ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday met Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and conveyed to him the party’s concerns over the government’s decision to introduce electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the next general elections. The delegation comprised PPP parliamentary leader in Senate Sherry Rehman, former Senate chairman Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari and Syed Naveed Qamar. “We …

ISLAMABAD: Of the four provinces, Punjab will get the largest share from federal divisible pool in the next fiscal year, which will almost be equal to what the other three will collectively get. According to a budget document, a total of Rs3.41 trillion in taxes will be transferred to the provinces, out of which the constitutional share of Punjab will …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday joined the protesting government employees to express solidarity with them outside Parliament House and lashed out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) over price hike and growing unemployment and poverty in the country. Nearly 300 government employees gathered outside the Parliament House when Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen was delivering the …

KARACHI: While the demand for Pfizer vaccine is building up across the country, authorities in Sindh are yet to start its administration, sources. They said this particular Covid-19 vaccine was high in demand because some countries, such as Saudi Arabia, where a significant number of Pakistanis worked, were not accepting the Chinese vaccines widely being used in Pakistan and it’s …

ISLAMABAD: Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Friday disclosed that an incident, similar to what former Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had faced, had happened but prompt action was taken against the delinquent as the occurrence was reported to the chief justice concerned. “The concerned judge had the courage to report the incident,” Justice Bandial said, adding that …

LAHORE: Estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader and sugar baron Jahangir Khan Tareen finally got a ‘relief’ amid the federal budget presentation as the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) did not seek his and his son Ali Tareen’s arrest before two courts, citing lack of ‘incriminating evidence’ against them in the money laundering and sugar scam cases. Lawmakers backing Mr Tareen had threatened …

ISLAMABAD: Praising Pakistan for almost eradicating polio, Unicef Regional Director George Laryea-Adjei said there are still hundreds of thousands of “invisible children” who are susceptible and must be vaccinated. “There is a group of children called the ‘missing children’ whose parents are refusing for them to receive vaccines for various reasons. They are not easy to find. They don’t go …

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC)’s budget saw an increase of around Rs15 billion compared to the outgoing year’s allocation as the federal government earmarked Rs108 billion for development and non-development expenditure of the higher education sector. According to the budgetary documents, for the fiscal year 2021-22 the government has earmarked Rs108 billion – 42.4b for development and 66.25b for …

AUSTIN — Texas will immediately begin building a barrier along the state’s border with Mexico while ramping up arrests of migrants, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday, though the Republican offered few details about the initiative. “Only Congress and the president can fix our broken border,” Abbott said during a summit in Del Rio focused on border security. “But in the …