Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A warrant for arrest of a spokesperson for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has been issued by senior special magistrate of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Thursday, Dawn has learnt. The arrest warrant was issued from the court of Special Magistrate M. Sardar Asif and sent to Bhara Kahu police to arrest M. Ali Khan Saif of the PTI, police and …

Five people were killed and three injured in the early hours of Friday when a passenger coach fell into a ditch near Rahim Kot in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) capital, Muzaffarabad, according to local police. According to Superintendent of Police Sultan Awan, the passengers were going from Rawalpindi to their hometown of Mushtamba in Rahim Kot when the accident …

PTI leader Shahbaz Gill — who has been facing a number of cases since his controversial comments about the military establishment — was brought to an Islamabad district and sessions court in an ambulance, DawnNewsTV reported on Friday. Footage broadcast on television showed Gill lying on a stretcher and apparently convulsing with an oxygen mask.     Last month, the PTI leader …

GUJRAT: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi rejected on Thursday the senior ruling coalition partner’s demand to take a vote of confidence from the provincial assembly. “Since I do not consider the governor’s order (seeking trust vote) as legal and legitimate, I will not go for it since it will legalise an illegal move,” he told media during his visit …

ZEENAT CHAUDHARY: When was Tetra Pak established in Pakistan? AWAIS BIN NASIM: Tetra Pak, headquartered in Sweden, is one of three companies owned by the Tetra Laval Group. About 40 years ago, Syed Babar Ali brought it to Pakistan as a joint venture with Packages Limited. Today, our customers include most of the major local dairy and juice producers like …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined the international community in condemning Israel’s new far-right national security minister’s provocative visit on Tuesday to Al-Aqsa mosque compound, warning that breaching the sanctity of the holy site could inflame tensions in occupied Palestinian territories. “Al-Aqsa is a holy site revered by Muslims around the world. Violation of its sanctity offends the religious sensitivities of Muslims and inflames …

Former premier and PTI Chairman Imran Khan has alleged that former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa had planned to have him murdered and impose a state of emergency in the country, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. The startling allegation was said to be made during his interaction with a Bol News team in Lahore. Bol’s Lahore bureau chief Syed Khawar …

ISLAMABAD: After a month-long hiatus in multiple deaths from coronavirus in a single day, two patients died the same day, an official of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) said on Wednesday. A six-year-old child suffering from blood cancer died due to Covid-19 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while in Sindh the virus claimed the life of a 75-year-old person, an …

Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori has said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) “will remain part of” the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — the ruling coalition government. Responding to a question in the show ‘Live with Adil Shahzeb’ on Dawn News which aired on Wednesday, the governor expressed the hope that such a situation will not occur in which disagreements between the MQM and PPP …

LONDON: Pakistan Mus­­­lim League-Nawaz sup­­remo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, the party’s newly-appointed senior vice president, left London for a week-long trip to Geneva where the senior Sharif will undergo medical check-ups. Their visit coincides with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s attendance at the UN-led donors conference, where the premier will appeal to the international community for assistance for …