Category: Pakistan

KARACHI: As Karachi came to terms with the devastation caused by two days of moderate rainfall, the death toll rose to 23 with five more people reported dead in rain-related incidents, officials said on Wednesday. Of the 23 deaths, 19 were caused by electrocution sparking anger against K-Electric, whose ill-maintained transmission and distribution system wreaked […]

ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has alleged that the government is putting pressure on various institutions to arrest party president and opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif. Speaking at a news conference at the National Press Club here on Tuesday, senior PML-N leader and former National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq, information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb […]

ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Office on Monday said that Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa, accompanied by the spymaster and the military spokesman, met the prime minister for a discussion on the security situation in the country. “Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, DG ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hamid and DG ISPR Maj Gen […]

ISLAMABAD: A draft bill seeking to allow dual nationals to contest elections is ready and will be shortly debated in the two houses of parliament. This was disclosed by Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Azam Swati while speaking to Dawn after he addressed a news conference at the National Press Club. He said the draft bill sought […]

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday approved the Anti-Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which prescribes punishments for offenders and outlines mechanisms for authorities to deal with such crimes in an effort to fulfil the Financial Action Task Force’s requirements on curbing money laundering. According to the approved Bill, violators of the law […]

ISLAMABAD: A new controversy about the upcoming session of the upper house of parliament has cropped up, with the government giving clear indication that there would not be voting on a no-confidence motion against Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani when the house meets on Aug 1. “The house has been summoned to meet on August 1, […]

KHAR: The three-day spell of monsoon rains coupled with hailstorm damaged standing maize crop and vegetable fields in various areas of Bajaur tribal district. The residents told Dawn on Monday that the floods triggered by heavy rain hit Lowi and Warh Mamond the hardest by washing away several fields of maize crop and vegetables. The […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to lift the ban on private land transfers in Zone III, imposed to stop unauthorised construction in that area. Sources said Mr Khan, while chairing a meeting on Capital Development Authority (CDA) affairs, ordered the ban to be lifted because he argued […]

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court, who is facing two references before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) over alleged misconduct, has requested Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa to order provision of evidence so that he could write his reply to the show-cause notices issued to him. The SC judge has […]

LAHORE: PPP Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira says they oppose institutions when they step out of their constitutional boundaries and begin intervening in politics. “We respect the state institutions and want to strengthen them. But if any institution meddles with politics over and above its constitutional limitations, then we oppose it,” he told the media […]