ISLAMABAD, AUG 29: /DNA/ – Chairman of Pakistan Economy Watch Brigadier (Retd) Muhammad Aslam Khan said on Tuesday that electricity distribution companies should not be immediately privatised by taking advantage of the chaos in the country on the issue of electricity bills. The practice of repeating failed experiments should be abandoned, as it may be in the interests of influential elites, but it is against the country’s interests, he said. Aslam Khan said in a statement issued here today that before the privatisation of discos, the masses should know howRead More

Verdict announced by IHC division bench; Imran’s legal team files fresh petition seeking bar on his arrest in any other case. ISLAMABAD, AUG 29: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s conviction and three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case. The much-anticipated order was announced by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahan­giri on the former prime minister’s appeal against his prison term. A detailed judgment is awaited. On August 5, a trial court in Islamabad had convicted the PTIRead More