LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi says Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa is fully aware of the emerging situation and security institutions are playing their due role regarding Afghanistan’s affairs aimed at averting its fallout for the country. “There is no danger to the security of Pakistan in the presence of the armed forces,” said Mr Elahi while …

ISLAMABAD: The Nat­ional Database and Regis­tration Authority (Nadra) has launched a new system of online verification of family tree and renewal of computerised national identity cards (CNICs). Under the system, Pakis­tani citizens will be able to receive and verify the details of their family members via SMS on their mobile phones by sending an SMS mentioning their CNIC number and …

TAXILA: Punjab Revenue Minister Malik Mohammad Anwar has said the government is recruiting 5,000 patwaris to meet the shortage of manpower in the Board of Revenue (BoR). He stated this at a function held to distribute appointment letters in Pindigheb town of Attock district on Saturday. The minister distributed appointment letters among seven patwaris from Pindigheb and three from Fatehjang …

A Pakistan Army captain was martyred and two soldiers were injured after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by terrorists in Balochistan’s Gichik area, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. The injured soldiers were shifted to a medical facility in Khuzdar, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid condemned …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has resurrected the idea of preparing “Charter of Pakistan” containing its proposals to resolve problems being faced by the nation and aimed at establishing a true constitutional and democratic system in the country. This was stated by PDM secretary general and senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during …

ISLAMABAD: Two senior officers of the capital police were removed after they were found involved in misuse of power, has learnt. One of the officers was a superintendent of police (SP) and the other an assistant superintendent of police (ASP). The SP was removed in light of an inquiry conducted by the SSP operations under the directives of Deputy Inspector …

ISLAMABAD: A day after taking notice of the frequent incidents of harassment of journalists, the Supreme Court constituted on Saturday a five-member bench in an attempt to provide clarity on the issue of invoking the jurisdiction of suo motu notice by a bench. The five-judge bench that will take up the matter on Monday will be headed by Acting Chief Justice …

About 100 demonstrators marched in downtown Dallas Saturday afternoon to denounce the Taliban and to call for more action from the U.S. to help those trying to flee Afghanistan after the government’s swift fall to the Taliban. Protesters gathered in the early afternoon at Belo Garden, where they shouted “Long live Afghanistan” and other chants, heard from speakers, and set …

Dallas police are investigating the shooting death of a man found in his car at a west Oak Cliff motel early Saturday, Dallas police said. About 3:50 a.m., police said, officers were dispatched to the Flora Motel, 2838 Fort Worth Ave., near Westmoreland Road, to investigate a reported shooting. Officers found 37-year-old James Roberson shot inside his vehicle, police said. …

KABUL, Afghanistan — The potential for attacks by the Islamic State against Americans in Afghanistan is forcing the U.S. military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the airport in Kabul, a senior U.S. official said Saturday, adding a new complication to the already chaotic efforts to get people out of the country after its swift fall to the …