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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed that the Director General of the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) be made a necessary respondent in a petition challenging the Kite-Flying Ordinance 2025. Justice Muhammad Awais Khalid, while hearing the case, noted that proposals for reviving Basant had originally been initiated by the WCLA chief. “Fundamentally, the DG Walled City must be made a respondent,” the judge remarked. The petitioner’s counsel argued that the matter involves urgent concerns of public safety and should be adjudicated without delay. The court…

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar on Monday urged National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to actively intervene to reduce political tension, warning that confrontation with state institutions could push the country towards instability. During the NA session chaired by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, Barrister Gohar said the country could not afford further chaos and stressed that any escalation against institutions would be dangerous. He requested the speaker to play a role in resolving the leadership issue concerning the opposition leader and broader political tensions. Responding to the appeal, the NA speaker…

LAHORE: The opposition in Punjab Assembly has criticised the labelling as “security threat” of most popular leaders of Pakistan in the past and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan currently. Opposition Leader Moeen Riaz Qureshi said the blame for poor governance by the current administration was unfairly shifting onto state institutions. “Separate the army from politics. People end up blaming the military,” he said. Addressing the assembly, the opposition leader accused the government of pushing a major political party “against the wall” and creating conditions that could plunge the…

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has submitted its report to the Islamabad High Court in the degree controversy involving Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, with Karachi University’s detailed response attached to the record. According to the HEC report, the commission has no role in the administrative affairs of universities and the ongoing petition is entirely an internal matter of the university. It stated that universities and their authorised bodies are solely responsible for issuing degrees, and the HEC has no involvement in this process. The commission informed the court that Justice…

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board on Monday approved a $1.3 billion loan by granting waivers against missing a few core conditions and securing a fresh commitment from Pakistan to introduce new tax measures to offset the impact of a huge revenue shortfall. In order to win the IMF board meeting date, the Pakistani authorities had agreed to fulfil two prior actions, a guarantee to issue an order to restructure an undercapitalised bank and publish the Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment report – the latter hit on its political…