US President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to …

RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday formed a committee of five members to finalise the proposal to begin the Leh Expressway project, under which another road will be developed to connect Rawalpindi and Islamabad along with a flood channel. The committee will be led by Adviser to the Punjab Chief Minister on Finance Dr Salman Shah. Railways Minister Sheikh …

LAHORE: Protesting farmers and the Punjab government agreed to come to negotiating table after the former were baton-charged and arrested by police when they reached The Mall here on Wednesday and tried to block the road for traffic. “We decided to postpone our protest and go for talks when the government agreed to form a committee for discussing ways and …

LAHORE: The senior police officers recently surrendered by the Punjab government to the Establishment Division, Islamabad have been given a go-ahead by the prime minister for their new postings/appointments. Two of them — BS-21 police officer B.A. Nasir and BS-20 officer Zulfiqar Hameed — had served as Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO). Interestingly, most of the police officers who …

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has expressed concern over upsurge of Covid-19 cases, especially in Chitral, Hazara and Dir, and has asked the relevant departments to put in place elaborate measures to cope with the second wave of the pandemic already started in the province. Presiding over a meeting of the provincial task force on Covid-19 here on Wednesday, he …

RAWALPINDI: The financial restructuring of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), a new fleet of aircraft, staff training and new flight destinations are being prioritised, PIA Chief Executive Air Marshal retired Arshad Malik said on Wednesday. Mr Malik was speaking during a visit to the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI). He was accompanied by Chief Commercial Officer Ali Tahir, Regional …

ISLAMABAD: A judge should exhibit “apposite” judicial character by demonstrating integrity, uprightness, firmness, courtesy, patience, open-mindedness, understanding, compassion and humility, Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed said on Wednesday. A judge must have the capacity to analyse facts of a case, the ability to understand new legal concepts as well as socio-economic and political issues, and then apply the law …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday expressed serious resentment over the provincial authorities for the continuous detention of four men set free around seven months back by the order of the SHC in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. A two-judge bench headed by Justice K.K. Agha directed the home department and police to file …

ISLAMABAD: The Covid-19 test-positivity rate rose to 7.7pc in Islamabad on Wednesday, while two more educational institutions in the capital were sealed. There were 228 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported in the capital based on 2,958 tests carried out in the last 24 hours. Two Covid-19 patients have also died. Lowest number of cases last reported in the capital was …

LAHORE: Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan in her maiden press conference on Wednesday lashed out at opposition leaders for becoming tools in the hands of ‘foreign masters’ and working to destabilise Pakistan and break its national security and defence lines. “The government knows the facilitators of these ‘tools’ and investigating the level of `facilitation’ …