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ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday summoned the National Assembly session on Dec 20, which will apparently pass the bill seeking amendment to the Foreign Investment (Promotion and Protection) Act aimed at pacifying the estranged allies in the ruling coalition.The bill has already been passed by the Senate. The joint sitting of parliament is also scheduled to be held …

KARACHI: Mystery shrouds the investigations into a scam involving import of Bentley Mulsanne, said to have been stolen in the United Kingdom and registered here in the name of a European diplomat, as diplomatic immunity has complicated the investigators’ as well as prosecution’s job, it has emerged. In early September, Customs authorities recovered the 2014 Bentley Mulsanne V8 (valued Rs41,439,322) from a house …

ISLAMABAD: The spouse of detained Senator Azam Khan Swati has moved Islamabad High Court (IHC) to stop the Capital Development Authority (CDA) from its imminent drive to remove alleged unauthorised construction at her agro-farm in the capital. Tahira Swati in her petition contended that last month the CDA issued her a final notice against “unauthorised/illegal construction” at the agro-farm. Ms …

Militants attacked the Burgi police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat early Sunday morning, leaving four policemen dead and injuring as many, according to a police official. “At midnight, militants attacked the police station and tried to enter the building,” Lakki Police spokesperson Shahid Hameed told Dawn.com, adding that more than 60 policemen were on duty at that time. He said …

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden threw his support behind a larger African role in the world as he also vowed to champion democracy in a continent where China and Russia have enjoyed rising clout. “The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa,” Biden told nearly 50 African leaders who spent three days in a wintry …

MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) will meet the party’s chairman, Imran Khan, on Saturday in what will be the parliamentary party’s first formal meeting with the former prime minister after last year’s elections. PTI sources told Dawn that the meeting would be held at Mr Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore at 3pm, adding …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has linked the conduct of fresh deli­­mi­tation with official notification of the final results of the yet-to-com­mence exercise of the first-ever digital census results by March 31, 2023. Informed sources told Dawn that the decision, taken after the calculation of minimum time required with squeezed timelines through an in-house discussion, has been conveyed to the …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to an accused facing blasphemy charges for joining a “WhatsApp” group, which alleged­ly posted sacrilegious content, and obser­ved that the state, and not individuals, should have the authority to deal with the matters concerning religion. “The state should not surrender itself to individuals on religious matters rather the state machinery should be …

LAHORE / RAWALPINDI: A day before PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s promised announcement regarding the dissolution of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, the war of nerves reached fever pitch as their coalition partner, the PML-Q, seemed to be looking for a larger slice of the general election pie. After their attempts to convince party chief Imran Khan to delay the dissolution …

The Sindh High Court has dismissed a petition seeking to make the teaching of the Holy Quran mandatory in all schools and colleges, ruling that it was not the function of the court to dictate the content of the curriculum. The petition called for the amendment of the curriculum of primary, secondary and higher secondary/college education so as to make …