Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Admin­is­trative Tribunals and Special Courts (ATSC) decided 137,316 cases in 2023 while the pending litigation increased by two per cent, according to a new report. The performance evaluation report of ATSC was released by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan. ATSCs are different courts established under federal and provincial law, including anti-terrorism, banking, consumer courts and other …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways (PR) on Tuesday announced 25 per cent reduction in fares of all passenger trains for first, second and third day of Eid. The PR has also issued a new timetable of all trains, changing departure and arrival of some express trains beside allowing them to observe stoppages at certain railways stations in a bid to facilitate …

ISLAMABAD: Drawing a parallel between current developments in Pakistan with the circumstances leading to the 1971 Dhaka tragedy, PTI founding chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday warned that the present situation could result in economic collapse, reminding the powers that be that countries and institutions could not survive without stable economy. Sharing Mr Khan’s message during a presser …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday announced that the federal government would declare an education emergency in the country and would provide all possible reso­urces to educate children of poor families. He vowed to replicate his idea of free education to children of poor and deserving families by establishing Daanish Schools in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and remote …

The Punjab Police on Wednesday decried “fake propaganda” after a string of videos showing Pakistan Army officers allegedly assaulting and beating up cops in Bahawalnagar went viral on social media. “This matter in Bahawalnagar, which went viral on social media, has been taken out of context and exaggerated,” the police said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. A day earlier, several …

At least 17 people were killed while over 40 sustained injuries after a truck carrying pilgrims plunged into a ravine in Balochistan’s Hub district on Wednesday, officials said. Hub Assistant Superintendent of Police Ahmed Talha Wali confirmed the death toll and injuries to Dawn.com. He said the truck, carrying more than 50 people, was en route to the Shah Noorani shrine …

President Asif Ali Zardari, in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, has underlined the need enhancing the “exchange of information to overcome the security challenges” being faced by both countries. An official statement released by the President’s House on Thursday night said that the two held a telephonic conversation and exchanged greetings on the occasion of Eidul …

A Lahore district and sessions court on Friday extended the physical remand of cleric Abubakar Muaviya by three days in a child abuse case. On Monday, Lahore police had obtained four-day physical remand of the cleric in a child rape case lodged at the Shahdara police station. An official said that the suspect was caught raping a minor boy and that they …

United Nations (UN) human rights experts have expressed dismay at the lack of protection for women and girls belonging to minority communities in Pakistan, saying that they remained vulnerable to forced marriages and conversions. “Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,” the experts said …

TOBA TEK SINGH: Toba Sadar police on Saturday booked a reporter and a cameraman of a private TV channel for “illegally” recording and broadcasting on social media the interviews of the three in-custody suspects in the murder and rape case of a girl, Maria. The prime suspect, Faisal, his brother and their father Abdul Sattar, have been arrested and are in police …