Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday ordered stern action against sugar barons involved in profiteering and hoarding adding to the misery of inflation-hit people. “The state will take strict action against the profiteers who were the enemies of the poor masses,” Mr Khan said while chairing a review meeting on sale price and hoarding of sugar. The PM directed the …

A district and sessions court in Islamabad indicted 12 persons, including prime accused Zahir Jaffer, for their alleged involvement in the murder of Noor Mukadam, whose body was found at a residence in Islamabad’s upscale Sector F-7/4 on July 20 earlier this year. Besides Zahir, the court framed charges against Zahir’s parents, Zakir Jaffer and Asmat Adamjee, their three household …

ISLAMABAD: The season’s highest number of dengue cases was reported in the capital on Thursday. DHO Dr Zaeem Zia said 125 cases emerged on Thursday which was the highest since Oct 9 when 121 cases were reported. He said 78 were reported from rural and 47 from urban areas of the capital. He said 29 patients were admitted at the …

A leopard pauses to take a cautious look around before continuing its way through the thick forest in the Margalla Hills overlooking Islamabad — once a rare sight, but now one recorded and tracked by software and cameras. The cat, once found all over Pakistan but increasingly endangered as humans encroach on their habitat, has been recorded painstakingly by the …

RAWALPINDI: University students on Thursday gathered to demonstrate their engineering skills and participated in an eco-marathon with vehicles that they had made themselves. The event titled Shell Eco-Marathon 2021 was organised by Shell Pakistan. Students from leading Pakistani universities demonstrated performance of their self-built vehicles from two categories: ‘Prototype’ (Battery powered) or ‘Urban Concept’ (Gasoline run). The vehicles were evaluated …

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Thursday claimed that emissions in Pakistan were down by 9 percent. “The government as a party to the Paris agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has performed its role to support the global efforts in combating climate change. We are elated to …

ISLAMABAD: An additional attorney general (AAG) on Thursday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the federal government was working on the policy of allotment of plots to judges and bureaucrats and would revise the criteria within a month. AAG Qasim Wadud stated this before a IHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, during …

ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s plan to hold local government polls in the province in three phases, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday expressed its desire for completion of the electoral process for the lowest tier of government by March 2022. The commission, which met here with Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja in the chair, however, …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued directives to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to collect Rs33 million from culprits involved in vandalising and torching of a century-old Samadhi (shrine) of a Hindu saint in the Teri village of Karak district. A three-judge SC bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, issued the directive to the provincial government while hearing the …

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has fired over 1,500 employees recruited on forged documents. The airline is also simplifying and reforming its human resource processes by inducting e-PIA workers portal. This was revealed during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation held under the chairmanship of Senator Hidayatullah at the Old PIPS Halls, Parliament Lodges, on Wednesday. Aviation …