Pakistan

GILGIT: A three-member family expedition team, including a teenage girl, has scaled the 6,400-meter Khusar Gang Peak in Shigar district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Fifteen-year-old female mountaineer Amina Shigri along with her father, Sharafat Ali Khawaja, and brother, Ahmed Ali, had started the adventure without any sponsors on August 27. According to Baltistan Tour Operators Association, the family team raised the Pakistani …

ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition are again likely to miss the 45-day constitutional deadline for the appointment of two members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif has rejected all six nominees of Prime Minister Imran Khan, but is yet to suggest his own names. Mr Sharif, who is also the president of the Pakistan Muslim …

ISLAMABAD: Protesters blocked Srinagar Highway on Saturday after a trader was killed in an alleged police crossfire. An FIR over the incident was registered after the victim’s family, relatives and traders’ community placed the body on the highway and refused to end their protest till legal action was taken against those involved in the incident. The deceased was identified as …

RAWALPINDI: Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Mohammad Ali on Saturday expressed concerns over the increasing number of Covid-19 cases and asked the cantonment boards to fully implement the standard operating procedures (SOPs) in ongoing campaigns for the local government elections scheduled to be held on Sept 12. On Saturday, six lives were lost to the virus in the district along with 267 …

ISLAMABAD: A real estate joint venture between the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Intelligence Bureau’s (IB) housing scheme has missed the completion deadline, compelling NAB to mount pressure on IB for handing over the plots to it without further delay. According to documents available with Dawn, the NAB Welfare Cell and the Intelligence Bureau Employees Cooperative Housing Society (IBECHS) during …

LAHORE: A duty judge for a special court (offences in bank) on Saturday expressed his displeasure over the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for its slow pace of investigation in the money-laundering and sugar scam case against Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza. Duty Judge Aslam Gondal regretted that the FIA had written only four …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haq has said that the auction of additional spectrum for the country is scheduled for Sept 16, however no new entrant has applied to participate in the auction. He said that the IT ministry would launch a new social media platform for federal government employees by the end of September, …

Four people were martyred and 20 injured on Sunday in a suicide attack near a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost on Mastung Road in Quetta, Deputy Inspector General of Quetta police Azhar Akram confirmed. He said that 18 of the injured were security officials while two were bystanders, adding that the number of casualties could rise. A suicide bomber on a …

ISLAMABAD: Therapyworks Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tahir Zahoor Ahmed on Saturday said Zahir Jaffer, the alleged killer of Noor Mukadam, was alcoholic but not insane. Addressing a news conference at the National Press Club, Mr Ahmed said during Zahir’s physical examination, which he conducted on his parents’ request, the suspect was found addicted to alcohol. He therefore asked him to …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) head and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government wanted to stifle the voice of media through the media authority bill. But he would support journalist community in their struggle for press freedom, said the chief of the PDM, an alliance of …