ISLAMABAD, June 05(ABC): Hours after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah issued a warning regarding Imran Khan’s possible arrest upon the expiry of his bail, PTI Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned the government that if the party’s chairman is arrested, it should be ready to face a “strong backlash” from PTI workers. “The PTI will retaliate in a strong manner if Imran …

LAHORE, June 05(ABC): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that Pakistan direly needs a grand dialogue. “We will have to hold a grand dialogue with all stakeholders of the country if we have to lead Pakistan ahead,” the premier said while addressing the inauguration ceremony of Indus Hospital, Lahore. PM Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the first phase of the 600-bed …

ISLAMABAD, June05(ABC): Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah revealed on Sunday that the security officials deployed to guard PTI Chairman Imran Khan will arrest him as soon as his bail expires. Late Saturday night, the Islamabad police said that in view of Imran Khan’s expected return to Islamabad from Peshawar, security around Bani Gala has been beefed up. “In view of the …

ISLAMABAD, June 05(ABC): The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Saturday issued an alert advising the federal capital and provincial authorities to take preventive measures against another heatwave likely to hit the country for the next five days, as forecast by the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), reported on Sunday. The PMD warned of significant temperature rise across the country, especially …

  LAHORE, June05(ABC): In a major development, the Punjab police have finally recovered Dua Zahra — the 14-year-old girl who had mysteriously gone missing from Karachi in April but later declared that she had run away from her home to marry 21-year-old Zaheer Ahmed — from the Chishtian area of Bahawalnagar, it emerged Sunday. Confirming the report, Anti-Violent Crime Cell …

UPPER DIR, June 04(ABC): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday while addressing a public rally in Upper Dir said that Pakistan’s economy is sinking fast since Shehbaz Sharif came to power and global institutes have downgraded Pakistan’s ranking. Taking a dig at incumbent government, Imran Khan said that we will not accept the imported …

ISLAMABAD, June 04(ABC): President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday refused to sign the bills seeking amendments in the NAB and election laws, and returned it back to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as he “was not informed” about the “legislative proposal” under Article 46 before they were tabled in Parliament. A press release issued by the president’s office said that Dr …

ISLAMABAD, June 04(ABC): Irked by prolonged outages, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday warned the top officials of the power ministry that they would be dismissed from service if the duration of loadsheding exceeds two hours a day. As per the details, PM Shehbaz Sharif convened an emergency meeting to deliberate on the reasons behind the power outages across the …

LAHORE, June 04(ABC): A special court in Lahore extended on Saturday the interim bail of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz till June 11 in the Rs16 billion money laundering case filed against them by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). However, the presiding judge of the Special Court (Central-I), Ijaz Hassan Awan, issued non-bailable …

ISLAMABAD, June 04(ABC): In a bid to reach a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Friday approved an increase in gas prices just a day after a massive increase in the price of petroleum products. Based on the Determination of Estimated Revenue Requirement (DERR) for the financial year 2022-23, a 45% …