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SWAT: Police claimed here on Thursday to have recovered body of a missing four-year-old girl from the neighbour’s well in Kas Qambar area and arrested the accused. DSP City Amjad Ali stated that on Sept 25, a resident of Kas Qambar named Zeeshan reported that his daughter had went missing in the Rahimabad police station jurisdiction. According to police, the incident prompted Malakand regional police officer Mohammad Ali Khan Gandapur to take swift action and issue strict directives. “Aspecialteam consisting of DSP City Amjad Khan and SHO Rahimabad police station Habib Sayed worked tirelessly under thesupervisionof additional SP Swat Ghulam Sadiq to uncover the truth and locate the missing girl,” said Rahimabad police. They said the investigative team succeeded in tracing and arresting the prime suspects, who were next-door neighbours of the missing girl. During interrogation, the accused confessed to the crime and stated that they had killed the girl and then put her de...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has revived efforts to persuade the international community to fulfill the pledges they made last year to help Pakistan rebuild as the UN chief called the 2022 floods a ‘litmus test’ for climate justice. Triggered by torrential monsoon rains, the 2022 floods submerged one third of Pakistan. The deluge affected over 33 million people and killed 1,700 or more. Nearly 8 million people were displaced, with many still living in tents and makeshift homes. On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly convened an informal meeting in New York to review the implementation of its last year’s resolution to help Pakistan rebuild, to increase aid and to keep up the political will to provide long-term support to Pakistan. “We are here for the people of Pakistan,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who visited Pakistan in August 2022, said in his keynote speech to the delegates in the UN’s Trusteeship Council chamber. “I will never forget the climate-related...

ISLAMABAD: Citizens over 18 can update their voter details till October 25, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Thursday. The commission has decided to “unfreeze” the electoral rolls — an official list showing eligible voters residing in a particular constituency — to allow registered voters to rectify or update their details. According to ECP’s Media Outreach and Coordination Wing, the electoral rolls were frozen under Section 39 Elections Act, 2017, on July 20. However, the commission has now allowed citizens to make amends in the rolls for the sake of data accuracy. ECP unfreezes electoral rolls; sets up desks for objections on delimitations According to data shared by the ECP last week, the number of voters in Pakistan has increased by 21 million to 127m — up from 106m at the time of the 2018 general elections. The overall number of female voters increased from 46.7m in 2018 to 58.5m in 2023, while the number of male voters jumped from ...

RAWALPINDI: The last spell of monsoon in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and some upper parts of the country is expected from Friday (today). According to an official announcement by the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the wind bringing moisture from the Bay of Bengal will cause rain and the westerly waves entering the country will cause snowfall on mountains and other upper parts of the country. It says that a westerly wave will enter the upper parts on Thursday night and under the influence of this weather system, rain-wind/thunderstorm (moderate to isolated heavy falls) is expected in Chitral, Dir, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Mansehra, Kohistan, Abbottabad, Kashmir (Neelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Poonch, Hattian, Bagh, Haveli, Sudhanoti, Kotli, Bhimber, Mirpur) and Gilgit-Baltistan (Diamir, Astore, Ghizer, Skardu, Hunza, Gilgit, Ghanche, Shigar) on Saturday. Rain with thunderstorm and hailstorm is also expected at isolated places in Kohat, Pesh...

ISLAMABAD: Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Islamabad Traffic Police Dr Syed Mustafa Tanveer was posted out on Thursday, amid criticism on social media of alleged unprofessional attitude of its staff with motorists. The police said Mr Tanveer was appointed as the SSP logistics Islamabad police. SP Mohammad Sarfraz Virk was appointed as the SSP ITP after his transfer from the post of SSP logistics. Police officials told Dawn that Mr Tanveer had become the first officer to serve as the in-charge of three of the four core divisions - operations, traffic and logistics. He earlier served on different posts in the capital police, including SP Rural Zone, SP CIA, SP investigation, SSP operations in the last eight years. During this period, he was posted out twice from the capital police for a short period of time; first during the 2018 elections and then in December 2021. The officials said the performance of the ITP was decreasing gradually. Besides, there were a number of c...

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has directed the authorities concerned to take action against illegal charged parking at over 30 places in the city. A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, also asked traffic police and other respondents to file a compliance report on the next date of hearing. When the bench took up for hearing a set of identical petitions filed against charged parking in different parts of the provincial metropolis, a traffic police officer filed a report on behalf of the DIG-traffic. The traffic police in its report stated that 43 cases were registered and 55 persons arrested over unauthorised and illegal charged parking in the city, while 49,075 traffic tickets were issued for double/triple parking and a fine of Rs24.5 million was imposed from January 1 to Sept 24. Traffic police issued nearly 50,000 tickets and fined Rs24.5m in nine months, SHC told The counsel for one of the petitioners also filed a statement in court and submi...

