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  • ‘Daddy, video apki aur mama ki hai’: Azam Swati breaks down in a press conference

    ‘Daddy, video apki aur mama ki hai’: Azam Swati breaks down in a press conference

    Azam Swati, senator of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), broke into tears during a press conference on Saturday, alleging that he and his wife were secretly recorded in a room.

    Swati told the media that his wife was screaming and crying while he kept asking her what happened. “This lasted for five to 10 minutes but she didn’t speak. I called my daughter and told her to ask what happened to my beloved wife,” he stated, adding that he could not see his wife in this much pain. “I am a heart patient and have three stents. My heart was exploding,” said Swati. He then narrated that his daughter then told him to wait for a bit while she went to talk to his wife and tried to calm her down.

    “The mother said someone has sent me a video anonymously., and he [your father] is in the video,” said Swati.

    “I told my daughter, doesn’t your mother understand that I sleep at 9pm and wake for tahajjud prayer at 3:30am. I have spent my whole life with your mother. Doesn’t she know that just a few days ago on 13th October, I was picked up by these merciless people, who made my video. In the present times altering a video and making a fake one is not difficult,” said Swati.

    “In tears, she [Swati’s daughter] told me, ‘Daddy, this video is not of someone else but you and Mama,’” said Swati breaking down in tears.

    ” I said, how is this even possible,” asked a visibly emotional Swati.

    Responding to what had happened, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan tweeted, “I want to apologise on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Swati, a very private, non public, tahajut guzaar lady for the pain, anguish and sense of humiliation she is having to suffer [sic].”

    “Pakistan was created on Islamic moral values of human dignity, honour of the family & inviolability of chadar & chardawari. What has happened to Azam Swati at the hands of the State has been a blatant violation of all these values – from being stripped naked to custodial torture, & now this video where privacy of his wife has been violated. It is both shocking, despicable & utterly condemnable. No human being should have to suffer this. I call on the CJP to take suo moto notice of this [sic].”

    Not only this but after Swati’s shocking claims his opponents — including Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Mustafa Khokhar, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Miftah Ismail and Dr Musadik Masood Malik— tweeted in support of Swati.

    The Federal Investigation Agency has released a press release stating that the obscene video of PTI Senator Azam Swati is “fake”.

    “The video has been edited and different video clips have been joined together…the faces are photoshopped,” it said.

    PTI Senator Azam Swati was arrested on Thursday for allegedly tweeting a “highly obnoxious and intimidating message” against state institutions, including the army chief, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FIA.

    Swati’s tweet named the army chief and came after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz were acquitted in a high-profile money laundering case.

    Since his arrest, Swati has alleged he was stripped and tortured and has named two military officials behind his ordeal. The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights also condemned the incident.

  • ‘No one will be allowed to defame us’: Army lashes out at Imran Khan

    ‘No one will be allowed to defame us’: Army lashes out at Imran Khan

    Former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has named PM Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and an army officer, Major General Faisal Naseer, as the conspirators behind the assassination attempt on him in Wazirabad.

    The Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has also demanded resignations from all three.

    Following the accusations, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) condemned the allegations and said: “The baseless and irresponsible allegations by chairman PTI against the institution and particularly a senior army officer are absolutely unacceptable and uncalled for.”

    Calling PTI chief Imran Khan’s allegations regrettable, the ISPR said honour and safety of its rank and file were being “tarnished by vested interests”. The institution will safeguard its officers and soldiers no matter what, the statement read.

    “No one will be allowed to defame the institution or its soldiers with impunity. Keeping this in view, the government of Pakistan has been requested to investigate the matter and initiate legal action against those responsible for defamation and false accusations against the institution and its officials without any evidence whatsoever,” added the army’s military wing in the statement.

    From the government’s side, federal ministers also called out Khan for accusing institutions without any evidence.

    Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said, “Not only was Imran Khan making false accusations without any evidence, but the fact is that the attacker was in Punjab police’s custody and investigation was the responsibility of the Punjab government, not the federal government.”

    “For Almighty’s sake, I plead not to play the religion card. This is a dangerous path and could lead to serious consequences,” she stressed.

    Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that Khan is a compulsive liar and said his whole media talk on Friday was nothing more than “baseless allegations”.

    In a press conference, the minister also said it is “very saddening” that Khan has named people for his attempted assassination without any investigation or proof.

    The minister added that the attack on the PTI march is an incident of religious extremism. However, he was of the view that, “PTI’s attitude towards the incident is also regrettable and condemnable.”

  • Donald Trump ka Toshakhana case: Investigators look for expensive gifts taken by Trump

    Donald Trump ka Toshakhana case: Investigators look for expensive gifts taken by Trump

    Many expensive gifts that were given to former president Donald Trump and his family by foreign leaders are being investigated by congressional investigators.

    According to those with knowledge of the situation, the National Archives, one of the institutions tasked with preserving presidential gifts, has been approached for assistance by the House Oversight Committee in locating the artifacts.

    An individual who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the gifts were unusual and included golf clubs from the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a soccer ball from the 2018 World Cup from Russian President Vladimir Putin, a gold-plated Horus collar from Egypt’s president, a huge painting of Trump from El Salvador’s president, and a $6,400 King Abdulaziz al Saud collar, a ceremonial honour from Saudi Arabia, according to The Washington Post.

    People familiar with the request believe that the dozens of gifts are worth at least $50,000 as a whole. According to sources familiar with the request, the committee has requested the archives to determine if the presents are among those that were legally obliged to be transferred from the White House to the archives at the end of Trump’s presidency. According to a Trump adviser, the committee is also interested in hearing from Trump’s team on its record-keeping practises.

    A representative for the Oversight Committee refused to comment other than to note that the inquiry is still underway, so it’s unclear why the committee asked for these particular things. Additionally, the Archives declined to comment, leaving it unknown as to how far along the search for these items is and whether or not any of the presents on the list were truly accounted for.

    Both the Trump administration’s gift-handling staff and a spokesman for the president did not reply to requests for comment.

    Following the discovery of troves of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, including extremely sensitive intelligence about China and Iran, agents launched an inquiry into whether he and his advisers improperly handled classified documents.

    The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, a 1966 law that forbids presidents and other government officials from personally keeping gifts from foreigners worth more than $415 unless they pay for them, was the subject of a separate investigation this summer by the Oversight committee at the request of its chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney.

    Anyone who wrongfully retains the presents is not subject to any specific criminal punishment under the law. But according to ethics experts, depending on the situation, criminal prosecution might be necessary.

    “If you have a very valuable item that you are obligated by law to turn over to the federal government and you fail to do that, I don’t know that would preclude a criminal action — we’ve just never seen it done,” said Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel at CREW, an ethics watchdog organization.

    Items that were presented to members of the Trump family but may not have been properly reported to the State Department are among the items the Oversight committee has requested from the Archives. Additional items that were reportedly in the Trumps’ executive residence in the White House, the West Wing, or other places near the end of the administration, such as Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago, are items that were most likely given in 2020, according to a person familiar with the situation.

    The White House failed to provide the State Department with a list of gifts that officials received from foreign governments before leaving office, according to the New York Times, which broke the story that the State Department was unable to fully account for gifts that Trump and other White House officials received during their final year in office. According to testimony gathered by the committee, the office was in complete disorder.

    Maloney’s committee is currently attempting to account for particular gifts. Various dresses from Oman, a bust of Mahatma Gandhi, an Afghan rug, a crystal ball, and various jewellery items, including diamond and gold earrings, are also included in the extensive request sent to the Archives. It also includes a marble slab commemorating the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, an antique framed signed photo of Queen Elizabeth II, a marble photo of the monarch from the early 1900s, a bust of Gandhi, an Afghan rug, and a bust of Gandhi

    A 2012 congressional research study states that the White House Presents Unit typically keeps track of all domestic and international gifts received by the president and the first family, as well as the gift’s value. A representative may pay the full worth of a gift if they want to keep it.

    If not, the gift is taken to the Archives, where it is kept for presidential libraries. The park service of the Department of the Interior receives gifts intended for the White House, whereas the General Services Administration receives gifts that are not intended for the Archives or the president’s personal collection.

