United States conservatives praised Donald Trump at an annual gathering on Friday, even unveiling a golden statue of the former president, showing he remains a Republican political force despite violent scenes in Washington last month. Prominent congressional conservatives — including Senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley and Representatives Steve Scalise and Matt Gaetz — were among the Trump …

In Osman Haneef’s The Verdict, a Pakistani lawyer, defends an innocent boy accused of a crime punishable by death. The lawyer confronts religious extremists, assassins, forbidden love, a corrupt judicial system and a powerful soothsayer’s prediction that he will die unless he abandons the case. Eos is proud to bring you two extracts from the recently published novel AHBEY Islamabad, 1987 Ahbey’s faded …

LAHORE: PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on Saturday hinted at the chance that the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) long march, planned for the next month to supposedly oust the Imran Khan government, may not be held after all. “There is a possibility that the long march may not be needed,” said the PML-N leader in reply to a question whether …

ISLAMABAD: As per decision of the federal cabinet and instructions from the interior ministry, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is going to take over the stalled project of Peshawar Mor to Islamabad International Airport (IIA) Metro Bus Service from the National Highway Authority (NHA). However, the NHA will be providing an input to the civic agency. The CDA was given …

RAWALPINDI: A worst traffic jam was witnessed on main arteries of the garrison city on Saturday due to a rally held by Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to mark the death anniversary of Mumtaz Qadri. The participants gathered on Murree Road at Liaquat Bagh and blocked the main road and then moved to Bhara Kahu in Islamabad, creating a gridlock. Though traffic …

QUETTA: The bullet-riddled body of Asad Khan Achakzai, a missing leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), was recovered from the Killi Nosahar area of the city on Saturday. Asad Khan had gone missing on Sept 25, 2020 while coming to Quetta from Chaman to attend a meeting of the ANP. Deputy Inspector General of Quetta police Azhar Akram said …

ISLAMABAD: The law secretary on Saturday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the government was making rules to bring Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) under the administrative control of the IHC. This was stated in a report submitted by Secretary Law Raja Naeem Akbar to the IHC in response to a petition filed against the ‘disorder’ in the Federal Judicial …

LAHORE: With 11 million acre feet gross water storage to irrigate three million acres of agriculture land, the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) pledges to add 9,000MW of low-cost hydel power to the national grid by completing seven mega hydropower projects by December 2028. The projects prioritised to be completed with allocation of adequate funds over the next eight …

HYDERABAD: Federal Minis­ter for Planning, Deve­lopment and Special Initiatives Asad Umar said on Saturday that the prime minister would announce a massive development package for other parts of Sindh, like Karachi, once it was finalised by the end of April. He said despite the 18th Amendment and a little increase in provincial revenues, the provinces were still almost totally dependent …

ISLAMABAD: The opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) that has set March 26 as the date for starting its anti-government long march is yet to finalise the modalities of the protest, including its duration, as its member parties remain preoccupied with the preparations for the upcoming Senate elections. The PDM steering committee that had been assigned the task to finalise a …