Pakistan

DADU: As many as 35 villages came under water after flood protective embankment developed a 70-foot wide breach at RD-50 near Molvi Noor Mohammad Rodhnani village in Johi taluka on Sunday while over 400 villages in Kachho remained marooned after Nai Gaaj and other natural rainwater drains overflowed their banks in the wake of heavy rains for the fifth day. …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has reiterated that courts dealing with bail applications should decline the request only when they find that the release of an under-trial accused might pose a threat or danger to society. “The main purpose of keeping an under-trial accused in detention is to secure his attendance at the trial so that the trial is conducted and …

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has expressed concern over suspension of gas supplies to industries and CNG sector in the country. “The tragic and endless loadshedding of electricity and gas has been going on since last month. Particularly, gas loadshedding in summers is the worst mismanagement in the energy …

ISLAMABAD: Fuel shortages caused by inadequate supply arrangements and forced outages are leading to serious power supply constraints as consumers suffer in extreme humid conditions across the country. A senior official of the Power Division conceded that power companies had been compelled by unavoidable circumstances to apply forced power cuts ranging between 1,000MW and 2,000MW in peak hours. This does …

ISLAMABAD: While a large number of people intending to get the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine are sent back from vaccination centres because they fail to show the SMS that their second dose has become due, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday decided that no one would be sent back unvaccinated. In another development, Pakistan received 1.23 …

KARACHI: The vaccination process at the Expo Centre — the country’s biggest mass immunisation centre against coronavirus — was suspended on Saturday after data entry operators went on strike, forcing many people to leave for home without getting vaccinated. The staff claimed that they had not been paid their salaries for three months. Sources said the doctors, nurses and entire …

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Sunday said that the taxi drivers who drove the daughter of Afghan ambassador before her brief abduction in Islamabad on Friday have been interrogated and a first information report has been registered. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the interior minister said: “I want to inform the international media that the police is investigating the …

MUZAFFARABAD: In the absence of Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, his younger sister Aseefa Bhutto Zardari joined the party’s electioneering campaign in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, as PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz claimed that the people of AJK had already made the decision in her party’s favour. Ms Bhutto-Zardari asked the party workers who had gathered at …

  PESHAWAR: The health department is struggling to increase coronavirus vaccination rate and ensure the enforcement of smart lockdowns in the province amid the growing detection of Delta, Alpha and Beta strains of the virus, insist officials. The officials told Dawn that the health department had sent samples of 50 Covid-19 confirmed cases to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, for gene …

LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) on Saturday restored the legal practicing licence of Advocate Hassaan Khan Niazi, nephew of Prime Minister Imran Khan, earlier suspended on a complaint of the counsel for widow of Balochistan former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, who also got an FIR registered against him. On being summoned, Mr Niazi appeared before the executive committee of …