    A distinct list of all presents from a foreign government to a federal employee is published each year by the Office of Protocol in the State Department. Trump “failed to comply with the law requiring foreign gift reporting” during his final year in office, according to data provided by the State Department, Maloney said in a letter asking for a review of Trump’s gifts to acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall in June.

    “The Department of State noted that during the Trump Administration, the Office of the Chief of Protocol failed to request a listing of foreign gifts received in 2020 from the White House. The Department is no longer able to obtain the required records,” Maloney wrote to the Archives.

    Maloney asked for all records and information pertaining to gifts received by Trump or members of his family from the final year of the Trump administration, as well as all correspondence between the Archives and Trump, his family, and White House staff regarding foreign gifts. This information included the location and value of the gifts, the identity of the donor, and any gift reporting.

    The Trump administration’s record-keeping procedures have a pattern that includes the failure to account for presents.

    The FBI seized a number of things during their August raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and house that were labelled as “gifts.” It’s unclear whether the seized items were lawfully transferred to Mar-a-Lago after being provided to Trump by foreign countries when he was president.

    The Washington Post has previously reported that White House officials expressed worries about the presents that Trump had received as president that were still in the White House rather than being properly turned over to the National Archives in the final days of his administration.

    The Post has previously reported that Trump departed the White House with a variety of objects, including a scale model of the proposed makeover of Air Force One and a miniature replica of one of the black border wall slats with an engraved inscription on top. Trump’s correspondence with Kim Jong Un, who is the leader of North Korea, was found in 15 boxes of materials that the National Archives retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January. Trump had earlier called these letters “love letters.”

    “This president was very much into holding onto things,” said a former Trump White House staffer who was involved with record management and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. “Mementos and gifts are a big thing with him. Throughout his whole life he has created mementos.”

    According to John Kelly, a former chief of staff at the White House, when Trump was in office, he always sought to keep gifts from foreign heads of state.

    Kelly said that while he had given his staff instructions on how to record gifts from foreign leaders when offered the chance to purchase the items, Trump vehemently refused to do so. Kelly said that “Trump was adamant that they were his gifts, and he said that he couldn’t understand why he couldn’t keep them.”

  • Mohammad Hafeez’s journey with Qalandars comes to end after 4 years

    Mohammad Hafeez’s journey with Qalandars comes to end after 4 years

    Former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, Mohammad Hafeez, has announced that his journey with Lahore Qalanadars, one of the main franchises of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), has came to an end.

    “My journey comes to an end with @lahoreqalandars here. Thanks for the amazing last 4 years of learnings & success. I will always cherish the amazing memories of working together. Wish u all the best for future endeavours,” he tweeted.

    Earlier this year in January, Hafeez announced his retirement from international cricket, ending a career spanning more than 18 years with the Pakistan side. He made his international debut in a One-Day International against Zimbabwe in 2003, and his last match was Pakistan’s defeat against Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-final last November.
    As per his ESPN cricinfo, Hafeez played 55 Tests, 218 ODIs and 119 T20Is while amassing 12,780 runs across formats, and grabbed 32 Player-of-the-Match awards

  • ‘There is no choice when the company is losing $4 million per day’: Musk justifies cutting half of Twitter’s workforce

    ‘There is no choice when the company is losing $4 million per day’: Musk justifies cutting half of Twitter’s workforce

    On Friday, Twitter laid off half of its 7,500-person workforce as the company’s troubled big restructuring under new owner Elon Musk got under way, only one week after his sensational takeover.

    According to an internal memo seen by AFP, “approximately 50 per cent” of the workforce was affected and would immediately lose access to business computers and email.

    Workers from all over the world who were let go used Twitter to express their anger or disbelief and bid farewell to one of Silicon Valley’s most recognisable enterprises.

    “Woke up to the news that my time working at Twitter has come to an end. I am heartbroken. I am in denial,” said Michele Austin, Twitter’s director of public policy for the US and Canada.

    Prior to the layoffs, Twitter restricted access to all of its locations and asked staff to remain at home while they awaited word on their futures with the firm.

