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ISLAMABAD: In view of recent supply disruptions following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the government on Monday formally approved allowing foreign fuel suppliers to establish bonded storage facilities in Pakistan at their own expense for multiple purposes, including re-export and supplies to the domestic market. Subject to formal ratification by the federal cabinet, the new policy guidelines on “Import on Foreign Supplier’s Account through Customs Bonded Storage Facilities” will come ...

QUETTA: Four labourers working on an under-construction road were killed by unidentified armed men in the Saranan area of Balochistan’s Pishin district on Tuesday. Officials said the incident took place in the Sulemanzai area along the Quetta-Chaman Highway. Balochistan Chief Minister’s aide for political and media affairs Shahid Rind confirmed the incident. “The labourers were working on an under-construction road in the area when armed men targeted them,” Rind said, adding that one labourer...

A security official is in custody and facing disciplinary action under military law following reports of a scuffle at Islamabad’s Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology (SUSIT), sources involved in the investigation said late Monday. The individual allegedly discharged a weapon during a scuffle with protestors at the university’s Chattha Bakhtawar campus, where students had been agitating against the dismissal of a senior official and other varsity-related issues. A video sha...

Global ratings agency Moody’s lifted Pakistan’s sovereign rating to ‘B3’ from ‘Caa1’ on Monday, citing improvements in governance and easing external vulnerability risks. The agency maintained the country’s outlook at ‘stable’. The development comes only a month after S&P Global Ratings upgraded Pakistan’s long-term sovereign credit rating to ‘B’ from ‘B-’, citing an improving external position and gradual macroeconomic stabilisation, while also assigning a stable outlook. A country’s soverei...

The military’s media affairs wing said on Monday that Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, along with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, had departed for Iran “as part of Pakistan’s efforts to promote regional peace and stability”. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said CDF Munir will “focus on promoting efforts towards peaceful, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the conflict in the Middle East”. Iranian foreign ministry spoke...

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday said that a video of Defence Minister Khawaja Asif comparing Pakistan’s progress with India’s was “fake”, adding that the PML-N leader had not made any such statement. The ministry shared the purported clip of the minister on its X account. The nearly minute-long video appeared to show a clip from a press conference by the minister on a major news channel. In the purported video, the minister called on citizens to review the country’s sit...

Amin Mughal, who died in London on August 12, 2026, spent a lifetime translating between Pakistan’s revolutionaries, dissidents and journalists so their fractured Left could at least understand itself. In 1981, the state arrested three editors at once: Mazhar Ali Khan, I.A. Rehman and Amin Mughal, all picked up in the same sweep. The weekly they ran, Viewpoint, did not miss an issue. Zafar Iqbal Mirza, ZIM to everyone who knew him, held the paper together from the inside while the men who bui...

• Family, friends and citizens gather on Sharea Faisal every night to demand justice • Vow to continue their demonstrations until those responsible for his death are arrested KARACHI: Family, friends, acquaintances and civil society members have been gathering on Sharea Faisal near Nursery every night for the past three weeks, blocking the key artery and vowing that they would not give up until justice is provided to slain Mir Raza Ali, whose body with a gunshot wound was found on July 29 at ...

• Hafiz Naeem says sit-ins to be converted into shutter-down strike on 13th Rabiul Awwal • Party to stage indefinite protest outside Governor House in Quetta from 29th LAHORE / KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Sunday warned the government that the party would expand its ongoing sit-ins into a nationwide movement, culminating in a shutter-down strike and a possible march on Islamabad if the petroleum levy was not withdrawn. Addressing a press conference at the JI sit-in s...

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman addresses a workers’ convention in Peshawar.—PPI PESHAWAR: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday pointed out a structural weakness on opposition benches, noting that the opposition leader failed to unite parties to effectively challenge the recent government legislation on armed forces command. While noting that opposition walkouts without act­ive resistance have harmed democratic checks and balances, the JUI-F chief urged joint opposition coordina...

QUETTA: The Balo­chistan Home Department on Sunday again imposed an indefinite curfew in Khad Kocha Tehsil of Mastung district, citing security concerns and the need to maintain law and order and protect the lives and property of the public. The department order, which took effect at 7am, completely restricts public movement on roads and in markets in Khadkocha and its adjoining areas. The district administration and law enforcement agencies have intensified security measures in the area to p...

Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir will visit Tehran on Monday to continue efforts to bring peace ​and security to the region, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil ‌Baqaei said on Sunday, according to a statement by the ministry. He said CDF Munir would lead an official delegation and the “visit aims to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Iran and Pakistan and to continue Pakistan’s good offices in support of peace and security in the region”. During the ...

RAWALPINDI: A duty magistrate in Rawalpindi on Sunday remanded the husband and servant of Hina Javed in police custody for three days in her murder case. Hina was found dead in the washroom of her apartment in Askari Apartments in Rawalpindi on Thursday evening. Police said that the body bore signs of torture, with a wire fastened around her neck and tied to the shower rod. They detained her husband and a servant in relation to the case. Today, the suspects were produced before a duty magistr...

Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti announced on Sunday that a major road in the Duki district will be named after Dr Mahnoor Nasir, a doctor who suffered an acid attack in June, in honour of her “bravery, resilience and services as a medical professional”. Dr Nasir, a 29-year-old female doctor at Quetta’s Civil Hospital, was seriously injured in June when a hospital employee allegedly threw acid on her, suffering severe burn injuries to her face, chest, legs and other parts of her b...

GILGIT: Snowfall at Spantik Peak on Sunday halted efforts to retrieve the body of Pakistani climber Dr Asma Mushtaq, who died while descending the 7,027m peak in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Shigar district. Dr Mushtaq died at age 34 at an altitude of around 6,250 metres on Thursday while descending from the summit of Spantik — also known as Golden Peak — after suffering from high-altitude sickness. Her body is currently at Camp 3. High-altitude sickness encompasses a range of pulmonary and cerebral co...

An irrepressible Mitchell Starc bagged four wickets and 10 for the match as he ripped through the Bangladesh batting to ensure a commanding innings and 51-run second Test victory for Australia inside two days on Sunday. The visitors headed into the Mackay showdown on a high after shocking the world’s top-ranked team by nine wickets in the first Test at Darwin. But they were brought crashing back to earth by some scintillating fast bowling, led by Starc who finished with 10-51 for the match to...

KARACHI: Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that efforts are underway to make University Road “100 per cent motorable” by September 15. He said this while talking to the media at the site of the under-construction Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Red Line project here on Saturday. Mr Memon got a detailed briefing on the progress of the project, construction activities and work underway in different sections. He said work was progressing rapidly, while road carpeting had been completed ...

GILGIT: Pakistan Customs collected Rs15 billion in revenue on imports from China through the Khunjerab Pass during the fiscal year 2025-26, breaking the previous record, while goods worth Rs2.8bn were exported to China and Central Asian countries through the border crossing. Wajid Ali, Pakistan Customs Collector Gilgit-Baltistan, told Dawn that Rs14.93bn in revenue was collected on imports through the Khunjerab Pass at the Sost Dry Port during FY26. In FY25, Pakistan Customs had collected Rs1...

THERE are roughly 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world, nearly half of which claim to practise some form of democracy. Yet, arguably, only about seven to 11 qualify as functioning electoral democracies. This raises an uncomfortable question: why has democracy struggled to take deeper root in much of the Muslim world? Whatever the reason, the fact is that the majority of Muslim nations are still struggling to grasp the idea of a nation-state, and democracy is still an alien concept in the...

ISLAMABAD: The joint opposition held its first parliamentary meeting at Parliament House on Monday and announced a collective strategy to address violence, the economic crisis and political repression. The meeting was attended by opposition party leaders, including Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, National Assembly Opposition Leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Senate Opposition Leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and others. ...

PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said on Monday that the incumbent “Form 47” government had no mandate to reshape the country’s governance structure, adding that the party would welcome anyone willing to ally with it “in principle” on the issue. Speaking on Geo News programme ‘Capital Talk’, Raja said the recent discussions with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Fazlur Rehman at the latter’s residence were based “on principle”. “We all agreed that whatever has happened to this country over th...

China has for several years been the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, putting its purchases in the spotlight as the US threatens heavy economic sanctions on Tehran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was scheduled to hold a press conference on Monday night. Here are the key details on China’s oil trade with Iran, which last year averaged 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd), according to ship-tracking firm Kpler. How much oil does China currently buy from Iran? Less than it used to. The US renewed...

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met the International Maritime Organisation’s head and called for “urgent and effective institutional intervention” for the return of 10 Pakistani sailors held captive by Somali pirates, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO). Dar met IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez in London, where he is on a four-day visit. He also thanked Dominguez for his support for the ongoing efforts to secure th...

ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Monday brushed aside speculation regarding a deal with the government, saying party founder Imran Khan would not have spent three years in jail if he wanted to make a deal. He made the remarks while speaking outside the Supreme Court (SC) alongside PTI leader Sardar Latif Khosa after the two met with the court’s registrar. “Khan sahib does not make deals. He will not stay in the hospital a minute more than is necessary for his tests and trea...

When Pakistan came into existence in August 1947, Karachi was a city of roughly 435,000 people. Within months, its population changed dramatically. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees arrived from India after Partition, seeking shelter, employment and security in the new country’s capital. The city’s infrastructure, housing stock and public services had never been designed to absorb such numbers in such a short time. The shortage of housing that Karachi experiences today has its roots in...

Elections on seven reserved seats in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly will he held today (Monday). Polling was scheduled to start at 10am but has yet to begin. It will continue until 1pm. Under Article 22(1) of the AJK Constitution, the Legislative Assembly consists of 53 members, including 45 members elected directly through adult franchise and eight members chosen by directly elected representatives. The reserved seats include five seats for women and one each for Ulema...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the South Asian Games from April 3 to 11 next year, 23 years after it last staged the regional sports gala in Islamabad in 2004. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the South Asia Olympic Council held here on Sunday, with Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) president Arif Saeed, who is also president of the South Asian Olympic Committee, in the chair. The meeting reviewed preparations for the Games and approved three host cities — Isl...

TODAY, the country’s hybrid government is fixated on altering Pakistan’s constitutionally mandated provincial structure and multiplying administrative units. To sell the idea, establishment apologists have rolled out some disingenuous arguments. They claim this will improve governance and miraculously solve the country’s problems overnight. A debate has been generated in the media about the pros and cons of administrative changes and breaking provinces into more units. Parliament has yet to d...

PAKISTAN doesn’t fare well on indices related to gender gap and women’s empowerment. The damning statistics include the number of girls who are out of school, the wide gender digital divide, high rates of violence against women, and women’s low representation in private and public leadership positions. However, over time, there have been significant advances for Pakistani women leaders. Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s sister, Fatima Jinnah, was a key figure in Pakistan’s independence movement. She late...

Five years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, Afghanistan’s economic relationship with Pakistan is undergoing a structural shift. For Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, particularly Peshawar, this is not simply a bilateral trade issue. It is increasingly a question of industrial resilience and competitiveness. The clearest evidence is Afghanistan’s transit trade through Pakistan. Container traffic, which had risen to nearly 89,000 containers worth about $5 billion before the Taliban returned to power, bri...

LAHORE/MUZAFFARABAD: PML-N President Nawaz Sharif chaired a party meeting to discuss AJK government formation and potential candidates for the prime ministerial slot, as six candidates contest five women’s reserved seats in the Legislative Assembly today. The meeting also deliberated on the country’s overall political situation, the health of PTI founder Imran Khan, and recent decisions handed down by the Supreme Court. PML-N leaders Shah Ghulam Qadir and Tariq Farooq have emerged as the prim...

Twenty-two international cricketers, including 21 ex-captains, have written a letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, making an appeal for ex-Pakistani premier Imran Khan’s medical treatment in line with recent Supreme Court directives, ESPN Cricinfo reported on Sunday. On August 18, the Supreme Court directed the government to move Imran to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital, a private facility, within two days for examination and treatment by a multidisciplinary medical board. Howeve...

ISLAMABAD: Following reports that jailed PTI founder Imran Khan could not undergo a recommended computed tomography angiography (CTA) during a hospital visit this week, his party condemned the authorities over their “continued failure” to carry out the procedure and demanded that it be immediately conducted at Shifa International Hospital. When the PTI founder was brought to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in the early hours of Friday for an eye procedure and other diagnosti...

First Lady Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday called on the Punjab government to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Hina Javed, who was found dead in her apartment in Rawalpindi earlier this week. Hina was found dead in the washroom of her apartment in Askari Apartments, Lal Kurti, on Thursday evening, with the police saying that the body bore signs of torture, with a wire fastened around her neck and tied to the shower rod. Police have detained her husband and a servant in rela...

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will visit the United Kingdom from August 24-28, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Sunday. In a post on social media platform X, FO said that during the visit, DPM Dar will meet the UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Minister of State for Pakistan Stephen Doughty, as well as other senior members of the government. “He will also meet with the Secretary-General of the International Marit...

