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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday declared the acceptance of PTI lawmakers’ resignations by National Assembly’s former acting speaker Qasim Khan Suri as unconstitutional. The court issued the orders while hearing a petition filed by PTI challenging the allegedly piece-meal acceptance of resignations by incumbent NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah also rejected a plea by PTI …

A breach occurred naturally in Main Nara Valley Drain (MNVD), commonly known as Right Bank Outfall Drain-I, at RD-10 upstream Manchhar Lake on Tuesday that is expected to lower the water level in the country’s largest lake, officials said. Water and Power Development Authority Chief Engineer (water) in Sukkur Naeem Qadir Mangi confirmed the development, explaining that an “afflux” had …

An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying. The quake of magnitude 5.3 struck near the eastern city of Jalalabad in the early hours, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The latest quake was felt in the provinces of …

ISLAMABAD: Over 1,200 medical relief camps are being set up in more than 20 flood-hit districts this month to provide medical assistance, including first aid for water-borne diseases and cold fever, to affected citizens, the health minister said on Sunday. The overnight death toll from the floods rose by 25, including 12 children, taking the overall casualties to 1,290 since …

The Islamabad High Court on Monday disposed of a petition challenging the Pakis­tan Electronic Media Regu­latory Authority’s (Pemra) orders to ban the live telecast of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s speeches as IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah raised concerns over the former prime minister’s statements passed at a rally in Faisalabad yesterday. Imran on Sunday lashed out at the PPP and …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other coalition leaders on Monday castigated PTI chief Imran Khan for levelling “poisonous allegations” against the armed forces and “putting blots” on the appointment of the new army chief. Their comments come a day after Imran, at a rally in Faisalabad, alleged that the PPP and PML-N were opposing fresh elections, because they wanted to “appoint an …

Water levels in Sindh’s Manchhar Lake and parts of the Dadu district were on the rise on Saturday as the country struggled in the face of devastating floods, which have claimed over 1,300 lives since mid-June, and authorities prepared for more evacuations from areas at risk of flooding. According to the official in charge of the irrigation cell for Manchhar …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to get the “Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Fund” audited by the Accountant General Pakistan Revenues (AGPR) and an international-repute audit firm, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced through his Twitter handle on Saturday. “In order to ensure transparency and as per my promise, the government of Pakistan has decided to get PM’s Flood Relief Fund audited …

Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho has shared alarming statistics of women affected by the unprecedented floods, saying at least 47,000 women were pregnant in shelter camps in the province. Speaking to DawnNewsTV, the minister said hundreds of thousands of people have contracted various diseases after the floods. “More than 134,000 cases of diarrhoea and 44,000 cases of malaria have been …

KARACHI: In what could be described as a bizarre case of theft, tax evasion and illegal registration of a luxury car, customs officials raided a house in Defence Housing Authority and recovered a Bentley Mulsanne allegedly stolen from London and registered here with the Sindh excise and taxation department, it emerged on Saturday. Sleuths of a foreign country tracked down …