Pakistan

KARACHI: The Pakis­tan Medical Association (PMA) on Wednesday said it would not accept the “undemocratic” ordinance promulgatedby the president of Pakistan allowing the prime minister, chief ministers, and armed forces to nominate their members to run the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), the premier body that regulated medical affairs in the country. “It is entirely undemocratic, unconstitutional and would not …

KARACHI: As efforts by Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to unite the opposition parties mainly ‘outside the parliament’ have yet to pay the dividends, National Party president Senator Hasil Khan Bizenjo won the approval of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership to pursue the course for the same objective on Wednesday. Sources privy to the development and a …

ISLAMABAD: The Fina­ncial Action Task Force (FATF) is reported to have expressed a degree of satisfaction over Pakistan’s efforts and action plan to combat money laundering and terror financing under international obligations and indicated certain areas to do more before May this year to get out of the grey list. A high-level delegation led by Finance Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan …

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MPA Khurrum Sher Zaman on Thursday said that he plans on pursuing the concealment of assets case against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the Supreme Court as he withdrew his petition filed in the Elec­tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP). On December 21, Zaman, in his petition, had accused Zardari of owning an apartment in Belaire …

PESHAWAR: A group of tribal elders here on Tuesday demanded of the government to increase the number of provincial assembly seats in Khyber tribal district otherwise the residents of the area would launch a campaign to get the status of a separate province for the erstwhile Fata. Addressing a press conference at Peshawar press Club, the elders, led by Bazaar …

ISLAMABAD: Tough times are ahead for land grabbers in the capital as a decision has been made to include them in the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). The capital administration and police jointly prepared a list of land grabbers operating in the capital which included the names of 22 people, said officials in the administration and police. The …

LAHORE: An accountability court granted on Tuesday the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) a two-day transit remand of former railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq for his appearance in a case before the Supreme Court (SC) in Islamabad. The NAB special prosecutor filed an application before the court pleading that being a former minister for railways, personal appearance of Mr Rafiq was …

KARACHI: The Grand Democratic Alliance has demanded from the federal government to give substantial package for Sindh and urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to formulate policies pertaining to Sindh in consultation with its allies in the province. This demand was made by the GDA core committee comprising chiefs of the four political parties and leaders in the alliance. The participants …

QUETTA: The Balochistan cabinet reviewed the Public Sector Development Programme 2018-19 and took various decisions about work on ongoing development projects and release of funds and sought the list of the old projects under investigation and those which could not have been completed over the last 10 years. A meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan …

HARIPUR: Child abuse cases are increasing day by day and need to be curbed through a holistic approach otherwise such incidents would continue to deface the society. Speakers said this at an awareness seminar organised jointly by Society for Peace and Conflict Management, University of Haripur, and district police here on Tuesday. They said that it was quite unfortunate that …