Pakistan

The special court on Tuesday adjourned the indictment of PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case till October 23. The cipher case pertains to a diplomatic document that reportedly went missing from Imran’s possession. The PTI alleges that the document contained a threat from the United States to oust Imran from office. The PTI chief was convicted and sentenced to three years in …

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday invited China to invest in solar parks to support Pakistan’s fight against climate change and help reduce Pakistan’s energy import bill. The interim premier reached Beijing on Monday to participate in the 3rd Belt and Road Forum (BRF) for Inter­national Cooperation. At the airport, he was received by Chinese Min­ister of Science & Techno­logy …

RAWALPINDI: A day-old baby was kidnapped from the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) but was recovered within a few hours by the police on Sunday. According to police, the baby was recovered from a couple who lived in Jhanda Chichi in the Civil Lines area. The suspect worked as a waiter in a hotel in Chaklala Scheme III while his wife …

KARACHI: A power breakdown plunged the entire airport area into darkness a little after midnight intervening on Sunday and Monday. Civil Aviation Authority officials, when contacted some 15 minutes after the breakdown, told Dawn that due to some technical reasons, the generators did not took over automatically after the breakdown that caused delay in the supply of alternative power. They said it …

QUETTA: The Balochis­tan home and tribal affairs department has prohibited public gatherings and rallies and banned the blocking of main avenues and highways in Red Zone across the province under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code. As per a home department notification released on Sunday, an immediate ban on gathering of five or more individuals has been implemented on …

PESHAWAR: More than half of the ninth graders of government schools were declared failed in the previous board examinations apparently owing to shift in the examination pattern from rote learning to students learning outcome (SLO) or conceptual learning, according to sources. The failure of 51 per cent students in the examinations conducted by the boards of intermediate and secondary education …

RAHIM YAR KHAN: Pakistan Rangers sources say that they rescued a 17-year-old Indian youth who was trapped in the fence at the Pakistan-India border near Kakiwala, 150 kilometres from Rahim Yar Khan, on Friday. According to Rangers sources, the youth, identified as Bapan and a resident of Kuldhara, an Indian village eight kilometres from the border, had been stuck in …

KARACHI: The Jam­aat-i-Islami (JI) on Sunday staged a mammoth rally to express solidarity with Palestinian people and condemn Israeli air raids on civilian targets in Gaza. It also deplored silence of the Islamic world which, it believed, was indirectly supporting Zionists and their ambitions. The JI also rejected the “so-called two-state formula” to allow Israel to maintain its occupation of …

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Monday left for China to attend the “Third Belt and Road Forum (BRF) for International Cooperation”, being held in Beijing from October 17 to 18. The forum in Beijing marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi’s ambitious global infrastructure and energy initiative, billed as recreating the ancient Silk Road to boost global trade. …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government spends over Rs8 trillion on paying its 1.92 million employees and providing pensions on top of over six dozen kinds of perks, privileges and other dole outs, yet knowing little about their contribution, outcome and impact on taxpayers. While the judiciary gets the highest in perks, it is the Pakistan Administrative Services (PAS) — erstwhile DMG …