Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: With no let-up in Covid-19 cases, 32 streets in the capital were sealed on Sunday while health authorities recommended smart lockdowns in 17 areas of Rawalpindi district. As many as 555 people were found infected by the virus in both districts, with the positivity rate in the capital touching 10.6pc. On the other hand, while violation of standard operating …

DADU: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has termed Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah’s government a security risk for the country as the chief minister went ahead with his decision on lockdown against NCOC’s advice just to disrupt economic activities in Karachi, which had barely started recovering from the ill-effects of earlier protracted lockdown. …

A sessions court in Lahore on Monday extended till August 16 the interim bail granted to PML-N leaders Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz in the sugar scam case, after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted a report on their investigation into the case. Shehbaz and his son, Hamza, are facing Rs25 billion money laundering charges in the sugar scandal. The …

NAROWAL: A worker of a landlord allegedly sold the underage daughter of a labourer for Rs0.5m after abducting her from village Akalgarh near Narowal. Muhammad Rashid, a resident of Akalgarh village, said his 15-year-old daughter Mafia Rashid was abducted by Ghulam Abbas, the employee of a landlord, a resident of Qadirpur, Multan. Abbas aka Heera had been working at Chaudhry …

HYDERABAD: Motorcade of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Haleem Adil Sheikh was pelted with eggs and stones while passing by Zardari House in Nawabshah on Sunday. Sheikh told reporters in Hyderabad that PTI activists managed to catch hold of Sindh Peoples Youth Organisation’s district president Asad Zardari from among the miscreants and beaten him up. He had left Nawabshah press club and reached …

ISLAMABAD: The government is set to move a resolution in the National Assembly seeking to extend the constitutional life of the controversial Election (Second Amendment) Ordin­ance 2021 for another 120 days which is to expire next month. The resolution seeking extension in the period of the ordinance authorising the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to purchase electronic voting machines (EVMs) …

LAHORE: The ‘Aurat March’ Faisalabad was cancelled on Sunday allegedly under pressure from the city administration, which did not give the organisers the no objection certificate (NOC). The students, civil society and women had planned to organise the Aurat March to raise a voice against “ongoing femicide and protest the brutal murders of women all over the country in the …

RAWALPINDI: Security agencies were put on alert on Sunday after police learnt that a group of individuals were flying Afghanistan’s national flag as well as that of the Taliban at Islamabad’s Lake View Park. The Lake View Park, located near Malpur village and along Murree Road, is not far from important government buildings, including the Parliament House, and is administered …

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi on Saturday criticised the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for reportedly trying to stop international cricketers from taking part in the Kashmir Premier League (KPL). Speaking at a press conference, Mr Afridi urged the International Cricket Council to take notice of the tactics employed by the …

LAHORE: Following persistent increase in positivity ratio of Delta variant cases and detection of California strain of Covid-19 in the city, the Punjab government imposed a smart lockdown in 13 areas of Lahore on Saturday. The lockdown was imposed in seven streets of Samanabad, two of Allama Iqbal Town and in some areas of Aziz Bhatti Town, Cantonment, Gulberg and …