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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will announce its verdict in the Panama Papers case today.

  • According to the cause list, the five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court would announce the judgement at 11:30am in courtroom No 1. A three-implementation bench of the the Supreme Court had concluded the hearings in the Panama Papers case and reserved its judgement on July 21. The five-judge bench on April 20 ruled there […]

  • Special security arrangements made for federal capital

    ISLAMABAD, Jul 27 (APP): The capital administration has made special security arrangements for the city in the wake of Supreme Court’s decision in the Panama Papers case to be announced on Friday. Rangers, Frontier Corps and police personnel would be deployed at and surroundings of the Supreme Court building, a spokesman of the capital police […]

  • Man commits suicide after throwing four children into canal

    RAHIM YAR KHAN, July 27 (APP): A man committed suicide after throwing his four children into a canal over a dispute with his wife near here on late Thursday night. According to Rescue 1122, Ghulam Yaseen of Chak No 33, Bagh Bahar, threw his four children, including Sania,7, Shazia,5, Zain Ali,3, and six-month-old Ali, into […]

  • ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Thursday returned home after his three-day

    official visit to Maldives where he participated in the country’s Independence Day celebrations. The prime minister during his stay also held an official round of talks with the president of Maldives and witnessed inking of a number of Memorandum of Understandings. He was accompanied by Begum Kulsoom Nawaz and his Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj […]

  • Nisar vows to stand with Nawaz Sharif through thick and thin

    ISLAMABAD, July 27 (APP): Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Thursday said he would remain steadfast with Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif whatever verdict the Supreme Court announced in the Panama Papers case. Addressing a press conference here, he said last evening he had decided to leave politics, resign from the National Assembly and […]

  • Delegation of OGP Initiative calls on Dar

    ISLAMABAD, Jul 26 (APP): A delegation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative led by Florencio Butch Abad, the Founding Minister of OGP called on Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar here on Wednesday. The Finance Minister welcomed the guests and said that their visit to the country is an affirmation of the […]