Category: Pakistan

A sub-committee of the cabinet convened on Tuesday to prepare recommendations on the matter of the removal of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s name from the no-fly list. After nearly five hours of deliberations, the meeting ended without any decision, with Law Minister Farogh Naseem terming the issue of striking Nawaz’s name off the Exit […]

Rawalpindi police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting and filming a minor, City Police Officer (CPO) Faisal Rana said on Tuesday. The suspect was previously convicted for sexually assaulting minors in Britain, where he was working with an organisation for protection of children, and was deported after he had served his prison sentence, […]

The federal cabinet on Tuesday granted in-principle “conditional” approval to remove ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL), government’s chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan said. Addressing a news conference after the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, she said about “85-90 per cent” participants of the meeting […]

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday threw the ball back in the federal government’s court regarding the removal of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL), saying it was the “competent authority” to handle such matters. The development came hours after government’s chief spokesperson Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said […]

The Department of Plant Protection of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research has said that the desert locust activity observed in Malir and adjoining areas of Karachi is part of the creature’s migration from summer-monsoon breeding zone towards coastal areas of Balochistan and does not pose any risk to food supply. The technical […]

ISLAMABAD: Opp­osition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) presidential ordinances promulgated by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government on Nov 7. The ordinances were re­lated to conversion of the Pakistan Medical and Den­tal Council into the Pak­istan Medical Commission, the protection of whistleblo­wers informing about any benami property and asset, […]

Sindh Transport Secretary Ghulam Abbas on Sunday clarified that application-based private transport companies — Airlift and Swvl — have not been banned and have instead been directed to bring their operations under the ambit of the law. Talking to DawnNewsTV, he said that the private services were operating without route permits and no-objection certificates. The transport […]

As the country celebrated Eid-i-Miladun Nabi on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) marked the end of a history of inhumanity, oppression, tyranny, ignorance, injustice and deviation from the right path, Radio Pakistan reported. In his message on the occasion, the premier added that Prophet Muhammad’s birth “purified civilisation by […]

ISLAMABAD: Special Assis­tant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broad­casting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday submitted another written unconditional apology to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for her allegedly contemptuous press conference. In response to a notice issued to her by the court for committing the contempt of court, Dr Awan has tendered […]

As former prime minister Nawaz Sharif awaits his removal from the Exit Control List (ECL), doctors on Sunday continued to struggle to get his platelet levels up to the required mark for travel to London. PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said that a high dose of steroids had been administered to Nawaz in preparation for his […]