    The cull is a part of Musk’s effort to obtain financing for the massive $44 billion acquisition, for which he sold $15.5 billion worth of Tesla shares and took on billions of dollars in debt.

    After his massive acquisition, Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been frantically looking for new revenue streams for Twitter, including the notion of charging users $8 per month for verified accounts.

    The actions would help Twitter combat the possibility of losing advertisers, which are the company’s primary source of income, since many of the major businesses in the world postpone their ad purchases after learning of Musk’s well-known contempt for content controls.

    The volatile businessman lamented a “huge loss in revenue” on Twitter on Friday, attributing it to “activist groups” who were pressing advertisers.

    “We did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America,” he added.

    This seemed to be a reference to Musk’s previous meeting with civil rights organisations, where he heard worries that Twitter will unleash a wave of hate speech a week before the US midterm elections. Musk had promised that Twitter would not turn into a “free-for-all hellscape” in an effort to calm people down, but his assurance was swiftly contradicted by a tweet spreading a rumour that the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been attacked.

    “We are witnessing the real time destruction of one of the world’s most powerful communication systems. Elon Musk is an erratic billionaire who is dangerously unqualified to run this platform,” said Nicole Gill, Executive Director of Accountable Tech.

    She was a member of a group of 60 rights organisations that demanded on Friday that advertising on the Musk-owned platform be boycotted.

    “Elon Musk has demonstrated that it’s not possible for him to keep the brand safeguards that have existed on Twitter in place. There’s no more time for trust but verify, it’s time for escalation,” said Angelo Carusone, President and CEO of Media Matters for America.

    Although very popular with celebrities and opinion leaders, the California-based business has historically struggled to turn a profit and has lagged behind Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok in terms of user growth.

    Since Musk finalised his acquisition late last week and immediately set about dissolving its board and removing its chief executive and key managers, Twitter employees have been preparing for this kind of unpleasant news. Five Twitter employees who had previously been let go filed a class action lawsuit against the business late on Thursday, alleging that they had not received the legally mandated 60-day notice period.

    The US Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which grants employees the right to early notification in situations involving large layoffs or plant closures, is cited in the lawsuit.

  • Sindh government approves Rs46 billion for reconstruction of roads damaged due to flood

    Sindh government approves Rs46 billion for reconstruction of roads damaged due to flood

    On Friday, the Sindh government approved a budget of Rs. 46 billion to restore streets and highways in the province’s flood-affected areas, Mudassir Nazir has reported for Samaa.

    Syed Murad Ali Shah, the Chief Minister (CM) of Sindh, presided over a high-level provincial meeting on Friday at the CM House where the budget was approved.

    The CM has said that as part of the approval, 1,473 kilometers of roads that were destroyed by floods will be rebuilt throughout Sindh.

    The meeting was informed that Dadu and Jamshoro areas, where the damage was worst, would receive the lion’s share of the allocation for road restoration.

    Additionally, it was revealed that the project’s funding had been approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The provincial administration of Sindh was also informed that the documentation needed to obtain the grant from ADB was being prepared.

    There is no funding included in this project for the restoration and repair of the rain-damaged roads in Karachi division.

  • ‘Phir call doonga, dobara sarkon pe nikloonga’: Imran Khan breaks silence after his attempted assassination

    ‘Phir call doonga, dobara sarkon pe nikloonga’: Imran Khan breaks silence after his attempted assassination

    Former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan addressed the nation for the first time since his attempted assassination in Wazirabad. Khan is currently hospitalised in Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore from where he spoke to the nation.

    In the beginning, Dr Faisal Sultan, the former assistant to Khan on health, gave some details on Khan’s injuries. He showed X-rays of Imran’s right leg, he said that the tibia was damaged and was in fact fractured.

    ‘They had planned to kill me either in Wazirabad or in Gujrat’: Imran Khan

    After Dr Faisal’s briefing, Khan claimed that he was aware of the danger and of the plot to kill him. He said that he already had information about the attack and he knew that they had planned to kill him either in Wazirabad or Gujrat.

    ‘Our MPAs were threatened and told that we have your dirty videos’: Imran Khan

    While talking about a handler in Islamabad, Khan said that his party’s Member of Provisional Assemblies (MPAs) were threatened.

