The Baloch Yakjahti Committee - Kech's sit-in against "the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings" at Islamabad's National Press Club entered its 37th day on Monday
The Awami Action Committee organised a Gilgit grand Jirga over the wheat price hike and also announced protest sit-ins in all districts, including Gilgit, from January 2.
Pakistan's apex electoral body approved nomination papers for 6,449 candidates, including 6,094 men and 355 women candidates, for national assembly seats in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and the federal capital, The News International reported on Monday.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has set up election monitoring and control centres to receive public complaints for the upcoming polls, which are slated to take place in February, ARY News reported on Sunday.
Pakistan's political outfit, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman's convoy, came under attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan, Geo News reported on Sunday.
A trial court in Islamabad rejected the police's request for extending the remand of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen and ordered placing him in judicial custody.
Pakistan's former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) supremo Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Sunday that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified him from contesting the election as they were assured of his success in the upcoming polls, The News International reported
It reported that the Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir postponed the hearing as National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Prosecutor General Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi was absent because of health issues.
The explosion happened near the shops located behind a police station on Jail Road in Bolan's Mach area. While no group has taken responsibility for the attack.
It reported that Additional Inspector General Karachi Khadim Hussain Rind said that the charges of attempted murder will be included in the cases lodged against those involved in aerial firing on New Year's night.