KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday directed all local bodies, including the KMC, KDA, water board, DMCs and solid waste management board, to dispose of stagnant water from different areas of the city and clean them irrespective of jurisdiction issue with coordinated efforts. “This is our city and we all have to work together, with coordination and …

LAHORE: The Punjab government has created 15 full-fledged administrative departments in the newly-established south Punjab secretariat but without a proper transition plan in place. The Punjab finance department on Monday created 77 new posts of administrative secretaries, additional secretaries and deputy secretaries for the secretariat and soon afterwards notified posting of 10 secretaries – offering them maximum functional autonomy. The …

ISLAMABAD: A civil engineer has moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an immediate referendum on a question whether the people of Pakistan want a presidential form of government against what he described as a duplicitious parliamentary system. Through the petition, Dr Sadiq Ali, who has done PhD in turbine design from Ulster University, UK, pleaded the top court …

Two men were arrested in Muzaffargarh on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting and shooting a teenaged boy, police said. The arrests come a day after the victim’s father lodged a complaint with the police, alleging that three men had attempted to rape his son and shot him for putting up resistance. According to the first information report, two of the suspects …

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked five dating and live streaming applications including the popular Tinder app citing “immoral content”, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The four other apps blocked by the authority are Tagged, Skout, Grindr and SayHi. The PTA said “keeping in view the negative effects of immoral/indecent content streaming through the above applications”, it …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) said on Tuesday that it was giving former prime minister Nawaz Sharif a chance “to surrender” and appear before the court at the next hearing scheduled for September 10. An IHC division bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani was hearing the appeals of Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and her husband, …

PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday said that the process of accountability of one person would not affect the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and asked CPEC Chairman and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Infor­mation retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa to face the allegations against him. Referring to a recently published investigative news report about alleged offshore properties and …

At least two people were killed and seven others injured in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla district in various incidents as widespread rains damaged houses and blocked major arteries in parts of the province on Tuesday, officials said. Shangla Deputy Commissioner Imran Hussain Ranjha said a house collapsed in Batkot area of Bisham tehsil, leaving two minor brothers, 8-year-old Idrees and 4-year-old …

NEW YORK: France’s Benoit Paire has tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19) and pulled out of the US Open which started on Monday, French sports daily L’Equipe reported. Paire, seeded 17th at the Grand Slam event, had been scheduled to play Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak in the first round at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday. Paire’s name no longer appeared on the …

LONDON: Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool “shouldn’t panic” after their Community Shield loss, especially after they bounced back from defeat in last year’s season curtain-raiser to romp to the Premier League title. Arsenal emerged victorious at an empty Wembley on Saturday, winning 5-4 on penalties after Jurgen Klopp’s men had come from behind to draw 1-1 in normal time. “During …