ISLAMABAD: Not only the adolescents in the age group of 15 to 17 years have responded poorly to the recent government initiative to vaccinate them against Covid-19 but a large number of adults also seem reluctant to get their second jab as health experts find behavioural issues rather than government slackness behind their slow response. Less than 25 million people, …

Be realistic. Show patience. Engage. And above all, don’t isolate. Those are the pillars of an approach emerging in Pakistan to deal with the fledgling government that is suddenly running the country next door once again — Afghanistan’s resurgent, often-volatile Taliban. Pakistan is proposing that the international community develop a road map that leads to diplomatic recognition of the Afghan …

China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the various unilateral sanctions or restrictions on Afghanistan should be lifted as soon as possible. Economic sanctions on Afghanistan must end, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement, citing Wang at a virtual G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on Afghanistan on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves are national assets that should …

ISLAMABAD: As the sessions court commences the trial of the accused Zahir Jaffer, his parents and other co-accused in the gruesome murder of Noor Mukadam, legal experts have pointed out flaws in the incomplete challan, produced by police before the court to substantiate allegations against the suspects. On the other hand, speakers during a vigil organised by Noor’s family, friends …

KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition against its earlier order to demolish a 15-storey building, known as Nasla Tower, after hearing the counsel at length. On a request for granting some time to the occupants of the building, a three-judge SC bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan and Justice Qazi …

RAWALPINDI: The heavily defaulting national airline is facing more turmoil as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has threatened to directly collect all applicable airport fees from domestic and international passengers from next month. In another punitive action, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will be barred from using a number of facilities, including aircraft power supply, passenger bridges and pre-conditioning facilities, beginning …

LAHORE: A sessions court on Wednesday resolved to expeditiously decide a long pending defamation suit by Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Additional District and Sessions Judge Mudassar Farid Khokhar fixed Oct 6 for the appearance of the parties personally or through their counsel for further proceedings in the suit filed in 2017. …

RAWALPINDI: A woman who had come from Lahore for a job was allegedly raped in the garrison city. The victim, a mother of two, reported to Race Course police that she and her family were in a department store when they were approached by a man distributing property advertisement pamphlets. She said she took a pamphlet and informed her husband …

KARACHI: The Supreme Court took the Sindh government to task on Wednesday after the provincial law officer contended that they have no funds to relocate people displaced by demolitions around three nullahs of the city and directed Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to rehabilitate them within a year. A three-judge SC bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed also …

ISLAMABAD: The quorum issue took a chronic form as the Wednesday’s sitting of the National Assembly was adjourned for a fourth time in as many days as the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) again failed to maintain the presence of the required number of its 86 legislators in the 342-member house after a protest walkout by the opposition. Speaker Asad Qaiser …