Category: Pakistan

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday asked local government representatives, cantonment board and Defence Housing Authority as well as district administrations to drain out accumulated rainwater or sewage from their respective areas at the earliest. “This may be considered as a top priority to remove rainwater or sewage from the streets […]

LODHRAN/MULTAN: Former PTI secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen says he is unhappy over delay in the establishment of South Punjab Secretariat. “I suggested Multan for the establishment of the secretariat of south Punjab,” he said at the inauguration of a Sui gas project in Lodhran on Friday. Tareen said he was disappointed over delay in […]

The Supreme Court on Friday wrapped up a set of petitions on a video leak scandal involving former accountability court judge Arshad Malik. “We find that it may not be an appropriate stage for this court to interfere in the matter of the relevant video and its effects” since the video may have relevance to a criminal […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday alerted the international community to a possible “false flag operation” by the Indian leadership to “divert attention from massive human rights violations” in occupied Kashmir. “I want to warn the international community that the Indian leadership will in all probability attempt a false flag operation to divert attention from […]

The Ministry of Finance has rejected Indian media reportsabout Pakistan being blacklisted by the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) — the regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In the press release issued, the ministry said that media reports about Pakistan being blacklisted were “incorrect and baseless”. Indian media on Friday reported that Pakistan had been […]

Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza on Friday refused to administer the oath to newly appointed members of the Election Commission of Pakistan, informed sources told DawnNewsTV. Earlier on Thursday, President Dr Arif Alvi had appointed Khalid Mahmood Siddiqui and Munir Ahmad Khan Kakar as ECP members from Sindh and Balochistan, respectively. The commissioner has formally […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will launch the Kamyab Naujawan Programme next month. A meeting presided over by Mr Khan at the Prime Minister Office on Thursday was informed that under the programme, 500,000 youths will be given soft loans worth Rs100 billion. Speaking on the occasion, the prime minister said the programme would not […]

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is eyeing the funds being deposited by the Bahria Town Limited in the Supreme Court for settlement of cases pertaining to its Karachi Super Highway project in lieu of payment of Rs460 billion. “It is prayed that the entire money deposited by the Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd and held by the […]

The Islamabad High Court on Thursday repatriated former accountability court judge Arshad Malik, who is at the centre of a video leak scandal that grabbed headlines last month, to his parent department, the Lahore High Court, for the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against him. The IHC on July 12 had removed Judge Malik from his post amid […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed serious concern over recent spike in polio cases in the country and directed federal and provincial government officials to undertake effective awareness and immunisation campaigns so that the disease can be kept in check. The premier also announced leading the polio programme from November. The meeting was […]