Sri Lanka’s election commission said it would censor a state-owned TV station in an unprecedented move after accusing the network of bias against the former president’s brother, who is standing in upcoming polls. The surprise move came after the Independent Television Network (ITN) aired a programme alleging loyalists to the previous regime had thwarted a corruption probe into strongman ex-president Mahinda Rajapakse’s …

PESHAWAR: With the number of dengue cases coming to over 6,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year, the World Health Organisation is providing technical assistance to the health department to prevent the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease next year. “We are collaborating with the health department to stop the dengue incidence from reaching epidemic proportions next year. Hopefully, the current outbreak …

LARKANA: Amid slogans of ‘Zulm ka khatma [end to repression], Fatima Fatima’ and welcome chants, emotionally charged activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) warmly received Fatima Bhutto, the daughter of the party’s founder Mir Murtaza Bhutto, when she returned home after a gap of seven years on Saturday. Senior party leaders had informed media personnel that she would …

RAHIM YAR KHAN: The families and relatives of those who died or went missing in the Tezgam train inferno have complained of alleged improper response by the district administration and “manhandling” by guards of the Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH), besides lack of any support or guidance by railway ministry. The families and relatives of the train blaze victims …

PESHAWAR: Due to the prevailing uncertainty in the federal capital, the interior ministry has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to provide 5,000 additional police personnel to the administration of Islam­abad Capital Territory. Through an official communiqué on Saturday, the interior ministry asked the chief secretary of the province to approve provision of another 5,000 personnel of the KP police along …

LAHORE: Serious administrative, operational and security lapses led to Thursday’s Tezgam train inferno, as the officials who were supposed to take measures to avert such accidents apparently showed sheer negligence in performing their duties, ignoring the relevant laws or the standard operating procedures (SOPs). Under section 59(1) of the Railway Act, 1890, “no passenger/person is allowed to take with him/her, or …

ISLAMABAD: Rahbar Committee Convener Akram Durrani said during a press conference, on Saturday, that there was consensus among the opposition on the issue of Prime Minister Imran’s resignation and the demand for fresh elections. The presser followed a high-level meeting of the Rahbar Committee in which members of the PPP, the PML-N, the JUI-F and the ANP participated. “In the …

ISLAMABAD: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman gave a stern message to the government by telling it that “Your writ over Pakistan has ended…now we will peacefully run this country.” The JUI-F chief was addressing participants of the Azadi March gathering in Islamabad, Fazl said that his party was implementing the agreement that had been reached between the Rahbar Committee and …