Bitcoin, the rogue digital currency, is a fixture in the news. Last week, the formal launch of the very first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund raked in investment worth 550 million dollars on just the first day alone. And Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high, crossing 66,000 dollars per Bitcoin. Crypto-mania is surging in Pakistan too: we reportedly rank third globally, behind India and …

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday rejected the nomination papers of Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Food Security Jamshed Iqbal Cheema for the NA-133 (Lahore) by-poll over anomalies found in his candidature. The nomination papers of his wife, Musarrat Cheema, who was his covering candidate were also rejected for similar reasons. According to Returning Officer (RO) Syed …

MULTAN: Police seem reluctant to register a case against an industrialist after recovery of subsidised sugar hoarded at his biscuit factory. A team of the district administration led by Assistant Commissioner (city) Khwaja Umair Mahmood raided a biscuit factory at Mumtazabad on Central Jail Road and recovered huge stock of sugar. The team arrested an official and later in continuity …

ISLAMABAD: Commending the people of all the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) for actively participating in Friday’s nationwide protests against price-hike, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said slogans to get rid of Imran Khan were now being echoed in every nook and corner of the country. In a statement issued on Saturday, …

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has put three companies of Rangers at the disposal of the district administration to meet any emergency in case the protest march of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) moves towards the city from Lahore or its local chapter tries to agitate. A senior official of the district administration told Dawn that there were over 120 personnel in …

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that his government was planning to start a ferry service between Seaview and Manora. He said this while inaugurating the Manora waterfront beach project. He said that his government had developed the place to provide a safe, secure, neat and clean family recreational facilities for the people of this …

CHARSADDA: Police on Saturday arrested 13 people on the charge of burning alive a wheelchair-bound man, who was suspected of killing a boy over the alleged theft of a goat late on Friday. The man died of critical injuries afterwards. Confirming this, the police said that the incident took place in Paladheri area in the limits of city police station, …

ISLAMABAD: The Pun­jab government has sought the postponement of NA-133 (Lahore) by-election until normalcy returns to the province after the recent breakdown of law and order in the province, it emerged on Saturday. The Punjab home department wrote a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), requesting for rescheduling of the by-polls in the provincial capital, citing current security …

Government officials and Mufti Muneebur Rehman are currently addressing a press conference in Islamabad on negotiations with the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). According to a handout by the Press Information Department (PID), Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and MNA Ali Mohammad Khan were to originally address the press conference alongside Mufti Muneebur Rehman at 11:15am. …

ISLAMABAD: While over 70 million people have got at least one shot of vaccine and more than 40m have become fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the country, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has decided to incentivise four cities from Nov 1 for their excellent vaccination progress. Nine more cities have showed good vaccination performance, leaving all other cities …