A local official from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has registered a police complaint against an Amazon Prime web series alleging it insults Hindu gods and goddesses, and threatened to launch a protest at the company’s office in Mumbai. According to NDTV, the director, producer and writer of the Saif Ali Khan-Dimple Kapadia starrer Tandav and Amazon’s head of India Original Content have been …

RAWALPINDI: Rejecting a perception that Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman can be pressurised, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday said the government was under immense pressure from the opposition alliance’s movement to resign by Jan 31. “Due to PDM movement to get the resignation of the ‘incompetent’ government, the PTI ministers are making a …

PESHAWAR: The authorities claimed to have vaccinated 95 per cent of the target children against polio in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and efforts were underway to reach the missed children on the last day of the seven-day drive that ended on Sunday. Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ali Asghar and his team visited the hotspots of refusal against the vaccine and wooed parents …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved a plan for establishment of Swat University of Engineering and Technology within three years at a cost of Rs8 billion. The varsity is being set up to produce market-oriented graduates. The state-run universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are financially dependent on the government and fee collected from students. However, the new university in Swat …

ISLAMABAD: With the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) set to resume the hearing of foreign funding case against the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday, political temperatures have started flaring up as the exchange of hot words between the government and opposition intensifies. Ever since the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announced that it will stage a demonstration outside the …

RAWALPINDI: A couple has been arrested on the charge of torturing their 10-year-old disabled maid in Satellite Town. The girl from Sahiwal with a congenital right foot disability was working as a domestic servant in ‘B’ Block of Satellite Town. The couple accused of torturing the girl have been arrested by the Banni police after an FIR was registered against …

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday warned that his party would lock down Karachi if a fair census was not conducted in the city. “We have never been fairly counted over the past 70 years as the state is afraid of counting us correctly. You are creating tomorrow’s terrorists by increasing the sense of deprivation …

LAHORE: Lahore police have launched the investigation into ‘279 unnatural deaths of year 2020’ to review and start criminal proceedings in case of irrefutable evidence of cognizable offence. In what appears to be a first initiative of its kind, the police have shifted the pending inquiries into 279 unnatural deaths from operations wing to the investigation. A directive was issued …

ISLAMABAD: Apparently responding to the remarks made by the Senate deputy chairman on Saturday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has repudiated a “malicious propaganda campaign” being carried out in a section of media to malign the anti-graft watchdog by casting lopsided aspersions over the bureau. A NAB spokesman said in a statement on Sunday that the bureau would not bow …

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change plans to overhaul Marghazar Zoo from a facility having sparse concrete enclosures into a more naturalistic habitat where wild animals can be provided a healthy environment. The zoo, which has now been shut down, was established by Capital Development Authority (CDA) in 1978 as a home for indigenous species found in the region on …