KARACHI  - PPP Sindh leaders have hinted that after forming the government it will engage future allies in dialogue to replace the existing 1979 local government ordinance with the new local government law in the province.Former minister for local government and one of the aspirants for the ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa former law minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah was arrested on Wednesday from a session court in Charsadda after his pre-arrest bail application in a case for attacking a police station was cancelled.Police have registered a case against Abdullah for attacking Utmanzia ...

BAHAWALPUR Police officials dressed in plainclothes allegedly made an unsuccessful bid to nab a medical student who is as per the police wanted in a mobile snatching case though he has obtained a pre arrest bail in the case. As a result, a quarrel took place between the student and the police ...

ATTOCKAfter a clash with the driver of a passenger van, a police constable forcibly brought the vehicle along with the passengers to the police station and allegedly humiliated them and wasted their precious time. They demanded that the district police officer should take a strict action against ...

ATTOCK - After a clash with the driver of a passenger van, a police constable forcibly brought the vehicle along with the passengers to the police station and allegedly humiliated them and wasted their precious time. They demanded that the district police officer should take a strict action against ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court on Wednesday set aside the notification for termination of 20 law officers of the office of the advocate general Punjab, issued by the caretaker government on May 5 this year. The order from Justice Umar Ata Bandial came on a petition filed by the terminated law ...

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday declared the sacking of seven additional advocate generals and thirteen assistant advocate generals in Punjab as invalid.Chief Justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Umar Ata Bandial heard the petition filed against sacking of the law officers and fresh appointments ...

COLOMBO : - Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough anti-terrorism law, his lawyer said Saturday.Azath Sally, 49, the former deputy mayor of Colombo, was arrested on Sunday and detained in police custody in ...

PARIS: Actress Keira Knightley kept her wedding so secret she didn’t even tell her bridegroom’s parents. The star and her hubby James Righton wanted the ceremony in southern France to be low-key. So they told guests they were just coming to a party to celebrate the couple’s plans ...

DHAKA - Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down an Islamist television station on Monday after 37 people died in some of the fiercest street violence for decades.Hundreds more people were reported injured in running battles as riot police ...

Justice  Jawwad S Khawaja has remarked “we have decided to ensure supremacy of law and constitution and a price will have to be paid for it.He gave these remarks while presiding over a 3-member SC  bench during the course of hearing of Musharraf treason case Tuesday.Ahmad Raza ...

BAHAWALPURThe 2nd National Eastern Medicines Conference concluded here at Islamia University, Bahawalpur with the recommendations that a bill will be tabled in the National Assembly to formulate Eastern Medicines Authority in the country. The experts of the Eastern medicines will be allowed to ...

DHAKAHundreds of thousands of Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Sunday, police said.Chanting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is greatest!") and "One point, One demand: Atheists must ...

TRIPOLI:Libya’s General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office. Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries ...

lahore - After appearing before the district returning officer on Saturday, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz said that she did not violate the ECP code of conduct.She said that she always respected the judiciary and did not breach the code of conduct. She went on to say that she was not taking out rallies ...

washington - Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says.Over three-quarters of Muslims in the Middle East and North ...

London (Nawa-i-Waqt): Law Society of England’s (LSE) council elections 2013 are being conducting from May 23 to June 20.LSE has cleared renowned Pakistani law expert Muhammad Aslam Sheikh to contest the elections. A 60-member council will be elected for four years in the poll, in which ...

karachi - KCCI President Muhammad Haroon Agar has expressed deep concern over the law and order situation in the industrial & financial capital of Pakistan.Speaking to Director General of Pakistan Rangers Sindh Major General Rizwan Akhtar, Haroon Agar said rampant criminal activities viz. ...

Peshawar - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate for NA-1, Peshawar, Zulfiqar Afghani has held Awami National Party (ANP) responsible for the existing worsening law and order situations in the province.Addressing a press conference here at press club on Monday, Afghani said that the former ...

The lawyers acted wisely by remaining peaceful and not taking the law in their own hands, unlike the previous occasions on the appearance of General Pervez Musharraf (R) in the ATC on April 26. Some of the younger and aggressive black coats had designs to avenge themselves and teach the police and ...

Regrettably, our country has remained democracy-starved. However, genuine democracy can only be attained in Pakistan when our political elite accept the reality of ‘Rule of Law’ and when hypocrisy is eschewed. The consequence should be right policies and taking into consideration ...

The shocking headline showed how the PPP government has been so busy making money that they ignored their prime responsibility to the welfare of the people. An outbreak of measles killed 50 in Karachi. A disease that has been eradicated throughout the world has somehow surfaced in Pakistan, to ...

WASHINGTON HP - An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress. A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented employers demanding that ...

MULTAN - JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that former president Pervez Musharraf was not above the law, and should face courts according to the law of the land and Constitution.Talking to reporters at Jamia Qasimul Aloom here on Monday, he reminded that politicians, including ...

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman Monday said that elections should be held on time and added if once delayed it would continue to be deferred..Talking to media here in Multan, Maulana Fazlur Rahman expressed the hope that elections would be held on time, but if it happens ...

our staff reportermultan - Former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that former president Pervez Musharraf should surrender before the law and move Supreme Court.Talking to journalists after inaugurating his election office in NA-150, he ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said people should learn lesson from the tragic end of Pervez Musharraf.“The one who sent us to jails is himself is in jail now,” Nawaz said while addressing an election rally in Kasur Saturday.He said he could forgiven Pervez ...

Quetta - Owing to the prevailing deteriorated law and order situation, political activities are constantly declining in Balochistan.The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party was scheduled to hold a public meeting at Sadiq Shaheed Ground here on Thursday to show it political strength in connection with the ...

Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Ghaus Baksh Barozai called on Prime Minister Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at the PM's House Thursday and briefed him on the law and order situation as well as the overall political situation in the province. The Chief Minister informed the Prime Minister that ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director General Syed Amir Hamza Gilani has said that the board has already released first and second quarter grants to all the affiliated federations but third quarter grant will only be released to those federations who abide by the sports policy as per ...