cISLAMABAD: An initial assessment carried out by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has revealed that most universities in Pakistan are not well-equipped to offer education through online mode as of the total 205 universities only 40 had well-established learning management system. The universities in Pakistan have been compelled to adopt an online mode of education to protect their faculty members, …

RAWALPINDI: Heavy rain lashed the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Wednesday afternoon, flooding low-lying areas in the garrison city. The rain, however, brought the temperature down to 31°C in the federal capital and adjoining garrison town. The Meteorological Department recorded 11 mm rain at Airport, 4mm at Saidpur and 1mm at Zero Point and Golra in Islamabad while …

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly session was prorogued sine die by the chair on Wednesday without presentation of budget 2021-22. The treasury benches sought the prorogation of the session “as a mark of protest” against a bar in the federal budget on the rate of withholding tax for the independent power producers (IPPs) located wholly or partially …

MANSEHRA: Additional sessions judge Ali Asghar Shah has granted pre-arrest bail to former Supreme Court judge Ejaz Afzal Khan’s son Saif Ali Khan and brother Sajjad Afzal Khan in a firing case and adjourned hearing until June 26. Retired Justice Ejaz Afzal, who was named in the FIR as an abettor, didn’t apply for the bail. The court heard the …

Lahore police have registered a case against Mufti Azizur Rehman after a harrowing video clip showing the cleric allegedly sexually assaulting one of his students was widely shared on social media, it emerged on Thursday. The case has been registered at the North Cantt police station on the complaint of S* under Section 377 (unnatural offences) and Section 506 (punishment …

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Ring Road (R3) project was not included in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) of the Punjab government and the future of the project hangs in uncertainty despite claims made by the government of starting the project with new alignment. Work on the project stopped in April after an inquiry was initiated into the R3 scam against former commissioner …

LAHORE: Muhammad Waqas, 25, reached Lahore after a roughly two-hour long drive from a village near Gujranwala by a rented car as his four companions wanted to pay homage to Lahore’s patron saint at Data Darbar. But it took him almost a whole day to return home as the Shahdara police arrested him for doing “awaragardi” in its jurisdiction. On …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition of several human rights activists challenging a subordinate court’s order for the registration of an FIR against the organisers of Aurat March in Islamabad. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Syed Arshad Ali observed that no cause of action had so far arisen to move …

HYDERABAD: As Pakistan Railways probes the June 7 tragedy in Daharki, multiple correspondences by divisional superintendent of PR Sukkur division show the officer had repeatedly raised the issue of “terrible” condition of tracks in his division before higher authorities concerned well before the disaster hit. Sixty-five people lost their lives and over 100 others suffered injuries in a pre-dawn collision …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, the former Islamabad High Court judge, challenged on Wednesday a June 9 decision of the Supreme Court registrar’s office to return his affidavit in which he said intelligence officers had asked him to manipulate the formation of benches. The registrar’s office returned the affidavit with an observation that since the application contained scandalous material as well as …