India ordered the transfer of a bureaucrat couple to opposite ends of the country on Thursday, following public outcry over a media report alleging they forced a sports stadium in Delhi to shut early in order to walk their dog. India’s Ministry of Home Affairs transferred Sanjeev Khirwar, a top bureaucrat in the Delhi city state government, to Arunachal Pradesh state in …

JERUSALEM: The Palestinian Authority’s attorney general said on Thursday that its investigation proves an Israeli soldier shot Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in a targeted killing in Jenin on May 11. The bullet that killed Abu Akleh is a 5.56mm round with a steel component used by Nato forces, he said, adding that the Palestinian Authority will not hand …

UNITED NATIONS: Six Pakistanis were among 117 UN peacekeepers who were awarded UN medals of courage on Thursday for sacrificing their lives for the cause of peace. Five of the six — Tahir Ikram, Tahir Mehmood, Mohammed Naeem, Adil Jan and Mohammed Shafiq — were from the armed forces, while the sixth, Ibrar Syed, was a civilian. At the UN …

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo has said that he is not in favour of the de-seating of those members who had brought the no-confidence motion against him because they belong to his party and he will take steps for addressing their grievances which had forced them to take such a decision. Addressing a press conference at the …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Thursday passed two crucial bills seeking to reverse the controversial changes made in the election laws by the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government regarding the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and i-voting for overseas Pakistanis and clipping the vast powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The government presented the two bills in the …

Renowned Pakistani mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara succumbed to his injuries and passed away in Skardu early Friday morning, weeks after a fall that left him critically injured. He was 56. The climber had suffered serious injuries on May 17 when he slipped off a cliff and fell into a ditch. He was immediately rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Skardu …

Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said on Friday that the government has ordered testing kits for to diagnose monkeypox — a viral disease that has been spreading in Europe and elsewhere in recent days — but he was quick to dispel reports that some cases of the disease had been reported in Pakistan. “We have ordered … the kits [for …

After increasing the prices of all petroleum products by Rs30, the government has also hiked up flour prices — by more than 20 per cent — at utility stores. The new rates were conveyed to all zonal managers in a May 26 notification issued by the Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com. According to the document, …

ISLAMABAD: The government has stopped disbursing funds to development projects to finance a massive budget deficit and is contemplating detailed briefings to top judiciary, military and business leadership for economic and financial stocktaking before taking harsh decisions for correcting past four years’ “economic mismanagement”. “We can take the country out of trouble but don’t put the burden of Imran Khan’s …

A five-member bench of the Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over the removal of names from the Exit Control List (ECL) and questioned the procedure for doing so as it heard a suo motu case on apprehensions that criminal justice might be undermined by people in positions of authority. The bench is headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata …