Pakistan

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Apex Committee on Wednesday approved the creation of 17,000 additional posts in government departments for seven merged districts of the province. The committee met here with KP Governor Shah Farman in the chair to discuss the situation after the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Peshawar High Court decision to strike down the Fata Interim Governance …

LAHORE: There is an effort to spread the word that was initially given by Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat on Tuesday about Zeeshan Javed, one of the four victims of the Sahiwal shooting. Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan and Additional Chief Secretary Faisal Asghar Sahoo held a briefing for senior media persons here on Wednesday to tell them the government …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) coalition government has no threat from within as both parties had jointly won seats in the general election and are now complementing each other, says Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar. “The Chaudhrys of Gujrat have assured us that they will stay loyal to the PTI government,” he said. Speaking to …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has set aside an administrative order issued by former chief justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi removing an additional registrar and demoting three senior officers. Mr Kasi had on Aug 20, 2015, retired BS-20 additional registrar Ijaz Ahmed and demoted deputy registrar Sarfraz Ahmed, assistant accounts officer Mohammad Ashiq and assistant Mohammad Waseem Khan for …

KARACHI: Reviewing the overall weekly law and order situation in the province, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has ordered that checking on the Sindh-Balochistan border be intensified and directed the Sindh inspector general of police to hold a tripartite meeting of all three police chiefs of the bordering provinces — Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab — to help improve law …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition staged a walkout from the Senate on Wednesday as a mark of protest against laying of the second money bill in the house by Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar, instead of Finance Minister Asad Umar. The minister of state for revenue laid the bill in the house after Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani rejected the opposition’s …

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Asad Umar on Wednesday presented the second mini-budgetof the six-month-old Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government amid the opposition’s uproar during the National Assembly session marked by a rare presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The prime minister, who was last seen in the assembly on Oct 3, entered the house at a time when Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif was lambasting the …

LAHORE: After some back and forth over the issue, the Punjab government has decided not to allow the celebration of Basant this year, acknowledging that it is not fully prepared to make the event a safe activity in terms of the threat to human life and the damage to civic infrastructure that have occurred in the past. The government plans …

KARACHI: In an assertive policy statement made during the Sindh Assembly’s session on Tuesday, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah counterattacked his detractors in the house and their leadership ruling Islamabad by saying that Sindh would resist attempts by the federal government to “usurp” its rights. He said his name was put on the Exit Control List (ECL) as a …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate on Monday rejected the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) over the Sahiwal tragedy as a mere smokescreen and called for swift action to punish all those responsible for the killings. Speaking on an adjournment motion, the Senators observed that even if the victims were terrorists — as claimed by the Punjab government — they deserved the due …