Pakistan

Leonardo DiCaprio welcomed New Year’s Eve with his new companion Victoria Lamas on a lavish yacht. The rumored couple was joined by their celebrity friends, including Drake and Tobey Maguire. The Wolf of Wall Street star, 48, and the supermodel, 23, have been enjoying the New Year holidays in St. Barts. DiCaprio and Lamas were seen together three times last …

ISLAMABAD: While petitions against penalties of over Rs74 billion imposed by the Competition Com­mission of Pakistan (CCP) are still pending, the Supreme Court has decided the first-ever cartel case against the poultry association. In its verdict, the apex court upheld the CCP order of Feb 29, 2016 against the Pakistan Poultry Associa­tion (PPA) related to price fixing. The case relates …

PTI leader Ali Nawaz Awan has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking contempt proceedings against the Elections Commission of Pakistan (ECP) over its failure to hold local government elections in the city on Saturday. A day earlier, after a whirlwind of court proceedings, the IHC had instructed the ECP to hold Islamabad local government elections today (Dec 31). …

Two labourers were killed while one another was injured in an explosion at a coal mine in Lower Orakzai tribal region’s Khuno Sam area on Saturday, an official said. District Police Officer Nazir Khan told that three labourers were trapped in the mine earlier today after what is believed to be a gas explosion. He said rescue officials, local volunteers …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Commission has become dysfunctional due to the provincial government’s failure to fill two commissioner vacancies for several months, say officials. Under Section 24 of the KP RTI Act, 2013, the information commission comprises a chief information commissioner and two commissioners from the legal, mass communication, academic or right to information backgrounds. Sources told …

ISLAMABAD: The capital administration and police found themselves in a fix after a divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday ordered holding of local government (LG) elections in the capital on Saturday (today). Talking to Dawn, police and administration officers said the direction came when only half a day was left and all personnel had already been deputed …

LAHORE: Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare (PSHD) Dr Akhtar Malik says the drug control wing of his department has unearthed an inter-provincial big network which was supplying substandard medicines to the public sector hospitals of Punjab. Talking to the media along with Punjab PSHD Secretary Dr Arshad Ahmad, he said the wing had seized the stock of the various …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four policemen were injured when a group of terrorists attacked a checkpost with rockets and grenades in Kulachi tehsil here on Friday, an official said. District police spokesman Yaqoob Shah told Dawn that an unknown number of militants stormed the Takwarra checkpost early in the morning. He said the police personnel retaliated the attack, and after an …

ISLAMABAD: Another alleged land scam has emerged in the Capital Development Authority (CDA), as recently the deputy commissioner CDA added dubious updated mutations to award of C-15 sector. Sources in the civic body said some months ago, CDA Deputy Commissioner Sobia Toru added updated 13 mutations to award of C-15 sector, which was announced back in 2007. Through the said …

GWADAR / QUETTA: Some semblance of normalcy returned to Gwadar after five days of unrelenting protests and a shutter-down strike, as shops and business centres started opening on Friday and tra­ffic was restored betw­een the port city and Karachi as well as other areas. Though bazaars remai­n­­ed open in different areas of Gwadar town, the situat­i­­on was still tense and …