Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Azakhel dry port in Nowshera district on Friday. The dry port has been completed at a cost of Rs510 million and is expected to boost trade and economic activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Addressing the ceremony, Prime Minister Imran congratulated Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on the completion of […]
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The first lunar eclipse of the year 2020 will be witnessed in Pakistan on Friday night and end in the early hours of Saturday. According to a private news channel, it will be penumbra lunar eclipse which will be visible in Pakistan as well as in different cities of Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa. It […]
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Three children were killed when the wall of a primary school building fell on them in village Bhooro Sand, near Nagarparkar town in Sindh, on Friday. The victims, identified as six-year-old Ambreen, five-year-old Muqeema and her brother, Ali Raza, were playing near the wall when it fell on them. The victims’ relatives and villagers, who […]
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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday posed questions regarding the legality of the treason case filed against former dictator Pervez Musharraf and the formation of the special court that conducted the trial and handed death sentence to the retired general after finding him guilty. A three-member bench, comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice […]
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Six new polio virus cases have emerged from different parts of Pakistan, increasing the overall tally for 2019 to 134. According to statistics shared by the Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL) for polio eradication, two cases have emerged from Dera Ghazi Khan and one each from Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan, Jamshoro and Kambar. The two […]
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The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Thursday termed some sections of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, as going against the Shariah. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, chairman of the CII, Dr Qibla Ayaz, said the council held a two-day-long meeting during which it concluded that sections 14-D, 15-A and 26 of the NAO were un-Islamic. […]
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A newborn girl was burned to death when an incubator caught fire at Karachi’s National Institute of Child Health — the largest children’s hospital in Sindh — early on Thursday morning. Saddar SHO Arshad Afridi told Dawn that they were not informed by the hospital administration about the fire incident. He added, however, that they had conducted […]
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The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Thursday termed the defence ministry’s detention of Advocate Inamur Rahim — a retired colonel and petitioner in multiple cases of missing persons who was picked up from his home in Rawalpindi on Dec 17, 2019 — against the law. Presiding over the proceedings today, Justice Mirza Vaqas […]
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday inaugurated Pakistan’s largest skills development programme titled ‘Hunarmand Jawan‘. Speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Imran said that this programme will put Pakistan on the road to success. “I need you all to understand that there is no such thing as ‘happily ever after’, that only exists in fairy […]
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MULTAN: The Bahauddin Zakariya University has dismissed a professor from service for harassing a female student through inappropriate behaviour and making her objectionable videos to blackmail her. The university syndicate in its meeting on Jan 19, 2019, on the recommendations of the harassment committee constituted an inquiry committee, consisting of Prof Dr Muhammad Shafqat (convener), […]
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