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RAWALPINDI: In a move to hold the local government elections in Punjab, the Election Commissioner of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a schedule for the registration of electoral groups/panels. It also issued a notification to appoint officials for the enlistment of electoral groups as under the law no individual other than a political party or a group will contest the election …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday hit back at Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah’s allegations that the party had planned to orchestrate a “raid and rape” at a known worker’s home in an effort to malign law enforcement agencies, terming them an effort to pre-empt and cover up “horror stories”. Imran’s remarks came hours after Sanaullah, in a post-midnight press conference in Faisalabad, …

A 70-year-old man was pulled out alive from under the snow in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Astore district on Sunday, nearly 28 hours after an avalanche struck the valley, rescue officials said. Eight people, including four women and a child, were killed in the avalanche on Saturday morning. Officials said the victims were nomads, who were moving towards Astore from Azad Kashmir, and had …

LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Friday made an impassioned appeal that it was high time that all state institutions sat with his party and found a solution to put the country on the path of progress. “I would like to appeal for talks because what is currently happening is not a solution,” Mr Khan said in a live talk …

KARACHI: The government on Friday shared the confidential medical reports of PTI chief Imran Khan’s tests, supposedly conducted during his custody earlier this month, claiming that no fracture was found on his legs, while traces of alcohol and an illegal drug were found in his urine sample, and that his mental stability was questionable. The details were shared by Health …

At least nine people have lost their lives, and 25 others sustained injuries in a snow avalanche that hit Astore district, Gilgit Baltistan on Saturday, according to officials. Deputy Inspector General of Police for Diamer-Astore Division, Tufail Mir, informed Dawn.com that the avalanche struck nine people near Shunter Pass during the early hours of the day. Among the deceased were three women, …

KARACHI: Vowing to bring the perpetrators of May 9 violence to justice, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that no one should have any objections if the government punished these rioters under the law, the way the United States did to its citizens for storming the Capitol Hill building in 2021. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the much-delayed K-IV water …

Senior puisne judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the head of a three-member judicial commission formed to probe alleged audio clips leaked on social media, adjourned indefinitely the body’s proceedings on Saturday — a day after a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial ordered it to do so. On May 20, the federal government had formed the commission to probe …

ISLAMABAD: Rules in accordance with the “Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Act, 2021” have been launched for the implementation of the law that aimed to put an end to corporal punishment at schools and foster a culture of non-violence. The said act was passed in 2021; however, rules were notified a couple of months ago and they were finally launched on …

ISLAMABAD: The chief justice of Pakistan on Thursday regretted that a constitutional body like the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) apparently needs capacity building since it is inactive, inert and non-assertive. The observation came when CJP Umar Ata Bandial recalled how the government had recently approved a supplementary grant of Rs20 billion for development schemes of parliamentarians and the amount …