Pakistan

Sindh Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and recorded his statement about Thatta Sugar Mills in the fake accounts case. Murad was scheduled to appear before NAB on March 26, however, his appearance was arranged for today upon his request. NAB’s officials grilled the chief minister for about an hour-and-a-half. …

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on Monday indicted former Malir SSP Rao Anwar and 17 others for the murder of Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud in a fake encounter in Karachi. Anwar and the other accused, who were in the courtroom when the charges were framed against them, pleaded ‘not guilty’. Take a look: Dawn Investigation — Rao Anwar and …

Back in 2010, documentary filmmaker Mohammad Ali Naqvi, aka Mo, decided to chronicle his personal journey of exploring the evolution of Pakistani democracy in the lead up to the 2013 general election. During this time he had unprecedented access to interviewing and documenting the candidates, including former president Gen Musharraf, who was in self-imposed exile in Dubai. The final product …

MUZAFFARABAD: With the reduced water flow in the once roaring Neelum River hardly able to contribute to containing the temperature in Muzaffarabad in the coming summer, a conservationist has come up with some ‘affordable and practicable’ remedies to the consequences of climate change. “We are not far away from the remedy, if we think and work together, without further loss …

MIRAMSHAH: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that the sole purpose of National Action Plan (NAP) and merger of defunct Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was to appease India and America. Addressing a big rally in Mirali town of North Waziristan tribal district, he said that his party had opposed both the NAP and merger of tribal districts …

LAHORE: The Punjab cabinet’s standing committee on finance and development has approved relaxation of ban on recruitment for BS-1 to BS-16 posts in the public sector universities and boards of intermediate and secondary education in the province. It has also allowed recruitment of professional and allied staff in BS-1 to 15 in the provincial special education department, and against posts …

RAWALPINDI: A woman was caught with 13.126 kilogrammes of heroin by the Ant-Narcotics Force (ANF) at the Islamabad International Airport on Sunday. According to the ANF, the arrest and seizure was made in the light of intelligence that an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of narcotics would be made by a woman. The British national of Pakistani origin was …

BADIN: Traders observed a complete shutdown strike in Kadhan town in solidarity with farmers who staged a 25-kilometre long march on foot from the town to Badin on Sunday to register protest against ‘artificial’ shortage of water in the tail-end district. The farmers’ leaders Khalil Ahmed Bhurgari, Azizullah Dero, Mir Noor Ahmed Talpur and others told journalists during the daylong …

KARACHI: Inspector general of Sindh police Dr Syed Kaleem Imam on Sunday directed police officers not to arrest persons/suspects without effective investigation in order to reduce burden on the judiciary. He issued these directions while chairing a meeting at Central Police Office regarding complaint cells set up across Sindh recently under directions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to decide …

KARACHI: Jamil Akh­tar, a former news editor of daily Dawn, passed away on Sunday, according to the family. He was 79. Mr Akhtar remained associated with journalism for half a century and worked for various news organisations in former East Pakistan, China and the UAE as well as Pakistan in senior positions. He was admitted to Zia­uddin Hospital on March …