PESHAWAR: A seventh grader was laid to rest in Mullazai village on the Warsak Road here on Monday a day after he allegedly committed suicide in police custody. Shah Zeb, a student of the Racines School, Warsak Road, was taken into custody by the West Cantonment police following his alleged brawl with a trader in Liaquat Bazaar. His funeral prayers …

KARACHI: With hands folded and his daughter’s photograph by his side, Mohammad Shumal, the father of 14-year-old Asma Shumal of Islamabad, addressed a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Monday, begging the authorities and the highest offices in the country to help him find his minor daughter. “It has been 39 days since my daughter went missing. Other …

ISLAMABAD: A day after inviting opposition parties for talks and asking it to take back its decision of long march, the government on Monday showed its intention to form a bipartisan parliamentary committee under National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to bring constitutional and electoral reforms in the country. The consensus on the formation of a parliamentary committee to bring about …

HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said democratic forces would have to “snatch” their space and that recent gains made due to the opposition’s unity proved that democratic forces could not only snatch their ‘space’ but get success. He was speaking to journalists after attending the concluding ceremony of the three-day Livestock Expo 2021 at Hatri bypass ground …

MANSEHRA: The police have booked the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Manzoor Pashteen and his three friends under the treason charge allegedly for raising slogans against the country and its institutions. The FIR, lodged with the city police station following a firing incident that took place on the Hazara Motorway’s toll plaza in Sheikh Abad area on March 13, Mr Pashteen …

Supreme Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday observed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had “made a mistake by not having Rangers posted” during the by-elections in the NA-75 (Daska) constituency last month. He made the remark during the hearing of a petition by PTI candidate Ali Asjad Malhi, challenging the ECP’s decision to hold re-polling in the constituency after …

ISLAMABAD: A damning report the Election Commission of Pakistan requested the Supreme Court on Monday to dismiss the appeal of PTI candidate Asjad Malhi against the ECP decision of fresh ballot in Daska (NA-75) by-election. The report said the appointment of government officers of the law enforcing agencies in violation of the Election Act 2017 and the elections rules, non-cooperation, …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday met the newly-elected chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate and expressed the hope that the election of leaders from Balochistan and merged tribal districts would help strengthen the federation. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and Deputy Chairman Mirza Moham­mad Afridi, who called on the prime minister, said their election was a matter of …

• Strict measures on cards if SOP violations continue • NCOC reports 2,253 cases, 29 deaths in single day ISLAMABAD: In view of a high mortality rate among senior citizens, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday decided to allow people aged 70 years and above, who have registered themselves on the helpline 1166, to walk into any …

Dallas County reported 10 more COVID-19 deaths and 574 new coronavirus cases Monday. On the first day that all Texans 50 and older were able to be vaccinated against the virus, County Judge Clay Jenkins urged residents to sign up as soon as possible. “If you have not registered for a vaccine because you’re over the age of 50 and …