Today’s outlook: Secondary classes resume, Maryam Nawaz heads to court

Here are the news stories we expect to follow today (Wednesday).

  • The Islamabad High Court will hear Maryam Nawaz and her husband Captain (retd) Safdar’s petitions against their sentences in the Avenfield case.
  • The opposition’s Rehbar Committee will meet today and discuss decisions made during the All Parties Conference.
  • The Islamabad High Court will also hear former president Asif Ali Zardari’s bail petition in NAB’s inquiry into suspicious transactions of Rs8 billion in the fake accounts case.
  • An Islamabad accountability court will announce its verdict in Asif Zardari’s petition to throw out three supplementary references against him.
  • The Supreme Court will hear PPP leader Khursheed Shah’s bail petition today.
  • Secondary classes across the country will be restarting today except in Sindh. The Sindh government announced that secondary classes would resume from September 28.
  • The privatisation board will meet today and is likely to approve a transaction structure for the Pakistan Steel Mills. It will deliberate on recommendations submitted by the human resources committee.
  • ICYMI: Two unidentified men abducted and raped a 22-year-old woman standing outside a mall waiting for a ride in Karachi’s Clifton, the police said on Tuesday.


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