Tue, 21-Oct-2025

PMDC, Health Ministry resolve admission FATA, Balochistan student

Islamabad

Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination, Government of Pakistan has resolved the issue of students from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Federal Minister for Health Mustafa Kamal said that the PMDC and the Ministry of Health have … Read more

SC annuls death sentence for Wah Cantt suicide attack suspect

SC

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has annulled the death sentence Hameedullah convicted in the 2008 Wah Cantt suicide attack case.

A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Athar Minallah, accepted Hameedullah’s appeal, declaring the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench verdict null and void.

Hamidullah’s lawyer said that Hameedullah was falsely accused in Wah Cantt incident, Hameedullah was arrested from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formally known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas(FATA) while the FIR was registered after 20 minutes, how is it possible that Wah Cantt incident took place and the accused was arrested from FATA in 20 minutes.

The court accepted the appeal against the death sentence of the suspect Hameedullah and annulled the decision of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench.

The Supreme Court, while announcing the release of the suspect Hameedullah on the basis of flawed investigation, said that the detailed decision of the case would be issued later.

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Another resolution submitted for postponement of February 8 Elections in Senate

Elections postponement resolution

Another resolution was submitted to the Senate secretariat for the postponement of the February 8 scheduled elections. Senator Hilal-ur-Rehman, an independent senator from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), submitted the postponed resolution. In the resolution of Hilal ur Rehman, it has been said that due to the severe cold and snowfall preventing citizens from voting … Read more

Asad Umar claims Shaukat Tareen suggested IMF relief in audio

Tareen suggested IMF relief
  • Asad Umar defended an audio leak of former finance minister Shaukat Tarin speaking to Punjab and KP finance ministers and urging they visit the Centre to seek IMF support amid the floods
  • Asad Umar, speaking to the media with KP foreign minister Taimur Jhagra, bemoaned the former finance minister’s phone tapping and claimed that the government had changed the dialogue

ISLAMABAD:  PTI Secretary General Asad Umar defended an audio leak of former finance minister Shaukat Tarin speaking to Punjab and KP finance ministers and urging they visit the Centre to seek IMF support amid the floods.

Asad Umar, speaking to the media with KP foreign minister Taimur Jhagra, bemoaned the former finance minister’s phone tapping and claimed that the government had changed the dialogue. “These are old PML-N practices of cutting and pasting films and audios,” he claimed.

Tarin, according to Umar, just urged the provincial finance ministers to inform the Centre to go back to the IMF and seek relief on the terms established for the release of the US$1.18 billion loan tranche.

“If we’re asking for money from other countries, why can’t we ask the IMF for some relief to spend on floods?” he asked. “The letter issued by the KP minister demonstrates what they desired from the Centre in terms of help for the national exchequer, which is overloaded as a result of the disastrous floods.”

Speaking on the occasion, Taimur Jhagra stated that he had to write another letter to the finance minister after Miftah Ismail failed to follow through on pledges made during their meeting regarding cash for the former FATA districts.

“We requested them to sit with us and discuss the problem even after they agreed to surplus provincial budgets with the IMF. On July 6, 2006, we sent a letter in this regard “He revealed.

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Budget 23-2022 cast aside $100 billion for improvement of poor areas

Budget

In the next budget, it has been decided to allocate up to Rs 100 billion in the development budget for the backward areas. According to sources in the Ministry of Planning, it has been decided to allocate up to Rs 100 billion in the development budget for the backward areas in the next financial year … Read more

MPs concerned over ‘complex, vague’ compensation for tribal people

ISLAMABAD: The Special Committee on Development of erstwhile FATA on Tuesday raised concerns over the “complex and vague” compensation process for the rehabilitation of destructed markets, shops, houses in the tribal districts. The director-general of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement department briefed the lawmakers about the rehabilitation efforts launched by the provincial government. He said … Read more

Karachi can’t handle the incursion of additional Afghan migrants, Nasir Hussain Shah

afghan refugee

Sindh Information Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, said on Monday that Afghan migrants could enter Pakistan if civil war breaks out in the bordering country. He stated that during a summit with European Union (EU) Ambassador to Pakistan Androulla Kaminara, who called on him here in Karachi. In the meeting, consensual relations, forced labor of … Read more

Govt fast-paced development work in ex-Fata districts: Tarin

Shaukat Tarin

KARACHI: Industries played an important role in the development of an area, and the federal government has fast-paced the uplift work in the Federally-administered Tribal Areas (Fata) after its merger with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, a government official said on Thursday. Chairing a special meeting with the delegation of the representatives of industries from the ex-Fata … Read more

Good news for KP! The government has increased the budget

KPK Government

The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that the government has enhanced budget for merged districts comprising erstwhile FATA from fifty-eight billion to one hundred and sixty-two billion rupees. According to the details, replying to a question during the Question Hour, Minister of State for SAFRON Shehryar Khan Afridi said sixty-two billion rupees have been … Read more