Pakistan

KARACHI: Commenting on the alarming rise in incidents of mugging and killings over resistance, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that his government was taking measures to curb street crime in the metropolis. He said this while talking to the media during his visit to the city in which he inspected the ongoing construction of Malir …

KARACHI: Consumers of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), who live in diverse areas in the city, have been complaining of having no gas for cooking meals despite the fact that the utility had earlier promised that gas loadshedding will not be carried out during mealtimes, but the opposite is happening now. On Dec 11, the SSGC had officially announced …

KARACHI: Following the announcement of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party that it was ready to contest local government election in Karachi, the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Sunday vowed to start an aggressive election campaign promising a sweeping victory for the party. Amid ongoing political and economic instability and more focus on fast developing situation in Punjab, the main opposition party …

ISLAMABAD: A think tank in a research report has recommended amendments to the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) 1860 in accordance with the realities of the 21 century. The study on ‘Causes of gender-based and religiously-motivated crime and prison-inmates behaviour in the pre- and post-crime era in Punjab’ was conducted by Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI). The study took the IPRI …

KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif decided on Sunday to send a team of troubleshooters to Karachi for placating the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan after the party opposed the Sindh government’s decision to hold local government elections in the metropolis and Hyderabad under the existing delimitation. Minutes after the MQM-P threatened at a presser in Karachi to approach the Election Commission of …

LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday lashed out at the former army chief again, alleging that Qamar Javed Bajwa stabbed him in the back and that his “set-up” was still active in the establishment purportedly to stop the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) from coming back to power. Speaking to reporters, the PTI chairman claimed that Mr Bajwa “stabbed me …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday approved the post-arrest bail of PTI Senator Azam Swati, who has been in detention since late November over his controversial tweets about senior military officers. Swati was arrested on November 27 after the FIA booked him in Islamabad over a “highly obnoxious campaign of intimidating tweets […] against state institutions”. It was the second time …

A second round of the National Security Committee (NSC) meeting — which is expected to take “key decisions concerning security and the economy” — began on Monday in Islamabad with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair. The moot — the principal decision-making forum on foreign policy and national security — is being attended by senior civilian and military leaders. …

LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department has directed all divisional, district and chief executive officers of the schools to extend teaching of the Holy Quran as a compulsory subject from primary to higher secondary. The Directorate of Public Instructions (EE) Punjab Director Rana Abdul Qayyum Khan issued the notification. The notification says teaching of the Holy Quran has already been …

LAHORE: Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Jawwad S Khawaja said he never cared about how his judgements were received, as a judge should not write verdicts according to the wishes of the people. “I have written a lot that was controversial. But what’s a controversy? If I write something that’s not liked by someone, it would become a controversy,” …