Indian riot police fired tear gas on Wednesday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded barricades and march on the capital to demand higher crop prices. Farmers in India this week launched a “Delhi Chalo”, or “March to Delhi”, in an echo of January 2021, when farmers breached barricades and rolled into New Delhi on Republic Day during their …

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations named Pakistan’s Living Indus Initiative (LII) as one of the seven UN World Restoration Flagship programmes that will restore more than 30 per cent of the Indus River Basin by 2030, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced on Tuesday. The LII seeks to spearhead and unify various efforts aimed at revitalising the ecological well-being of the …

ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: As JUI-F’s tally of National Assembly seats has increased to four, the party’s central executive committee has advised its leadership not to join the upcoming coalition government. Sources in the party told Dawn the JUI-F’s top committee is not in favour of becoming a part of the coalition. The developments have been reported as the two-day CEC meeting chaired …

RAWALPINDI: A day after the murder of ex-MPA Chaudhry Adnan in Rawalpindi, the Civil Lines police have booked former PML-N senator Chaudhry Tanveer, MNA-elect Daniyal Chaudhry, and Changez Khan on the complaint of the deceased’s in-law for their alleged involvement in the killing of the ex-lawmaker. Chaudhry Muhammad Adnan, 48, an independent candidate in the Feb 8 elections, was killed …

KARACHI: The Network of Women Journalists for Digital Rights (NWDJR) is “angered” and “deeply concerned” about the ongoing attacks against prominent women journalist Meher Bokhari and others in online spaces by PML-N supporters. On examining multiple platforms, NWJDR has found non-consensual use of images, non-consensual use of intimate images and doctored images, created through generative artificial intelligence and other AI …

QUETTA: Two of Balochistan’s political parties have decided to launch a protest movement against the alleged election rigging, describing the Feb 8 polls as the worst in the country’s history. Pashtoonkhwa National Awami Party (PkNAP) Chairman Khushhal Khan Kakar and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) President Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti told separate press conferences on Tuesday that their parties would launch a …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday regretted that state functionaries become intimidated by troublemakers who take law in their hands only to advance their agenda by provoking people to launch attacks against properties of members of religious minorities, thereby advance agenda of perpetrators. Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, a three-member bench took up the hearing of the …

QUETTA: Balochistan remai­ned virtually paralysed as shutterdown strikes, sit-ins and roadblocks against alleged rigging in the general elections continued across the province on Tuesday. A complete shutterdown strike was observed in many areas of Balochistan, including the provincial capital, Quetta. All shops, markets, businesses and shopping malls remained completely closed throughout the day on the appeal of the four-party alliance …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued victory notifications of a dozen members of the National Assembly including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif and three other members of his family. As per the ECP’s notification the former prime minister has been declared a returned candidate from NA-130 (Lahore), his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif …

ISLAMABAD: As his opponents cobble up a coalition to rule for the next five years, PTI founder Imran Khan on Tuesday revealed that the former ruling party was willing to talk to all political parties except for the PPP, PML-N and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM-P). The remarks by the former premier came at a time when his rivals — …