PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker cabinet on Tuesday allowed the Provincial Culture and Tourism Department to outsource the PTDC properties under public private partnership mode and took a.
A decade after the killing of Osama bin Laden at a private compound in Abbottabad, the fate of Dr Shakil Afridi, the central character accused of helping the American CIA in tracing the Al-Qaeda chief, still hangs in the balance.
Presently serving a 23-year prison term in solitary confinement at Sahiwal Central Prison in Punjab, his plea against his conviction by an assistant political agent in 2012 and upholding that conviction by the then commissioner FCR (Frontier Crimes Regulation) in 2014 has been pending before the Peshawar High Court.
On March 11 a two-member bench of the high court had referred his petition to a three-member bench established by the court for hearing certain categories of cases belonging to erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
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