KARACHI: The National Drought Mon­itoring Centre, part of the Pakistan Mete­orological Department (PMD), has warned that drought-like conditions currently prevailing in parts of Sindh and Balochistan may exacerbate and cause water stress in cultivated lands due to limited supply of irrigation water for Rabi crops. According to an advisory issued by the centre on Thursday, the situation has emerged due …

ISLAMABAD: In order to resolve the longstanding issue of traffic gridlocks in the middle of the city, the civic agency is all set to start construction of an interchange at the junction of 7th Avenue and Srinagar Highway near Aabpara. The CDA has received bids from two companies and a consortium of three other firms. The civic agency opened technical …

SIALKOT/NOWSHERA: While poll-related violence claimed lives of two persons in Punjab, the victory of a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate from a stronghold of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came as a big surprise for the ruling party as it failed to retain the provincial assembly seat it won in 2018. Polling for by-elections on two National Assembly seats, in Daska …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration’s Agriculture Department on Friday distributed around 1,200 poultry birds among deserving women under Prime Minister’s ‘Backyard Poultry’ initiative. The initiative was aimed at addressing stunted growth in poor households, providing nourishment, supplementing family incomes through sale of organic eggs, besides creating job and making women to participate in poverty alleviation, Director Agriculture Waqar …

• Govt blames past set-ups for electricity crisis • PML-N leader calls for reopening of trade with India • Ex-PM Ashraf says people unhappy over inflation • Production of Khursheed Shah sought for Senate polls ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly on Friday raised the issues of price hike and inflated power bills, criticised the government move to reappoint …

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Five soldiers were martyred and another was injured when terrorists attacked a security check-post in the Sara Rogha area of South Waziristan tribal district late Thursday night. Police said that the martyred soldiers belonged to 223 Wing of Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force which has been fighting militants in the tribal districts. Officials said that terrorists used light …

ISLAMABAD: Lawyers from all over Pakistan are gathering in Islamabad on Saturday (today) to devise a collective strategy to counter action being taken against members of the legal fraternity for storming the Islamabad High Court (IHC). About 150 lawyers stormed the IHC on Feb 8, damaged the Chief Justice Block and also briefly detained the chief justice as well as …

Federal ministers from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday declared victory in the NA-75 by-polls even though the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said that the results may be falsified. In a statement released earlier today, the ECP said that it suspected results of 20 polling stations had been falsified in the by-election for the NA-75 (Daska) constituency as the …

Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari disclosed on Saturday that Prime Minister Imran Khan would meet a three-member representative committee of the families of missing persons — who have been protesting in the capital for more than a week — in March. In a tweet, Mazari said she met the protesting families of the missing persons at Express Chowk, Islamabad, …

ISLAMABAD: Senator Raza Rabbani of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) told the Supreme Court on Friday that the concept of proportionate representation of political parties in the Senate did not restrict major parties from accommodating smaller parties in the elections. “The political exigencies are altogether different where a political party can go for seat adjustments with smaller parties for the …