Farieha Aziz

Dec 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Jawed Naqvi |Farieha Aziz

PRIYANKA Gandhi is the brand new Congress MP being watched with interest and hope. She won the by-election from Wayanad in Kerala with a massive majority and she has to hit the ground running. India is in ferment. Nehru wrote the lines above the masthead of National Herald, the newspaper he published from Lucknow: “The nation is in peril. Defend it with all your might.” The lines remained around for months after the 1962 China war had ended. The peril this time around is domestic.

Dec 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Saleem Shahid |Farieha Aziz

QUETTA: Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the chairman of thePashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and head of the opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Aaeen-i- Pakistan, has demanded safety and protection to PTI leader Imran Khan as any harm to the former prime minister might plunge the country into chaos and uncertainty.

Dec 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Farieha Aziz

RAWALPINDI: There are no records of at least 89 of the suspects arrested following PTI’s protest last week, police claimed on Monday, saying that if they were to commit a crime anywhere in the country, there was no way to track them down. At a press conference, Attock District Police Officer Dr Sardar Ghias Gul Khan disclosed that they had analysed the data of the 1,150 suspects apprehended in the wake of a law enforcement crackdown on PTI protesters.

Dec 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Farieha Aziz

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi on Monday conceded early fixing of all types of bail applications soon after their filing in the Supreme Court. The decision was taken at a meeting between President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Mian Muhammad Rauf Atta, accompanied by General Secretary Salman Mansoor, with the CJP to discuss challenges faced by the legal fraternity in ensuring efficient dispensation of justice at the Supreme Court.

Dec 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Farieha Aziz

WHILE the state may have succeeded in beating back PTI supporters from the capital’s red zone last week, the battle of narratives between both sides with regard to the that reportedly occurred during the confrontation continues. The PML-N-led government insists no PTI supporters were killed by law enforcers, while the latter remains adamant that its activists were targeted by the state.