KARACHI: ‘Stop violence against women!’ was the main demand on everyone’s lips at a protest demonstration organised by the Joint Action Committee for Human Rights outside the Karachi Press Club on Friday. A large number of protesters were there to raise their voice against the brutal assault of a young female TikTok star at the Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore, …

PESHAWAR: The police have arrested 194 Afghan nationals here on the charges of rioting, damaging public property and shouting slogans against Pakistan during the celebrations of their country’s Independence Day on Thursday night. The incident occurred at Phase III Chowk of the Hayatabad neighbourhood, where scores of Afghan nationals showed up to celebrate the Independence Day of Afghanistan. In a …

ISLAMABAD: The capital police are getting help from the Safe City Project cameras installed in the Diplomatic Enclave and residential blocks to identify and trace the persons who allegedly gave tranquilisers to an American blogger and journalist at her flat. Cynthia D. Ritchie is residing in a flat in the heavily guarded Diplomatic Enclave. Talking to Dawn on condition of anonymity, a …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked three senior officials to appear before it on Aug 26 to hear the government’s version on the rising incidents of harassment of journalists. The three officials are: the interior secretary, the Federal Investigation Agency’s director general and the Islamabad police inspector general. The court issued the directives in response to a four-page petition complaining …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided that it will block the mobile phone SIM cards of the people in five districts of Peshawar division if they don’t get themselves vaccinated against novel coronavirus by the end of the current month. It urged the residents of Peshawar, Mohmand, Khyber, Charsadda and Nowshera districts to receive the shots of the Covid-19 …

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to establish special tribunals to get state land and government houses worth trillions of rupees vacated, as promised by Prime Minister Imran Khan. A presidential ordinance would be promulgated soon to set up the special tribunals, said Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Friday. “President Dr Arif Alvi is set to promulgate the ordinance under which …

ISLAMABAD: Three days after the federal cabinet decided that the government would use electronic voting machines for the 2023 next general elections in consultation with the opposition, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday directed the authorities concerned to launch a campaign to apprise the public and all stakeholders of the benefits of EVMs and check undue criticism by presenting a …

The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan on Saturday “strongly condemned” a suicide attack targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan’s Gwadar district on Friday, asking Pakistan “to take practical and effective measures” to prevent recurrence of such incidents in future. At least two children were killed and three people were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself near the vehicle …

A moderate earthquake of magnitude 3.1 struck Karachi — the provincial capital of Sindh — on Saturday morning, according to the Pakistan’s National Seismic Monitoring Centre. The centre said the earthquake, felt at 11:39am in various parts of the metropolis, originated 76 kilometres northeast of Karachi and had a depth of 15km. The statement added the quake had a longitude …

WASHINGTON — Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, introduced a bill Friday to shore up protections for election administrators at the local level in light of mounting attempts from Republican-majority legislatures across the country to alter voting procedures in the name of election security. “We are now seeing efforts in state legislatures to make it easier to … allow for intimidation, which is …