Category: Pakistan

The Punjab police has banned the use of cellphones by officers while on duty and barred them from capturing videos of other police personnel on duty, it emerged on Monday. The regulation comes after several cases came to light in recent days of suspects dying in the custody of Punjab police due to alleged torture. A communiqué […]

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The daughter of an Afghan national in Karachi and the grandson of a South Waziristan resident, known for his strong opposition to polio vaccine, are the latest victims of the deadly virus, it emerged on Sunday. Both the children are yet to see their first birthday. With the addition of these cases — one […]

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat will again take up on Wednesday (Sept 11) the issue of purported non-observance of provincial job quotas in the federal government services. The three-point meeting agenda shows that the committee headed by Talha Mehmood of the JUI-F will specifically consider the issue of the 17,270 posts for […]

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has called for action on part of the UN to deal with the crisis-like situation stemming from India’s “illegal” annexation of occupied Kashmir and to push for the implementation of the Security Council resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people. In an interview […]

ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism by a Senate committee over inclusion of 44 unapproved projects in the development programme, the federal government on Friday promised to launch $3 billion investment in Karachi to improve its water supply and sewerage systems and infrastructure. Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development Agha Shahzaib Durrani (PML-N) and […]

A judicial magistrate on Saturday set free three suspects from the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) custody after a report from the agency showed that no evidence was found against them in connection with an investigation into a video leak scandal involving former accountability court judge Arshad Malik. Nasir Janjua, Mahar Ghulam Jilani and Khurram Yousaf, […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Friday suggested to the provincial governments and the Islamabad Capital Territory administration to expand the network of Sasta Bazaar to ensure availability of essential foods at lower prices to wider population. The committee made the recommendation after it noted that the prices of essential goods were significantly […]

LAHORE: A law and order situation was reported at Gulshan-i-Ravi late on Friday when several charged students set the private school on fire in the wake of the death of their colleague who was tortured to death by the schoolteacher. According to the initial reports, several people, most of them students of the American Lycetuff […]

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday disposed of a petition filed by former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf seeking lifting of a travel ban on him. The IHC advised him to approach trial courts where proceedings were pending against him. A two-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, announced […]

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) has informed the provincial government that the cost of Peshawar’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has gone up by another Rs3 billion to a whopping Rs71 billion. The PDA is the executing agency of the much-delayed project, which has missed many deadlines due to design issues, which led to […]