Category: Pakistan

Three accountability court judges hearing the cases of Rana Sanaullah as well as multiple members of the Sharif family were repatriated and directed on Friday to report to the Lahore High Court (LHC). A notice was sent by the LHC registrar to judges Masood Arshad, Mohammad Naeem Arshad, and Mushtaq Elahi. According to the notice […]

Punjab Minister for School Education Murad Raas on Friday said that it was important to introduce legislation to end corporal punishment after he paid a visit to the house of Hafiz Hunain Bilal, a 17-year-old who was allegedly beaten to deathby his teacher. “[We] will have to pass laws in the assembly in order to put […]

Hafizabad police on Friday rescued a 50-year-old woman who was held captive in a room by her own brothers for 10 years. According to police spokesperson Ahmad Jamal, officials of the department acting on an anonymous tip-off on the telephone raided the house where the woman was being held captive. The woman was allegedly locked […]

The Ministry of Interior has decided to add a religious tourism category to the online visa system for Sikh pilgrims looking to apply for visas to visit Kartarpur, it emerged on Friday. A meeting of the Ministry of Interior decided that two separate categories of visa applications will be entertained by the ministry; one would […]

Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, on the occasion of Defence and Martyrs Day on Friday, said that the Kashmir issue is an “unresolved agenda” of the realisation of Pakistan and would remain so until a solution is found on the basis of the United Nations resolutions and the will of the Kashmiri […]

KARACHI: The scale of government apathy towards what health experts described as a ‘volatile source of infection’ could be gauged from the heaps of unattended medical waste lying in and outside one of city’s largest public sector hospitals. A visit to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) on Wednesday showed that there were three garbage dumps, […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said the Medical Teaching Institutions (MTI) Act/Ordinance was not an attempt to privatise public sector hospitals but meant to “enable improved and modern management of public sector hospitals”. His statement comes after the Punjab Medical Teaching Institutions (Reforms) Ordinance 2019 was promulgated this week. In a post shared on Twitter, Prime […]

The Federal investigation Agency (FIA) Cybercrime Wing (CCW) Karachi on Thursday arrested two men for their alleged involvement in harassment and extortion by use of images of a woman. A team constituted by deputy director of CCW Karachi, after the complaint of the victim, arrested the two men and registered a first investigation report against […]

Bahadurabad police on Thursday arrested two policemen on charges of receiving bribes and extorting money from citizens during snap checking in Karachi. According to a police spokesperson, the two cops were arrested after Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon took notice of a video doing rounds on social media. The footage showed the two policemen […]

The Lahore Press Club (LPC) announced on Thursday that it had temporarily banned Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid from entering its premises and also barred journalists from providing coverage to him after he allegedly used “insulting” language for Geo TV’s senior video journalist Nasir, who is suffering from cancer. Last week, Rashid had paid a visit to the […]