ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has asked the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — an anti-government alliance of political parties — to defer its long march plan until the end of Ramazan, which will begin in the middle of April. Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, the minister said the PDM, which had changed several decisions, should also …

LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan has penalised National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri for violating code of conduct in the by-polls for National Assembly constituency-75, Sialkot. A statement issued by the ECP spokesperson here on Tuesday said the district monitoring offi cer (Sialkot) imposed a penalty of Rs30,000 on Mr Suri for violation of code of conduct. A notice …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday challenged the nomination of former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Yousuf Raza Gilani for a Senate seat. Mr Gilani, who hails from Multan, has been fielded as a joint candidate of the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement from Islamabad. Fareed Rehman, a PTI Senate candidate from Islamabad, has accused Mr …

ISLAMABAD: Not convinced with the measures being employed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to guard against the perception of corrupt practices in the coming Senate elections, the Supreme Court asked Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikander Sultan Raja to come up with a workable scheme when he will appear before the court again on Wednesday. The CEC, however, told …

QUETTA: Jamiat Ulema-Islam (JUI-F) candidate Syed Azizullah Agha won the by-election of Balo-chistan Assembly’s vacant seat of PB-20 (Pishin-III) with a massive majority against his rival Asmatullah Tareen of ruling Balochistan Awami Party on Tuesday. According to official results received late into the night, Mr Agha obtained 16,086 votes while Mr Tareen could get only 2,963 votes. The JUI-F candidate …

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday stressed the need for planting trees and vowed that his government would make a “green Pakistan” by planting 10 billion trees. The premier was speaking at the Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2021 that he kicked off in Islamabad earlier today. He regretted that over the past decades, cities like Lahore and Peshawar that were …

After a particularly tumultuous polling day, the PPP has managed to secure a comfortable win in Karachi’s PS-88 Malir by-election for a seat in the Sindh Assembly, according to unofficial results issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday. Polling for the PS-88 by-election — that was slated to be a hot contest between the PPP and PTI — was …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday said that the government should “at least inform” the families of missing persons if their relatives are alive or dead. She was speaking to the media at Islamabad’s D-Chowk where she came to visit protesters who are demonstrating over the issue of missing persons in Balochistan. She urged the army chief and the …

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Wednesday that the tech industry in Pakistan had been hurt by state policies and court decisions, including worsened relations with Information Technology (IT) companies, as he urged judges to desist from hearing cases pertaining to technological matters. The federal minister was addressing a a two-day International Media Conference at the …

As Dallas-Fort Worth notched a new record low temperature of minus 2 degrees Tuesday morning — making it the coldest day in North Texas in 72 years — the power grid was still struggling to heat the homes of hundreds of thousands of North Texans. Even though electricity had been restored at least temporarily to many customers, more than 3 …