HYDERABAD: The Sindh food department has cancelled release of 32,000 tonnes of old wheat to flour mills in different regions of the province. According to a directive issued on Feb 8, the food department has cancelled entire old stocks of wheat as mentioned in Feb 2 letter’s second paragraph. The old stocks were to be released for Karachi, Larkana, Shikarpur, …

c ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday summoned 17 lawyers on Feb 18 in contempt of court case. The lawyers were accused of storming the Chief Justice Block on Feb 8 and holding the chief justice and other judges hostage for four hours. IHC judicial registrar office issued the show cause notices to the lawyers including the Islamabad …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday announced that it would investigate a recently-surfaced video showing members of the provincial assembly with mounds of cash received as purported bribe for changing loyalties in the 2018 Senate elections. “We will get to the bottom of the [horse-trading] matter and will set up an inquiry commission for it in the due course …

ISLAMABAD: Amid a simmering controversy over the ordinance on open voting, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to announce on Thursday (today) the schedule for holding Senate elections in the first week of next month — with March 3 as the most probable polling date, informed sources told Dawn on Wednesday. A total of 52 senators in the house of …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday released the schedule for holding the Senate elections, announcing March 3 as polling day. According to the notification, Feb 12 to Feb 13 is the time frame for candidates to file nomination papers with the returning officer. The names of the nominated candidates will be published on Feb 14, followed by the scrutiny process …

Search efforts for mountaineers Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri and John Pablo Mohr are expected to resume on Thursday, after slight improvement in Skardu’s weather. A special forward looking infrared (FLIR) mission by a C-130 aircraft along with four high-altitude porters (HAPs) from Sadpara village will be used in the operation. Bad weather in the area over the past four …

As a teen, Christian Mackey took an interest in Communism and would troll neo-Nazi message boards for fun, the FBI says. Before long, he got hooked on National Socialism and other hateful Nazi ideology and switched allegiances, authorities say. Mackey, 20, of Grand Prairie, joined a Hitler Youth-like group online called Iron Youth and became a self-described “radical Jew slayer” …

A year ago, it would have been impossible for Edith Rodriguez to serve on a Dallas city advisory board. While she’s lived here for a decade as a legal permanent resident, she could not participate on any of Dallas’ more than 50 city boards and commissions because she is not a U.S. citizen and can’t vote. City code and charter …

Defence Minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday said a 25 per cent increase in the salaries of federal government employees from grades 1 to 19 has been approved on an “ad-hoc” basis a day after the capital saw tear gas shelling amid protests by hundreds of government employees. He was addressing a press conference in Islamabad with Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid …

A North Texas man was arrested Wednesday on charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol last month, the FBI said. Daniel Ray Caldwell, 49, who has lived in Lewisville and The Colony, was arrested by FBI agents in Richardson on Wednesday and booked into the Collin County jail. He was arrested at his workplace, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8). …