Pakistan

MUZAFFARABAD: Over a dozen schoolteachers and two police personnel were injured on Wednesday after riot police used batons and tear gas shells to disperse a big procession of male tutors, accusing them of violating an “understanding” with the administration. Around 68 teachers, including some pensioners, had been taken into custody for “rioting in a sensitive area,” Deputy Commissioner Abdul Hameed …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday changed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Aamir Zulfiqar Khan and appointed Qazi Jamilur Rehman in his place. As per the notification: “Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan, an Officer of BS-21 of Police Service of Pakistan, presently posted as Inspector General, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police, under the Interior Division is transferred and directed to report …

ISLAMBAD: The BNP Group project, One Constitution Avenue, has been de-sealed after the developer deposited Rs1.7 billion with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on account of first installment of Rs17.5 billion. The CDA’s building control directorate de-sealed the building on Wednesday, Dawn has learnt. A letter issued by an official of Estate Management Wing of CDA on Wednesday stated: “With reference to …

• Appeals for burial of slain miners • Balochistan CM, two federal cabinet members’ talks with protesters yield no result ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Amid escalating criticism in the country and on the advice of several senior cabinet members, Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to visit Quetta “soon” to express solidarity with the members of the Shia Hazara community, who have been …

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday presided over a meeting of senior members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and then met Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss the plan for convening the session of the lower house of parliament in the next few days. According to an official handout, the speaker informed the premier that he had …

Traffic disruptions were reported in multiple areas of Karachi once again on Thursday as protests and sit-ins against the killing of 11 Shia Hazara miners in Balochistan earlier this week continued for a third day in the metropolis. Protests were ongoing since 9am at 20 locations in the city, according to a statement by the Karachi Traffic Police. These areas include: Abbas …

Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them “very soon”, Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on Thursday, refusing to bury those who were brutally killed over the weekend in the province’s Mach area. Sources told Dawn that the prime minister has …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has detected coronavirus in five people, who returned from Britain recently, and is waiting for confirmation if the infected people have the UK’s strain of virus. The health department started tracing the people, who returned from UK, on the instruction of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to see if they had dangerous Covid-19 …

CHARSADDA: Awami Na­tional Party MPA Sha­keel Bashir Khan Umarzai narrowly escaped an am­­b­ush, but his police guard Constable Shehen­shah was killed in the attack on their cavalcade on Ghani Khan road on Tuesday night. According to police, MPA Shakeel Bashir and his brother Afzal Bashir were passing through the Ghani Khan road when their cavalcade was attacked. As a res­u­­­lt …

ISLAMABAD: An ASI was dismissed from police service after he failed to satisfy his seniors about his act of firing a warning shot on the ground when a man resisted body search, sources. The sources in the police said the ASI was stationed at the Industrial Area police station. On Jan 3, he intercepted a car in I-10/3 and asked …