Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Unknown persons allegedly vandalised the sculpture of a symbolic brave woman, installed in the city’s Kachnar Park in I-8 sector, exposing the utter inefficiency of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) as the park management remained oblivious to this tragedy until the issue was highlighted on social media. However, the CDA has been denying this by saying that no incident …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday reserved its verdict on the maintainability of a petition seeking the removal of Imran Khan as the PTI chief after his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference. Justice Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi presided over the hearing to decide whether the plea was admissible for further proceedings. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had disqualified Imran in …

ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus booster shots vaccination has been underway in the country at a lethargic pace, sources at the Ministry for National Health said on Wednesday. Pakistan has so far vaccinated 43.92 million people with booster shots with Punjab and Azad Kashmir ahead, sources said. “The country’s 35 percent population has been inoculated with booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine,” according …

ISLAMABAD: As many as two dozen policemen were dismissed from the force on Tuesday over their absence from special duty. The personnel had been deployed at different spots – some inside the Red Zone –in connection with the long march of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). Officials of the capital police said those who were dismissed were constables and head constables. These …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakh­tunkhwa police department on Tuesday restrained its personnel from taking part in PTI’s long march towards Islamabad, according to a letter issued by the department. The PTI — which is in power in KP — started its ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’ march towards Islamabad on Friday. The letter, addressed to all regional police officers, cautioned them to “not violate …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: The long march of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is likely to enter Islamabad via Murree Road after making camps at two separate locations in Rawalpindi. Senior police officials told Dawn that details collected by the capital police about the PTI’s long march suggested that the participants of the long march were likely to camp between Mandra and Gujar Khan on their …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan Democratic Movement chairman and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday claimed that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader and former prime minister Imran Khan wanted martial law to be imposed in the country if the federal government didn’t appoint the next army chief of his choice. He said the government won’t make any compromise on the supremacy of the …

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi has accorded his assent to three bills earlier passed by parliament, the Presidency said in a press release on Tuesday. The bills included Torture and Custodial Death (Prev­e­­ntion and Punishment) Bill, 2022; Anti-Dumping Duties (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and Trade Organisations (Ame­n­­­dment) Bill, 2022. The bills, approved under Article 75 of the Constitution, became laws after the …

China will continue to support Pakistan in stabilising its financial situation, state media quoted China’s President Xi Jinping as saying on Wednesday. China and Pakistan should move forward more effectively with the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as well as accelerate the construction of infrastructure for the Gwadar Sea Port, state media reported Xi as saying. The Chinese …

LAHORE: With the start of ‘fifth season’ of smog, the provincial capital of Lahore was spotted as the most polluted city in the world with hazardous levels of air quality when this report was filed at 8pm on Tuesday. Once termed the city of gardens, the air quality level of Lahore is continuously falling to hazardous levels. On Monday, the …