A cabinet committee was established on Saturday by the federal government on Saturday to look into the May 9 riots, when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters vandalised private and public property after Imran Khan was arrested, according to ARY News.
The Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned the harassment of female journalist Fatima Razzaq who was covering Baloch protesters in Islamabad, as reported by the Balochistan Post.
An accountability court in Islamabad on Friday granted a four-day physical remand of former Pakistan federal minister Fawad Chaudhry in a case about alleged irregularities in the dual carriageway project, ARY News reported.
The statement said that under the new ordinance, the punishment under Section 147 of PPC was up to two years imprisonment or fine or both, but it had been increased to three years with a fine up to pakistan rupee (PKR) 200,000.
The Tribunal declared the decision of returning officers as void and approved the nomination papers of Pakistan's leader for Rawalpindi's National Assembly constituencies NA-56 and NA-57.
Baloch has announced that a protest camp will be set up in front of the United Nations (UN) offices. She criticised the Islamabad police for profiling the participants and visitors to their camp outside the National Press Club.
It reported that a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez, while hearing two separate matters, disposed of the application of former Balochistan finance advisor Khalid Langove to participate in the general elections.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) in Pakistan ordered local authorities and police of using force or creating any hinderance to remove the Baloch protesters staging a sit-in outside the National Press Club since December 20, The News International reported on Wednesday.