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ISLAMABAD: After a prolonged session, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Monday adjourned until Tuesday its proceedings to consider complaints against a sitting judge of the Supreme Court — Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi. Senior counsel Khawaja Haris Ahmed represented Justice Naqvi and advanced preliminary arguments before the council which will continue again on Tuesday. Dur­ing the proceedings, the officers of the Lahore Cantonment Board were also present. The SJC rejected a complaint against Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, himself an SJC member. During the last hearing on Oct 27 , complainant Amna Malik was directed to produce material in support of her complaint. Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, the SJC comprised Justice Masood, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muham­mad Ameer Bhatti, and Balochistan High Court CJ Naeem Akhtar Afghan. On Monday, the SJC recorded the statement of Amna Malik, who was also questioned and the comp...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday floated an urgent international tender for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo in the first part of January to meet anticipated peak winter shortage in the residential sector. The tender, issued by the state-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) with a four-day notice, asked bidders to submit technical and financial bids by Nov 24 for a standard LNG cargo with targeted delivery on Jan 8-9, and the bids would be opened the same day. Last month, after about a year-long gap, Pakistan received three bids for two additional LNG cargoes for peak winter demand at a significantly higher premium over the prevailing spot market. The government accepted two lower-evaluated bids to minimise winter gas shortages following a decline in domestic gas production and to maintain load management at a level similar to that experienced in the winter of the previous year. LNG trader Trafigura Pte Ltd submitted two bids for the Dec 7-8 window and the Dec 13-14 window at $18.39 per...

A Palestinian medic tends to premature babies evacuated from Al Shifa Hospital to the Emirates hospital in Rafah, on Sunday.—AFP • ‘Minor’ challenges to agreement to free some prisoners, says Qatari PM • 31 premature babies evacuated from Al Shifa Hospital • Hamas fighters battle Israeli forces trying to push into Jabalia camp DOHA: Hamas fighters battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Sunday, but despite the fighting, US, Qatari and Israeli officials said a deal to free some of the prisoners being held in the besieged enclave was edging closer. Separately, a top health official said all 31 premature babies at Al Shifa Hospital had been evacuated on Sunday from the facility. A deal to free some of the about 240 prisoners Hamas seized in its Oct 7 attack on Israel now hinges on “minor” practical issues, Qatar’s prime minister said on Sunday, without giving details or a timeline. “The challenges that remain in the negotiations are very minor c...

RESPONDING to recent accusations levelled against caretakers by two major political parties, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said that the “victim card” could serve as “narrative” for any political party. These comments were made during an exclusive interview on the Geo News programme Jirga on Sunday night. “Our topmost priority is to conduct elections at the earliest. The caretaker government is committed to enabling the people to choose their representatives by exercising their democratic rights in the upcoming elections scheduled for Feb 8 next year,” Mr Kakar stated in the light of the statements made by PPP and PTI. “We want to hand over the responsibilities to the [upcoming] elected government,” he added. Says ‘victim card’ may serve as ‘narrative’ for any political party In response to a question regarding the accusations made by the two major parties against his government, the premier question...

KARACHI: Most people don’t even read as many books in their entire lives as Dr Ishrat Husain has written in his. The latest book by the former central bank governor is Development Pathways that he co-authored with Sarah Nizamani, Shagufta Shabbar and Masood Siddiqui. The 478-page tome presents a comparative analysis of economic and social development in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh from 1947 to 2022. A crude verdict might be that India and Bangladesh have done well for themselves while Pakistan holds the dubious honour of being the slowest-growing economy in the South Asia region. But Dr Husain wouldn’t write a book if the economic journey of the three biggest nations in the region was so linear. Speaking to Al Meezan Investment Management Ltd CEO Mohammad Shoaib at the Future Summit held in the outgoing week, Dr Husain said the pathways of the three countries that initially had a unified economic, legal and administrative infrastructure diverged because of their changing developm...

KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: Mystery shrouds a purported appeal by the Sindh government — challenging the Supreme Court decision to strike down military trials of civilians under the Pakistan Army Act 1952 — after the caretaker provincial government distanced itself from the development on Saturday. The statement from the CM House came two days after it was reported that an appeal had landed in the Supreme Court on behalf of the provincial government. The current status of the appeal is “infructuous”. According to a statement issued by the CM’s House on Saturday, “The caretaker Sindh government has clarified that appeal in ‘Trial of Civilians before Military Courts’ case has not been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.” A letter penned by the Sindh advocate general on Nov 17 informed the principal secretary to the chief minister, the caretaker provincial law minister, and the law and parliamentary affairs secretary that no appeal in the said matter was filed. Sources told Dawn that t...

Palestinians queue to buy bread from a bakery in Khan Yunis amid shortages of food and fuel.—Reuters • WFP and WHO issue dire warnings as three days pass without fresh aid deliveries • Nine killed in Rafah strike GAZA: UN aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, with the World Food Programme (WFP) warning that civilians faced the “immediate possibility of starvation” due to a lack of food supplies. For a third consecutive day, no aid trucks arrived in Gaza. An Egyptian security source said three fuel trucks were ready to cross from into Gaza on Friday, but an aid official inside the enclave said there was no confirmation that more fuel would be brought in. With the war about to enter its seventh week, there was no sign of any let-up despite international calls for a ceasefire or at least for humanitarian pauses. Gaza health authorities say more than 11,500 people are confirmed dead, 40pc of them children, with many...