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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday performed groundbreaking of the 306-kilometre Sukkur-Hyderabad section of the M6 motorway, saying that the project would be completed in 30 months. The project, whose estimated cost is Rs307 billion, was announced by the then prime minister Imran Khan in April 2021 as part of a “historic development package” for Sindh. Incumbent Prime Minister Shehbaz, while speaking …

ISLAMABAD / SIALKOT / RAWALPINDI: The Pakis­tan Democratic Movement (PDM) ministers on Sunday lashed out at former prime minister Imran Khan for his campaign against the government and the state institutions, saying the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief’s attempts to stay “politically relevant” through such tactics would not yield results. Addressing a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) convention in Sialkot, Defence Minister …

LAHORE: Novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi has launched an online Urdu word game, www.hijjay.com, on the pattern of word scramble. As a user logs on the game by googling hijjay.com, it shows six Urdu letters from which the user has to make 20 words to cross the first level. Each word has to have at least three letters. The words …

ISLAMABAD: The government has announced Rs250 million as compensation for 12,500 polio workers who were affected by the recent catastrophic floods. In a statement, federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel hailed the services of polio workers, who despite suffering losses due to the catastrophic floods, continued to assist with relief activities. “I salute your courage and passion. Despite suffering losses, …

The chief executives of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the finance ministers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab rebuked the coalition government on Monday for depriving their people of their rightful share in the allocated funds. The censure came at a press conference held in Islamabad attended by KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, KP Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra, …

ISLAMABAD: As the upper house of parliament will meet after a seven-week hiatus, a stormy session is expected on Monday. President Dr Arif Alvi has summoned the Senate session on Dec 12 under Article 54 of the Constitution. The house is likely to witness fireworks as important developments have taken place since it last met on October 21. The recent …

UNITED NATIONS: The arrival of winter has intensified the needs of more than 20 million flood victims in Pakistan, said a UN official while reminding the international community that more resources are urgently needed to deal with this humanitarian crisis. “Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that critical humanitarian needs in Pakistan remain, even as floodwaters recede, and the needs are …

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday addressed a press conference in Lahore where he compared his government’s performance with that of the incumbent PDM government, as he pilloried the rulers on their economic policies as well as the looming threat of a default. “The reason of my media talk today is to make the people aware of the direction that …

National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Sunday he would not be accepting the resignations of any lawmakers from the PTI, which announced mass resignations from the lower house of parliament in April, unless he was sure they weren’t tendered under any pressure. “The law dictates that even if a member says in my presence they want to resign but I …

A judicial magistrate in Qambar remanded PTI Senator Azam Swati in police custody for three days on Sunday in two cases over his controversial tweets about senior military leaders. Swati was arrested over a “highly obnoxious campaign of intimidating tweets […] against state institutions” by the Federal Investigation Agency on November 27 and has been in detention since and continues …