MUZAFFARABAD: A woman accused of throwing acid on another woman was apprehended by the police within five hours of the incident. Rashid Habib Masoodi, station house officer (SHO) of City police, told Dawn on Sunday that the incident had occurred on Saturday afternoon when Humaira Naveed was on her way home from work at a cosmetics shop in Madina Market. …

KARACHI: Sindh Gover­nor Imran Ismail has refused to give his assent to the Sindh Protection of Journa­lists and other Media Practi­tioners bill, which was pas­sed by the Sindh Assembly recently, and returned the bill to the legislature for reconsideration because it lacked a “mechanism for monitoring funds of the commission concerned”. Reliable sources told Dawn on Sunday the governor had also made …

ISLAMABAD: Scores of Sindhi nationalists staged a protest demonstration outside the National Press Club here on Sunday against the Sindh government and Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) for registration of alleged false FIRs against protesters in connection with the June 6 sit-in in Karachi. The protesters gathered stated that on June 6 the indigenous people of Sindh, whose land had been …

RAWALPINDI: Following police department’s directives to point out drug addicts among the force from the rank of constable to the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), drug testing of the police force has started in Rawalpindi According to a police spokesman, during the first phase drug test of senior police officers will be conducted in accordance with the international protocol. The …

ISLAMABAD: All Pakistan chairs in 14 universities abroad have been vacant for years but the federal government’s education ministry has turned the selection process farce. On the other hand, India has around 300 chairs and all are filled and playing an important role in image and relations building of their country. Advertisements were published one after the other over the …

BAHAWALPUR: A local firm has allegedly defrauded the health department of almost Rs10 million by supplying 18 ‘substandard’ ultrasound machines meant for the rural health centres in the district. It is learnt that the health authorities advertised for the supply of 18 US made ultrasound machines and a firm supplied the equipment of Chinese company by affixing the tag of …

KARACHI: In a sign of intensification of a tussle between Centre and Sindh, federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday accused the provincial rulers and top PPP leadership of misusing public funds to launder money abroad and stealing water of the poor farmers while blaming the federal government for water crisis. Mr Chaudhry also advocated monitoring of use of public …

ISLAMABAD: Expressing concerns over the reports coming from various parts of the country regarding shortage of Covid-19 vaccine, major opposition parties — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — on Sunday accused the government of committing a “criminal negligence” and called for audit of the coronavirus funds. PML-N president and Leader of the Opposition in the …

 Dallas police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing man who was last seen Saturday afternoon in the Stemmons Corridor. Thaddeus Coker, 77, is described as a Black man who is 5-8 and about 170 pounds and is bald and has brown eyes. He was last seen about 2:30 p.m. walking out of the Renaissance Hotel along …

Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday categorically said that those who kill innocent people are terrorists. In a tweet, the minister said that there was “no confusion at any level” regarding those who kill innocent people. “That is terrorism and the perpetrators are terrorists. We have suffered the pain of terrorism in our own land and can …