News Pakistan

October 8, 2018

Apex court proposed to relax perjury laws

ISLAMABAD: Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed has advised the Supreme Court to direct all provincial governments to bring new legislation for an effective cost regime as “rigorous exercise […]
October 8, 2018

NUST unmoved on gender discriminatory smoking ban

ISLAMABAD: It seems that the vociferous protests by students, activists and government officials on social media were not enough to make a major engineering and technology […]
October 8, 2018

Ex-Punjab IG contests Nacta chief’s report

A three-judge Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar, while hearing a case pertaining to the transfer of the Pakpattan […]
October 8, 2018

Punjab police looking for expat wanted in wife, daughter’s murder case

RAWALPINDI: Police have alerted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s immigration staff at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) to arrest a Pakistani expatriate wanted in connection with […]
October 8, 2018

Israeli PM’s wife goes on trial for fraud

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, appeared in court on Sunday for the first hearing in the fraud trial against her, in which she […]
October 8, 2018

CJP takes notice of Lahore lawyers ‘beating up’ police official

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday took notice of the alleged assault on a police official in Lahore by lawyers. The top […]
October 8, 2018

CJP orders bottled water firm’s audit in SC building

LAHORE: Hearing a suo motu case about extraction of groundwater by bottled water companies, the Supr­eme Court on Saturday asked the Nestle’s chief executive officer (CEO) […]
October 8, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: Victory for Trump in Supreme Court battle

President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, has been sworn in following weeks of rancorous debate. The Senate earlier backed his nomination […]