India’s maritime rescue agency lost communication on Saturday with a Panama-flagged cargo vessel that sank off the coast of eastern India, the Indian Coast Guard said. The vessel had 24 crew on board, including 20 Chinese nationals, three Myanmar nationals and one Bangladeshi, according to Commandant Amit Uniyal, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard sent two vessels for the search-and-rescue mission from Sri Vijaya Puram, formerly known as Port Blair, Uniyal said. The Coast Gua...

LAST month, at its 49th meeting, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, chaired by the chief justice, recommended establishing an ‘International Commercial Court of Pakistan’ through a new Article 212A in the Constitution. Its stated aims — swift resolution of commercial disputes, stronger enforcement of arbitral awar­­ds, investor confidence, and Pakistan as a credible destination for capital — are exactly right, and I welcome the ambition. But as one who has spent years close to this w...

EARLIER this week, the prime minister had extended yet another invitation to the opposition for negotiations, noting that “it takes two to tango”. “I once again invite the opposition for talks […] to support Pakistan’s economic progress and to strengthen democracy,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was quoted as saying. “Now it’s on them how soon they agree to constructive dialogue.” The ‘offer’ echoed a statement made days earlier by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Fazal Chaudhry in th...

• Interior ministry says Punjab government requested for army deployment • Order comes over a month before PTI’s planned long march ISLAMABAD: The federal government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi for six months to perform “sensitive security duties” and respond to any unforeseen situation, according to an interior ministry order dated Aug 21. “Pursuant to the request made by the Punjab Home Department […] the federal government, in exercis...

ISLAMABAD: The families and legal team of incarcerated lawyers and human rights activists Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chatta have voiced concerns over the medical facilities available at Adiala jail. On January 24, rights lawyers Imaan and Hadi were sentenced by an Islamabad sessions court to a total of 17 years in jail on multiple charges under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca). Following their convictions, which were widely condemned by lawyers and United Nations (UN...

A group of former international players, including World Cup winners and FIFA legends, called on Monday for immediate change at world soccer’s governing body, saying its leadership under embattled President Gianni Infantino had been blinded by power. Infantino has been under mounting pressure to resign after shelving his now abandoned proposal to create a commercial body for FIFA tournament rights and sell off 20 per cent to private investors. The Swiss has shown no signs of walking away from...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented more than $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, that Trump first imposed last year but has been blocked by the courts. The fee first imposed by Trump in a temporary proclamation last year vastly raises the cost of the visas that are heavily relied on in the tech, education and research sectors. A federal judge in June ruled that the fee was illegal and block...

KARACHI: The family of Mir Raza Ali — a 25-year-old Karachi-based businessman who was found dead with a gunshot wound last month — moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday against the provincial government’s decision to form a judicial commission for a review of the probe into his murder case. The development took place as the Sindh government implemented its decision announced on Sunday, despite objections by Ali’s family and lawyer. Judicial correspondence to this effect, dated August 24 ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Monday, and both agreed to “maintain political tolerance and consultation”, the premier’s party, PML-N, posted on X. The meeting comes amid an emerging rift between the PML-N and Murad’s PPP, allies in the Centre. State broadcaster Radio Pakistan reported that the meeting took place in Islamabad while the PML-N said matters of mutual interest and political affairs were also discussed on the occasion. The talks also ...

WASHINGTON: Several major US universities have urged international students to return to the United States before September 15, when new federal immigration rules are scheduled to take effect. Under the new rules, international students can remain in the US as long as they maintain their academic status, with a fixed period of admission for holders of F (academic students), J (exchange visitors) and I (foreign media and journalists) category visas. Universities, including Harvard, Columbia, O...

Indian police used excessive force, including electric shock devices and pellet guns, against youth-led protests that forced the education minister to resign last month, Amnesty International said on Monday. A report from the rights group clashes with the police account that force was used only after protesters turned violent, and comes after India’s Supreme Court set up a panel on Thursday to investigate violence by both police and demonstrators. Demonstrations in ...

LAHORE: Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Syed Abdul Raheem Shirazi has sent recommendations to the higher authorities to link the recovery of pending digital traffic challans to the core services of computerised national identity cards (CNICs), passports, sale/purchase of vehicles and police services, a move being considered ‘most controversial in the history of the traffic police’. The proposal is said to be a blatant violation of the constitutional rights of citizens and the judgments of the Sup...

