Category: Pakistan

The Punjab School Education department, in light of the current cold wave in the province, has directed all government and private schools to remain closed, extending the winter holidays until January 12. According to an official handout released on Monday, government and private schools in the province will reopen on Jan 13. The provincial education […]

Dawn CEO Hameed Haroon, through his lawyer, sent a legal notice to filmmaker Jamshed Mahmood on Monday under Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance 2002, asking for an unconditional public apology and retraction of rape allegations. Talking to Dawn.com, the director, popularly known as Jami, said that he had received the notice and was in the […]

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence unanimously approved the three bills concerning tenures of the services chiefs and the chairman of joint chiefs of staff committee, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak confirmed on Monday. “The amendments were passed unanimously by the body. I congratulate the entire country and the opposition parties,” the minister said, adding […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the Zindagi app – a mobile application featuring information on narcotics control – at an event in Islamabad on Monday. Addressing the event, the premier said drugs are destroying the lives of the country’s youth. “There was a time when we heard there were drugs in universities. Now drugs are […]

Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar on Saturday visited the residence of Hasnain Haider Abbasi – the teenager his son was booked for assaulting – and apologised on behalf of his son. Mahboob Abbasi, who is the victim’s father, told Dawn that Akhtar had made telephonic contact with him after the FIR was lodged and protesters had gathered outside […]

LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday allowed exemption from personal appearance to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case till the next hearing. A lawyer told the court that Mr Sharif was still under treatment in London and doctors had not permitted him to travel by air so […]

FAISALABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that his government had set its priorities for job creation and development in the country as industrialisation, export, agriculture, tourism and technical education would be given special importance. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of Allama Iqbal Industrial City being established under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the prime minister […]

PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Saturday demanded that the government submit to the court “video evidence” concerning his involvement in the narcotics business. Talking to reporters outside an anti-narcotics court in Lahore after a hearing of the case, the former Punjab minister said, “Today, my lawyers adopted the viewpoint that they will not accept the […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said it was time for police in Punjab to move beyond the thana-kutchery culture prevalent in the country for decades and develop as a force on modern lines. Addressing a ceremony after inaugurating the Model Police Station in his hometown of Mianwali, the premier said it was important that the citizens […]

ISLAMABAD: The int­ense transmission of polio virus, due to a break in the vaccination campaign in April last year, has become a huge setback for the health authorities as the tally for the year 2019 has reached 123. “While we are in the year 2020, for about another one month more cases can be added […]