Pakistan

Ongoing fighting between two tribes over a piece of land in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram tribal district claimed two more lives on Tuesday, taking the total number of casualties to 11. The clashes started five days ago in the Boshehra Dandar area and spread to other areas including Khar Kallay, Baleshkhel, Pewar, Gidu, Teri Mengal, Karman Para Chamkani, Maqbal and Kunj Alizai. …

Anushka Sharma has reportedly rejected the offer of doing Farhan Akhtar’s Jee Le Zaraa.  Reportedly, Priyanka has also not opted out of the film. She is still part of the road trip film directed by Farhan. As per the sources: “Anushka has not even been approached for Jee Le Zara. Why should she be? When Priyanka has not opted out. This is some …

KARACHI: After remaining stationary for almost two months just after their launch in April 2023, the electric buses are set to resume operations on two city routes on Monday following import of a new charging system from China as the earlier system had started ‘malfunctioning’ within a few weeks of start of the service. Sindh Information, Trans­port, and Mass Transit …

RAWALPINDI: Virgin Atlantic operated its final flight from Islamabad International Airport on Sunday after announcing earlier in the year that it will suspend operations between London Heathrow, Lahore and Islamabad. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said in a press release that a Virgin Atlantic flight took off from Islamabad to London’s Heathrow Airport at 8am on Sunday. Virgin Atlantic commenced its operations …

ISLAMABAD: The ‘drama’ surrounding the post of the executive director (ED) of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) continues to delay the appointment, as the commission has once again “slowed down the hiring process” to fill this position. The post of regular ED, who acts as the principal accounting officer, fell vacant in October 2018 after the resignation of Dr Arshad …

Lahore’s Special Court (Central) on Monday acquitted Suleman Shehbaz, son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Suleman, who returned to Pakistan in December 2022 after four years of self-exile in London, was accused in the money laundering case registered with the FIA while the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had …

MUZAFFARABAD: Deploring the alleged denial of funds and powers to the recently installed local government (LG) institutions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), former prime minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas on Sunday called upon the state government to review its “anti-people policy” in this regard. “It’s very unfortunate that the government is dilly-dallying on devolution of powers to the local government …

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb has said the government is formulating the new film policy under which a film finance council and a fund will be established, while the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will also give relief to the cinema industry. She was addressing a press conference at the Radio Pakistan Lahore Station, where she laid the …

Syed Mohammed Askari, a senior reporter for Daily Jang, has returned home a day after he went missing in Karachi, his colleague said on Monday. Askari had gone missing late on Saturday night after attending a wedding. His colleagues and media organisations had alleged that he was “abducted by policemen and plain-clothes men” for unspecified reasons. Fellow Daily Jang reporter, Saqib Sagheer, confirmed to Dawn.com on Monday, …

By late 2020, as it became apparent that the US was certainly withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, talk around the table of Pakistan’s security establishment and political decision-makers related to the consequences of the withdrawal and its possible aftermath. For over two decades, Nato members and their partner nations had held down the fort of peace in Afghanistan, with up to 130,000 …