ISLAMABAD: The lawmakers, mostly the back benchers, got an opportunity to deliver speeches in the National Assembly on Thursday after the government’s decision to wind up the seven-day general debate on the federal budget on Friday (today), instead of Thursday. The members as well as the reporters waited till evening for the scheduled winding-up speech of Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, …

HARIPUR: JUI-F senior leader and former MPA from Mansehra Mufti Kifayatullah went on a hunger strike in Haripur jail on Thursday morning complaining about ill-treatment. He has been kept in the jail since his arrest during a raid on his seminary in Tarangri village on April 14. The police held him under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order …

Five soldiers from Frontier Corps, Balochistan, were martyred after terrorists targeted a patrolling party in Sibi district’s Sangan area, the military’s media affairs wing said on Friday. “During the exchange of fire, heavy losses were inflicted on to the terrorists in men and materials,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. The five martyred soldiers were identified as …

A district and sessions court in Peshawar on Friday handed the death sentence to the main accused in the murder case of Asma Rani — more than three years after her killing — and acquitted two others. District and Sessions judge Ashfaq Taj announced the verdict inside the Peshawar Central Jail due to security reasons where the prime accused, Mujahid Afridi, was …

The teenager who was fatally shot outside Arlington’s Hurricane Harbor water park was identified Thursday as a 16-year-old Arlington ISD student. No arrests had been announced as authorities continued to piece together what led to the Wednesday evening slaying. The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office said Dai’trell “Daidai” Teal was shot in the back. He attended Martin High School in …

A 46-year-old volunteer security guard for popular conventions is accused of sexually abusing children as far back as 1986, Irving police say. Arron Von Blackwolf, also known as Jimmy Robert “Bobby” Kelly III, was arrested June 8 on charges of continuous sex abuse of a child under 14 and continuous trafficking of persons, according to court documents. Investigators first became …

Since March, about 800 officers in the Dallas Police Department have been trained in peer-intervention skills, making the city the first major one in Texas to implement such a program, according to officials. Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement, or ABLE, is meant to provide law enforcement officers with strategies and tactics to intervene when a colleague or supervisor makes a …

All adults in Texas are now able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. While Frisco opened a vaccination hub in the city in early February, the site recently closed as vaccines became more accessible at grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience stores. Gov. Greg Abbott eliminated the statewide mask mandate and allowed businesses to open at full capacity in early march. Here’s how coronavirus, …

Dallas County reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 114 new coronavirus cases Thursday. The latest victims were a man in his 50s and a woman in her 90s, both from Dallas. Both had underlying high-risk health conditions. County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement that 91% of COVID-19 cases in Dallas County were in people who were not …

WASHINGTON — After months of stalling, Vice President Kamala Harris will get a firsthand view of conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday — showered by criticism that after waiting too long, she’s now averting her gaze from the worst of it. In El Paso, she won’t visit the nation’s largest detention center for migrant children, a tent city with …