FAISALABAD: Police have registered a case against two nurses of the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on the charge of committing blasphemy. Scores of hospital employees staged a protest demonstration on Friday against the two nurses while alleging that both committed blasphemy by removing a sticker with sacred inscription from a cupboard. Some of the unruly agitators attacked the police van …

Former secretary general of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and sugar baron Jahangir Tareen on Saturday called for a free and fair investigation into the money laundering and fraud charges against him. The estranged PTI leader was speaking to the media outside a sessions court in Lahore. During today’s hearing, the court extended the bail of Tareen and his son, …

Polling is currently under way in the NA-75 Daska constituency with expectations of a close fight between the ruling PTI and the PML-N. According to Radio Pakistan, polling — which started at 8am — will continue till 5pm without any break. The PML-N has awarded the ticket to Nosheen Iftikhar while Ali Asjad Malhi is the candidate for the PTI. A …

Seven prominent Dallas business and professional leaders who previously donated to Mayor Eric Johnson are contributing to the campaign coffers of three candidates seeking to unseat City Council incumbents next month, records show The seven, including car dealership magnate Carl Sewell, have all given to three eastern district challengers during the first quarter of this year, according to campaign finance …

Dallas County reported 18 more COVID-19 deaths and 294 new coronavirus cases Friday, including more than 30 cases of more-contagious strains of the virus. The latest victims were mostly in their 60s or older but included one man in his 20s and another in his 30s. Seven were men and eleven were women, and all 18 had underlying high-risk health …

Faced with data showing that the district disproportionately punishes its Black students with exclusionary policies, Dallas is closer to banning discretionary out-of-school suspensions and drastically rethinking what the district’s in-school suspensions should look like to keep students on track. At Thursday’s board briefing, DISD officials outlined options to overhaul discipline that included creating a new position at high school and …

A Wichita Falls man accused of plotting to blow up an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia was arrested Thursday. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, spent months planning how he would disguise his car for the trip to and from Virginia, where he would detonate explosives in an attempt to crash most of the nation’s internet, according to a federal …

South Oak Cliff High School will become a COVID-19 vaccine site Saturday as part of an effort to inoculate residents from the most vulnerable communities. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, community leaders and the Caring Foundation of Texas are hosting the clinic, which will administer about 250 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine by appointment from 10 a.m. to 2 …

A Dallas man was arrested this week after the fatal shooting of another man, which he told police was accidental, authorities said. Police were called just before 9 p.m. Wednesday to an apartment in the 1900 block of High Hill Boulevard, near South Corinth Street Road in east Oak Cliff. Officers found Broderick Young, 20, on the floor with a …

Saturday begins dry, clear and cool in the wake of last nights cold front. The rest of the weekend will remain dry, breezy and pleasant with highs in the 70s Saturday and 80s on Sunday. There is an elevated risk for fire danger both days this weekend with breezy and dry conditions expected. Looking ahead to next week, unsettled weather …