Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday directed the Capital Administration Authority (CDA) to ensure that people with special needs are provided necessary facilities. A written order from the Prime Minister’s Office stated: “In order to ensure safe and easy access to persons with disabilities, the prime minister has been pleased to desire that Capital Development Authority (CDA) shall take …

Religious scholar Maulana Amir Shahab, who was shot in the assassination attempt on Mufti Taqi Usmani in Karachi last month, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, according to the station house officer (SHO) of Aziz Bhatti police station. Shahab, 45, was one of the two wounded when Mufti Taqi’s car was targeted in a gun attack on March 22 in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal …

LARKANA: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided to continue the ‘Karvan-i-Bhutto’ throughout the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the party’s central executive committee (CEC) jointly chaired by PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari at Naudero House on Wednesday. The meeting paid tribute to the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The PPP accused …

RAWALPINDI: A Saudi delegation visited Islamabad International Airport on Wednesday and held talks with immigration and civil aviation officials on the arrangements for immigration of Pakistani pilgrims before departing for Haj. During Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s recent visit to Islamabad, Prime Minister Imran Khan had requested him to allow Haj pilgrims to undergo immigration and customs clearance at …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday convicted two men, said to be associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, of killing a police official and exonerated four others of the same charge. Six accused — Ishtiaq alias Policewala, Syed Abu Irfan alias Urfee, Syed Shakir Shah alias Rafay, Zakir Hussain alias Adeel Agha, Khuwaja Mohammad Faisal and Shafique alias Shafiqur Rehman …

LAHORE: The Punjab government has drafted a voluminous and restrictive new local government law, providing for proportionate representation-based elections and an elaborate anti-corruption mechanism. The rough draft of the proposed law suggests re-introduction of the urban-rural divide introduced by former president retired Gen Musharraf in a 2001 law and eliminated by former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif in a new law …

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister  Nawaz Sharif has been recommended to have implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and a backup pacemaker, his daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Wednesday. Maryam Nawaz responding to a tweet on Wednesday said: “doctors have recommended Backup Pacemaker & ICD (Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator, a life saving device implanted in the body for patients at risk for fatal cardiac Arrhythmias.” In …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on  Wednesday expressed  concern  over   test of anti-satellite weapon   by India, urging the international community   not   to ignore the military dimension of such actions and its implications on the global and regional peace, stability and security. In a statement, foreign office said   Pakistan has noted with deep concern the assessment of relevant organizations and international experts on the …

LAHORE: The jailed model of Czech Republic, Tereza Hluskova, has challenged her conviction in the drug smuggling case before the Lahore High Court. A sessions court had sentenced her to eight years and eight months in jail for making an attempt to smuggle heroin from Lahore airport to Abu Dhabi last year. The appeal against the sentence filed through a …

FIRST they came for the marchers. When the Aurat March was held around the country on March 8 and women in Peshawar and Karachi and Faisalabad and Islamabad came out to march on the streets, many men and some women were upset. The taunt this time, as it has been at other times during the history of Pakistan’s women’s movement, …