
Quetta: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) here today, accepted the bail plea of former federal minister for interior Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case. Aftab Sherpao had submitted his bail application on Monday and today the court granted him interim bail against a surety of one million rupees and adjourned […]

Islamabad: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has formed four-member committee headed by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, to look into Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s case. The decision to form the committee to take up the lingering issue of the Pakistani girl jailed in the USA was taken after a meeting here at […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has reserved its ruling on the review petition filed by Arsalan Iftikhar, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The judgment is expected to be announced in a day or two. He challenged the court’s June 14 order regarding the controversy relating to allegations of a corruption worth Rs342 million […]

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the Supreme Court couldn’t adopt any middle way in the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) implementation case. Speaking to private TV channel, the renowned jurist predicted that the apex court would give a similar ruling against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf as it did against Yousaf […]

Has Religious Extremism gotten to the point of no return? The past generation still remembers the golden days of Pakistan in the early 70’s as the golden period, where people of all races and castes lived together as brothers and sisters under one nation, along with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto leading the country towards being […]

A trial court while accepting the bail plea of Hamid Saeed Kazmi, the former minister for religious affairs, ordered his immediate release from the prison. Special Judge Muhammad Ahmad Farooqui on Monday granted the bail to the former federal minister, who was under arrest for the last one year on the charge of corruption in the […]

The Supreme Court has granted time to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf till September 18 in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case. On appearing before the Supreme Court in the contempt case, the premier sought at least four to six weeks to consult his legal team to resolve the issue. A five-judge bench headed by […]

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has confirmed killing a Taliban leader namely Mullah Dadullah in the eastern Kunar province. A statement issued by the allied forces said, “The Taliban leader Dadullah was one of several insurgents killed in a precision airstrike in Shigal district, Kunar province, yesterday”. Dadullah, who was also known as Jamal, was […]

After hectic efforts, the Khosa family reportedly agreed to patch up with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz from which it separated ways for unknown reasons. According to PML-N Leader Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa and PML-N President Nawaz Sharif held one-one-one meeting at the Sharif residence in Raiwind and have reconciled their differences. While speaking to […]

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) senior leader and General Secretary of Sindh Chapter Taj Haider expressed serious concerns over the verification of electoral lists, asking the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to restore electoral rolls of 1998. In a letter written to Chief Election Commissioner Justice (Retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, the PPP leader said his party […]

Giving priority to education and health sector, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has revealed its economic policy to make the country prosperous and flourishing. PTI Senior Vice President Asad Umar presented the plan in a seminar titled Economic Policy Vision. While shedding light on the plan he observed, “No effort has been made in the last […]

HTC One X: A Hands-On Review Having become an avid fan of the HTC smartphones line-up, I’ve always wanted to get my hands on their top-of-the-line model, the oh-so-amazing, One X. After finally getting a chance to get the mighty One X, it was only natural that I share my views on it. […]