PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has sought a response from the attorney general on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) legal challenge to governor’s rule and the imposition of an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). A two-judge bench comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Faheem Wali heard the petitions filed by PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan and Advocate Salman Khan. The petitioners have asked the court to declare the federal government’s measures unconstitutional and strike them down. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government imposed governor’s rule and an emergency in KP on October 11. The province has been governed by the…
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Mubarak Ali, chief editor of Khyber News, has been elected to the executive committee of the Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors (AMEND) for the third consecutive time. The result came in the latest AMEND elections, where Azhar Abbas was chosen as president and Tariq Mehmood as general secretary. The results were announced after the general council met in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. AMEND Elections: Full List of Office-Bearers Muhammad Usman and Mian Tahir were elected vice presidents. Rehan Ahmed and Nadeem Jamal will serve as joint secretaries, and Shahab Mehmood was chosen as finance secretary. The general…
The Pakistan Army has answered a round of firing from Afghan Taliban in the Taida sector of Upper Kurram, striking back at positions across the border. The firing is still going on, with both sides exchanging fire. According to reports, the Afghan side opened fire first, prompting an immediate and forceful reply from Pakistani troops. Pakistani forces targeted an enemy post and a base camp during their response. The strikes were carried out in the Taida sector of Upper Kurram, in Kurram district. The exchange of fire had not stopped at the time of reporting. No details on casualties or…
The government has turned down opposition leader Mehmood Achakzai’s demand for a neutral location for his meeting with the prime minister. Any Mehmood Achakzai meeting with the premier, officials say, will take place at the Prime Minister House and nowhere else. Adviser to the Prime Minister Rana Sanaullah made the position clear in a statement. He said no third venue can be fixed for the opposition leader and the prime minister to sit together. Sanaullah said the Prime Minister House is not anyone’s personal property. It belongs to the state, he added. He noted that similar insistence had been shown…
Twenty police personnel from Balochistan’s Rakhshan division have been abducted while traveling home on leave, according to police officials. The incident has raised fresh concern over road safety in the province. All 20 men were undergoing training at the Police Training Center in Qalat. They had been given leave and were returning to their homes when they were taken. How the Balochistan Police Kidnapped Incident Unfolded The recruits were traveling in a private passenger van and heading toward Noshki. Their route ran from Kalat through Sarband, which lies between the two districts. Police said the van was intercepted within the…
BEIJING/KABUL: China has declined to open the Wakhan Corridor to Afghanistan, holding firm that its border will stay closed until its security concerns are addressed. The decision is a significant setback for the Taliban regime, which had hoped for a new trade link with its eastern neighbour. The report comes from the Afghan outlet Atlas Press News Agency. It also points to a wider problem: the threat of terrorism emanating from Afghan soil under the Taliban regime has affected the security of neighbouring countries. According to the Afghan publication, Beijing did not attend the opening ceremony for the Wakhan road.…
PESHAWAR: Families who lost children in the Peshawar school tragedy received financial relief on Friday, as the Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar personally delivered compensation cheques to their homes. The visit followed a special directive from the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In total, cheques worth Rs19 million were distributed among the parents of the martyred children to support them financially during this difficult time. Deputy Commissioner Spends the Day With Bereaved Families The Deputy Commissioner did not limit the visit to a formal handover. He met the affected families one by one, listened to them, and shared in their sorrow. Officials…
Families of the children who died when a school roof came down in Peshawar demanded “justice”, a day after the tragedy claimed more than 30 young lives. The Peshawar school collapse killed a woman teacher and 34 students on Thursday morning, most of them younger than 14. Dozens of mourners gathered outside the building on Friday to remember the victims. Officials have blamed the disaster on dilapidated infrastructure. “The parents of all these children must receive justice,” said Muhammad Wahab, a tailor who lost his 11-year-old nephew, Hammad. Speaking to AFP, he appealed directly to the country’s rulers and recalled…
LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Friday that a certain political party chief was “deeply upset” because he was kept out of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governorship and the governor’s rule setup. The remarks add fuel to the growing debate over KP governor’s rule, which has divided the political class since it was imposed. Speaking informally to journalists in Lahore, Naqvi did not name the politician. He claimed, however, that the leader had depended on the establishment’s backing for decades to stay relevant in politics. “Such was his situation that even the air tickets for his political party were arranged…
KAKUL: Pakistan will not tolerate any cross-border aggression or breach of its frontiers, Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC) General Syed Aamer Raza said on Saturday. His message on Pakistan border security came during the passing out ceremony at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) in Kakul. “Safeguarding the territorial integrity of our motherland is absolute and unyielding,” he said. Four Courses Graduate at PMA Kakul Gen Raza was the chief guest at the ceremony, which brought together four graduating batches: the 154th PMA Long Course, the 39th Technical Graduate Course, the 73rd Integrated Course, and the 28th Lady Cadet Course. In…
