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PESHAWAR: The core committee of the newly-formed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-Parliamentarians on Tuesday appointed former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Pervez Khattak the party’s chairman and another former chief minister, Mahmood Khan, its vice-chairman. The committee also made Ziaullah Bangash the party’s information secretary during a meeting held here. Mr Bangash told Dawn that it was the second meeting of the core committee in which …

KARACHI: With the deadline for the country’s first digital census approaching on April 10, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Wednesday that more than 90 per cent of work had been completed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, according to official data released on Wednesday, Islamabad and Balochistan trail significantly behind, with 72pc and 62pc work completed …

ISLAMABAD: A five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign to immunize more than twenty-one point five four million children under the age of five began in Punjab and Sindh on Monday. he vaccination campaign is being held in two phases due to concurring activities of seventh national census. In the first phase, over seventeen point four one million children in thirteen districts of …

KARACHI / QUETTA: Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in several areas of Sindh and Balochistan on Tuesday where at least eight more people lost their lives in rain-related accidents while several people stranded due to washing away of bridges and roads awaited rescue. A tragedy befell on a family in Sindh’s Khairpur district where a man died, along with …

LAHORE: In line with the fiscally expansionary budgets presented by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the coalition government in Punjab, led by the PML-N, also proposed a budget that seeks to significantly boost development spending, continue tax cuts and discounts, increase its subsidy bill to provide relief to the inflation-stricken people, raise taxes and levies on real estate and luxury houses and …

KARACHI: The Sindh government and Chinese security authorities have agreed to work together to evolve a foolproof security mechanism for the Chinese working in CPEC and non-CPEC projects in the province. This emerged on Saturday in a meeting between Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput and External Security Commissioner in China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Cheng Gouping along with their respective teams. …

ISLAMABAD: Multiple shocks, including high food and fuel prices, drought, livestock diseases and widespread loss of income-generating opportunities due to the impact of Covid-19 drove high levels of food insecurity across Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, says a global report issued on Wednesday. The ‘Global Report on Food Crises’ released by the Global Network Against Food Crises, an alliance …

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced its advisory councils for Punjab, Sindh and other areas. The announcement was made by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry at a press conference after a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee. Except for Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PTI had announced its executive and advisory boards in Punjab …

KARACHI: After weeks of strained relations between the federal and provincial governments over a complete lockdown in Sindh and then the appointment of the new Karachi administrator, a thaw in relations between the two side was witnessed on Friday when senior leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) came up with the message of harmony …

ISLAMABAD: The water shortages for Sindh and Punjab went up to 32 per cent on Friday as river flows continued to drop and storages at both Mangla and Tarbela dams neared dead level. The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) said it reviewed the overall water situation on Friday and decided to apply 32pc shortages to the two larger provinces instead …