ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) Chairman Tariq Malik on Tuesday proposed a significant change in the i-voting system to empower and enable voters to verify their votes included in the final count. “Elections are not free and fair unless they are verifiable,” he said while briefing a subcommittee of cabinet’s committee on electronic voting machines and overseas Pakistanis’ …

ISLAMABAD: The registrar of the Islamabad High Court has informed the law secretary to communicate to the activists of Women Action Forum (WAF) that neither IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah nor any sitting judge of the high court has ever applied to any government authority or agency for the allotment of a plot and that no plot has been allotted …

Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Wednesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan had nominated Abdul Qayyum Niazi as the next premier of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. In a tweet, the minister said that PM Imran had made the decision after extensive consultations and reviewing all the proposals. “He is a dynamic and genuine political activist and …

A 27-year-old man died after being shot over the weekend in Oak Lawn, officials said. Dallas police were called about 2:40 a.m. Saturday to the 3700 block of Lemmon Avenue, near Oak Lawn Avenue, where officers found Kevin Li wounded inside a vehicle. Li, who had been shot in the head, was taken to a hospital. The Dallas County medical …

The Asian American Hotel Owners Association will welcome 6,000 attendees for its annual convention Tuesday evening, the largest corporate gathering hosted in Dallas since the COVID-19 pandemic began 17 months ago. The four-day event will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and could be a boon for local restaurants and hotels in downtown Dallas. The hotel industry …

North Texas has enjoyed a couple of below normal temperature days already this week, and Wednesday will still be relatively comfortable. Highs will be in the low 90s with only a moderate amount of humidity. A warming trend will send afternoon temperatures Thursday and Friday into the mid 90s, and into the upper 90s this weekend. In addition, humidity levels …

Two Richardson ISD students were among the winners in the 2021 Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) annual student art contest. Katherine Ramirez Sosa an eighth-grader at Richardson West Junior High School was chosen honorable mention in the sixth- to eighth-grade category. Kelly Araujo a senior at Richardson High School, was selected honorable mention in the 9th- through 12th-grade category. Their …

It’s a routine Sonia Herrera has gotten used to since she started working at a COVID-19 testing site in December. She arrives about 8 a.m., puts on a mask and purple gloves and heads out to wait for people to drive up. For the past week, there’s been a line of cars already waiting by the time Herrera arrives at …

EL PASO — A federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order restricting migrant transportation by private individuals and companies, handing a victory to President Joe Biden’s attempts to reassert control over border migration. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone, a Republican appointee of former President George W. Bush, will …

Allow me to weigh in on the incendiary debate about critical race theory, also known as CRT. Yes, I know. I stand to lose a lot of friends. But here goes. CRT is not easily explained or understood. The confusion is a big part of the problem. The debate’s pro and con sides have drawn a line in the sand …