    According to Khan, the handler said that “they need to stop supporting Imran Khan and the party, as they have dirty videos of them.”

    ‘Aik handler ajata hai Islamabad mein Major General Faisal, he says he will handle it all’: Imran Khan

    During his address, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan took a jibe at Major General Faisal.

    He said that ever since General Faisal was posted in Islamabad, attack on PTI leaders started. “Media officials covering or speaking for PTI were stopped from doing so,” Khan said.

    ‘I have a video with four names who made decisions behind closed doors against me’: Imran Khan

    Moreover, Khan claimed that four people plotted to kill him. He stated that the “handlers” were taking the decisions at the back but the people were turning out to his rallies in record numbers.

    “I have friendships within the institutions, I know people. I know what they did in these six months. I recorded a video with four names of people planning behind the doors against me,” said the former prime minister in his first address after being shot.

    ‘There were two shooters’: Imran Khan

    PTI chief Imran Khan described the attack on his life in Wazirabad. He said he was on the container when a “burst of bullets” was directed at him, causing him to get shot in the leg and fall down.

    “There was a burst of gunfire. I fell after being hit in the leg. Then there was another round of gunfire. If the two shooters had synchronised, I wouldn’t have survived,” revealed Imran Khan.

    ‘Had planned to murder me like Salman Taseer’: Imran Khan

    The former premier alleged that the “government and its handlers” had planned to get him murdered in the same way former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was killed.

    “Firstly, they accused me of blasphemy, they made tapes and released them and PMLN projected it, I knew who was doing it.”

    “It is very easy to find out because this is a digital world. So first it was projected that I disrespected religion and then their plan was what they did in Wazirabad, that a religious extremist killed Imran Khan,” the PTI chief claimed.

    ‘Mai aaj General Bajwa se sawaal poochta hoon’: Imran Khan

    PTI Chairman Imran Khan urged Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa to hold the “black sheep” in his institution accountable.

    Questioning Gen Bajwa, Khan asked whether the honour of the army would go up if this violence continues. He said there are black sheep dishonouring the army, which will not benefit the people of Pakistan.

    “Mr Y in Multan is the one who is calling my MPs and telling them to leave Imran Khan. Bajwa sahab, I am asking you to wake up. These people are after us all. I want to ask: Who is a traitor in Pakistan?,” said the PTI chief.

    ‘Mein Zardari aur Nawaz ko challenge karta hoon, dono ko haraaoonga’: Imran Khan

    Imran Khan challenged former President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif “to try and contest the next general election against him”.

    “I will make sure that they will lose their constituencies”, he said.

    ‘My house helpers were paid to conspire against me, our donors were scared, my phone lines were tapped’: Imran Khan

    Imran Khan said that several means were used against him like he was some enemy.

    “I asked FIA, police, election commissioner, and they all said someone else is calling the shots. My house help was tipped off, my phone calls being a prime minister were tapped and our donors were scared, ” he said.

    ‘Pakistanis should keep protesting till these three people resign’: Imran Khan

    The former premier said that three others, separate from the ones who he had named in a tape stashed abroad, had plotted to kill him.

    “How did I find out? Insiders told me. The day before Wazirabad, they planned to kill me as they saw the number of people increasing using the script of religious extremism.”

    Khan named “Rana Sanaullah, PM Shehbaz Sharif and Major General Faisal” behind his attempted assassination however Khan provided no evidence in this regard. He also demanded their resignations.

    “I have decided when I get well, I will be on the road and will give a call for Islamabad. These three people will have to resign. And I want all Pakistanis to protest till these three [Sanaullah, Shehbaz and General Faisal] hand in their resignations because otherwise, no investigation of my attack will take place as they call the shots, ” Khan concluded his address.

    On November 3, Imran Khan survived an assassination attempt on Day seven of PTI’s ‘Haqeeqi Long March’ as his container moved through Punjab’s Wazirabad.

    Following the incident, the suspect/shooter, caught by police on the scene, said that he wanted to kill Khan because “he was misleading the public”.

    Condemnations started pouring in for Khan from his opponents as well as from the international community.

