Category: Pakistan

Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Joint Director Sajid Gondal, who went missing from Islamabad last week, returned home on Tuesday night, family and police sources told Dawn. Gondal himself also took to Twitter to announce his return, saying: “I am back and safe, and I am thankful to all friends who were worried for me.” Police […]

A sessions court in Lahore on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death after convicting him of sending text messages containing “blasphemous content”. Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in custody since 2013 fighting blasphemy charges that were levelled against him by the supervisor of the garment factory he once worked at. The supervisor had accused […]

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday lashed out at the Sindh government for appointing “non-local officers” as administrators in cities across the province. Addressing a press conference in Karachi, he began by saying that the party had certain “concerns”. “Having concerns is not a sin because things have been announced […]

The death toll from a rockslide in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand district rose to 22 by Tuesday evening after three more bodies were recovered from the rubble by rescue officials. One person was recovered alive after being buried in the debris for about 25 hours. According to Rescue 1122 director general, search for at least five people is […]

Educational institutions across the country will reopen in phases starting September 15, Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood announced on Monday, nearly six months after the coronavirus pandemic sent students home. Highlights: Universities, colleges and classes 9-12 to resume on Sept 15 Classes 6-8 to return on Sept 23 after a review Primary schools to […]

At least 11 people, most of them labourers, were killed and five others injured in a rockslide at a marble mine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand tribal district on Monday, rescue officials said.  The incident occurred as a heavy boulder fell on locals working at a marble mine located at Ziarat Ghar mountain in Safi tehsil […]

Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Monday berated the interior secretary, police and capital authorities after they failed to produce Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Joint Director Sajid Gondal, who has been missing since last week.  IHC had directed authorities to recover Gondal, who had gone missing on Thursday night, by today. The […]

RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has warned against efforts he said being made to discredit the country and its armed forces and said that army with the cooperation of the nation will win the “fifth generation or hybrid war”. “We are facing the challenge that has been imposed on […]

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday stayed an interior ministry decision to deport US blogger Cynthia Ritchie and issued notices to the interior secretary and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general. The court also directed that Ritchie submit an affidavit detailing all her grievances before the next hearing before adjourning the case indefinitely. On Saturday, […]

• Asad insists on 62pc share of Centre in Rs1.1tr package, Sindh claims Rs750bn is provincial govt’s responsibility• Federal minister calls 18th Amendment a hurdle to city’s uplift• Maritime minister asks Sindh to appoint grade-21 officers as administrators of all districts• MQM-P leader wants Sindh to change local govt legislation  KARACHI: The consensus showed by city’s […]