Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has launched regular service to Iraq, as the first scheduled flight of the national carrier, which had departed for Najaf on Oct 30, returned to Karachi on Sunday morning. PIA had been previously operating special flights to Najaf. When the first scheduled flight (PK-219) of the national carrier with Iraqi Ambassador Hamid Abbas Lufta and …

ISLAMABAD: As the mercury continues to fall, the number of dengue fever cases in the federal capital reduced by over 50 per cent. While the city was reporting over 100 cases of dengue per day, according to District Health Officer Dr Zaeem Zia only 46 cases were reported on Sunday. However, a person succumbed to the virus taking the number …

RAWALPINDI: Life in the city began returning to normality on Sunday night when the City Traffic Police started removing containers, concrete blocks and barricades from Murree Road and its arteries after the government and the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) reached an agreement. The traffic police in a press statement said containers were being removed from roads that were blocked. The …

ISLAMABAD: The Sup­reme Court will take up on Monday (today) a set of petitions moved by the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) and its director general seeking the court’s protection against “obstacles in carrying out lawful pursuits and developing acquired lands” to provide accommodation to the homeless. The cases will be heard by a three-judge Supreme Court bench consisting …

GUJRAT: Following announcement of an “agreement” reached between the government and the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), the local authorities have started preparations for removing the obstacles on the bridges of Chenab and Jhelum rivers on the GT Road as the machinery and equipment required for filling the trenches have reached there. However, to launch the road clearance operation, the local …

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) president Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that it’s time for all stakeholders to take a clear stand vis-à-vis the country’s economy and foreign policy to meet the challenges created by the “inept and illegal PTI government”. Addressing a PDM public meeting here on Sunday night, he warned that any attempt to rig the …

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Monday announced that an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the revival of the $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) had been reached and a formal accord will be signed later this week. The deadlock between the Pakistan government and the IMF broke after the two sides decided …

Bitcoin, the rogue digital currency, is a fixture in the news. Last week, the formal launch of the very first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund raked in investment worth 550 million dollars on just the first day alone. And Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high, crossing 66,000 dollars per Bitcoin. Crypto-mania is surging in Pakistan too: we reportedly rank third globally, behind India and …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday rejected the nomination papers of Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema for the NA-133 (Lahore) by-poll over anomalies found in his candidature. The nomination papers of his wife, Musarrat Cheema, who was his covering candidate were also rejected for similar reasons. According to Returning Officer (RO) Syed …

MULTAN: Police seem reluctant to register a case against an industrialist after recovery of subsidised sugar hoarded at his biscuit factory. A team of the district administration led by Assistant Commissioner (city) Khwaja Umair Mahmood raided a biscuit factory at Mumtazabad on Central Jail Road and recovered huge stock of sugar. The team arrested an official and later in continuity …