Pakistan

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday rejected a plea seeking to stop the electoral body from issuing the notification regarding PTI’s Faisal Vawda’s victory in the recently held Senate polls. The decision was taken in a hearing of the commission, headed by its member from Punjab, Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi. Vawda, who appeared in person in the hearing along with …

Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood said on Wednesday that educational institutions in seven cities of Punjab will close down for two weeks from March 15 (Monday) in light of rising Covid-19 cases. The minister was addressing a press conference alongside Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan shortly after the National Command and Control Centre (NCOC) reviewed …

ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) has started the process to hand over the metro bus project from Peshawar Mor to Islamabad International Airport (IIA) to the Capital Development Authority (CDA). The NHA executed the construction work and after taking it over the CDA will run the bus service. Sources said five metro stations were handed over to the CDA …

ISLAMABAD: The attack on a police team in G-13 on Sunday night in which a head constable was martyred seems to be targeted, police said on Monday. Senior police officers told Dawn on condition of anonymity that it was too early to ascertain whether the attackers were terrorists. However, circumstantial evidence suggested it was a targeted attack, the officers said. “According to …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday condemned manhandling of PML-N leaders by PTI supporters outside the Parliament House on Saturday. “Whatever happened in front of the parliament house, two days ago, was wrong and I condemn the incident,” he said while talking to mediapersons at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where he was visiting the police officials …

LAHORE: Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan says she will continue standing with women for their cause but the slogans promoted by some organisations working for women are against the values of this society. Speaking at a Women’s Day event here on Monday, the minister asked Aurat March activists to review their approach of putting …

LAHORE: The ‘premature’ transfer/posting of senior officials during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf dispensation on lame excuses has made mockery of ‘security of tenure’ under the Police Order 2002. Late on Sunday, the Punjab government made two senior officials officers on special duty (OSDs) and this time the reason was said to be a ‘security lapse’. DIG-ranked (BS-20) police officer Mehboob Rashid …

PESHAWAR: Two police officials were arrested over the mysterious killing of a youngster here early on Monday. A police official told that Mubashir Ahmad was shot dead on Dalazak Road area near the city railway station apparently by two Rider Squad personnel from the Faqirabad police station. Resident Ziaullah formally complained the police that he along with friends Mubashir Ahmad …

• Establishment warned against interference in Friday poll • Committee tasked with finalising names of candidates for opposition leader, deputy chairman • Moonis refutes reports Bilawal sought his party’s support ISLAMABAD: The 10-party opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on Monday formally nominated Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as its candidate for the office of the …

ISLAMABAD: As the government is going to launch Covid-19 vaccination drive for senior citizens on March 10 (tomorrow), the people holding Pakistan Origin Cards (POCs) and foreign national spouses of Pakistanis are found ineligible to be inoculated, it emerged on Monday. The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) admitted that the POC holders are very much Pakistanis and decided to …