US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Donald Trump to be urgently removed from power, branding him “a very dangerous person who should not continue in office”. “This is an emergency of the highest magnitude,” the top-ranking Democrat in Congress said as she urged Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. If the 25th …

Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching US President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election fraud helped encourage a mob that breached the US Capitol. Top Democratic leaders, including House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, called for immediate impeachment …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday acquitted the chief of the defunct Peoples Amn Committee Uzair Jan Baloch along with 10 others in the cases pertaining to armed attack on policemen. Baloch, the alleged Lyari kingpin, was charged with attacking a police party along with his comrades, including Mohammad Nawaz, Hassan Ali, alias Hassoo, Abdul Ghaffar, Zahoor Ahmed, Zahid, Abdul …

ISLAMABAD: All the central office-bearers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), including its chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, have been “re-elected” for another four-year term without having any contest. The intra-party elections at the federal level were held in Karachi on Wednesday (Jan 6) “in accordance with Constitution of the PPP and the country’s Elections Act 2017” and election commissioner Fauzia Habib …

LAHORE: As Rs1.9 billion have been estimated for annual electricity billing for the operation of Lahore Orange Line Metro Train, the Punjab Mass Transit Authority (PMTA) has reportedly received more than Rs80 million bill for December last. The amount of monthly bills is expected to increase gradually with rise in temperature in coming months. The authorities concerned have started implementing …

PESHAWAR: The Bannu district police have registered a case against the local leaders and organisers of Pakistan Democratic Movement’s rally held on Wednesday at the sports complex in Bannu. According to the FIR registered by SHO Imranullah Khattak of the city’s Saddar police station, organisers of the rally forcibly entered the sports complex and demolished its backside wall to make …

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries, including ‘special allowance’ of Rs 50,000, use of a car, house rent and sumptuary allowance. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who presented The Sindh Parliamentary Secretaries (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill, 2021, said that the privileges and perks of …

ine ISLAMABAD: As over 17,000 out of 18,000 volunteers have been vaccinated, Pakistan is expecting to complete the clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine in the current week. While critics said the country should have pre-booked the vaccine, some experts are of the opinion that by the end of the first quarter of the year, tens of options will be …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its ruling on a set of review petitions instituted by the Punjab government and some mentally sick death row prisoners against execution of convicts suffering from mental illnesses, including schizophrenia. Before closing the proceedings, however, a five-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik solicited opinion of all the provincial governments …

ISLAMABAD: New Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Maulana Abdul Khabir on Thursday expressed his willingness to use scientific knowledge in moon sighting within the limits of Shariah in order to end repeated controversies surrounding religious festivals such as Eids. His remarks came during a meeting with Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry. The minister informed him that observatories were being set …