BADIN: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday hit out at the federal government and said it was not ready to help people of Sindh in their difficult hour while the prime minister did not even bother to issue a statement to express sympathy for rain and flood victims. Speaking to a gathering of rain affectees, general public and …

DERA GHAZI KHAN: A married woman was allegedly gang-raped at her home by two suspects at Basti Lashari village of Taunsa tehsil. In the first information report (FIR), registered with the Raitra Police Station, the mother of two said the suspects scaled the wall of her house at 10:45pm when her children — two-year-old son and six-month-old daughter — were …

ISLAMABAD: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) is facing an acute shortage of logistics and manpower to maintain their standard and deliver services to motorists, senior officers told Dawn on condition of anonymity. They said the shortage increased by 50pc since the department took over three new motorways M-3 (Lahore-Abdul Hakeem), M-4 (Pindi Bhattian-Shorkot and Shorkot- Multan) and M-5 (Multan-Sukkur). They …

PESHAWAR: A Bus Rapid Transit bus caught fire near Gulbahar area here on Friday. However, no one was hurt in the incident, which is the third of its kind since the inauguration of the mass transit facility on Aug 13. TransPeshawar, a government-owned company managing the BRT operations, claims that only two incidents of bus fire had taken place. Regarding …

LAHORE: The provincial health authorities have told the Lahore High Court that the two-finger test (TFT), an old practice of examining sexual assault survivors, has limited evidentiary value and will be abolished from the protocol of medico-legal certificate (MLC) unless necessitated. “It is not objective of the medical examination of female victim of sexual assault to comment about character of …

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday finally started an investigation into the sugar scam after the Supreme Court suspended the recent Sindh High Court (SHC) order that had nullified the sugar inquiry commission’s report. NAB Chairman Javed Iqbal, Deputy Chairman Hussain Asghar, Prosecutor General Accountability Syed Asghar Haider, DG (Operations) Zahir Shah and Rawalpindi DG of the bureau Irfan Naeem …

ISLAMABAD: The ‘informal’ committee comprising government and opposition lawmakers is likely to meet on Monday to try to end a deadlock on four bills related to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Sources said the committee comprises Law Minister Farogh Naseem, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Mirza Shahzad Akbar, former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and …

QUETTA: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the federal government believed in equal development of all areas of Balochistan and had allocated more funds in the Public Sector Development Programme for the largest province of the country than for any other province as it had tremendous potential of progress in various sectors. He indicated that a special package for …

At least four people, including two women and a minor, were killed after a fire erupted at a three-storey building in Karachi’s Hijrat Colony on Saturday. Rescue workers and police rushed to the scene soon after the incident was reported but faced difficulty in carrying out the rescue operation due to narrow streets. However, they managed to extinguish the flames …

KARACHI: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday “requested” the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led federal government and Pakistan Peoples Party’s government in Sindh to “maintain the cooperative atmosphere” for at least next three years, which would see the spending of a massive Rs1.1 trillion package for development in Karachi. The president sounded confident and optimistic about the future course of relations between the …