Pakistan

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 …

GILGIT: Amid a peaceful rally held in Skardu demanding the arrest of a cleric and the government’s announcement that the situation has turned normal, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan met with the delegations of Anjuman-i-Imamiya Gilgit and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat on Sunday as part of efforts to maintain law and order in the region. Though daily life in …

LONDON: As the party leading the former coalition government that made certain decisions whose impacts have recently come to the fore — chief among them being a nationwide fury over inflated power bills — the PML-N has been facing the brunt of public anger in Pakistan. Veteran politician and senior N-leaguer Khawaja Asif tells Dawn: “We are in our constituencies daily. We are …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz and US envoy to Pakistan Donald Blome on Sunday held a meeting at her Murree residence wherein both sides discussed matters of mutual interest, including economy and security. The picture of the meeting was shared by the PML-N social media account. It was also re-tweeted by the PML-N chief organiser. The …