By: Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) Tariq Malik has told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the appointment of two deputy chairmen in the authority was in violation of its law. He said this in a letter to PAC chairman PAC Nadeem Afzal Gondal, who had earlier asked Nadra under what […]
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police is using all available resources to trace those who tried to target Hamid Mir last week after installing explosive material under the belley of his vehicle parked at `Rana Market’ in sector F-7/2. According to the official source at IGP Office Islamabad, visual footage of a CCTV camera installed in the vicinity […]
UMERKOT: A shutterdown in Ghulam Nabi Shah Town of Umerkot district continued for a third consecutive day on Wednesday as the Hindu community along with other people staged more protest demonstrations and rallies in several towns of the district, as well as Mirpurkhas district, for the arrest of the culprits of a criminal assault on […]
KARACHI: A former executive district officer was arrested with an accomplice of his for kidnapping a woman teacher in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday. Police raided an apartment in Block 16, Abdullah Heights, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, and arrested Gul Mohammad Hajiano, former EDO for education, and his accomplice Wafa Hussain and recovered a kidnapped woman, a government schoolteacher. Station […]
ISLAMABAD: A day after releasing an interim order dealing with delimitation of constituencies in Karachi, the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday to carry out a fresh door-to-door verification of voters in the city with the assistance of the army and the Frontier Corps. “In view of the peculiar security […]
By: I.A Rehman THE somewhat acrimonious debate on a Human Rights Watch statement on some judicial directives regarding media programmes has obscured the issue, namely, the media’s right to comment on judicial matters that demands a sober, rational and unemotional discussion. The well-known and widely respected human rights watchdog had made it clear that it […]
By: HASHIM ABRO THE Sindh province is faced with several environmental problems. These problems are gas flaring in the upper and lower Sindh regions, oil spillage at Karachi and ecosystems pollution that result from major oil and gas activities, as well as activities of groups or individual members of the Delta communities. The Sindh government […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Wednesday took notice of an incident in which a man ordered gang-rape of his daughter and ex-wife at a village in Chakwal. The chief justice directed the Chakwal sessions judge to submit a detailed report about the incident within a week. The CJ took notice on a […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to submit a copy of the notification of withdrawal of an additional tax on incoming international calls. Earlier, the counsel for the PTA told the court that the tax challenged by the petitioner had been withdrawn; therefore, the petition should be dismissed. […]
By: Mahvish Ahmad RAJANPUR: Abdul Sattar is squatting in front of a flood-swept field of cotton, a 20-minute walk from the entrance to his basti, Miranpur. Almost three months ago, Sattar woke up to find water rushing into his katcha home. Along with 25,000 people in Punjab, and over 400,000 people all over the country, […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court expressed annoyance again on Wednesday over failure of the Balochistan and federal governments to ensure constitutional rights to citizens by arresting the breakdown of law and order in the province. “We may observe that it is the constitutional responsibility of governments to ensure protection to people, failing which […]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked various private TV channels to provide footage of firing in the air by the supporters of by-poll winning candidates on Tuesday. According to the ECP, it has taken serious notice of the firing at the houses/deras of the winning candidates in the recent by-elections. In this […]
The latest estimates by the Pakistan Telecommuni-cation Authority show that by September end this year, the mobile network operators (MNOs) had signed up a total of 120.51 million cellular subscribers, highlighting meager improvement in the mobile teledensity. After losing over one million subscribers in July (possibly due to SIM verifications), the MNOs breached the 120 […]
KARACHI: At least three people, including a seminary teacher, were killed in separate incidents of violence in the metropolis on Wednesday. A seminary teacher of Jamia Masjid-o-Madressa Islamia, Qari Ahsanullah Rasheed, was shot dead while he was teaching Quran to the students, police said. According to details, Qari Rasheed had been associated with the mosque […]
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