Category: Pakistan

Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani on Tuesday announced that the provincial government will award Rs100,000 to any person who “films and identifies people who throw garbage” on the streets of Karachi. While talking to the media, Ghani announced two mobile numbers where citizens will be able to send videos of people throwing trash around the […]

ISLAMABAD: Weeks after the release of three suspects by a local court on the Federal Investigation Agency’s recommendation, the FIA has requested the special judge of a cybercrime court to initiate legal proceedings against its own team for committing negligence in the judge’s video leak case. In the charge sheet submitted before the cybercrime court […]

ISLAMABAD: Expressing serious concern over rising incidents of deaths in police custody, a Senate panel on Monday called for an effective and tough legislation to curb custodial killings and violence against under-interrogation suspects. The Senate Standing Committee on Interior which met here with its chairman Rehman Malik in the chair was given a detailed briefing […]

ISLAMABAD: While the number of dengue cases in the country has touched the five-digit figure, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Zafar Mirza warned there will be further increase in these cases in the next 10 days. “However, during next month the disease would be brought under control as the mercury […]

ISLAMABAD: An audit has revealed massive ‘wasteful’ expenses by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) during the 2018 general elections, involving procurement without tenders and unauthorised payments. The Auditor General of Pakistan’s report for the financial year 2017-2018 discloses that Rs366.82 million had been unnecessarily wasted in procurement of transparent ballot boxes and foldable screened […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank in New York on Monday. The premier was in a conversation with Richard N. Haass, the president of CFR. He discussed the current state of US-Pakistan relations, recent developments in occupied Kashmir, and Pakistan’s relationship with India, Afghanistan, […]

SARGODHA: An eight-year-old boy succumbed to his injuries three weeks after he was brutally beaten by a man with the professed healing power. Ghazala Yasmin, a resident of Chak 91, brought her son Ali Raza, 8, to faith healer Waseem Shah (Chak 47 NB) for his “spiritual treatment” and offered token money to him. Shah […]

KARACHI: Justice Maqbool Baqar of the Supreme Court has said the judiciary has to isolate itself from all inappropriate connections for maintaining and ensuring its independence. The judicial power and authority is the linchpin of the constitutional framework and is subject to the rule of law, said the senior judge while addressing a conference titled […]

A consumer court in Karachi on Monday imposed a collective fine of Rs50,000 on Careem — a private ride-hailing service — for providing “faulty service” and causing “mental agony” to a customer. Junaid Iqbal, the chief executive of Careem Pakistan, was found guilty of providing faulty services in contravention of Section 13 of the Sindh […]

MNA Mohsin Dawar following his release from jail on Saturday, took to Twitter to express his continued “zeal and enthusiasm” in countering what he claimed was “state oppression”, saying that although the “allegation of violence against us was hurtful […] it will not deter us from our path, which is the path of non-violence”. Dawar — along […]