KARACHI: Four personnel of Karachi police’s Anti-Street Crime Squad were booked after it was revealed that they killed an innocent citizen in a shady encounter in Mehran Town located in the Korangi Industrial Area of Karachi on Sunday. A huge number of locals including the victim’s family members gathered outside the Korangi Industrial police station … Read more
PESHAWAR: The polling day of the first phase of local government elections in 17 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has turned chaotic with incidents of firing and brawls in which two people have been reportedly killed in different areas on Sunday. Around 74,500 law enforcement personnel have been deployed in 17 districts to maintain the … Read more
Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Paramount Ruler of Malaysia) Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah went out on the roads on Saturday night to observe the flood situation after torrential monsoon rains caused flooding in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is in chaos and havoc due to continuous rains pouring in for the last three days. Read … Read more
Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday asked the United States (US) to release frozen $9 billion assets of Afghanistan or else, he warned that the crisis will escalate. While talking to the media in Islamabad, he suggested the international community to directly spend on education, health, and food sectors in Afghanistan … Read more
The family of one of the three Kashmiri students, facing sedition charges for celebrating the victory of Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2021 game against India back in October, is calling for his release. Showkat Ahmad Ganai, who lives in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), has been in jail for two … Read more
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa stressed on Saturday over the need for global convergence and sincere efforts to avert a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan. “The world can ill afford to have an unstable Afghanistan prone to economic collapse,” the COAS said during a meeting with Special Representative of Germany for Afghanistan … Read more
KARACHI: Sindh High Court on Friday suspended the notification of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) of December 10 regarding the halt of gas supply to non-export industries of Sindh and Balochistan. While allowing miscellaneous applications to merge into two lawsuits filed by Shujabad Agro-Industry and Toyo Packaging Limited requesting for suspension of the impugned notification, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has summoned an extraordinary meeting on December 20 to examine the causes leading to incidents such as the mob lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot earlier this month. On December 3, Priyantha Kumara, who was working as a manager at a private factory in Sialkot, was tortured … Read more
KARACHI: The International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) – University of Karachi – will host a one-day workshop on “Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences” on December 20. The workshop will be organised by the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences, working under the Dr Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research … Read more
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday ordered to cut off water, gas and electricity connections of Makkah Terrace in the Saddar area of Karachi which it had ruled was built without leaving ‘Compulsory Open Space’. Earlier, a bench of SHC comprising Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput and Faisal Kamal Alam was apprised that some … Read more
LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Accountability Shahzad Akbar said the challan submitted by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N ) leaders Shahbaz Sharif and Hamza Shahbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mills money laundering case consists of more than 4,000 documents and 100 witnesses. Deeming Shahbaz Sharif the … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Ehsaas and World Food Programme (WFP) inked a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday to expand the Ehsaas Nashonuma programme from 15 districts to all tehsils of Pakistan. WFP Country Director Chris Kaye and Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division (PASSD) Secretary Ismat Tahira signed the MoU. WFP Executive Director (ED) David Beasley … Read more
Survivor of the Army Public School attack in 2014 recalled the tragedy asking people to introspect what they have done to serve humanity. Marking the seventh anniversary of the tragic incident, Nawaz said that it was a day of reflection. As many as 141 including 131 children were martyred in one of the country’s deadliest … Read more
KARACHI: Hours after the government announced its decision to file a defamation suit against former member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Supreme Court judge retired justice Wajihuddin Ahmed for targeting Prime Minister Imran Khan, the estranged leader said that the response from Jahangir Tareen was expected as such expenditures are always off the books. While … Read more
KARACHI: Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD) is carrying out genotyping of SARS-CoV-2 and monitoring the emerging pattern of variants at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) – University of Karachi. ICCBS Director and COMSTECH Coordinator General Prof Dr M Iqbal Choudhary disclosed the development on Thursday while … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC), on Thursday, sought a reply from Punjab Local Government Secretary Noor Amin Mangal on a petition seeking a compensatory term for elected representatives of local bodies due to their suspension following the enactment of the Punjab Local Government Act, 2019. Read more: LHC orders Punjab govt to run smog awareness … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has announced that the government was filing a defamation suit against former member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Supreme Court judge retired justice Wajihuddin Ahmed for “targeting Prime Minister Imran Khan.” Read more: ‘I never gave a penny for household expenses of Banigala,’ says Jahangir Tareen Addressing media in Islamabad, he … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the Senate and party’s vice-president, Senator Sherry Rehman, said the forecast of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) about upcoming wave of higher inflation in Pakistan must be a wake-up call for the government. Expressing concerns on the forecast, she said the incumbent government has pushed the … Read more
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi praised the team of Ehsaas programme as he visited One Window Ehsaas Centre in Sitara Market of Islamabad on Wednesday and said the service is the first of its kind in the country’s history. Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar and other officials welcomed … Read more
Jahangir Khan Tareen, a close confidant of Prime Minister Imran Khan and a now-estrange leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), rejected a claim of another former party member retired Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed that he used to fund PM’s household expenses at Banigala, claiming, he “never gave a penny” for the purpose. Read more: PM Imran … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) has prepared a draft of the third national policy on science and technology with hopes to incorporate scientific research with economy and industrial development. Since the formation of PCST in 1961, it has prepared only two national policies on science and technology. The first policy was approved … Read more
Recalling warnings by global agencies, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserted on Wednesday that 97 per cent of the Afghan population would plunge into poverty in the next six months if immediate measures were not taken, Radio Pakistan reported. Read more: Afghanistan’s SOS call Pakistan is hosting an extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic … Read more
LAHORE: All Pakistan Private Schools Federation (APPSF) has categorically rejected the proposal of winter vacations in schools. APPSF President Kashif Mirza chaired a meeting of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) to review the current situation. The federation said in a press release that the students have already suffered irreparable educational loss owing to poor governance … Read more
KARACHI: In a bid to strengthen socio-cultural relations between Pakistan and Indonesia, Indonesian Consulate General in Karachi facilitated meetings between the representatives of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Indonesia and leaders from two of the biggest seminaries in Pakistan. Read more Pakistan-Indonesia negotiate trade, goods agreement: envoy The delegation of NU Main Committee or Pengurus Besar Nahdalatul Ulama … Read more
ISLAMABAD: National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) has prepared the draft of the maiden National Counter Violent Extremism Policy of Pakistan (NCVEP) 2021. Read more Is the state responsible for the rise in extremism? NACTA National Coordinator Mehr Khaliq Dad Lak presented the draft to Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid during a meeting on Tuesday in the capital. … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC), on Tuesday, rebuked the Punjab government over illegal housing societies sprouting across the provincial capital and said that it must address the issue before commencing Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project (RRUDP). Read more LHC seeks replies on hiring of transgender persons in public sector The court also remarked that the … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought replies from the federal and Punjab governments on the issue of jobs for transgender persons in the public sector. A transgender named Aashi Alia Nawaz filed a petition in the high court in which she highlighted that her community members cannot apply in the recent job openings … Read more
KARACHI: At two people, including a woman, were gunned down in the Patel Para area of Karachi for allegedly turning down a marriage proposal. The victims identified as Muhammad Zaheer and Zainab-al-Nisa, 35, daughter of Char Bakht Zia were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital were they both succumbed to their injures. Jamshed Quarter police … Read more
