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ISLAMABAD: As many as 28 environmental samples collected from 19 districts in January and two collected from Quetta and Khuzdar in December have tested positive for wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1). According to an official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the virus was found in four sewage samples each from …

ISLAMABAD: Care­ta­ker Minister for Informa­tion and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi has assured foreign and national media that all is set to hold peaceful, free, fair and transparent elections on February 8. “More than ample reso­u­rces are available to ens­ure peaceful, free and fair elections,” he added at a press briefing here on Saturday. Foreign Office spokes­pe­rson Mumtaz Zahra Bal­och, special …

Heavy rain lashed several parts of Karachi for the second consecutive day on Sunday. Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, DHA, Clifton, II Chundrigar Road, Saddar, and Lyari were among the localities where moderate to heavy rainfall coupled with cold winds were reported. According to the Karachi Traffic Police, rainwater had accumulated on University Road, Ziauddin Road, Haqqani Chowk, Denso Hall and Lighthouse. It added …

ISLAMABAD: The city managers have proposed 20 new names for the reconstitution of the commission to carry out the much-delayed revision of Islamabad’s master plan. Sources in the interior ministry told Dawn that the CDA had forwarded the list of 20 experts to the federal cabinet out of which the cabinet will approve 13 names. In addition, there will be seven ex-officio …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced it will hold its intra-party polls after the Feb 8 general elections, reversing its decision made just 24 hours earlier to hold party elections on Feb 5. The PTI’s federal election commissioner, Raoof Hasan, said the amended schedule would be announced by the Federal Election Commissioner’s office. In a statement issued on …

QUETTA: At least six people, including PPP workers, were injured in multiple hand grenade attacks in different towns of Balochistan on Friday. Separately, a law-intensity explosion took place near the Provincial Election Commission (PEC) office in Karachi’s Saddar area, according to officials. In the Mughalsarai area of Kalat town, three PPP workers were injured when an unknown motorcyclist attacked the …

ISLAMABAD: A student of a private university was allegedly gang-raped in the capital, police said on Friday. A case was registered with Shalimar police station under sections 375 (rape) and 292 (sale, etc., of obscene books) of the PPC against the two rapists in response to the complaint lodged by the complainant, police added. One of the suspects is a …

ISLAMABAD: The capital police have sought assistance of 5,000 personnel from AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan police and Frontier Constabulary to meet the shortage of manpower for security duty during the upcoming elections. Police officers told Dawn that the capital police had requested for 5,000 personnel from AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan police and Frontier Constabulary due to the shortage of manpower. However, the …

TOBA TEK SINGH: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has announced launching the Orange Line metro train project in Faisalabad if his party wins the election as the people of the city want to have the metro train service like that of Lahore. He said Shehbaz Sharif had already announced the plan to launch a metrobus service in the city but he …

ISLAMABAD: A local court on Friday reserved its verdict in the case related to the marriage of former prime minister Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi during the latter’s Iddat period. Senior civil judge Qudrat Ullah will announce the decision on the complaint of Khawar Fareed Maneka on Saturday (today) in a makeshift court at Adiala Jail. Meanwhile, in a revealing …