The decision was taken after the ECP again dismissed the MML's application for registration on Wednesday.

The interior ministry had opposed enlisting of the MML as a political party, arguing that it is an offshoot of the banned JuD.

Mulk, 67, is likely to be sworn in on Friday, June 1.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif now unable to hold public or party office after the verdict.

"Repeating a lie doesn't turn it into the truth," the spokesperson was quoted as saying by Dawn.

A five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar, gave the unanimous verdict on several identical petitions pertaining to the duration of disqualification of a politician under Article 62(1)(f) of the Pakistan Constitution, reported Samaa TV.

The powerful military establishment, which enjoys considerable influence over policy decisions in Pakistan, was also on board to ban JuD and other terror groups.

The list -- which has 139 entries from Pakistan -- identifies all those individuals who have lived in Pakistan, operated from there or have been associated with groups that used Pakistani territory for carrying out their operations.

Malala was dressed in Pakistani salwar kameez and dupatta. She was smiling and looked happy as he was greeted at the airport.

Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bhutto, 54, was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi shortly after she had addressed an election rally on December 27, 2007.

IS, especially active in northern Sindh and Balochistan, was also behind the abduction and killing of two Chinese nationals last year.

Khan's spokesman in a statement said that he had proposed marriage to Bushra Maneka, who has "asked for time to make a final decision after consulting her family, including her children".

The move comes after United States President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to the US but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists.

The veracity of the video which was released by the Pakistan foreign office could not be ascertained.

The indigenously-built missile was launched from PNS Himmat and it successfully hit the target, it said.

While Pakistan termed its decision to allow Jadhav's family to travel to Pakistan to meet him as humanitarian gesture, India has accused it of violating mutual understandings.

Khawaja said Pakistan has been open and transparent throughout the meeting, offered in good faith.

The Pakistan Foreign Office said that it didn't wish to indulge in a meaningless battle of words" rejected India's baseless "allegations about attitude of authorities during Jadhav's meeting with his wife and mother.

Police and paramilitary security forces, including sharpshooters, have been deployed at the MOFA to deal with any untoward security situation, they said.

Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife and mother will arrive in Islamabad on Monday to meet the Indian prisoner on death row, the Pakistan foreign office has said. They will arrive in Islamabad by a commercial flight and leave the same day after the meeting, it added.