ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that the next local bodies poll for Punjab will be held through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and legislations in that regard will be soon passed in the assembly with the support of allies. Speaking to the press after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s core committee meeting, Chaudhry said that the … Read more
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party Chief Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday announced to challenge the newly passed Sindh Local Bodies Act in the Sindh High Court. Speaking to the press, the PSP chief said that the Acts such forces people to take arms for their rights and move to mountains, adding that he has been saying … Read more
DASU/LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Wednesday that the root of all problems being faced by Pakistan right now was the imposition of an unelected government on the people of Pakistan. Addressing a public meeting in Dasu, he said that the massive presence at … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday disposed of three intra court appeals against orders of a single judge wherein Sindh government was directed to use name Qasr-e-Fatima for Mohatta Palace and directions were issued for forming a trust to establish a girl’s medical college within the premises of Mohatta Palace. Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday warned Sindh Prosecutor General and DA JAG Rangers against filing frivolous appeals against acquittals by various courts and observed that action might be taken on filing of such appeals. The warning came from a two-member bench headed by Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha while hearing appeals filed against … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee on Interior in its meeting on Wednesday approved four bills while it deferred an important bill titled as The Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Bill, 2021. The committee meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Raja Khurram Shahzad Nawaz in the Constitution Room, Parliament House. The bill titled “The … Read more
KARACHI: Mutthaida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Wednesday announced to convene an All Parties Conference on December 11 to lodge its protest against the new local bodies system passed by the Sindh Assembly. Speaking in a press conference at the party’s temporary headquarters at Bahadurabad, the MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the ruling Pakistan Peoples … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau on Wednesday refuted the allegations leveled by the senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Ahsan Iqbal stating that NAB Chairman Justice (retd) Javaid Iqbal has left the country. In a written statement, the institution said that a propaganda is being done against the chairman and called the narratives being perpetuated in … Read more
KARACHI: The workers of Pakistan Peoples Party and Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday observed a brief handoff after a private airline registered a complaint against loud sloganeering in a Karachi-bound flight from Peshawar. The PPP workers affiliated with its Karachi wing started sloganeering on the flight after returning from a public rally in Peshawar. A … Read more
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Wednesday decided to hold the next local bodies elections in the province through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), sources informed Bol news. The provincial government plans to include the mandatory provision of the EVMs in the local bodies act, and in that regards Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has given his … Read more
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and different District Municipal Corporations (DMCs) on Monday informed the Sindh High Court that 124 places in the city have been designated for charged parking. The KMC and DMC in their replies filed in a petition challenging collection of charged parking fee, submitted that sections 96 and 100 of … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday ordered release of a Chinese vessel earlier held for not paying charges of fuel supplied to the ship by a local company. A lawsuit was filed by M/s Orion Bunkers Private Limited invoking Admiralty Jurisdiction of SHC for recovery of fuel charges. Plaintiff’s counsel, advocates Nisar A Mujahid … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday sought written reply from respondents in pleas challenging its verdict of withdrawing the sacked Employees Reinstatement Act (SERA). A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial heard the review petitions filed by the government and sacked workers against the judgment, which struck … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari and Secretary Interior to appear in person in the missing journalist and blogger – Mudassar Naro case. Naro, a journalist from Lahore went missing in August 2018. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, during the hearing, expressed his reservations over … Read more
KARACHI: In light of the emergence of a new corona variant, the Sindh government on Monday requested the federal government to provide as many as one million doses of Pfizer vaccine and half a million doses of Astrazeneca and Moderna in view of providing booster shots. The booster shots will be provided free of cost … Read more
PESHAWAR: The Inter-Districts Under-21 games for as many as 35 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have begun under the Directorate General of Sports in the provincial capital Peshawar on Monday. Provincial Minister for Labour Shaukat Yousafzai and Minister for Health and Finance Taimour Saleem Jhagra inaugurated the games in a colorful ceremony at the Peshawar Sports … Read more
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Monday took strict notice of a modeling photo shoot at the sacred Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur and has demanded a report on it from the provincial chief secretary. In a statement issued by the chief minister’s office, it is said that an inquiry on the incident has been … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) Central Information Secretary and the member of the National Assembly Shazia Atta Marri blamed Prime Minister Imran Khan for being responsible for irregularities amounting to Rs40 billion in the coronavirus relief package. In a statement issued on Monday, she said that it was a ‘highly condemnable act’ of the … Read more
ISLAMABAD: In an interesting development, Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has taken notice of the construction of a four-marla house in Bhara Kahu – a neighborhood near Islamabad – and termed it a violation of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997 since construction work was started without securing the environmental approval. Yasir Riaz son of … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Saeed Ghani on Monday held the federal government responsible for the sugar and petrol crisis in the country. Speaking in a press conference, the Sindh minister said that ironically the federal government blamed the provincial government for the sugar crisis as they perpetuated the narrative that Sindh has directed three … Read more
LAHORE: A delegation of Hindu Yatrees are scheduled to reach Pakistan on December 4 to participate in their religious rituals, mostly to be held in Sindh. The Hindu Yatrees would reach Pakistan via Wagah Border and arrangements for their transportation, stay, security has been completed, informed relevant authorities. The Hindu Yatrees would visit their historic … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday decided to bring an ordinance to regularise illegal constructions of residential buildings located all across the province, sources informed Bol news. As per details, the ordinance will call for a formulation of a commission that will decide the status of the residential projects. The commission will include a retired … Read more
ISLAMABAD: In light of the rising cases of new Covid-19 variant emerging from South Africa, Pakistan on Sunday imposed travel restrictions on as many as six African countries and Hongkong under safety preemptive measures. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in a statement said consequent to the emergence of Omicron Covid variant in South … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday took notice of the video that shows massive irregularities before the NA-133 by-election. A video is doing rounds on social media which shows that some people wearing masks are sitting at an office and bundles of money are kept before them, from which they are giving … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that he joined politics not for any personal gains but to make Pakistan welfare as according to the tenants of the state of Media. Speaking in an interview with Sheikh Hamza Yousuf, aired on the Pakistan Television, the premier said: “I did not think I was going … Read more
KARACHI: In a bid to protect people from the new South African corona variant, the Sindh government has decided to open Pfizer booster shots to vaccinated residents all across the province, Secretary Sindh Health Zulfiqar Ali Shah confirmed. “The decision has been taken in light of the recent emerging corona wave,” he said. “The people … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Jamat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday alleged that the agents of international establishment and International Monetary Funds are sitting as legislators in the Pakistani parliament. Speaking at a public rally, the JI Ameer said that the government has disappointed the young people of the country and for the last 70 years there has been … Read more
JHELUM: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday predicted that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf will win the next general election after completing its ongoing tenure. Speaking at a public rally in his local constituency, the minister called the opposition leaders ‘political dwarfs’ and accused them of indulging in the politics of blackmail for their vested interests, adding … Read more
