Pakistan

KARACHI: Police on Monday filed a charge sheet against five staffers of a privately run train for facilitating and raping a female passenger in. The Railway police had booked five employees of Multan-Karachi Bahauddin Zakaria Express for allegedly sexually assaulting the 25-year-old victim on May 27. The incident had sparked an outrage on social media criticising the Pakistan Railways authorities …

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought a report from the defence ministry on alleged harassment of Baloch students and directed secretaries of Ministry of Human Rights and Senate to appear before the court in person and explain reasons why a meeting of the commission formed to probe into grievances of Baloch students had not yet been held. Hearing …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Monday sent a request to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to reduce the sales tax on locally manufactured pharmaceutical products. Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) President Qazi Mansoor Dilawar at a press conference said the 17pc sales tax had been reduced to one per cent and thanked the government for the move. …

LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has launched an income beyond means investigation against the director (special branch) of the south Punjab police. An ACE official told Dawn on Monday that an investigation had been launched against Ameer Taimoor (director of the special branch in south Punjab), who is former chief minister Usman Buzdar’s uncle. Taimoor who also remained the Sahiwal district police …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday reconstituted the 18-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to review the prevailing economic conditions and propose stabilisation measures and corrective actions within the available resources. This replaces an earlier 22-member EAC the PM had constituted on April 29 that also included members from the coalition partners and some leading businessmen who have come under …

Pakistan has received combined economic and financial targets for the seventh and eighth reviews of its International Monetary Fund bailout programme, finance minister Miftah Ismail said on Tuesday. “Early this morning, the government of Pakistan has received an MEFP from the IMF for combined 7th and 8th reviews,” Ismail tweeted. A Memorandum of Economic and Finance Policy (MEFP) contains certain …

Unidentified assailants shot and killed two police officers assigned to polio vaccination teams and a polio worker in North Waziristan’s Datta Khel area on Tuesday, the district’s polio emergency response unit said. The victims were busy with polio vaccinations when they came under attack, an official said, adding that a child was also injured during the incident after he was …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that he was informed by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail that Pakistan could receive $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “Miftah Ismail relayed a message in the morning saying that we will hopefully be receiving not $1bn from the IMF, but $2bn. I replied by saying that our real goal is [achieving] …

The Karachi police on Tuesday used tear gas and baton-charged protesting residents of Lyari near the Mauripur road, who took to the streets against K-Electric for carrying out unannounced and prolonged power loadshedding and frequent breakdowns. The demonstrators, who have been protesting since last night, burnt tyres and blocked the road for traffic — which links the Karachi Port Trust …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Riaz Pirzada claimed that some of the “missing persons” had been “engaged” by detained Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav or by neighbouring countries. The minister made the claim during an exclusive interview with DawnNews aired on Sunday night. “Some of these (missing persons) have been killed in terrorist activities ….. who were engaged by Kulbhushan Jadhav or …