National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf left for an official visit to the US on Monday as part of high-level engagements agreed between him and his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, during their first meeting in Geneva in May. During the visit, Yusuf will meet Sullivan to review the progress on bilateral engagement between the US and Pakistan. He will also call on …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday formed a two-member committee which would propose utility of the Citizen Club building in F-9 Park that has been lying unused since its construction. The prime minister issued the directive during his visit to the building where he was briefed by Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed and the club’s architect …

Former prime minister and PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Nawaz Sharif met Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s “request”. Talking exclusively on DawnNewsTV show Live with Adil Shahzeb on Sunday, Abbasi explained that Sharif’s meeting was not just with Mohib but that the NSA was part of a delegation from Afghanistan. “The meeting was in favour of Pakistan,” …

ISLAMABAD: In a late night development on Monday, Zahir Jaffer, who is accused of killing Noor Mukadam, confessed to committing the crime. A police officer close to the investigation told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the accused made the confession during interrogation. “A statement of Zahir Jaffer is being recorded and he will also be produced before a magistrate to record …

KARACHI: Amid growing number of Covid-19 cases mainly in the city, the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi on Monday halted all its key functions, shut outpatient departments (OPDs) and suspended surgeries till further orders, as a doctors’ body warned that the highly transmissible Delta variant accounted for almost 100 per cent of the cases in the city. The two …

ISLAMABAD / MUZAFFARABAD: As official results of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) general elections on Monday confirmed the first landslide victory of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the region, Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed gratitude to the voters with a pledge to bring the masses out of poverty, while the federal information minister said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s ‘humiliating defeat’ …

A man is in custody in connection with a fatal shooting last week in southeast Dallas. Cedric Lionel Kidd Jr., 24, of Dallas was arrested Sunday on a murder charge in the slaying of Billy Ray Phifer Jr., police said. He did not have an attorney listed in court records. Officers were called the afternoon of July 19 to the 7700 block …

A teenager has been arrested after a fatal shooting at an Arlington park. Cristian Gonzalez, 17, faces a murder charge in the slaying of 21-year-old Felix Rios. Officers responded to the shooting about 12:15 p.m Sunday in the 2200 block of Greenway Street, near Helen Wessler Park. They were told a wounded man had been dropped off at a hospital. …

Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for reelection, giving the embattled incumbent a sought-after edge in the 2022 GOP primary that also features Land Commissioner George P. Bush and former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman. “Attorney General Ken Paxton has been bravely on the front line in the fight for Texas, and America, against the …

A motorist has been arrested on a manslaughter charge after police say his high-speed crash led to the death of a man mowing a lawn. Luis Saulo Ronzon Ramirez, 22, was booked into the Dallas County jail Thursday and remained in custody Monday, with bail set at $50,000. He did not have an attorney listed in court records. The crash occurred …