Pakistan Post and the Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) on Monday signed an agreement to deliver e-challans at doorsteps. Punjab Postmaster General Khwaja Imran Raza and Safe City Authority Chief Operating Officer Muhammad Kamran Khan signed the agreement. The PSCA would generate the challans of the violations caught on its cameras, which would be delivered … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Rana Shamim on Tuesday filed an intra-court appeal in Islamabad High Court (IHC) to challenge his indictment. A two-member judge will take up his petition now. Read more: Affidavit case: Islamabad High Court indicts ex-GB judge Rana Shamim The IHC had indicted the former judge in a contempt case … Read more
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said the relief package announced by the Prime Minister would help reduce the burden of inflation on the people. Read more: Farrukh Habib seeks scrutiny of accounts of all political parties Talking to the media persons in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said that resources had been … Read more
Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Tuesday slammed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) — the two big opposition parties in the country — over global media coverage for their alleged corruption. Taking to Twitter, Umar praised Primi Minister Imran Khan and said, “PTI gets global coverage … Read more
Pakistan has called for an equitable and balanced approach towards issues of arms control and disarmament, based on the principle of equal security for all states, said Radio Pakistan. Read more: Nuclear sabre-rattling: When Pakistan, India almost headed towards war Addressing the High-Level Segment of the Conference on Disarmament held in Geneva in virtual format, … Read more
PARIS: With President Vladimir Putin putting Russia’s vast nuclear arsenal — the world’s largest — on alert, we look back on other moments the threat of atomic war loomed. 1962: Cuban missile crisis In October 1962, at the heart of the Cold War, a 13-day showdown between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US president John … Read more
LAHORE: A delegation of traders, led by Punjab Chief Minister’s (CM) Coordinator for Trade and Business Affairs Nasir Salman, called on provincial Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal at his office in the civil secretariat on Friday. The meeting reviewed the problems of traders and the provision of facilities in markets. CM Coordinator Salman proposed starting … Read more
Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Friday that the time of the “Zardari mafia” was coming to an end in Sindh. Read more: Asad Umar claims Zardari-era would soon end in Sindh Taking to Twitter on Friday, Umar said, “Tomorrow, PTI’s [Sindh Haqooq] march for the rights of Sindh … Read more
Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday rejected an appeal of Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin against a 20-year sentence awarded to him by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) for attempting the life of an American educationist Debra Lobo. A military court had awarded death sentence to Aziz in the Safoora carnage case. A two-judge bench, headed … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said that the Chinese-funded companies operating in Pakistan are strongly committed to corporate social responsibility. Read more: Upcoming CPEC projects expected to attract $28 billion: official Chinese-funded corporations, including those working on projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), are playing a very responsible role … Read more
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry claimed that the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Act (Peca) Ordinance 2022, but to say that there should be no law or there should be a law that cannot be implanted was “absurd”. Read more: PPP will challenge amendments to Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act: Gilani Taking to … Read more
LAHORE: For building new business-friendly ties, an Egyptian government delegation visited CBD Punjab’s project site on Friday. CEO Lahore Central Business District Development Authority (LCBDDA) Imran Amin, COO Brigadier (RTD) Mansoor Janjua, board members and directorate heads of the LCBDDA welcomed the delegates. Read more: TDAP calls for improved economic ties with Oman The Egyptian … Read more
Pakistan’s Ambassador to Ukraine Dr Noel Israel Khokhar said that the government was working on the safe evacuation of all Pakistan nationals stranded in Ukraine. In a statement, the ambassador confirmed that overall 1,500 Pakistanis, including 500 students, were present in Ukraine who had been asked to move to safe locations. Read more: US has … Read more
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: At least two people were killed and several more injured on Thursday in border clashes between Afghan Taliban and Pakistani forces, hospital and security officials told AFP. Border tensions have risen since the Taliban’s return to power last year, with Pakistan alleging militant groups are planning attacks from Afghan soil. The Taliban deny … Read more
