ISLAMABAD: Election on the vacant seat of Islamabad’s mayor will be held today (Monday) with both the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) vying for the slot. In the 73-member electoral college, the PML-N has 47 votes against 25 of the PTI. The PML-N has fielded Pir Adil Gillani, who is chairman of Bari Imam Union Council while …

ISLAMABAD: Four people lost their lives and 25 others were injured in a traffic accident in the capital on Sunday. The incident took place on Srinagar Highway. According to a police official, a coaster carrying staff of Islamabad International Airport (IIA) was going to the airport from Zero Point when all of a sudden a car emerged from G-12. As …

KHYBER: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement chief Manzoor Pashteen has demanded an immediate release of party MNA Ali Wazir and several other PTM workers arrested by the police in different parts of the country. Police arrested Mr Wazir on Dec 17 in connection with a case registered against him and several leaders of the PTM in Karachi after a recent public meeting. …

ISLAMABAD: As another 1,800 Covid-19 infections surfaced on Sunday, Abbottabad once again reported the highest positivity ratio in the country. According to data provided by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 1,853 people contracted the virus while 57 lost their lives. The total number of active cases throughout the country stood at 39,329 with 9,874 deaths having been reported …

Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday emphasised that the Pakistan Army was “not involved” in the country’s politics in the past nor would it be in the future. Speaking to the media in Islamabad, he questioned why the leaders of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) did not take the name of Gen Ziaul Haq when they talked …

ISLAMABAD: There are as many as 12 National Assembly constituencies in three provinces of the country where the percentage of women voters is less than 41 per cent. Six of such constituencies are in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, four in Sindh and two in Balochistan. A thorough analysis of the constituency-wise data of voters posted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) …

In a year when it felt at times as though the entire world had stopped, crime never seemed to follow suit. Homicides in Dallas far surpassed the number from a year earlier, when they topped 200 for the first time in more than a decade. Retiring Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen tests positive for COVID-19 But authorities also made arrests …

Departing Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, an Angleton Republican leaving office next month after a number of members of his own party called for his resignation, announced Sunday on Facebook that he and his wife, Kim, have tested positive for COVID-19. “2020 just keeps on giving!” Bonnen wrote in his Facebook post. “Last week, my wife Kim tested positive for …

Dallas County reported 6,144 more coronavirus cases and 11 COVID-19 fatalities Sunday. The totals include data from Thursday through Saturday, the county said. The latest victims who died were a Grand Prairie man in his 40s, a Dallas man in his 40s, two Dallas men in their 50s, a Lancaster woman in her 60s, a Dallas woman in her 60s, …

Dalila Sandoval has been in immigration limbo for nearly two decades. During that time, she’s moved from university custodian to college student to volunteer organizer in a national alliance devoted to immigrants with work permits and temporary protection from deportation. The 52-year-old native of El Salvador and mother of two U.S. citizens is pushing for permanent residency and a pathway …