  • Apple steps up iPhone 14 production shift from China to India

    Apple steps up iPhone 14 production shift from China to India

    In an attempt to expand its manufacturing base outside of China, Apple has recruited another assembly partner for the iPhone 14 production lineup in India, according to Bloomberg.

    Following Foxconn, which started making the iPhone 14 models in India in September, Taiwanese contract maker Pegatron will manufacture the model in the country.

    The iPhone 11, iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and most recently the iPhone 14 are all produced at Apple’s Taiwanese assembly partners Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron’s iPhone manufacturing facilities in India. The production of the most recent model has seen a significant reduction in the time between Chinese and Indian output from months to weeks.

    In the five months since April, Apple has exported $1 billion worth of iPhones from India. Despite being modest by Chinese standards, India’s rising iPhone production indicates Apple’s willingness to invest there as a rival to China’s dominance in electronics assembly, which has recently been weakened by the latter’s zero-COVID policy.

    Following an epidemic at the factory, which resulted in the metropolis of nearly 10 million people being shut down, Foxconn’s major Zhengzhou plant, which employs about 200,000 people, has been subject to the same limits. According to one report, when COVID-19 rules in China become more stringent, iPhone production might decrease by as much as 30 per cent the following month.

    Despite the coincidence of events, Apple’s long-term production development plans in India are unrelated to China’s lockdown issues, even though they do serve to emphasise the company’s utter reliance on only one nation.

    Apple is playing a long game by shifting its production lines away from China, one that won’t have a significant influence on its supply chain for many years. According to a recent Bloomberg article, it would take eight years to relocate just 10 per cent of Apple’s production capacity from China, where over 98 per cent of iPhones are still produced.

  • Khawaja Asif shifts blame of assassination attempt onto Khan

    Khawaja Asif shifts blame of assassination attempt onto Khan

    Federal Minister for Defence, Khawaja Asif, has shifted the blame for Thursday’s assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Imran Khan onto the man himself, citing what he described as “crossing the red lines of religion”.

    “The suspect’s videos that have surfaced … they show that religious fanaticism motivated the attack. Time and time again, the former prime minister came close to crossing boundaries — or he crossed the boundaries — he crossed the red lines of religion because of which a man attacked him,” Khawaja Asif said on Friday. The minister quoted the suspect as proof that Khan had brought the attack upon himself.

    He began his speech by saying that the incident was a “Cause of embarrassment for the nation”.

    “And we, the federal government, want that if there is a conspiracy behind it, then it should be brought to light,” he stated.

    The defence minister stressed that “We should not refrain from taking any step that will prove to be helpful for us in this matter” and that the investigation into the incident and efforts to get to the bottom of the matter should not be politicised.

    “Don’t let this incident fall victim to politics,” he reiterated, while adding, “They should go after the suspects, but all that they have been doing [demonstrates] that they are not interested in the investigation. They have made Rana Sanaullah, the prime minister and DGC the culprits.”

    He recalled that Imran previously said he had contacts in the establishment. “And now those contacts are being named in the murder attempt [case],” the minister said. “By naming politicians and a senior army officer, they are taking the matter in a direction where they will not find any clue or suspect.”

    Imran Khan was shot at thrice in Punjab’s Wazirabad on Thursday, November 3. The suspect, Naveed ,is in police custody and has confessed to the crime on a video where he says that he had planned to kill the former Prime Minister ever since his long march left Lahore.

  • Arshad Sharif’s mother demands copy of journalist’s postmortem report

    Arshad Sharif’s mother demands copy of journalist’s postmortem report

    The mother of deceased senior journalist and anchorperson Arshad Sharif went to court on Friday and asked for a copy of the results of the postmortem that was performed in Islamabad.

    After Sharif’s body was brought back to Pakistan, an autopsy was performed on it before the body was sent to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for burial. Two people who were proposed by Sharif’s family were on the board.

    She added that the hospital administration informed them that the report was given to the police and that they did not maintain a copy of the postmortem report and asked the court to hear the case promptly today.

    She asked a copy of the postmortem report be given to her in the interest of openness and accused the PIMS administration of making fools of the family of murdered journalist Arshad Sharif.