Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Senior politician Syed Kabir Ali Wasti died due to cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 78. His funeral prayers were offered at Makki Masjid Commercial Market near his residence in Satellite Town, which was attended by PPP General Secretary Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and other senior politicians and public. Mr Wasti was close aide to Malik Qasim of Pakistan Muslim …

KARACHI: The fast crumbling city infrastructure, poor road conditions and damaged thoroughfares following a few spells of monsoon rains have started taking toll on the recently launched Peoples Bus Service as in less than two months of its launch, the Sindh government has compelled to suspend its one route, cut short another and faces a serious challenge in completing the …

QUETTA: The largest province remained disconnected from the country on Saturday as 12 more people lost their lives as a result of devastation caused by torrential rains and flash floods, officials told Dawn. In view of the worsening situation, Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa ordered Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor, who heads the Southern Command, to assist the provincial government in …

Polling continued in the by-election in the NA-245 constituency of Karachi on Sunday, as voters are set to pick a representative for the seat that was vacated by the late Aamir Liaquat Hussain of the PTI. The process, which began at 8am this morning and will continue till 5pm, saw low turnout when even more than six hours since polling …

Pakistan on Sunday firmly rejected the “recent spate of false terrorism-related assertions” by India, stating that some “detached” purported incidents were being presented as a “so-called terror plot”. In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad referred to recent incidents reported by the Indian media. “In order to build on this orchestrated ‘terrorism’ narrative against Pakistan, a section of …

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said the government was holding legal consultations on whether to file a separate case against PTI Chairman Imran Khan for his “provocative speech” a day ago or nominate him in a previous case. In a press conference in Islamabad, the minister called out Imran for allegedly threatening institutions and preventing officers from performing their …

LAHORE: The federal government is set to begin a drive to vaccinate 16 million school-going children of Punjab and Sindh in the age group of five to 11 years, against Covid-19 from Sept 19, as it is likely to receive 36 million pediatric doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from the US next week. This is the first time the government …

QUETTA/GILGIT: Torren­tial rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc in Balochistan, killing six people and sweeping away a major gas pipeline on Friday in a province already cut off from the rest of the country through both roads and rail links. Meanwhile, flooding in rivers and streams across Gilgit-Baltistan continued to affect lives and infrastructure. In Balochistan, the latest …

TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad police registered on Friday a case against 12 nominated and 150 unidentified suspects, all followers of a known spiritual leader of the area, for creating chaos during a qawwali programme on the death anniversary of legend vocalist the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (NFAK) at the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Auditorium at the Punjab Arts Council …

ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee on Law and Justice of Senate on Friday observed loopholes in the process for appointment of judges in the superior judiciary and stressed the need for empowering the parliamentary committee for such appointments. The committee’s chairman, Barrister Ali Zafar, said that without independence of judiciary no nation could progress or society function and no state could …