Briefing the home minister during his visit to the Karachi Police Office (KPO), the city police chief, Additional Inspector General (Addl. IG) Imran Yaqoob Minhas, proposed Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar to set up a squad on the pattern of Lahore’s Dolphin Force to control street crime. He said 1,800 motorcycles should be provided for […]
Chief Justice Sindh High Court Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi took up the plea of dairy farmers. The association sought the court’s intervention to fix the milk rate at Rs 229 per liter. The Sindh government lawyer informed the court that the milk’s retail price was fixed at Rs200 per liter in October, last year. The […]
According to the details, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed independent candidate Chaudhry Amjad Ali Bajwa challenged the victory of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Ali Zahid from the NA-75 in the general elections held on February 8. The Election Tribunal while accepting the plea for hearing issued notices to the ECP and other respondents. The Election […]
The meeting was attended by the Secretary of Planning and senior officials of the Ministry of Planning, according to a press release issued by the planning ministry. The minister reviewed the expected progress on CPEC Phase 2 during his recent visit to China last week and briefed on the preparations and agenda for the upcoming […]
The categorisation is a part of a comprehensive review of the rationale for retaining commercial functions within the public sector, according to press release issued by finance ministry. The objective is to retain only the essential functions within the public sector and to assign the remaining functions to the private sector. At the same time […]
The sources privy to the development said that the proposed law is aimed at protecting individuals and institutions from reputational damage through ‘false and misleading news’ The law is set to apply to ‘false and untrue’ news spread through print, electronic, and social media, and would replace the Defamation Ordinance 2002. The Punjab government tabled […]
The mock exercise was conducted to deal with any emergency in the prison. During the exercise, the response of the security agencies was timely and exemplary. Such exercises will be conducted in the future as well, the jail authorities said. On the other hand, Rawalpindi police conducted a five-hour-long search operation around the jail and […]
The committee, which had been spearheading demonstrations, called off the protest after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a Rs23 billion subsidy package for the people of AJK. “The government accepted all the demands of the protesters yesterday,” the AAC said in a statement. However, the AAC said a state-wide shutter down will be observed till […]
On September 15, 2023, the Supreme Court of Pakistan struck down amendments made to National Accountability Bureau laws as it announced its reserved verdict on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder’s plea. A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Qazi Faez Isa comprising Justice Amin-Ud-Din Khan, Justice Jamal Mandokhail, Justice Athar Minallah, […]
The FIA and LESCO remained at odds on the overbilling issue. Earlier, the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) ‘barred’ its revenue officers from appearing before the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) team in an overbilling probe. As per details, the LESCO chief was assured of no more raids by the FIA, following which the officers ended […]
