Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday said it was inappropriate to keep people on the Exit Control List (ECL) as well as the blacklist for long without any cogent reason and announced that the two lists would be cut down. Talking to reporters after visiting the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) headquarters, Mr Ahmed, who has recently been assigned …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has set a target to reduce the number of its employees to 7,500-8,000 for 29 aircraft — over half of the total strength — through the Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) and segregation of core and non-core functions, said a PIA management report filed before the Supreme Court. At present, PIA has 14,500 employees for its …

BAHAWALPUR: Pakistan Democratic Movement chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has claimed that the Senate election through show of hands will not be possible. Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, Maulana Fazl alleged that with the announcement of the prime minister that the Senate election would be conducted through show of hands meant that the whole of the cabinet was illiterate. …

ISLAMABAD: The district election commission on Wednesday rejected the nomination papers of its potential candidate and current deputy mayor Chaudhry Riffat Javed for the vacant seat of the mayor. The election commission also rejected the papers of Sajid Abbasi (PML-N) along with PTI’s Mohammad Rafiq and Khurram Bakhtiar. Sources said the nomination paper of Riffat Javed were rejected on the …

RAWALPINDI: Fuel shortage seems to be staring at the face of the twin cities and the northern parts of the country after All Pakistan Oil Contractors Association went on strike following the breakdown of talks with the district administration over tankers’ entry timings into city areas. The association stopped supply on Wednesday morning and parked its tankers on G.T. Road …

PESHAWAR: Police arrested MNA Ali Wazir here on Wednesday in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi after a recent public meeting. They have been accused of committing several offences, including hatching a criminal conspiracy and passing derogatory remarks against state institutions. Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohammad …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties on Wednesday submitted a requisition notice to the Senate Secretariat seeking a session of the upper house of parliament to take up a number of crucial political matters, including a resolution against alleged human rights violations being committed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the government’s “crackdown” on the opposition workers during the PDM public …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked the government to ensure fast-tracking of any disciplinary action in future against a retired employee to its logical end within two years of his/her retirement. This would help a retired employee to enjoy his/her retired life and the government to save unnecessary expense and time in pursing such matters, held Justice Syed Mansoor Ali …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday said India, with the help of Israel, was trying to have its hegemony in South Asia. “Being part of nexus with Israel, India is bringing demographic changes in the Indian illegally occupied Kashmir and procuring weapons with a craving to become a super power,” the president said in his keynote address at a …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan will further enhance cooperation and synchronise schedules of their immunisation campaigns to successfully eradicate poliovirus at the national and regional levels. This was decided at a video conference on Tuesday that was attended by polio eradication teams of the two countries. The two teams agreed they would continue sharing information and take steps to synchronise dates …