PESHAWAR: Police arrested MNA Ali Wazir here on Wednesday in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) in Karachi after a recent public meeting. They have been accused of committing several offences, including hatching a criminal conspiracy and passing derogatory remarks against state institutions. Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mohammad …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties on Wednesday submitted a requisition notice to the Senate Secretariat seeking a session of the upper house of parliament to take up a number of crucial political matters, including a resolution against alleged human rights violations being committed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the government’s “crackdown” on the opposition workers during the PDM public …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked the government to ensure fast-tracking of any disciplinary action in future against a retired employee to its logical end within two years of his/her retirement. This would help a retired employee to enjoy his/her retired life and the government to save unnecessary expense and time in pursing such matters, held Justice Syed Mansoor Ali …

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday said India, with the help of Israel, was trying to have its hegemony in South Asia. “Being part of nexus with Israel, India is bringing demographic changes in the Indian illegally occupied Kashmir and procuring weapons with a craving to become a super power,” the president said in his keynote address at a …

A man was found dead in an apartment fire Wednesday afternoon in Old East Dallas, officials say. Dallas Fire-Rescue was called just after 5 p.m. to the 4600 block of Lafayette Street, where smoke and fire had been reported coming out of a second-floor unit. COVID 19 vaccine given to health care workers at Dallas County’s Parkland A group of …

Cases of COVID-19 climbed to 8,517 in Mesquite, making it among the hardest-hit cities in Dallas County. The city has an additional 911 probable cases. In total, 73 Mesquite residents have died from the virus. Dallas County has reported 149,533 confirmed cases and 16,697 probable cases. The county has recorded 1,391 COVID-19 deaths, a combined figure for probable and confirmed …

Police are investigating after a 22-year-old man was fatally shot at an Arlington apartment complex. Officers were called about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday to the 700 block of Buckskin Trail, near Vandergriff Park, where they found a man who had been shot multiple times. He was taken to Medical City Arlington Hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. COVID 19 …

AUSTIN — Lobbying to get to the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas is underway. Leaders representing major industries — airlines, energy, food processing, even Uber and DoorDash — are asking Texas to give their workers early access to the limited supply of shots. Also calling for priority are teachers unions and groups representing people with …

A Cleburne woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after trying to suffocate her infant daughter in what she said was an attempt to rid the child of a demon. Shawna Renae Bieber, 24, who pleaded guilty in September, was sentenced Wednesday. She had been charged with injury to a child but pleaded to a lesser count of …

Cases of COVID-19 climbed to 13,540 in Irving, making it the hardest-hit city in Dallas County behind Dallas itself, according to the Dallas County Health Department. The city has an additional 1,028 probable cases. Dallas County counts probable cases separately and does not include them in its confirmed case totals. In total, 82 Irving residents have died from this virus. …