via short order. The bench also ordered that Punjab Governor Baligh ur Rehman administerRead More

ISLAMABAD, JUL 26 (DNA) — Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday questioned why there was difference in the interpretation of Imran Khan’s letter as party chief on April 3 and Chaudhry Shujaat’s letter as party chief on July 22. In a statement, she said the question was why not a full court for hearing the petitions against deputy speaker Punjab Assembly ruling and why two separate verdicts on the similar letters.  “Why different interpretations on the similar letters of Imran Khan and Chaudhry Shujaat”, she asked.  She said ifRead More

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) will announce the verdict for the Punjab chief minister’s election case shortly — after the top judge previously said that the judgement would be issued at 5:45pm and later it was scheduled to be announced at 7:30pm. The proceedings went on for three days — Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday — as lawyers from all the parties presented their arguments. Pervez Elahi, who had been defeated by Hamza Shahbaz on July 22 after 10 PML-Q votes were rejected by Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Mazari, hadRead More