BAHAWALPUR: Police arrested the opposition parties’ workers, booked seven leaders of the Pakistani Democratic Movement (PDM) in cases and served warning notices on eight PML-N leaders, asking them to refrain from holding the rally on Sunday (today). In Hasilpur and Ahmedpur East tehsils, cases were registered against dozens of opposition parties’ workers. Police sprung into action after the district administration …

MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan enjoys full confidence of both the public and the parliament unlike the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) leadership. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was voted to power by the masses and the opposition should honour that public mandate, Mr Qureshi said while talking to the people of his constituency …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved Rs24 million funds for the purchase of the decaying ancestral homes of Bollywood legends Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in the walled city of Peshawar. The provincial directorate of archeology and museums had decided in Sept last year to transfer the ownership of two houses to itself through a colonial era legislation, which …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday constituted a commission to examine the enforcement as well as violation of labour laws in brick kilns in the capital territory. Hearing a matter related to juvenile bonded labourers, the court expressed concerns over the violation of fundamental labour rights. “Keeping in view the gravity of violations of constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has stay­ed work on the Ravi Riv­­erfront Urban Develop­ment Project till the app­roval of its Environ­mental Impact Assessment (EIA) report, besides asking the government to file compliance report with regard to meeting environmental sta­n­dards in the Naya Pakistan Housing Project (NPHP). Justice Shahid Karim in a verdict released on Satur­day about the Dec 31 …

MANSEHRA: The police raided the house of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader Mufti Kifayatullah in Tarangri Sabir Shah area here early on Saturday for his arrest over the recent diatribe against the Pakistan Army. However, the JUI-F leader wasn’t there. The police took his four family members, including two sons, away and detained them in the Baffa police station before booking them …

KARACHI: A local court on Saturday remanded a seminary teacher in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency in a case pertaining to child pornography. The FIA on Friday claimed to have arrested a religious tutor over allegations of child pornography and harassing a teenage girl. On Saturday, the investigating officer produced the suspect before the judicial magistrate concerned to …

At least 11 coal miners were killed in the Mach area of Balochistan on Sunday after armed militants kidnapped them and took them to a nearby area before opening fire at close range. Police authorities said the miners were on the way to work when armed militants kidnapped them and took them to the nearby mountains. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an …

ISLAMABAD: While Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho had stated that the federal government would supply 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to the province by mid-January, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan seems to be reluctant to confirm the date. “We are trying to get 1.1 million doses of the vaccine at the earliest but I cannot …

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Sunday said it was resuming flight operations to Saudi Arabia after the Gulf country announced the reopening of borders and the resumption of international flights following a two-week suspension aimed to stem the spread of a new Covid-19 strain. A PIA spokesperson said that passengers would be able to travel to Saudi Arabia from today after …