The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday issued a notice to the Speaker of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, seeking his response to a writ petition challenging the notification of an inquiry commission constituted to investigate the incidents of violence on May 9 and 10. The court directed the Speaker to explain under which law the inquiry […]
A police constable was martyred when terrorists opened fire on a joint patrol of police and local peace committee members in Bannu, while his funeral prayers were offered with full official honours on Wednesday. Personnel from Township Police Station, Ahmadzai Police Station, and members of the local peace committee were carrying out routine patrolling in […]
Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, has stated that military operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are not a solution to terrorism. Speaking at a press conference at the party’s provincial headquarters, Markaz Islami, in Peshawar, he emphasized that displacing citizens in the name of security cannot be justified, and that sustainable peace can only be achieved […]
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti on Wednesday met the Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio, Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, to review progress on polio eradication and discuss practical measures to strengthen routine immunisation across the province. The meeting was attended by senior officials from the National and Provincial Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs), who briefed […]
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has launched immediate relief measures to protect consumers from soaring wheat and flour prices following what it termed “unconstitutional restrictions” imposed by the Punjab government on inter-provincial movement of essential commodities. Acting on the timely intervention of Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, the K-P Food Department has begun releasing 136,000 metric tonnes of […]
پاکستان میں انصاف کی فراہمی کا نظام کریمنل جوڈیشل سسٹم دو متوازی نظاموں میں بٹا ہوا ہے، ایک باقاعدہ عدالتی نظام اور دوسرا تھانوں، پٹواریوں، غیر رسمی، ضلعی اور تحصیل مفاہمتی کمیٹیاں (ڈی آر سی)، جرگہ اور پنچائیت سسٹم، وہ غیر رسمی نظام جو تھانوں میں سرکاری و غیر سرکاری بااثر معززین علاقہ کے سرپرستی […]