Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during an official visit to Tehran, the military spokesperson said Tuesday. According to the director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor, the Army chief discussed “regional security environment and matters of mutual interest” with the Iranian president. DG ISPR ✔@OfficialDGISPR COAS called on President of …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tele­communication Authority (PTA) has clarified that it forwards requests for suspension of Facebook accounts based on the latter’s community standards. The PTA said in a statement on Tuesday that it made requests to suspend accounts related to blasphemy, pornography, impersonation and indecent, defamatory and anti-state content. “These efforts are (aimed) to protect social media and internet users …

ISLAMABAD: The long-awaited reference against former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the LNG terminal case has been approved and will be filed in a fortnight, the country’s anti-graft body inform­ed a court on Tuesday. However, while talking to Dawn, Mr Abbasi claimed that the LNG terminal was the most economical of such projects in Asia and that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Supreme Court asked the counsel for Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Tuesday to refrain from using the judicial forum for discussing politics, saying the judiciary would deal with the remarks of Prime Minister Imran Khan in accordance with the law. “Let’s not use this rostrum to discuss politics; no one is perfect and …

The Environment Protection Department (EPD) of Punjab has directed that brick kilns using “old technology” in the province should be closed from Wednesday. In a notification dated November 19, the EPD said: “Consequent upon approval of the competent authority, no old technology brick kilns shall operate” in select cities from November 20 till December 20. The cities in Punjab where …

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday expressed his displeasure over the performance of the Sindh cabinet and directed the provincial ministers, advisers and special assistants to improve their working. He expressed these views while presiding over an informal meeting of the cabinet held in the Sindh Assembly building, according to Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani. Mr Ghani …

A 47-year-old woman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday for sending homemade explosive devices to former President Barack Obama, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials. Julia Ann Poff pleaded guilty to the offenses over the summer, but Monday in a courtroom in Houston, she burst into sobs and said she had done nothing wrong. “I don’t …

Garland police have arrested a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed a Rowlett woman last week. Edgar Alfonso Ugalde(Garland Police Department) Edgar Alfonso Ugalde, 27, turned himself in to police Tuesday on a charge of failure to stop and render aid. Police had named him a suspect Monday in connection with Thursday’s fatal crash. According to police, Ugalde was speeding …

A bloody knife found when a stolen car was pulled over south of Waco could help authorities solve a grisly mystery in Plano where a man and woman in their 70s were found dead in their apartment. If not for that traffic stop, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said, the two women who were arrested “may be long gone.” The knife was …

A man faces a murder charge after police accused him of killing an elderly woman outside her Addison apartment in July. Walter Portillo, 30, was already in jail on unrelated charges when he confessed to the murder of 82-year-old Joan Mulcahy, Addison police said. Police found Mulcahy’s body in her wheelchair July 1 in the 4800 block of Westgrove Drive and released …