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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said he has passed orders for helicopters to be flown to Swat to help the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) put out the wildfires that have been raging in five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for more than 24 hours. In a tweet today, the premier said that two choppers were being immediately sent to …

As members of the former PTI government confirmed Imran Khan’s plans to return to Islamabad for a core committee meeting, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday ‘welcomed’ him, saying the police personnel protecting the former prime minister would arrest him “with great enthusiasm” once his pre-arrest bail expires. Former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed told Dawn.com that the former prime minister was planning to chair …

BUNER: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Friday alleged that top leaders of the ruling coalition in the centre Nawaz Sharif of the PML-N and Asif Zardari of the PPP wanted to eliminate him from politics over ‘high treason’. “The two most corrupt [former rulers of the country], who looted the country for 30 years, parked …

ISLAMABAD: Opposi­ti­­o­­­n lawmakers in the Senate were up in arms on Friday over the recent massive increase in the prices of petroleum products and power, while the treasury held the former ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) responsible for the current economic mess and urged it to suggest a way forward instead of political point-scoring. The issue was raised by Leader of …

GWADAR / QUETTA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed displeasure over the slow pace of work on development projects in Gwadar and said the previous government did not pay any attention to the completion of the international airport in the city among other projects. He said big cargo ships could not anchor at the deep-sea port here due to a reduction …

The counsel for the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) confirmed to a special court in Lahore on Saturday that the agency wanted to arrest Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case. The counsel’s confirmation was in response to presiding judge of the Special Court (Central-I) Ijaz Hassan Awan’s query …

President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday returned two bills seeking to reverse the controversial changes made in the election laws by the previous PTI government regarding the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and i-voting for overseas Pakistanis and clipping the vast powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), to the prime minister for “reconsideration and detailed deliberation by the …

A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred during an exchange of fire with terrorists who attacked a military post in the Datta Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district on the night between June 1 and June 2, the military’s media affairs wing said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) late Thursday night, Pakistan Army …

LAHORE / HYDE­RABAD: As the canal system in Punjab faces a 49 per cent water shortage, Sindh also observes a major dip in its water flows that is apparently impacting its barrages, showing an overall 49.5pc shortage till Thursday. Thus, the Sindh irrigation ministry has again urged the Indus River System Autho­rity (Irsa) to release extra water to the province, …

Continuing its selling momentum from the previous day, the stock market registered a decline of over 925 points on Friday, a day after the government raised fuel prices. By 4:11pm, the KSE-100 index shed 925.80 points against the previous day’s close of 42,237.91 to fall to 41,312.11 — down 2.19 per cent. The benchmark index closed at 41,339.11 points, down by 898.8 …