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LAHORE: Expressing his wholehearted support for women march to mark the International Women’s Day on March 8 (Sunday), Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said none could be allowed to dictate women how to do politics and lodge protest. “These days [some] people say that women cannot march. I tell them that their thinking is outdated. The woman of …

ISLAMABAD: Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry and moderate scholar Tahir Ashrafi on Thursday invited ulema for an interactive briefing on scientific means of sighting the moon. “This is nothing personal but a national issue. We appreciate ulema who have approved the scientific method. We urge members rejecting modern methods of moon-sighting to give us a chance to explain how …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to tender an apology and resign for “blatantly lying” to the nation about Nawaz Sharif’s health condition. Addressing a news conference at National Press Club here on Wednesday, PML-N Senator Musaddiq Malik, information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb and deputy secretary general Attaullah Tarrar said that the former prime …

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari calls the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package illegitimate as it doesn’t carry parliament’s seal of approval. “The deal signed with the IMF carries no legal value for it has been struck by a selected government and it has not been approved by the parliament,” he told participants of a seminar …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has constituted ‘provincial and district disease surveillance centres’ to ensure strong collaboration among different departments as part of efforts to prevent outbreak of coronavirus disease in the province. The Provincial Disease Surveillance Centre (PDSC) and district disease surveillance centres (DDSCs) have been formed in line with Section 8 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Health (Surveillance and …

At least three people lost their lives while several others were injured as a five-storey residential building in Karachi’s Gulbahar — formerly known as Golimar — area collapsed on Thursday. Karachi Metropolitan Cooperation Director Medical and Health Services Dr Salma Kauser said that three people were killed in the collapse, while 22 injured were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Police …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday decried the performance of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan Telecommuni­cation Authority (PTA) in controlling growing abuse at social media platforms and sought their annual performance reports. The Senate committee meeting, which was chaired by Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Rubina Khalid, expressed concern over the FIA claim that it received …

KARACHI: As the federal and provincial authorities claim to have been taking every possible measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Pakistan, the authorities in Sindh have sought intervention from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to trace those who are spreading “fake and unsubstantial news” through social media about “scores” of positive cases of the virus in Karachi, triggering …

LAHORE: Six women ‘activists’ approached the Lahore High Court on Monday with a request to ‘regulate’ forthcoming Aurat March to ensure implementation of Citizen Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020. Chief Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh is set to resume on Tuesday (today) hearing on main petition against the march moved by Advocate Azhar Siddique. On last hearing, senior lawyer Hina …

ISLAMABAD: The Natio­nal Accountability Bureau (NAB) was found clueless about the whereabouts of property tycoon Malik Riaz when he skipped a second consecutive hearing of Bahria Icon Tower Karachi reference by an accountability court on Monday. When Judge Mohammad Bashir resumed the proceedings in the reference filed against the property tycoon last month for allegedly encroaching upon state land, four …