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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 …

A day after the water level in Sindh’s Manchhar Lake rose to a “dangerous level”, a cut was made in the water body’s dyke on Sunday to release pressure. Irrigation Special Secretary Jamal Mangan said that the cut was located at RD-14 Yusuf Bagh, describing the move as a “relief cut”. Speaking to Dawn.com over the phone, the official, however, was unable to …

Sindh’s Dadu district continued to face the threat of widespread devastation on Saturday as a high-level flood passed through Sukkur Barrage and water levels persistently rose on Manchhar Lake. According to a Flood Forecasting Division report, a high-level flood of 559,988 cusecs was passing through Sukkur Barrage at 6am today. The situation worsened by afternoon, when Rafique Ahmed Jamali, an …

Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, along with representatives of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Pakistan Army on Saturday briefed the nation about the ongoing rescue and relief efforts underway across the country in the face of catastrophic floods as Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar expressed resolve to deploy all available …

ISLAMABAD: A probe into the ‘dubious’ money transferred to Pakistan by the former owner of Abraaj Group, Arif Naqvi, has revealed that a large amount in foreign funds was used for the media campaign of the former ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) during the 2013 general elections. Documents obtained by the Fed­e­ral Investigation Agency (FIA), seen by Dawn, revealed that $625,000 were …

PTI leader and former finance minister Shaukat Tarin on Saturday urged the government to renegotiate and seek relief from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the wake of disastrous floods, as he called it out for “leaking” the audios attributed to him regarding the programme. On Monday, two audio clips surfaced via TV channels and social media in which a man said …

RAWALPINDI: Inbound flights to Pakistan will no longer be mandated to upload passengers’ data via ‘Pass Track App’, the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) announced on Friday. The PCAA has issued a directive to all scheduled and chartered air carriers and all ground handling agencies, relaxing the regulation imposed to keep track of inbound passengers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The …

HYDERABAD: After reaching state of high flood level on Friday evening, Kotri Barrage is bracing for peak of high flood before the flow is to be released for Indus delta downstream. The barrage started showing a rising trend at 6pm upstream discharge. Flows of above 70,000 cusec had been received at the barrage over the last 24 hours. By 6pm …

ISLAMABAD: Former Senate chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday criticised PTI chief Imran Khan’s statement to make each division in the county a province and said this was a crude attempt to mend fences with the establishment who have since long advocated for it. Addressing a lawyers’ convention in Sargodha, the PTI chief said in his opinion every division of …

SWABI: The Federal Investigation Agency on Friday issued another notice to former National Assembly speaker and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Asad Qaiser in the party’s prohibited funding case, PTI local leaders told Dawn here. Mr Asad was first summoned on August 11, then on August 18 and August 29. The FIA has summoned Mr Qaiser to its Peshawar office on Sept 5 (Monday). …