Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan, during a visit to Wana, announced that 3G/4G internet services will become operational in Waziristan from today (Wednesday). The premier made the remarks while addressing a cheque distribution ceremony for the successful applicants of the Kamyab Jawan Loan Scheme and the Youth Internship Scheme. “I know that 3G and 4G is important for education and development …

ISLAMABAD: More than 40 million children under the age of five years received vaccination during the latest nationwide anti-polio campaign. A total of 287,000 frontline polio workers were deployed across the country for door-to-door vaccination, observing strict standard operating procedures in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. Around 32m children were given vitamin A supplements during the campaign. Strict Covid-induced SOPs …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police have responded to a shooting incident along the 6000 block of Bissonnet, near Rampart, in southwest Houston. A 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg. Officers on scene say the victim is expected to survive. It is the latest in a disturbing trend of shootings involving teenagers in the last two months. Just a …

KARACHI: The daily numbers of Covid pandemic have on Tuesday reported 778 new infections across Sindh while the new deaths in this period were 17. According to the updates shared by the chief minister for the 24-hour span today, new 17 deaths have taken total mortality to 3,830 in the province since the viral infection broke out. CM Sindh Murad …

KARACHI: Police on Monday informed a court that two suspects booked in a case pertaining to the death of Dr Maha Shah in Defence Housing Authority were avoiding giving their DNA samples despite repeated notices. The police had initially said that the 24-year-old doctor, practising at a private hospital in Clifton, had allegedly committed suicide by shooting herself in her …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Monday assured protesting employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and restaurant owners that he would take up their issues with the prime minister in the upcoming meeting of the cabinet. Giving assurance to the Pims employees holding a sit-in at D-Chowk, the minister said he would play his role in bringing …

PESHAWAR: A single-member Peshawar High Court bench on Monday issued a notice to former woman MPA Meraj Humayun Khan seeking her response to the prime minister’s petition for the consolidation of the pending defamation lawsuits filed by her and another former MPA Fauzia Bibi against him. Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan fixed Jan 25 for the next hearing into the …

ISLAMABAD: The opposi­tion Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday challenged the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to produce evidence of its claim that they had received funding from abroad. The counsel for the two parties appeared before the scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and argued that they had not received any foreign …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to give a free hand to the 10-party anti-government Pakistan Democratic Movement alliance for holding a protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday (today). Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told a press conference on Monday that the government had decided to give a free hand to PDM to organise a rally in the …

ISLAMABAD: On the complaint of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the entire staff of Banigala police station, except the station house officer, has been removed. Two separate notifications were issued from the office of the senior superintendent of police in this regard. Over a dozen subordinates (constables and head constable), three sub-inspectors and three assistant sub-inspectors were removed. A senior police …