Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: In a first step towards conservation of wildlife at buffer zones along highways and motorways, the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) has signed an agreement with the Punjab Wildlife Department to curb poaching and trapping of birds and animals. Since the vast and uninhabited area adjoining the motorways and in parts along highways do not properly fall under …

KARACHI: While City Administrator Barrister Murtaza Wahab said on Saturday that there was no proposal on table for inclusion of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan in the provincial cabinet, government sources said there was a strong possibility that the latter might be formally invited after Eidul Fitr by the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party to join the Sindh government. Confiding this to Dawn, …

RAWALPINDI: Murree Tourism Police was on Saturday launchedto facilitate and protect tourists in the resort station on the instructions of the inspector general of police (IGP), Punjab. Regional Police Officer (RPO) Rawalpindi Ashfaq Ahmad Khan and City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Omar Saeed Malik inaugurated the tourism police at Lower Topa. The tourism police initially included 150 officers and personnel, …

LAHORE: After weeks of uncertainty and court cases, PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz on Saturday finally managed to take oath as the 21st chief minister of Punjab following court orders in this regard, while the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) remains in denial mode, calling the CM’s election “unconstitutional and disputed” and insisting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son cannot be accepted as the chief executive of the …

ISLAMABAD: Banners inscribed with slogans in favour of armed forces appeared in different areas of Islamabad on Saturday. During a visit to different localities, dozens of banners were found hanging on poles installed at the road dividers and trees on Expressway and Faisal Avenue from Faizabad to Faisal Masjid, Dhokri Chowk, I-9 and Srinagar Chowk. So far it is yet …

A case was registered in Faisalabad against PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan and other top figures of the previous government, it emerged on Sunday, days after pilgrims converged on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s delegation and chanted slogans in Masjid-i-Nabwi. The FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, has been registered under Sections 295 (harming or defiling a place …

LAHORE: The country’s persistent water crisis has taken a turn for the worse, as the cumulative river supplies dipped to 97,000 cubic feet per second (cusecs) on Saturday, taking the national shortage to a whopping 51 per cent against the 29pc calculated previously. To put Saturday’s cumulative supplies in context, the figure was 121,000 cusecs on the same day (April …

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will discuss the possibility of “augmenting” the kingdom’s $3 billion deposit in Pakistan’s central bank by extending its term “or through other options,” a joint statement said on Sunday. Last year, Saudi Arabia deposited $3 billion in the State Bank of Pakistan to help support its foreign reserves. With a yawning current account deficit and foreign reserves falling …

PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday defended Farah Khan, a close aide of his wife Bushra Bibi as “absolutely innocent” as he described the corruption inquiry against her as a “political vendetta” against him. His remarks come days after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) initiated an inquiry against her for allegedly possessing “illegal assets beyond known sources of …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the government to publish official results of the seventh population and housing census by year end. It made the request in a letter to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs secretary. Identical letters have also been written to the planning ministry’s secretary and support services member of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. …