ip PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to conduct an inquiry within three months into the alleged theft of crude oil during production by oil fields in Karak district. A bench consisting of Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Syed Arshad Ali also directed federal petroleum and natural resources secretary Mian Asad Hayauddin …

ISLAMABAD: Four young men were killed and two others injured when a vehicle with the family of Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women Kashmala Tariq on board hit a car on Srinagar Highway late Monday night. The police have registered a case against the ombudsperson’s son, Azlan Khan, and arrested the family’s driver. Her son, however, obtained bail …

PESHAWAR: The vaccination of frontline workers against Covid-19 will begin in 17 centres set up in eight districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday (today). The province has recorded 32 deaths and 3,113 cases of coronavirus among the healthcare providers since early last year. “The vaccination will start in the designated centres simultaneously. About 50 health workers would get shots in …

RAWALPINDI: Punjab Masstransit Authority (PMA) on Tuesday announced that the metro bus service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad will be closed for two hours in the morning and afternoon due to the ongoing cricket matches between Pakistan and South Africa at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. The decision to halt the service was taken to ensure security during the matches as both …

• Takes notice of govt employees’ protest • Cabinet told 100,000 more housing units to be built • Aide says PM ready to resign if opposition leaders deposit laundered money in national exchequer ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said the government did not want any missing person in the country and directed the relevant authorities to ensure orders …

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Khalid Jawed Khan on Tuesday asked why signatories to the Charter of Democracy (CoD) in their vow to remove distortions in the Constitution failed to do away with the menace of horse trading in elections while adopting the 18th amendment. “Why the two major political parties as well as the co-author of the CoD, …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) on Tuesday linked the increase in population of leopards dwelling in Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) to “plenty of game”. “Unlike Ayubia, no case of attacks on livestock has been reported there. This is because there is a significant wild boar and monkey population along with barking deer,” said IWMB Chairperson Rina Saeed …

Vaccination drives against the novel coronavirus started simultaneously in all federating units of the country on Wednesday, a day after 500,000 doses of the vaccine arrived in Islamabad as a gift from China. As per the government’s vaccination strategy, health workers were the first to receive the vaccine. Simultaneous inauguration ceremonies, held in major cities of all provinces as well as in …

Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday took notice of the development funds, approved for members of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies by Prime Minister Imran Khan in a meeting last week, warning that legal proceedings would be initiated if the move was found to be in contravention of the law. On January 27, the prime minister presided over a …

• Imran praises his team, China for vaccine • Fifty-year-old doctor gets the first shot • 63 more Covid patients die in a day ISLAMABAD: Nearly a year after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that claimed 11,746 lives and infected more than half a million in the country, the government began vaccinating the frontline warriors on Tues­day, …