KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau has informed the Sindh High Court that the draft of the National Accountability Rules was being submitted to the president for approval. A special prosecutor in a statement submitted that NAB headquarters had written a letter to the secretary of the ministry of law and justice about the rules. NAB further said in its reply …

ISLAMABAD: Army was on Saturday called in to assist the local administration in enforcing the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to check further spread of Covid-19. Talking to Dawn, Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Hamza Sahfaat said teams from the army under the supervision of officers from the rank of colonel to captain were assisting assistant commissioners and magistrates to enforce and implement the …

LAHORE: Make-up artist Leena Ghani, witness for singer Meesha Shafi, was confronted on Saturday with her several photographs with actor-cum-singer Ali Zafar, which she said had been taken well before the 2014 incident of sexual harassment she allegedly faced by the rock star. During her cross-examination in a defamation suit by Zafar and Shafi, Ms Ghani said she did not …

ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over the current Covid-19 situation in the country, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday accused the government of failing to secure vaccines in time and said Prime Minister Imran Khan would have to account for every single rupee of the Coronavirus Relief Fund. In a statement, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari asked the prime minister to tell …

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has warned the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) of forfeiting its right of audience if no one appears before the court on its behalf on May 5. IHC Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb issued the order while hearing the petition of allottees of DHA Valley – an unfinished joint venture of DHA, Bahria Town and Habib …

PESHAWAR / QUETTA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday requested the federal government to authorise deployment of armed forces and civil armed forces in the province to ensure effective implementation of the guidelines of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Likewise, the Balochistan government said the army would be called in if the people …

A journalist was shot and killed during an alleged robbery bid in the Bank Colony area of Quetta on Saturday evening, police officials said. Police said the journalist, Abdul Wahid Raisani, was going home from his office yesterday evening when robbers tried to snatch his motorcycle near Qambrani Road. During the ensuing struggle, the robbers fired shots, one of which …

LAHORE: With the ventilator occupancy reaching 94 percent in Lahore’s all 16 state-run hospitals, the Covid claimed lives of 98 more people in Punjab during the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll in the province to 7,879. Of these Covid-19 deaths, 43 were reported in Lahore, where the toll reached 3,258. As per the official figures, the bed …

LAHORE: Pakistan Dem­o­cratic Movement president Maulana Fazlur Rehman spoke to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president She­hbaz Sharif over the phone on Saturday and discussed the agenda of the PDM’s meeting likely to be held in Islamabad next week. Congratulating the opposition leader on his release from jail after seven months, the Maulana appreciated him for braving, what he called, the political …

KARACHI: Amid growing cases of Covid-19 across the country, the federal government on Saturday warned that it would only wait for a week and if the situation did not improve, then imposing a complete lockdown would be its key option to save the people’s lives. The warning came from a key member of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government and its spokesman …