Forty-six soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Border Police were granted “refuge and safe passage” by the Pakistan Army on Sunday, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement. The statement said that a local ANA commander opposite Arundu, Chitral, had requested help for the 46 soldiers — including five officers — as “they were unable to hold …

PESHAWAR: The health department is starting door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination campaign in four districts of the province on Wednesday. The inoculation drive is being launched on the recommendation of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) in Abbottabad, Mansehra, Peshawar and Mardan on July 28 to cover at least 40 per cent target population by middle of August. Officials told this scribe …

shah LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif has alleged that election code was violated and rules of transparency and impartiality were ridiculed in the elections for Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Sunday. “The people will remember the way the election code was violated and transparency and impartiality were made irrelevant throughout the day,” he said in a …

RAWALPINDI: Police launched a crackdown against Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) election camps established in different parts of the district and detained 32 of the party’s activists and workers. However, they were all released after assuring police that they will not set up the camps again. In a related move, the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police also removed election camps of TLP, …

ISLAMABAD: Sardar Tanveer Ilyas and Barrister Sultan Mahmood of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) are in the run for the office of prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). According to unofficial results, PTI won in 25 constituencies, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 10 constituencies and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in six constituencies. Mr Tanveer, who is a …

RAWALPINDI: A 30-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped and later stabbed in front of her 14-month-old son, died after struggling for her life in the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on Sunday. The victim’s son Gulfam was also stabbed at the crime scene and later passed away while being shifted to the hospital. Police registered a case against the suspect under …

ISLAMABAD: The country’s two major opposition parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — under a planned strategy on Sunday kept the national media engaged throughout the polling day by issuing statements of its various leaders, copies of written complaints submitted to the election commission and video clips from various constituencies highlighting alleged rigging and …

Pakistan has reported 3,752 coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the national positivity rate to a whopping 7.51 per cent as the country battles a fourth wave of the pandemic. According to the National Command and Operation Centre, this is the highest number of cases reported since May 21 when 4,007 infections were reported, and a dramatic overnight …

PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has served a show cause notice on a party candidate in the AJK general elections for his controversial statement a day ago wherein he threatened to “call India for help” if attempts were made [by the government] to rig the polls. Chaudhry Ismail Gujjar, representing the PML-N in the AJK elections from LA-35, spoke to journalists in …

Affixed to many traffic light arms in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are what look like cameras aimed at oncoming vehicles. Cameras and other technology installed on traffic lights at Stemmons and Valwood in Dallas, TX, on Jul. 2, 2021.(Jason Janik / Special Contributor) Some people confuse them with red-light cameras, but the use of red-light cameras has been banned in Texas …