Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Residents of Bahria Town Phase 7 and 8 have been protesting against electricity loadshedding and water shortage for the last few days. More than 200 people gathered near the Statue of Liberty monument in the housing society and staged a peaceful demonstration. The protesters carried placards inscribed with slogans, demanding end to power loadshedding. “On June 8, the Bahria …

LAHORE: Moonis Elahi, a PML-Q leader and former federal minister, has described as a “pressure tactic” a series of media reports suggesting that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to launch a money-laundering probe against him. A number of TV channels claimed in a report on Sunday that the FIA had obtained “sufficient evidence” to launch a money-laundering case …

LAHORE: The Chief Minister’s Office has notified that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA from Dera Ghazi Khan Sardar Awais Leghari will present the provincial budget 2022-23 in the Punjab Assembly’s session on Monday (today). An eight-member cabinet had taken oath of office in the first phase of the cabinet formation on May 30 but none of them has so far been …

ISLAMABAD: PTI chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said the present government was taking the country to the verge of economic collapse and feared that if his party again came to power, it would be compelled to make compromise on the future and security of the country. He said the present coalition government led by the PML-N had no plan to …

ISLAMABAD: Following ceasefire announced by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday formed a committee to engage other political parties for taking up the issue in parliament. According to the PPP secretariat, the party chairman in continuation of the party meeting on Saturday discussed the issue of terrorism in the country, particularly …

KARACHI: Police on Saturday informed a court that suspects who gang-raped a young woman in a moving train also filmed the entire episode to blackmail the victim. The investigating officer of the case, Inspector Habibullah Khattak, submitted this before Judicial Magistrate (South) Shahnawaz in a progress report. The Railway police had arrested five staffers of the privately managed Bahaudin Zakria …

PESHAWAR: Over 200 wildfires damaged forests and pastures over an area of 14,430 acres in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during past two weeks. Of the 210 wildfire incidents, some 55 blazes have been started intentionally by local people and 12 ascribed to dry weather conditions while the cause of another 143 blazes is unknown, according to a report compiled …

ISLAMABAD: Brother of former National Assembly speaker on Saturday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against his likely eviction from a mega entertainment zone and bowling club in F-9 Park which according to the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) was in his illegal possession for the last two years. The facility, spread over three acres, has become …

LAHORE: Punjab is set to propose the highest-ever Annual Development Programme (ADP) in its annual budget for the 2022-23 fiscal scheduled to be tabled in the provincial assembly on Monday (tomorrow). “I cannot confirm you the exact size of the ADP right now as it will go public after an approval by the provincial cabinet ahead of the budget session. …

A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred during an “intense exchange of fire” with terrorists in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan tribal district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the exchange of fire took place between terrorists and Pakistan Army troops during which the latter “fought bravely and …