Russian debt makes up less than half a per cent of Taiwanese bond holdings
World1 day ago
A court in Pakistan’s capital has ordered an investigation into the controversial arrest of a former human rights minister over a decades old land dispute.
Chief Justice Ather Minallah of the Islamabad High Court late Saturday ordered the probe in response to a petition from the daughter of former minister Shireen Mazari.
Minallah questioned the decision by officials in Islamabad to allow police from a Punjab provincial district to make the arrest in the capital.
Mazari, who served in the Cabinet-level position under former Prime Minister Imran Khan, had been detained by police near her Islamabad home earlier in the day.
Fawad Chaudhry, former information minister in Khan’s administration, alleged that Mazari — the senior leader in Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party — had been politically targeted by the new administration of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif under the guise of a land dispute dating back to 1972.
Hours after Mazari’s arrest, Chief Minister of Punjab province Hamza Shahbaz ordered her release and late Saturday she was brought to the Islamabad court for an urgent hearing. She was then released.
ALSO READ:
Mazari has been critical of Sharif’s government on Twitter since Khan’s government was toppled in a no-confidence vote in Parliament last month. Khan’s party lawmakers resigned from the body’s lower house in protest and Khan is mobilizing supporters through public rallies across the country to pressure the government into an early election.
Russian debt makes up less than half a per cent of Taiwanese bond holdings
World1 day ago
A full three-story section of wooden stands filled with spectators collapsed
World1 day ago
The UN World Food Programme said in April that the number of people facing acute food insecurity had already more than doubled since 2019
World1 day ago
Leaders are expected to discuss options for tackling rising energy prices and replacing Russian oil and gas imports
World1 day ago
Taliban call for foreign assistance and appeal to Washington to unfreeze billions of dollars in Afghanistan’s currency reserves.
World1 day ago
After a series of rain and wind delays, the suborbital sounding rocket soared into the sky
World1 day ago
26-year-old attacked four people including his mother, stepfather
World1 day ago
Launch draws rebuke from Washington
World1 day ago