Pakistan

Senator Shaukat Tarin was administered oath as the Federal Minister of Finance and Revenue by President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad. After the oath, the president also extended felicitations to the newly-sworn in member of the federal cabinet. The ceremony was attended by federal and provincial ministers, State Bank of …

RAWALPINDI: A 29-year-old man has confessed to killing his former wife, an American national of Pakistani origin, and burying her body in Lakki Marwat, disclosed Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Sajid Kiani on Saturday. While addressing a press conference, the police chief said suspect Rizwan Habib Bangash had murdered his ex-wife Wajiha Farooq Swati, 47, after kidnapping her and shifted …

ISLAMABAD: No emplo­yer can terminate the services of its employees on mere verbal instructions without any written order containing explicit reasons or cause for termination, the Supreme Court has held. Authored by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar, a verdict issued by the apex court emphasised that there was no provision under the Labour Laws or the Service Laws permitting the employer …

ISLAMABAD: In a tit-for-tat move against Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-Epa)’s direction to stop work on Margalla Avenue, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has issued two notices to the environment watchdog asking it to bring its building under conforming use and remove encroachment from an adjacent plot. According to the EPA, Margalla Avenue was being constructed without an environment impact …

TAXILA: Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday admitted that the PTI would learn from the defeat in local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and would repeat mistakes in Punjab. He was talking to newsmen after performing inauguration of Sangjani-Paswal road rehabilitation project which would be completed at the cost of Rs700 million during the current fiscal year. …

ISLAMABAD: Religious scholars from all over the country have lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stance on ‘Namoos-i-Risalat’ [respecting the sanctity of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)] and thanked him for understanding the sentiments of the Muslims. In a joint statement, the religious scholars said the stand taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan before the world on Namoos-i-Risalat and Islamophobia had become …

ISLAMABAD: Amid the ongoing government efforts for wildlife conservation through community invo­lve­ment and afforestation in the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday shared a rare footage of a snow leopard roaming and roaring over the snowy mountains in the Khaplu area of Gilgit Baltistan. “Rare footage of the shy snow leopard in Khaplu, GB,” the prime minister captioned the …

KARACHI: Describing it as a ‘healthy’ competition between the federal and the Sindh governments to build Bus Rapid Transit Service (BRTS) for Karachi to provide modern transport system to more than 20 million citizens of the city, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Saturday challenged the provincial government of the PPP to bring in a better bus service than the federal …

LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz has said that the only solution to Pakistan’s problems lies in fresh, free and fair elections. Speaking at a ceremony here on Saturday, the PML-N leader said as long as there was no civilian supremacy the country couldn’t move forward. “Imran Khan is a fake prime minister as he has come to …

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday assailed the Sharif family and branded them the “Sicilian mafia” after a report published in The Express Tribune stated that former Gilgit-Baltistan chief justice Rana Shamim’s affidavit against former top judge Mian Saqib Nisar was notarised at the office of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif. Shamim’s affidavit, whose existence came to light last month in a …