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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has touched down in the United Arab Emirates to offer condolences over the death of its former president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, state-run PTV reported. The prime minister made a brief detour to the wealthy Gulf nation on his way back from the United Kingdom after the UAE’s ailing president passed away on Friday. The late …

PTI leader and former planning minister Asad Umar on Sunday claimed that no foreign country was willing to offer support to the incumbent government, saying Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif returned “empty-handed” from trips seeking to secure financial support to prop up Pakistan’s ailing economy. PM Shehbaz and members of his cabinet had embarked on their first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia since …

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday said the government was not increasing petrol prices “for now”, going back on an important pre-condition set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the resumption of its loan programme. Ismail said he would talk to the IMF and find a solution, adding that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif “is not in favour of putting …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) and National Institute of Health (NIH) have issued separate advisories for people and educational institutions, outlining measures to be taken to protect oneself from the effects of the prevailing heatwave in the country as some regions recording temperatures of 50°C. According to the Met Office, the temperature recorded in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on …

Two members of the Sikh community were killed after unidentified assailants opened fire on them near the outskirts of Peshawar, police said on Sunday. In a statement, Peshawar Capital City Police Office Ijaz Khan said that the incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the Sarband police station. He also identified the victims as 42-year-old Suljeet Singh and 38-year-old Ranjeet Singh, …

ISLAMABAD: As 25 PTI dissident members of the Punjab Assembly tried to seek refuge in technicalities, their lawyers pleaded before a bench of the ECP on Friday that the spirit behind Article 63-A of the Constitution must not be allowed to be defeated. Most of the 25 dissident MPAs tried to justify their action of voting in favour of PML-N’s …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed journalist and political commentator Fahd Husain as his special assistant, it emerged on Saturday. The notification for Husain’s appointment, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, said: “The prime minister, in terms of rule 4(6) of Rules of Business, 1973, has been pleased to appoint Syed Fahd Husain as special assistant to the prime …

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari vowed on Saturday that the government would not rest till it had given “exemplary punishment” to the perpetrators of the suicide attack inside Karachi University last month, in which four people, including three Chinese nationals were killed. Addressing a memorial service in Islamabad, he said the country was shocked and saddened at the terrible loss. The memorial service …

The indictment of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case was delayed again on Saturday after the premier submitted an application to be exempted from the hearing. A special court in Lahore had, last month, directed Shehbaz and Hamza to ensure their presence at the next date of hearing (May 14) for …

The PTI on Saturday changed the venue of its rally in Sialkot — due to be held at 7pm today — after the local Christian community objected and refused to grant permission for using the CTI ground, which it owns. The rally will now be held at the VIP cricket ground, some five kilometres away, the party’s Punjab president Shafqat …