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President Asif Ali Zardari issued a warning on Monday that Pakistan would not allow anyone to use neighbouring territory to destabilise the country’s peace amid a volatile regional situation. In his annual address to a joint sitting of Parliament, the president said: “Let me be clear: the soil of Pakistan is sacred. We will not allow any entity — domestic or foreign — to use neighbouring territory to destabilise our peace.” Co-chaired by Senate Chairman Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the session was attended…

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ISLAMABAD: A District and Sessions Court in Islamabad has granted pre-arrest bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former premier Imran Khan in six cases and to his wife, Bushra Bibi, in one case, according to written orders issued on Tuesday. In the Toshakhana fake receipts case, the court approved pre-arrest bail for both the PTI founder and Bushra Bibi. The judge said the prosecution had failed to present any evidence against them. The case alleges that Imran Khan and his wife produced fake receipts related to the sale of…

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ISLAMABAD: The PTI has approached the capital’s high court, seeking the immediate transfer of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital for specialised eye treatment under the supervision of his personal doctors. A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro will take up the application today (Tuesday) along with the objections raised to it by the court’s registrar. The criminal miscellaneous application, filed on Monday under Section 561-A CrPC by senior counsel Latif Khosa, states…

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ISLAMABAD: Much like Pakistan’s general elections, elections within the superior bars have increasingly become a source of dispute over the past several years. Once an internal professional exercise, it has now evolved into a series of regulatory and political confrontations across multiple provinces. At present, several serious disputes remain unresolved regarding elections of different bar associations. Questions are also being raised about the conduct of regulatory bodies of lawyers, with allegations of partiality in resolving election disputes. Bar politics remains sharply divided between two dominant factions. The Independent Group –…

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has dissolved the bench hearing the appeals filed by human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her spouse Hadi Ali Chattha against their conviction in a case related to their controversial social media posts. The IHC has ordered placing the case file before Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfaraz Dogar for the constitution of a new bench. Justice Muhammad Asif issued the order on Monday on an application filed by the appellants seeking an early hearing of their appeals and the suspension of their sentences. During…

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ISLAMABAD: The Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the federation in an appeal challenging the Federal Shariat Court’s (FSC) ruling that declared the quota system un-Islamic and adjourned the hearing until the first week of April. A five-member bench headed by Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail heard the case. Other members of the bench included Justice Shahid Waheed, Justice Irfan Saadat Khan, and Islamic scholars Justice (retd) Dr Khalid Masood and Dr Qibla Ayaz. During the proceedings, Justice Mandokhail observed that the issue was of…

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KARACHI: Nearly four months after a young boy, Ibrahim, died after falling into an open manhole at Nipa Chowrangi, the Sindh government has appointed a senior officer – earlier removed in the wake of the tragedy – to a key municipal post, drawing concern from civic circles. On November 30, 2025, Ibrahim lost his life after plunging into an uncovered manhole. His body was recovered 14 hours later, sparking widespread outrage and sharp criticism of the Sindh government and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). In the immediate aftermath, the Sindh…

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KARACHI: A member of the Sindh Assembly from Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Muhammad Farooq, has submitted a resolution in the Sindh Assembly condemning the alleged attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. According to the text of the resolution, the assembly strongly condemns the reported attacks and the claimed martyrdom of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with other Iranian leaders, students and civilians. It states that the attacks targeted schools, hospitals and residential areas, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, including children and female students, which…

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Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has warned that the conflict involving Iran could have wider regional consequences for Pakistan, saying that the war is being driven by a Zionist agenda aimed at expanding Israeli influence towards Pakistan’s borders. “Zionism is a threat to humanity. From the establishment of Israel on the land of Palestine until today, every catastrophe that has befallen the Islamic world, every war imposed upon it, will show the direct or indirect hand of Zionist ideology and the state,” he writes in a post on X. Read: Pakistanis…

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