KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to singer Ali Zafar on a suit claiming Rs50 million damages for allegedly defaming a female make-up artist on social media. A single bench headed by Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi issued the notice to the defendant through District and Sessions’ Judge Lahore for Jan 25 to file his comments. …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has been tasked with preventing the students of religious seminaries from participating in the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) march on Islamabad next month, informed sources told Dawn. The task was given by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday when the interior minister paid a call on him, the sources said, adding that Mr Khan …

QUETTA: Pakistan Democra­tic Movement (PDM) leaders said on Wednesday that their struggle was not against the army but against the government which had been imposed on the country after stealing public mandate through election rigging. Speaking at a public meeting in Loralai, they said that a government which was “selected” against the will of the people had no right to …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday restrained Naeem Bokhari from working as chairman of Pakistan Television (PTV) while hearing identical petitions against his appointment. Presiding over the case, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah observed that there needed to be a clear reason for relaxing the upper age limit for 65-year-old Bokhari, referencing the Supreme Court decision to set aside the appointment of Ataul …

With US President-elect Jo Biden’s inauguration just days away, there has been speculation and several media reports about whether certain world leaders will be attending the ceremony. In Pakistan, rumours that former president Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had been invited were doing the rounds on social media while almost all television outlets quoted PPP sources as …

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar said on Thursday he had served a legal notice to PML-N leader Uzma Bukhari for “pass(ing) defamatory statements and rais(ing) false and absurd imputations” against him in a television show. According to the notice dated January 13, which Akbar posted on Twitter, Bukhari had appeared on a show called Faisla …

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott raised $11.5 million from July through December, and now can brandish almost $38 million of cash as he tries to scare off opponents in his campaign for a third term next year. In the final half of 2020, Abbott collected contributions from 22,598 donors, 10,116 of whom were new, his campaign announced Wednesday. Detectives stay …

The Dallas City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved renaming about four miles of South Lamar Street in memory of Botham Jean. He was shot to death in his apartment on that street when a former Dallas police officer mistook it for her own. Colleyville city council member shares false COVID-19 information on Facebook The vote came after more than an hour-and-a-half …

With the addition of nearly 27,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Texas has surpassed over 2 million total cases during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Dallas County on Wednesday reported 2,994 new coronavirus cases and 21 new COVID-19 fatalities, pushing the county’s death toll above 1,800. Ten of the victims were Dallas residents: a woman in her 40s, a man in his …

With just days left in his controversial presidency, Donald Trump continues to be a bugaboo for the Republican Party and a divisive force in American politics. Now that Trump has become the first president ever impeached twice, Republicans must decide whether to attempt to purge Trump from the party, or accept that the backing of his loyal supporters still makes …