Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: An official of an international organisation was allegedly raped by her security guard in the capital while a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Kahuta area. In the first incident, the official, who is a foreign national, approached Aabpara police to register a complaint against a security guard deployed at her residence who she alleged raped her. According to …

KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: The K-Electric on Wednesday announced that it would carry out three hours of loadshedding daily in the city’s so-called exempted, or low-loss, areas. Consumers living in so-called low-loss areas within KE’s service territory were earlier exempted from loadshedding. A KE spokesman told Dawn that new loadshedding regime was planned to provide a relief of one to two …

LAHORE: A sessions court on Wednesday directed Allama Iqbal Town police to act in accordance with law on an application of PTI MPA Mian Aslam Iqbal seeking registration of a case against Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz and other government functionaries for alleged raid at his residence and harassment caused to family members. The MPA filed a petition with the court …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at the latter’s residence in Islamabad, apparently to discuss the forthcoming by-elections on 20 vacant seats of Punjab Assembly and the fiscal budget 2022-23 to be announced on Friday (June 10). According to the Prime Minister Office, PM Sharif, along with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday dropped hints of determining the constitutionality of two distinct decisions made by different high courts about Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amended) Ordinance (PECA) that criminalised defamation. Headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a two-judge Supreme Court (SC) bench, also stayed until the next hearing a defamation trial against singer …

A group of unidentified people vandalised a Hindu temple in the Korangi area of Karachi on Wednesday night, desecrating an idol. According to an FIR registered at the Korangi police station, five men on motorcycles stopped by the temple late last night and inquired about the whereabouts of the pundit (caretaker). “At that time, there were just two workers inside …

President Arif Alvi on Thursday appointed Ahad Cheema, a former civil servant and senior bureaucrat, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s adviser on establishment. Cheema’s was the first high profile arrest in Punjab by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) before the general elections of 2018. The bureau had arrested him on February 21, 2018, when he appeared before its investigation team in an …

ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers on Wednesday passed 11 bills — many of them dealing with issues of a serious nature, in a non-serious environment — without discussion and without even having quorum on a dull private member’s day in the National Assembly. Of the 11 approved bills, eight were adopted by the lower house after suspending rules and without referring them to …

The Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the federal government on two separate petitions pertaining to loadshedding and inflation, as people across the country continue to roil from prolonged power cuts. The Judicial Activism Panel filed the two petitions — on loadshedding and inflation — which were taken up by Justice Shahid Karim today. The petitions were …

MNA and famous television show host Aamir Liaquat Husain has passed away in Karachi, DIG East Muquddas Haider told Dawn.com on Thursday. He was 50. The police officer said Husain’s condition deteriorated early in the morning after which he was taken to the Aga Khan University Hospital, where he was later declared dead. He added that preliminary reports show no foul play, …