ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICTA) Administration has recruited two transgender persons in its office on daily wages. Lubna and Nadra were allowed to work as semi-skilled worker in local government and rural development (LG&RD) department of ICTA, said a notification issued by Deputy Commissioner office. The development to this effect came after Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat had made …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday continued attacks on the economic policies of the PTI government and said the only thing Prime Minister Imran Khan had struggled for 25 years, was to push every Pakistani under Rs175,000 debt. He said in a statement that the PTI government had been running a “farcical campaign” of self-reliance and …

KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) completed recounting of votes cast at the 276 polling stations of the NA-249 constituency on Saturday — the third consecutive day of the exercise — in which PPP candidate again emerged as winner. On April 29, the day of the polling, PPP candidate Qadir Khan Mandokhail had obtained 16,106 votes while Miftah Ismail …

• ECP authorised to seek technical help to enable overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes • Govt confident of securing parliamentary nod to ordinance within 120 days • ECP warns of serious repercussions if law is passed in haste ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a hasty move, the government on Saturday promulgated a presidential ordinance authorising and binding the …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has reiterated that pre-arrest bail in a cognisable or non-bailable offence is an extraordinary remedy, extended for the sole purpose of protecting reputation and honour of an innocent citizen being hounded through abuse of process of law for sinister purposes. This judicial protection is based on equity and cannot be extended in every run-of-the-mill criminal case …

OJINAGA, Mexico – Inside a threadbare migrant shelter, with an aluminum roof rattling in the wind, the preacher implored 19 migrants to believe that hope loomed somewhere outside. The words reverberated among the Central Americans, all wiping away tears after being hastily expelled from the U.S. For the vast number, including Jose Samuria, all was lost. As he prayed, with …

A 32-year-old man was found fatally shot in a car Friday evening in the parking lot of a Lancaster motel. Police were dispatched about 8:10 p.m. to reports of a shooting in the 1400 block of the Interstate 35E service road, near Spanish Trails Inn off Pleasant Run Road. Officers found Alex Ray Goodwin in a car at the scene …

Garland police were searching for a man wanted on suspicion of gunning down a person Friday during a soccer game outside an apartment complex. A murder warrant was issued for the arrest of Cuahutemoc Merlan, 21, who police said fired multiple gunshots just before 8 p.m. in the 4200 block of West Walnut Street, near Plano Road. Several people were …

AUSTIN — Two Democrats brandished papers at one another on the House floor Saturday, signaling threats to kill uncontroversial legislation, as their intraparty fight over Texas Republicans’ transgender sports bill spilled into a second day. In a rare Saturday session, some Democrats’ intense anger at House Public Education Committee Chairman Harold Dutton flared, a day after Dutton revived a Senate-passed …

A Dallas man was arrested in San Antonio Thursday night after authorities found more than three dozen migrants in the back of a tractor-trailer he was driving. Aron Bernard Griffin, 49, faces one charge of smuggling undocumented noncitizens. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Several people called 911 on Thursday and reported seeing people in the …