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At least 21 women were injured in a stampede during the disbursement of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) funds at the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) Ground on Monday, officials said. Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed initially told Dawn.com that a woman had died during the stampede but later clarified that the victim was in critical condition. According to Jackson Police Station House …

Karachi police on Sunday detained the mother-in-law and husband of a deceased young woman whose body was abandoned at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) a day earlier, officials said. On Saturday morning, an unidentified couple brought the body to the health facility in a car which was later recovered. According to the police, the woman — identified as 21-year-old Ayesha Kashif …

ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N on Saturday faced the wrath of lawmakers, including its allies, over the continued absence of the ministers belonging to the party from the National Assembly during the budget session. Speaking on points of order, a number of members, mostly from the PPP, drew the attention of the house towards the power outages across the country and …

A 12-year-old orphan girl was allegedly gang-raped in Rawalpindi’s Gulistan colony, police said on Sunday. According to a first information report (FIR) registered by the girl’s grandfather at the Airport police station, the 12-year-old had left her house to buy groceries on Friday evening (June 23) but did not return home until hours later. “In the evening, she came to …

The budget for the new fiscal year sailed through the National Assembly (NA) on Sunday, a day after the government made several changes, including fiscal tightening measures, dictated by the Internat­ional Monetary Fund (IMF) in a last-ditch effort to secure critical funding. The revised budget aims for an additional Rs215 billion in tax revenue alongside a cutback of Rs85 billion …

The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Sunday eight suspects from across the country allegedly involved in smuggling the victims of the Greece boat tragedy. Last week, an Italy-bound fishing trawler reportedly carrying at least 800 people — including approximately 300 Pakistanis — capsized off Greece. Only 104 people are known to have survived and the chance of finding more survivors was seen …

The National Assembly on Sunday passed a bill seeking an amendment to the Elections Act 2017, aimed at limiting the disqualification of lawmakers to five years with retrospective effect. The Act — titled Elections (Amendment) Bill 2023 — also aims to empower the ECP to announce election dates unilaterally without having to consult the president. When approved by the Senate on June …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said the world should “course correct” by rethinking the global financial architecture, urging everyone to rise to face the challenge hand in hand in a spirit of solidarity and compassion. “The world should use [the] present economic and climate turbulence as an opportunity for course correction,” PM Shehbaz said on Twitter. He was in …

LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistani businessmen along with their capital are moving out of the country only because of ‘insecurity’ despite the fact that they could get a ‘lucrative’ return on investment in Pakistan. Even Dubai doesn’t offer such a lucrative return, as Pakistani businessmen could get “1000 per cent return” on investment in their own …

Lahore’s Special Court (Central) on Saturday granted PTI President Parvez Elahi post-arrest bail in a money laundering case, days after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested him and he was sent to jail. On June 21, Elahi was taken into custody from the district jail in the said case. The FIA had requested physical custody, but a district court denied it and …