Pakistan

KARACHI: Despite heavy presence of police, Rangers and other law-enforcement agencies on city roads, another student was gunned down by bike-snatchers, this time in Korangi, early on Sunday morning clearly indicating failure of authorities to control the ugly rise of crime and gun violence in the metropolis. The incident came two days after the gruesome killing of a NED University student by …

ISLAMABAD: Despite being snubbed by the Lahore High Court, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is making an attempt to acquire more land for the third ‘controversial’ runway of New Islamabad Inter­national Airport (NIIA). The CAA’s plan irked the landholders in the vicinity of the airport who feared that their ancestral land would be taken against their will for ‘peanuts’ and …

KARACHI: Almost a month after the Pakistan Peoples Party organised a public meeting at Nishtar Park, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Sunday staged a women-only power show in the historic ground vowing to restore the party’s ‘lost glory’ and ‘regain’ the political ground that it claimed had been ‘snatched’ from the party through ‘political engineering’. The women convention of the MQM-P …

PESHAWAR: The opposition parties have yet to devise a strategy to deal with the looming dissolution of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan had announced on Saturday that both KP and Punjab assemblies, where his party and allies had majority of seats, would be dissolved on Dec 23 to push the federal government for …

MANSEHRA: The federal government has approved the establishment of the country’s first ever girls’ scout cadet college in Arigah area of Darband tehsil here. According to local MNA and a federal parliamentary secretary Mohammad Sajjad Awan, work on the college’s building will begin shortly. He told reporters here on Sunday that the premises would initially serve as a campus of …

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf senior leader Fawad Chaudhry has said a dialogue between the government and the opposition is necessary to end uncertainty in the country following the backdoor channel talks. The PTI leader, however, kept sticking to the party chairman’s stance that the government should first announce holding early polls. “The government should announce holding early elections and we are …

QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) and National Party held separate protest rallies in Quetta and other parts of the province on Sunday against the bill passed by the parliament on Reko Diq agreement. In Quetta, a huge BNP-M rally began from the Metropolitan Corporation where party leaders and workers had gathered. The participants of the rally marched through the main …

Eight people lost their lives and 25 were injured in a head-on collision of buses that occurred due to fog on Indus Highway near Shahwali in Rajanpur district of Punjab. All of the deaths occurred on the spot, rescue officials said, adding that among the deceased was a seven-year-old boy. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals after cutting through …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the federal government to submit details of Toshakhana gifts received by political rulers and bureaucrats from foreign dignitaries since the creation of Pakistan. The court directed the government to submit the details by January 16 and also sought records pertaining to the purchase of these assets since 1947. The directives were issued …

Talks between the government and militants — who took over the Bannu Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) compound a day earlier — did not result in any breakthrough despite the lapse of almost 15 hours. On Sunday, detained militants inside the CTD facility took over its compound, held interrogators hostage and demanded safe evacuation to Afghanistan. The situation in Bannu remained tense on …