Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Police found a newborn baby’s body inside a petrol station’s toilet after two unidentified women went missing after using it for a while on Saturday at about 12:30pm. Police have launched a search for the two women who appeared at the petrol station in a car on Saturday. They walked inside the toilet and drove away after staying inside …

OKARA: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, taking notice of the kidnap and rape of a minor girl in Dipalpur area, has sought a report from Sahiwal regional police officer (RPO) on the incident. As per a handout on Sunday, the chief minister also ordered the police to immediately arrest the three suspects, assuring her father, a labourer, that justice …

KARACHI: The state of national health sector is in grave danger as authorities have found samples of over half-dozen life-saving medicines, including those used for treatment of mental illnesses, to be ‘fake and spurious’ while samples of 30 other drugs are found to be substandard, officials and sources said. They said the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) over the …

ISLAMABAD / SIALKOT / RAWALPINDI: The Pakis­tan Democratic Movement (PDM) ministers on Sunday lashed out at former prime minister Imran Khan for his campaign against the government and the state institutions, saying the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief’s attempts to stay “politically relevant” through such tactics would not yield results. Addressing a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) convention in Sialkot, Defence Minister …

LAHORE: Novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi has launched an online Urdu word game, www.hijjay.com, on the pattern of word scramble. As a user logs on the game by googling hijjay.com, it shows six Urdu letters from which the user has to make 20 words to cross the first level. Each word has to have at least three letters. The words …

ISLAMABAD: The government has announced Rs250 million as compensation for 12,500 polio workers who were affected by the recent catastrophic floods. In a statement, federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel hailed the services of polio workers, who despite suffering losses due to the catastrophic floods, continued to assist with relief activities. “I salute your courage and passion. Despite suffering losses, …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday strongly condemned the firing by Afghan Border Forces on the civilian population in Balochistan’s Chaman district a day earlier and called on the interim government in Kabul to ensure that such incidents were not repeated in the future. At least seven people lost their lives and 16 others suffered injuries on Sunday in Chaman when it …

The chief executives of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the finance ministers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab rebuked the coalition government on Monday for depriving their people of their rightful share in the allocated funds. The censure came at a press conference held in Islamabad attended by KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, KP Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra, …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Saturday said though human rights were recognised as fundamental rights in the Constitution and Article 25 gave the right of education to both boys and girls, over 1,000 attacks were made on educational institutions in the country in three years. He was speaking at a national seminar held at the …

ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan’s (JCP) decisions regarding elevation of judges to the superior courts cannot be challenged through petitions before high courts under the Constitution, the Supreme Court held on Saturday. “By no stretch of imagination can it be assumed that framers of 18th and 19th amendments envisaged that decisions of JCP would be made amendable to judicial …