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PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan has raised objections to a recent ordinance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government that delayed the local body elections in the province for two years and declared the move a violation of the local government law and the Election Act, 2017. The elections were delayed by the provincial government through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Epidemic Control …

PESHAWAR: The entry of visitors to the Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar, has been banned in the wake of spike in Covid-19 cases. An official statement issued here on Wednesday said the airport’s chief operating officer Ubaid-ur-Rehman Abbasi had directed the officials to ensure implementation of health guidelines to contain spread of pandemic. He said entry of guests in the …

KARACHI: In a bid to meet the challenge of Covid-19 in the province, the Sindh government has increased the allocation for the health sector by 16.1 per cent — from Rs114.4 billion to Rs132.88bn — in the provincial budget for financial year 2020-21. In addition to Rs132.88bn, Rs7bn has been allocated for nine vertical programmes, including polio control, AIDS, TB, …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Wednesday called for investigation against Prime Minister Imran Khan and his advisers for reportedly owning properties in the UK. Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the spokesman for Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, demanded the constitution of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the document presented by Justice Qazi Faez Isa to the Supreme …

KARACHI: While the Sindh government is busy in battling an unprecedented health challenge, new development schemes for Karachi got little attention in Sindh’s budget for 2020-21. Although the Sindh government has made budgetary allocations for several key ongoing infrastructure projects, documents show it allocates Rs1.94 billion for ‘Mega Schemes for Karachi city’. The entire allocation of Rs1.94bn is made for …

• Imran says it is against spirit of devolution that all powers are enjoyed by CM who has become a kind of dictator • Murad wasn’t invited to any official meeting KARACHI: Amid growing concerns of opposition parties and speculation surrounding the fate of 18th Amendment after recent statements from key government functionaries, Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke his heart …

KARACHI: As the federal government identified some 20 potential Covid-19 hotspots where restrictive measures are needed to contain the virus in line with the prime minister’s smart lockdown policy, the local administration moved into action on Tuesday to place restrictions in several areas of different districts and sought a nod from the Sindh government for imposing the lockdown in a …

ISLAMABAD: In a clear message that the presidential reference against one of their brother judges may not survive due to legal defects, the Supreme Court on Tuesday proposed to the government a way out by considering exhausting tax remedies first for not declaring three offshore properties by the judge’s wife. Let the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) ask her about …

Renowned radio and television anchor Tariq Aziz passed away in Lahore on Wednesday, his family confirmed. He was 84. Aziz was born in Jalandhar on April 28, 1936. After partition, his family migrated to Pakistan and settled in Sahiwal, where he received his primary education. He started his career with Radio Pakistan in the 1960s and later went on to become Pakistan’s …

Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Karachi on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Sindh — his first since the coronavirus outbreak began. In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office said that the premier was accompanied by Minister for Shipping and Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi, Privatisation Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and …