Saudi Ambassador Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki calls on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-i-Sadr.—APP ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday appreciated the contribution of Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki towards strengthening the longstanding fraternal and strategic bilateral ties. Ambassador Malki, who has served in Pakistan since 2017, called on the president for a farewell call at Aiwan-i-Sadr. President Zardari expressed appreciatio...

THE country’s top civil and military leaders are absolutely right when they say that dialogue and development are needed to address Balochistan’s crises. But perhaps one should recall that many earlier attempts by the state to bring peace to the province were stalled or remain unimplemented. In order to truly stabilise Balochistan and bring lasting peace to this troubled province, a credible political process must begin, with the state guaranteeing that it will fully implement previous promis...

• President-ordered probe found OIC official guilty of ‘misconduct, non-compliance’ • Accused official calls inquiry ‘one-sided’, claims Presidency was ‘misused’ ISLAMABAD: An inquiry committee formed on the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari has declared the top official of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Comstech) guilty of multiple charges of misconduct. According to the inquiry report seen by Dawn, Comst...

Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Muhammad Asim Malik held a meeting with Bahrain’s crown prince, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, on Sunday and discussed ways to enhance cooperation, as well as the latest regional and international developments, according to Bahrain’s state news agency. Bahrain News Agency reported that the meeting was held at the official royal residence, Riffa Palace. The report said the crown prince, who is also the commander of Bahrain’s armed forces, “affirmed the de...

Six Nordic football associations delivered a united blow to Fifa President Gianni Infantino on Sunday, declaring they had lost confidence in his leadership while demanding sweeping governance reforms at world football’s governing body. The ​six Nordic Fifa members — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands — met in ‌Helsinki and issued a rare joint statement backing calls for Infantino’s resignation from three major regional confederations. They also supported demands f...

The Sindh government said on Sunday it would be asking the chief justice of the provincial high court to establish a judicial commission to determine whether the investigation in the Mir Raza Ali murder case was being conducted impartially and in accordance with the law. The decision comes days after Ali’s parents approached Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, requesting that he directly supervise the investigation. His parents, Mir Hussain and Mariam, wrote a letter to the Sindh CM through ...

PESHAWAR: A former aide to the late Taliban commander Mullah Nazir’s group was killed and another person injured by unidentified gunmen in the Doag area of Wana tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lower South Waziristan, police and rescue officials said on Sunday. According to Wana Circle’s District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Asghar Ali Shah, Muhammad Khalid — a former aide to Mullah Nazir’s group — and another person were travelling in their vehicle from Rustam Bazaar Wana to their home in Do...

US President Donald Trump hit back at Canada on Sunday after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on the United States following a breakdown in trade negotiations. “Canada wants the benefits of being a state, without being one!!!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of tariffs. No more!!!” he said. Carney said on Saturday that new Canadian tariffs would take effect on September 8, ...

DAMASCUS: Israel carried out a fresh strike in Syria on Saturday and lambasted US envoy Tom Barrack for criticising an earlier attack on an air base in the northwest, which Israel has accused Turkiye of seeking to use. US envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Tuesday slammed Israel’s attack on the disused military air base that day as an “unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability”. On Friday, in an interview with influencer Mario Nawfal, Barrack said the strike may have been in...

KARACHI: The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) has set Sept 5 as the deadline for existing virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to submit applications for no-objection certificates (NOCs), warning that those failing to do so would have to cease operations. “Existing virtual asset service providers must submit their NOC applications by Sept 5, 2026 or cease operations,” PVARA said in a press release. Virtual assets or virtual currencies are not popular at the mass level i...

• Prevention of illegal immigration, cybercrime discussed • Zardari calls for deepening strategic alliance between the countries ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Malaysia on Saturday agreed to establish a joint working group between their interior ministries to promote institutional cooperation, with a focus on counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, cybercrime and the prevention of illegal immigration. The understanding was reached during delegation-level talks between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi an...

• Petitioners seek an effective age-verification mechanism for minors’ accounts • State urged to protect kids from cyberbullying, harassment and harmful online content ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has been approached seeking directions to the federal government to introduce legislation and a comprehensive regulatory framework to regulate social media use by children under the age of 16. The petition, filed through advocates Muhammad Jalal Haider and Yahya Farid Khawaja, seeks the intro...