This file photo shows PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The government rushed to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, seeking prompt hearing of a challenge it had moved the previous day against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision of May 7 to give conditional permission for medical treatment abroad to former Punjab chief minister Mian Shehbaz Sharif.
“It is most respectfully prayed that CPLA (civil petition for leave to appeal) may graciously be fixed for hearing at an early date in the larger interest of justice,” pleaded a two-page application the interior ministry filed on Tuesday.
The petition concerned an urgent matter and needed a hearing by the apex court at the earliest, the application said, adding that “valuable rights” of the petitioner were at stake.
Interior ministry likely to decide putting Shehbaz s name on ECL today
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An important meeting will be held today (Wednesday) to make final decision.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Interior Ministry is expected to make a final decision regarding inclusion of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif’s name on the Exit Control List (ECL) today (Wednesday).
According to sources, the interior ministry has received a formal application of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) seeking to include Shehbaz Sharif’s name on the ECL.
An important meeting will be held today (Wednesday) to make final decision in this regard.
Govt decides fresh probe into Hudaibiya Paper Mills case: Fawad
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Govt directs institutions to probe Hudaibiya Paper Mills case
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhary Fawad Hussain has said that the federal government has decided a fresh probe into the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case.
Fawad Chaudhry in a statement on Twitter said that the legal team gave a detailed briefing to Prime Minister Imran Khan today (Monday) regarding the cases of PML-N president Mian Shehbaz Sharif.
He said that the government decided that the case of Hudaibiya Paper Mills needed a fresh investigation and in this regard, the concerned agencies are being asked to reopen the investigation.
FIA former DG Bashir Memon gestures in an interview with journalist Matiullah Jan (not pictured). Photo courtesy screengrab from video on Matiullah Jan s YouTube channel/File
Politics is in a whirl and it is raining news. There is subdued breathlessness in the federal capital as random events struggle to draw a pattern any pattern that might explain that someone is holding a brush to the canvas. Do the dots, in fact, connect?
Try weave a pattern through these ten rather specific, and rather recent, points of particular interest:
1. Jahangir Tareen has made a point. His supporters met Prime Minister Imran Khan and urged him to provide relief. They got two gifts: removal of the FIA officer investigating the Tareen case, and a prime ministerial order to his aide Senator Ali Zafar to compile a report on the merits and demerits, if any, of the Tareen case. Yet, the root cause of tension between Tareen and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) remains unaddressed. Inside the Red
Pakistan reports over 75 Covid-19 deaths in a day
In Pakistan, 75 patients succumbed to the virus in a single day the highest after 78 deaths were reported on December 21, 2020
Thursday March 4, 2021 1:58 PM, IANS
[Shehbaz Sharif with Mariyam Sharif in a file photo tweeted by @MariyamNSharif)
Islamabad: Pakistan reported the current year s highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in a single day as the total casualty figure surpassed 13,000.
According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 75 patients succumbed to the virus in a single day the highest after 78 deaths were reported on December 21, 2020, the Dawn reported.
The number of hospitalised patients, however, has dropped to the level of November last year as less than 2,000 people are under treatment in the country. Besides, the number of active cases, which was over 50,000 in December, has also fallen to 16,648 as of March 3.