Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: A senior government official committed suicide by shooting himself in his house in Bahria Town Phase VIII in the limits of Rawat police on Tuesday. SP Saddar Ziaul Haq told Dawn that the man was driven by some domestic issues to take his life. He said circumstantial evidence and statements of the inmates showed that it was a suicide case, though …

GILGIT: Prime Minister Imran Khan has constituted a 12-member committee to make recommendations for granting Gilgit-Baltistan the status of a provisional province of Pakistan. Federal minister for Kashmir affairs and Gilgit- Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur heads the committee, which also comprises GB Chief Minister Mohammad Khalid Khurshid, the attorney general of Pakistan, federal secretaries for finance, defence, foreign affairs, parliamentary …

ISLAMBAD: The federal cabinet was assured by the relevant officials on Tuesday that issues related to encroachments and unauthorised buildings on Margalla Road would be resolved within six months. The cabinet, which met with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, was briefed by officers from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and other organisations about the encroachments and plans for …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A questionnaire sent to Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman by the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, regarding his assets could not be delivered to him by the post office concerned as he was twice not available at his residence here. Official sources said the questionnaire, including assets declaration pro forma related to an ongoing investigation regarding …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has alleged that Sheikh Rashid Ahmed caused a loss of Rs800 billion to Pakistan Railways before he was rewarded with the portfolio of interior ministry. “It is unfortunate that the man who caused a loss of Rs800bn to railways in about three years has been rewarded with the interior ministry. This man not only …

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: As three cases of the potentially more contagious coronavirus variant — first detected in the UK — were confirmed on Tuesday by the health department of Sindh, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) suggested to the masses not to get panicked. Spokesperson for the Ministry of NHS Sajid Shah said that out of five samples, two were being …

LAHORE: Some enraged lawyers on Tuesday slapped in the courtroom the two teenage boys involved in a case of necrophilia and murder of a minor girl, before a judicial magistrate granted the suspects’ four-day physical remand to police. Sundar police produced the suspects — Rizwan Yousaf and Allah Ditta — with covered faces before the magistrate amid strict security arrangements. …

A National Accountability Bureau (NAB) team left with parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the National Assembly, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, from Islamabad for Lahore after obtaining his transit remand from an Islamabad accountability court on Wednesday. NAB arrested Asif on Tuesday night from outside the Islamabad residence of another senior PML-N leader, Ahsan Iqbal, where the former …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday appointed Babar Sattar and Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri as additional judges of the Islamabad High Court. According to a Ministry of Law and Justice notification, the president appointed the two additional judges in exercise of powers conferred by Article 197 of the constitution for a period of one year with effect from the date …

TANK: Pakistan Democratic Movement president Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said the government has launched a malicious propaganda campaign against him after getting frustrated with the rising popularity of PDM. Talking to media persons at the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl district secretariat here on Monday, Mr Rehman denied receiving any notice from NAB, saying: “The federal ministers are busy in his character assassination …