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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns called on Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the military’s media affairs wing. During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, the regional security situation and the current situation in Afghanistan were discussed, the …

ISLAMABAD: Lt Gen Azhar Abbas was on Tues­day named as army’s next Chief of General Staff (CGS). Gen Abbas would be the 35th CGS of the army. He replaces Lt Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza, who was posted out as commander of Rawalpindi-based 10 Corps — a post previously held by Gen Abbas. The post of CGS is considered the most …

ISLAMABAD: For the last few days, the positivity rate of Covid-19 cases across the country has dropped below seven per cent. However, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Tuesday urged people to get the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and follow safety protocols as these are the only remedy against the potentially deadly coronavirus. It said in a …

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Information Senator Faisal Javed and the panel’s other members announced on Tuesday that they would reject the Pakistan Media Develop­ment Authority (PMDA) bill if they were not convinced by the government about the need for bringing such a bill. Senator Javed, who is also a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, and members …

A woman who was harassed by a group of men while travelling in a Qingqi rickshaw in Lahore on Independence Day identified on Wednesday four of the suspects arrested in the case. The suspects were produced before a judicial magistrate, Kamran Zafar, in Lahore for an identification parade, during which the woman identified four men who had harrassed her on …

Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male peers by curtains or boards down the middle of the classroom. What happens in universities and schools across the country is being closely watched by foreign powers, who want the group …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Monday asked female teachers not to wear jeans and tights and banned their male counterparts from wearing jeans and t-shirts. All principals have been directed to ensure that their teaching and non-teaching staff (both male and female) ensured personal hygiene, including regular haircut, beard trimming, nail cutting and use of perfume. Through …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs is heading towards a deadlock on the issue of use of electronic voting machine (EVM) as the treasury members insisted on using the gadget while the opposition members rejected the idea for at least during the 2023 general elections. During more than three-hour long meeting of the committee, presided over by Taj …

ISLAMABAD: The Islam­abad High Court on Monday issued a notice to the Pak­istan Procurement Regula­tory Authority (PPRA) for allegedly securing a favourable order from the court on the basis of forged documents. Justice Aamer Farooq of the IHC issued the notice to the PPRA managing director on a petition filed by the authority’s ex-director general accusing the former of submitting …

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that society becomes free when it gets justice, since the latter was necessary to uplift the common person. He reassured that the government would fully support the judiciary. Addressing a ceremony in connection with the ground-breaking of the Islamabad District Courts’ building, the premier said the weak in society needed justice and protection. …