Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday emphasised true implementation of pro-women laws by doing away with the cultural taboos. Addressing the Brainstorming Session on Gender-Based Discrepancies and Promotion of Legal, Economic and Social Empowerment of Women hosted by the Aiwan-i-Sadr here, the President said his office had been actively engaged in addressing the issues like rights of women and …

ISLAMABAD: The appointment of renowned lawyer Naeem Bokhari as chairman of Pakistan Television (PTV) board of directors has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah will take up the petition on Thursday (today). Arsalan Farrukh filed the petition through his counsel Raja Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi. The petition termed the appointment of Shahzada Naeem Bokhari …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday set aside the notification of 200pc increase in property tax in the federal capital and ordered audit of the amount recovered by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) under the head. The court also ordered that the amount recovered should be transferred to the Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI). The CDA, on the …

KARACHI: A mysterious gas leakage, which had claimed more than a dozen lives earlier this year in Keamari, is feared to have taken place again in the densely populated neighbourhood as a key area hospital said on Wednesday it had received 22 patients in less than a week from the same vicinity with the same symptoms and complaints and so …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Wednesday directed the high courts to take necessary steps for timely disposal of cases to eliminate their backlog. He issued the directive during a meeting of the National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee (NJPMC) at the Supreme Court building. Currently the country’s superior judiciary is facing a backlog of 377,380 cases whereas the …

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday set aside the provincial government’s detention orders for four men set free around eight months back by the order of the SHC in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. However, their names were placed on the no-fly list and they were also directed to appear before the court whenever …

Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati said on Thursday Prime Minister Imran Khan will soon sign an agreement for a trilateral railway project connecting Pakistan with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Talking to DawnNewsTV, Swati revealed that the project, which was conceived in 2018, included both passenger and cargo trains going between the three countries. He said the project was made possible through …

PPP co-chairman and former president, Asif Ali Zardari, on Thursday invited Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to Larkana to attend a rally scheduled on Dec 27, the death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. A statement issued by the PPP said the former president made a telephone call to Fazl, who is also president of the 11-party …

ISLAMABAD: A large number of politicians, representatives of trade unions and traders, doctors and medical students on Tuesday reached Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) to express solidarity with the employees protesting against alleged privatisation of the hospital. Last month, President Dr Arif Alvi promulgated the Medical Teaching Institution (MTI) Ordinance under which the hospital will be run through a …

ISLAMABAD: Following the federal cabinet’s directive on Tuesday, all stakeholders are likely to hold an on-spot meeting on Wednesday (today) to discuss modalities to remove encroachments from Margalla Road. A participant of the cabinet meeting told Dawn that it was briefed regarding the encroachments on Margalla Road and a greenbelt in portions of E-9 and E-8. The cabinet was told that the …