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GUJRAT: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi rejected on Thursday the senior ruling coalition partner’s demand to take a vote of confidence from the provincial assembly. “Since I do not consider the governor’s order (seeking trust vote) as legal and legitimate, I will not go for it since it will legalise an illegal move,” he told media during his visit …

https://youtu.be/uxMIvAOdd4o Amir Makhai mother in law & Nazleen Makhani mother Noor Bano passed away in Dallas. Dallas:, president of South Asia Democracy Watch, and former president of the Muslim Democratic Caucus of Texas, well-known entrepreneur Amir Makhani mother in law and & mother of Nazleen Makhani, CEO of an insurance business, Mrs Noor Bano died at a local hospital in …

Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday that a network of Daesh militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul has been killed in an operation. On December 2, the embassy in Kabul came under attack with Chargé d’Affaires (CdA) to Afghanistan Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani targeted. Nizamani was unscathed but his guard was critically wounded. The banned Islamic State …

Supreme Court Justice Ijazul Ahsan on Thursday asked investigators to discuss with the foreign ministry the possibility of involving the United Nations in the murder probe of journalist Arshad Sharif. Justice Ahsan made the suggestion as a five-member bench of the top court comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail …

LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday registered a case under terrorism charges against a suspect involved in the murder of two intelligence agency officials in Khanewal on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two groups, including the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the so-called Lashkar-i-Khorasan, have claimed responsibility for the attack. According to the first information report (FIR), a copy of which is …

The lawyer of the suspect arrested after the Nov 3 attack on PTI chairman Imran Khan claimed on Thursday that the joint investigation team (JIT) — constituted by the Punjab government to probe the incident — had “distorted the facts” and “wasted evidence” in the case. Advocate Mian Dawood made these claims in light of “fresh evidence” purportedly provided in the JIT report. …

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir on Thursday met Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and discussed the ways of strengthening cooperation between the two countries. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the army chief arrived in the Kingdom in the early hours of Thursday where he was received by Prince Khalid. At the outset of the …

ISLAMABAD: In order to stabilise the economy, the federal cabinet on Tuesday decided to implement “bold” decisions that include the closure of markets at 8:30pm and wedding halls at 10pm, the use of efficient electronic appliances, and a 40 per cent reduction in power consumption in government offices. The cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, also vowed to …

The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) confirmed on Wednesday the detection of six coronavirus cases belonging to the highly-contagious Omicron subvariant category XBB in Karachi. “We have detected six cases, however, others have been found around the country,” AKUH Infectious Diseases Section Head Dr Faisal Mehmood told Dawn.com. “These have started since November.” According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the XBB is a …

ISLAMABAD: Investigators in the terrorism case in Islamabad have identified the suicide bomber and are searching for two suspects who facilitated him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rawalpindi to reach the capital and detonate an explosive device on December 23. Sources close to the investigators told Dawn that there were two facilitators of the suicide bomber: one brought him to Islamabad on December 23 and …