Pakistan

CHITRAL: The chickenpox outbreak has turned to an epidemic in Upper Chitral district as the number of infected persons has increased exponentially over the last two days with the disease also breaking out in the Mulkhow tehsil. Confirming the alarming position of the contagious disease in Upper Chitral, district coordinator of Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) Dr Wali Khan said …

SHANGLA: The family of a Shangla resident, who was arrested in India over illegal entry, on Monday claimed that Faiz Mohammad hadn’t been in contact with it since Aug 24. It added that it learned about the arrest of the 24-year-old from the media. Indian media reported that Hyderabad police took Faiz Mohammad into custody for illegally entering the country …

TOBA TEK SINGH: A Christian priest was shot at and injured by an unidentified suspect in Fai­sal­abad on Sunday night. Sources said Reverend Father Eleazar Sidhu, who serves at Myong-Sang Naserth church in Jaranwala tehsil, was discharged from hospital on Monday afternoon with a dressing on his hand. In an FIR lodged under Sections 324 (attempt to murder) and 34 …

ISLAMABAD: Just over a week after he convened an ‘emergency moot’ to find ways to give immediate relief to the public angry over rising electricity bills, interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has now promised “out-of-the-box solutions” to provide respite to inflation-hit power consumers. After making lofty commitments, the government had to flip-flop on its promises for relief after it …

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltitistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan on Monday said the government has invited clerics from across Pakistan to settle a controversial issue that had caused sectarian tensions in the region for the past week. In a press conference alongside the law and home ministers at the CM Secretariat, Gulbar Khan claimed the current uncertainty in the region would be …

PTI President Parvez Elahi was rearrested on Tuesday soon after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended his detention order and directed his release, according to the capital territory’s police. The police said that Elahi was arrested in a case pertaining to the Counter Terrorism Department police station.     The Islamabad police posted the update soon after saying that Elahi …

Rawalpindi police have arrested a man accused of raping his teenage neighbour after threatening to shoot her in the garrison city’s Nai Abadi area, it emerged on Tuesday. Sub-Inspector Sikandar Azam, who has been assigned the investigation of the case, told Dawn.com that police would seek the suspect’s physical remand from a court for his DNA test. Meanwhile, he added, the girl’s …

LAHORE: The Universal Health Insurance (UHI) Programme has almost collapsed at the primary and secondary healthcare hospitals as an official report unveiled that 86,217 patients out of total 104,846 were denied treatment under the progamme at all district headquarters hospitals (DHQs) of Punjab in just 25 days. These patients had visited the DHQ hospitals from July 1 to July 25 …

PESHAWAR: Describing the financial situation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as precarious, the caretaker chief minister has asked the federal government to pay pending dues to the province including funds for the development of tribal districts. “If KP is given access to its rightful dues under various heads promised and enjoined by the Constitution, the precarious economic position of the province could …