Pakistan

QUETTA: The Foreign Office has requested the Canadian government to conduct an investigation into Karima Baloch’s death and sought its inquiry report, said Adviser to Balochistan Chief Minister on Information and Parliamentary Secretary Bushra Rind on Friday. While expressing grief over the tragic death of Ms Baloch, former chairperson of BSO Azad, in Canada, Ms Rind said it was the …

KASUR: Scores of villagers of Sarai Mughal on Friday staged a protest demonstration against, what they said, police failure to register cases and arrest the rapists of minor girls. Six girls between 5 and 15 years were allegedly raped or subjected to rape attempts during the last one month. Panic prompted the locals to gather outside the Sarai Mughal police …

us ISLAMABAD: A team comprising American scientists and paramedical staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) commenced research on Covid-19 patients in Pakistan. In the first phase, the team started collecting samples of Covid-19 patients and sending them for lab tests. For this purpose, it also visited Taxila where 300 samples were collected, Pims spokesman Dr Wasim Khawaja told Dawn. …

GILGIT: A local official hunted Himalayan ibex with horns measuring 44 inches near the Nanga Parbat base camp in Astore district here on Friday. Masood Sifat, a CSP officer, claimed the trophy hunting after travelling for 14 hours amid snow. According to the GB wildlife and environmental department, Mr Sifat hunted the ibex in Chorat Rupal Conservancy. The local hunter …

KARACHI: After finding “high concentration of pollutants” during an inspection on Thursday, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has directed the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to immediately stop all operational activities related to soybean at the port till further orders. The inspection was undertaken after reports emerged that a suspected gas leak in the Keamari area had claimed the lives of four …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed has expressed concern over the poor pace of implementation of the reports prepared by the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) recommending amendments to different laws. Chairing a meeting of the commission the other day, Justice Ahmed asked the federal government to consider steps for expeditious implementation of the commission’s reports. …

TAXILA: Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said that most concerns of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regarding process of issuing licences to commercial pilots have been addressed and it is hoped the ban imposed on Pakistan International Airlines to operate flights to and from European countries would be lifted soon. Speaking at a press conference on Friday …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday dispelled rumours that PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif was considering going against his brother PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, saying Shehbaz would have become the prime minister if he was disloyal but “he rejected all offers”. Maryam was speaking to the media at the Sharifs’ Jati …

RAWALPINDI: Chahan Dam is almost complete but no work has been started to supply six million gallon daily (MGD) water from the reservoir to seven union councils of Rawalpindi due to insufficient funds. Due to the delay, the project cost has increased from Rs5.3 billion to Rs6.7 billion. The Punjab government approved the project worth Rs5.3 billion to bring six …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Min­i­s­ter Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday expressed the confidence that the op­­position would not resign from assemblies before the upcoming Senate polls. Talking to reporters during a visit to Directorate General of Immig­ration and Passports, he asked why the opposition was keen to take part in the by-polls for national and provincial assemblies’ seats if it was serious …