KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday stressed the need for a new traffic planning and management scheme since snarls-up and poor vehicular flow on city’s key streets during rush hours had become a regular feature. “A new arrangement to manage traffic in the crowded neighbourhoods like Saddar, Metropole, Clifton and I.I. Chundrigar Road is the need …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that despite the difficult situation the government was trying its best to provide relief to people. Talking to ticket holders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf from Gujranwala, who called on him at the PM Office, he said the people, fed up with corruption and mafia, now considered the PTI as their savior, said …

LAHORE: Rejecting former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif’s claim about the cost of Peshawar Bus Rapid Transport (BRT), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa information minister Shaukat Yousafzai has said he will resign if the project’s cost proves to be even a rupee more than the Lahore Metro Bus project. Mr Yousafzai was commenting on Mr Sharif’s tweet wherein he claimed that the cost …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the secretary of power to ensure payment of dues to Wapda in a year by adhering to the payment schedule for construction of Diamer-Bhasha and Mohmand Dams. “Is it not your duty that the money be paid to Wapda?” Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed inquired from Power Secretary Irfan Ali and dictated an order …

ISLAMABAD: Senator Mushahid­ullah Khan on Wednesday formed a sub-committee to assist the PIA management in reviewing cases of more than 700 employees who had been dismissed for possessing fake degrees and possibly reinstating them. “Most of them are poor people. The management should have taken a lenient stance instead of a harsh action of terminating their services,” pleaded chairman of …

LONDON: More than two weeks after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Abid Sher Ali claimed to have filed a complaint with British authorities to investigate the allegedly dubious UK properties of PTI’s Faisal Vawda, a federal minister, officials here denied that any such report was filed. In an email to Dawn, a spokesperson for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said: “We …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has urged the government to renegotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while keeping the people’s interests supreme. “If you have to negotiate with the IMF, we agree that you must, but while doing it, you should at least not compromise on the economic independence of the country, rather protect the rights …

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednes­day approved a second reference against former prime minister Shahid Kha­qan Abbasi, including him in the list of six prime ministers who have been in office since the bureau’s inception in 1999 and faced two or more references. Interestingly, the new reference was approved by the NAB executive board on the day Mr …

The Islamabad High Court on Thursday suspended till further notice a section of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) that allows for the use of corporal punishment by parents, guardians and teachers “in good faith for the benefit”. A petition in the IHC, submitted by singer and rights activist Shehzad Roy, called for a ban on use of violence as a …

Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui in her weekly briefing on Thursday said Pakistan is hopeful with regards to the country’s upcoming status review by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), adding that “our international partners are standing with us”. The spokesperson’s remarks come a day after Hafiz Saeed, leader of the proscribed Jamaatud Dawa, and his aide were sentenced to …