ISLAMABAD: A sessions court sentenced the scion of a wealthy industrialist family to death Thursday, for raping and beheading his girlfriend in a murder that sparked an outcry over the brutalising of women in the deeply patriarchal nation. Read more: Zahir Jaffer sentenced to death in Noor Mukadam murder case Pakistani-American Zahir Jaffer, 30, attacked … Read more
PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz said that Zahir Jaffer’s crimes were not only confined to the rape and murder of Noor Muqadam but the fact that he used his money and influence to assail the credibility of the victim. Read more: Zahir Jaffer sentenced to death in Noor Mukadam murder case A sessions court in Islamabad … Read more
RAWALPINDI: The Security Forces on Thursday conducted an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in Madi Khel, North Waziristan District, on reports of a weapons and ammunition cache. During the search operation, a large quantity of weapons and ammunition was recovered, said an Inter-Services Public Relations ISPR news release. The recovered weapons and ammunition included Sub Machine … Read more
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday with explosions heard soon after across the country and its foreign minister warning a “full-scale invasion” was underway. Weeks of intense diplomacy and the imposition of Western sanctions on Russia failed to deter Putin, who had massed between 150,000 and 200,000 troops … Read more
Sindh High Court on Thursday warned Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah of contempt of court proceedings for not implementing its orders regarding de-notifying the acting Vice-Chancellor (VC) Karachi University (KU) Khalid Iraqi, notifying the most senior professor as acting VC in his place and constituting a search committee for the appointment, within three months, … Read more
SRINAGAR: One of the most comprehensive NGO reports on decades of violence and killings in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is Alleged Perpetrators, published by the most respected rights group in the disputed region. But clicking on the Greater Kashmir newspaper report it cites in the killing of a 16-year-old named Ishtiyaq Ahmad … Read more
The United States said it had communicated its position to Pakistan regarding Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine, said State Department spokesperson Ned Price, Reuters reported. Read more: Russia’s Putin launches ‘military operation’ in Ukraine The US statement came on the day Prime Minister Imran Khan was heading to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir … Read more
GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Wednesday it would establish a global biomanufacturing training hub in South Korea to serve poorer countries wishing to produce their own vaccines, insulin and cancer treatments. Read more: Sindh health department decides to conduct Covid-19 tests at schools The move comes after the UN health agency helped create a … Read more
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands has evacuated 294 Afghan citizens who arrived in neighbouring Pakistan over the last few days and will be flown soon to a Dutch destination, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The group, consisting of translators, non-governmental workers and other people assisting Dutch missions to the war-torn country as well as their families, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday said that the reprehensible incidents of the Delhi Riots Pogrom of 2020 and mass rapes of Kashmiri women in Kunan and Poshpura villages of IIOJK in 1991 continued to be a scar on the collective conscience of the international community. Read more: Only Imran Khan can resolve Kashmir issue: PM AJK … Read more
Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Abdul Qaddus Bizenjo has been tested positive for Covid-19, following which he has isolated himself at his residence. According to CM’s spokesperson, Bizenjo was in good health but had symptoms of the virus. “Doctors have advised the chief minister to rest completely. However, he will hold online meetings to continue important government … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday agreed on an exceptional basis to allow the overland transportation of humanitarian assistance of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and lifesaving medicines from India for Afghanistan via the Attari-Wagah border up till Torkham. The first batch of 41 Afghan trucks, which entered into Pakistan through Torkham, is returning to Afghanistan today … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Dhabeji special economic zone (SEZ) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Sindh will offer over 200,000 direct and indirect job opportunities, Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has said. The SEZ is being developed through a private partner at a cost of Rs18 billion (over $102 million) to provide “plug … Read more
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said on Wednesday that when the entire world was worried about the escalating Russia-Ukraine crisis, some elements in Pakistan were more concerned if the government was going. Read more: Anti-government strategy: Meeting between Zardari and Shehbaz remains inconclusive In an interview with a private TV channel, he said … Read more
