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QUETTA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan did not appear for a third time before a joint investigation team (JIT) formed to investigate the murder of Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar. Mr Shar was shot dead by armed motorcyclists in a drive-by shooting on Quetta’s Airport Road last month. A day later, the PTI chief was formally named in connection with the killing of Mr Shar, who had accused Mr Khan of high treason. The complaint against Mr Khan was filed by the lawyer’s son, who accused the former prime minister of abetting murder, saying he believed his father was killed in connection with the case he had filed against Mr Khan. The JIT, which held its 7th meeting on Friday, decided to send Mr Khan another notice to appear before the team to record his statement in the case. Toshakhana hearing During the hearing in Islamabad, Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Humayun Dilawar expressed his displeasure over the PTI chief’s frequent no-shows after one o...

GILGIT: Flash floods triggered by glacial lake outbursts continued to wreak havoc across Gilgit-Baltistan, damaging at least 10 houses and two shops and destroying two vehicles and a motorcycle in Yasin Valley of Ghizer district on Saturday, police officials said. Link roads to the valley have also been disconnected. The floods also swept away standing crops and corn fields, cherry and apricot orchards, and damaged three water channels that are the sources of irrigation and drinking water for many residents. Many people had to take shelter in places of worship. District administration started relief activities in the affected areas, dispatching food and other necessary items. Ghulam Muhammad, a senior minister in the GB government from Yasin, said all possible steps were being taken to provide relief to the people in affected areas, which have been hit by water shortage. He said work for restoring link roads had also started on an emergency basis. After high floods in various nulla...

CHITRAL: A hillside home is seen badly damaged by flash floods following heavy rains in the area, on Saturday.—Online MANSEHRA / CHITRAL: At least five people were killed in Mansehra district and several were hospitalised after downpours with strong winds and thunderstorms lashed parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, triggering landslides and destroying infrastructure. The heavy rain, which started late Friday night, continued intermittently the next entire day, resulting in a “large-scale devastation” in the district. The deluge also triggered flash floods in Chitral, which washed away bridges, roads, and livestock. Rescue 1122 District Head Hafeezur Rehman told Dawn that “the fresh rain spell triggered a large-scale devastation” and killed five people and injured over a dozen. He said many houses collapsed in the area and roads were blocked. On Chinar Road, two people died after the house of an Afghan national, Samiullah, collapsed, burying six members under the rubble. Th...

LARKANA: In the first phase of a project to give ownership rights of residential units to flood victims of Sindh, Foreign Minister and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday distributed title deeds among 5,000 families whose houses had been damaged during the last year’s unprecedented rains and flooding. The PPP chairman attended the distribution ceremony held in the flood-affected village of Larkana district, Vikio Sangi, and also inspected the houses built by the Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affectees for the homeless rain victims. Addressing on the occasion, he said the PPP government in Sindh was also providing financial assistance to the flood victims to rebuild their houses. Now such housing units were being constructed, which would be safe to a large extent in case of floods. He said that home ownership right was an asset, which was being given to every woman of all the displaced families. “We have learned from Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and former president As...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over a Pemra amendment bill, saying the definition of disinformation under it “strays into censorship territory”. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Amendment Act 2022 was introduced in the National Assembly by Information and Broadcasting Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Thursday and elaborates on disinformation. It was unanimously approved by the NA’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting today, according to state broadcaster Radio Pakistan . The bill says that “disinformation means verifiably false, misleading, manipulated, created or fabricated information which is disseminated or shared with the intention to cause harm to the reputation of or to harass any person for political, personal, or financial interest or gains without making an effort to get other person’s point of view or not giving it proper coverage and space, but does not include misinformation”. According to the bill,...

ISLAMABAD: After a few hours of calm due to an overnight ceasefire, hostilities resumed between two rival groups of the Mengal tribe in Wadh on Thursday, injuring at least four people. The issue was also raised in the National Assembly, while Sardar Akhtar Mengal met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging him to intervene to restore peace. Talking to Dawn on Thursday night, Mr Mengal alleged that armed groups were being patronised by certain institutions and were given free rein to run riot in the province for many years now. He recalled the discovery of mass graves in the Totak area of Khuzdar, saying that the same elements were involved in the Wadh unrest. BNP-M leader calls state a ‘silent spectator’ in Balochistan, seeks PM’s intervention Mr Mengal claimed that these armed groups wanted to eliminate nationalists and other political parties who were struggling for democracy in Balochistan. He accused the state of being a silent spectator while transporters and landowner...

PTI chief and former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday questioned the veracity of a statement being attributed to his former principal secretary on the matter of cipher controversy, saying he would not believe it was from Azam Khan until he has heard him say it himself. “The Azam Khan (former principal secretary) I know is an honest and capable man. And he cannot say what I have read in the cipher ( sic ). I will not believe it unless I hear him saying it because this is not reality,” Imran said as he addressed his supporters via video. “Or he may have been forced into giving the statement … I don’t believe that Azam Khan has said many of the things written in the cipher ( sic ) and even that many of them are true.” Imran’s rejection came a day after an alleged confession of Azam surfaced on social media wherein it was claimed that the narrative behind the cipher — which the PTI chief has for long presented as evidence of a “foreign conspiracy” to oust him from the top office —...