Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is expected to approve $30 million for Pakistan to launch a comprehensive programme to control the Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) that has invaded the country’s livestock a few months ago. The World Bank agreed to the government’s request to utilise the undisbursed funds against the loan of $200 million that was approved for the locust control …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted a search committee comprising seven members which will undertake the task of appointing members to the Medical and Dental Council and the National Medical and Dental Academic Board of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC). The committee will invite applications from candidates fulfilling the prerequisites through advertisements and then follow the necessary process for …

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: In the wake of daily protests by the general public and traders against inflated electricity bills, a local lawyer on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the federal government to either withdraw completely or at least reduce to some extent the Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) charges and other surcharges from the utility bills. Meanwhile, the Lahore …

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has alleged that former prime minister Imran Khan was behind the narcotics case against him and rubbished the notion that the army was behind it. “When I was in the opposition, in one of the briefings [in parliament] I complained to [Chief of Army Staff] General [Qamar Javed] Bajwa that a false case has been registered against me …

PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, who has been arrested on charges of sedition and inciting mutiny in the army, approached a sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday for post-arrest bail till the disposal of the case. Gill was arrested on August 9 after he made controversial remarks allegedly about the army during an ARY News bulletin and has been detained since, amid claims of him …

PTI chief Imran Khan was granted interim pre-arrest bail in two cases registered against him in connection with a PTI rally held in Islamabad on August 20. The former prime minister has been booked in a terrorism case for his controversial remarks about a female judge at the rally while a separate first information report (FIR) has been registered against him on …

HYDERABAD/KARACHI: Less than a week before the date of polling for the second phase of local government elections in Sindh, deputy commissioners of as many as 10 districts in Hyderabad and Karachi divisions approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) asking them either to postpone the electoral process or review the situation due to devastation caused by torrential rains, it …

KARACHI: The Sindh government has declared 23 districts of the province calamity-hit where the torrential rains played havoc causing heavy loss of human life, livestock and standing Kharif crops besides destroying thousands of mud-thatched houses, roads and bridges. According to a notification issued by the provincial relief commissioner late on Sunday, Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin, Tando Mohammad Khan, Dadu, Sujawal, Tando …

ISLAMABAD: During the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government – three years and eight months – in the 15th National Assembly, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari of the PPPP was the most vocal lawmaker with a recorded talk time of one hour and 59 minutes, according to a Pildat analysis. Then leader of the opposition Shehbaz Sharif of the PML-N got the …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday held that bail should be granted to women accused as a rule irrespective of the category of offence, but in case of refusal then it should be an exception. “In cases of women, as mentioned in the first proviso to Section 497(1), irrespective of the category of the offence, bail is to be …