Pakistan

KARACHI: A man was electrocuted as the metropolis received intermittent rain with brief heavy spells on the third consecutive day on Friday wreaking havoc on the ill-maintained civic infrastructure, fragile transmission and distribution system of the K-Electric as well as the vehicular traffic on major thoroughfares. The maximum rainfall — 66.7 millimetres or 2.62 inches — was recorded in Saadi …

HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s district leadership on Friday claimed that Pak Sarzameen Party’s activists barged into their office at Bhai Khan Ki Chari and ransacked it. Reports from the locality suggested that the incident took place while PSP activists led by Syed Mustafa Kamal and Anis Kaimkhani passed by the MQM office. According to MQM’s district organiser Zafar Siddiqui, some …

QUETTA: The Account­ability Court of Quetta on Friday rejected a bail plea of Balochistan Development Authority’s (BDA) former chairman Ata Mohammad Jaffar in the Reko Diq corruption case filed by the anti-graft watchdog. The National Accounta­bility Bureau has accused Mr Jaffar of causing a loss of trillions of rupees to the national exchequer by his corruption. Accountability Court Judge Munawar …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa excise, taxation and narcotics control department on Friday suspended eight officials for hosting a TikToker from Rawalpindi at the narcotics police station on Sept 1. Peshawar assistant excise and taxation officer Syed Naveed Jamal was suspended in the same case on Thursday with the department ordering an inquiry against him. The Friday notification issued by the …

ISLAMABAD: The accountability court of Islamabad on Friday convicted the owner of Safa Gold Mall and four officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in connection with the construction of additional storeys in the mall at F-7. Accountability judge Azam Khan sentenced the mall owner Rana Abdul Qayyum to seven years’ imprisonment with a fine of Rs1 billion, ex-deputy director …

SWABI: Rivals killed popular Pashto folksinger, Kifayat Shah Bacha, at the entrance of a mosque during the Friday prayers here, and injured his teenage nephew, the police said. Zarnabi Khan, a Sub-Inspector who visited the site, told Dawn that when the singer was removing his shoes his rivals opened fire, killing him on the spot. He said his 14-year-old nephew, Barjad Bacha …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Friday said it never extended any support to the government against Justice Qazi Faez Isa rather maintained its stance that the government should withdraw its so-called petition against him. In a statement, SCBA Secretary Ahmed Shehzad Farooq Rana, who was also present at a meeting between the executive committee of the association …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) informed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday that shortage of staff was hampering the recoveries of about Rs1.8 trillion. A meeting of the PAC, chaired by its chairman Rana Tanveer Hussain, was examining the FBR’s audit report for the year 2019-20. A member of the PAC, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, pointed out that …

ISLAMABAD: The Attorney General’s (AG) office moved a petition before the Supreme Court on Friday to seek review of a July 6 judgement in which the court had held that the Protection Against Harass­ment of Women at the Workplace Act of 2010 (PAHWWA) was a cosmetic legislation that blinkered in its application. Filed through Deputy Attorney General Syed Nayab Hussain …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Raza Rabbani has warned the government against taking any decision without national consensus about electoral reforms, stating that it can put the democratic system at stake. “Any step taken, major issues decided or legislation done, in connection with electoral reforms, without a consensus among all stakeholders will not be accepted and will put the entire …