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday set aside the life imprisonment of three alleged Lyari gangsters in a case pertaining to the murder of five persons. An antiterrorism court had sentenced Arif alias Mama, Asif alias Lamba and Sultan alias Jabal, said to be associated with one of the several criminal gangs operating in Lyari, to life in prison in August last year for killing Ismail, his brother Javed, their maternal uncle Taj Mohammed and their cousins Shoaib and Faisal in March 2014 outside their house in Mowachh Goth. The convicts, through their counsel, filed appeals against the conviction order and after hearing both sides and examining the record and proceedings of the case, a two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha allowed the appeals and exonerated the appellants. The bench in its judgement said that since the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt the benefit of the doubt was being extended to the appellants. ...

KARACHI: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Riffat Mukhtar Raja on Wednesday directed the police to ensure prompt registration of FIRs. Chairing a high-level meeting about law and order in the province, he added that he would not tolerate non-registration or delay in any FIR and strict departmental action would be taken against those found responsible. The IGP asked the police officials to take strict action against drug dealers and different mafias in Sindh as the Special Branch had already provided them a list of such criminal elements. He said street crimes should be eliminated through effective policing and street criminals should also be taken to task. IGP Raja directed the police to carry out intelligence-based operations against dacoits in riverine areas of Sindh. Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2023 http://dlvr.it/Swj31b

ویب ڈیسک:نگراں وزیر اعظم انوار الحق کاکڑ نے کہا ہے کہ مستقبل قریب میں ملکی سیاست میں فوج کا کردار برقرار رہے گا۔ ترک میڈیا ٹی آر ٹی کو انٹرویو دیتے ہوئے انوار الحق کاکڑ نے کہا کہ ہم انتخابی مزید پڑھیں The post سویلین اداروں کی نااہلی کے باعث سیاست میں فوج کا کردار برقرار رہے گا، کاکڑ appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/Swfbgq

• PML-Q counsel says legislation aimed at promoting independence of judiciary • Petitioner says parliament encroaching on ‘exclusive domain’ of top court ISLAMABAD: The Pakis­tan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) on Monday pleaded before the apex court that the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 — a law that envisions the formation of a committee of three senior judges to form benches on cases involving constitutional matters of public importance — was aimed at promoting the independence of judiciary, the rule of law, and the right to access to justice and fair trial. The party, represented by its counsel Zahid F. Ebra­him, said Supreme Court rules provide that the legislature can determine the practice and procedure of the Sup­reme Court in relation to the constitution of benches, in particular. Parliament has the right to enact the subject legislation and has done so strictly in accordance with the law and the Consti­tution, the response said. At the last hear...

Party's spokesperson says elections would be ‘unconstitutional without former premier http://dlvr.it/SwYr2g

QUETTA: Five members of a family, including a young boy and three women, were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a car and pick-up van on Dera Road, near Loralai, on Saturday. Police said the family was travelling in the pick-up van when a speedy car hit it at a blind turn in the Sher-Jan Kadi area of Loralai district. “Four people, all belonging to the same family, were killed and five others injured in the crash,” an official said. He said a police team rushed to the accident scene soon after receiving information and shifted four bodies and five injured to district hospital, where a critically injured woman also died. The official said the other four injured were hospitalised. The deceased were later identified as Hamidullah, nine-year-old Izzatullah, Safia Bibi, Zarmina, Kainat Bibi. After completing medico-legal formalities, hospital officials handed over the bodies to their relatives for burial. The deceased were later buried in their na...

• Dictator Zia banned student unions in 1984 to quell uprisings • CJP Isa lends support to syndicate’s decision ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa on Friday lent his support to a decision to revive the Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) students’ union, a move that, it is hoped, will pave the way for the revival of student unions in other universities as well. The decision was taken during a syndicate meeting chaired by the university’s Vice Chancellor, Niaz Ahmad Akhtar, and attended by the chief justice of Pakistan, who is a member of the forum by virtue of his position. Justice Isa is the second CJP, after former chief justice Rana Bhagwandas, to have attended a QAU syndicate meeting. Student unions were banned in 1984 by the dictator Ziaul Haq in an effort to quell student uprisings against his oppressive policies. The decision had left a significant vacuum in Pakistan’s political land­scape. Four decades thence, the students at QAU seem poised to be the fir...

ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday extended the judicial remand of former Punjab chief minister Punjab Pervaiz Elahi in a case registered against him for allegedly inciting violence outside the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC). Mr Elahi was produced before ATC Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who remarked that the court had granted post-arrest bail to the ex-CM and inquired whether his surety bonds were deposited or not. Mr Elahi’s counsel Sardar Abdul Raziq Khan told the court that since his client was arrested in another case by the Punjab Anti Corruption Establishment, the bail bonds have not been submitted yet. Mr Elahi informed the judge he was suffering from digestive disorder and was not allowed homemade food. He further claimed the jail administration had constructed a wall along the window of his barrack to suffocate the environment. The PTI leader also complained that a stranger had been deployed outside his cell to breach his privacy. The judge...

LAHORE: Imran Khan’s PTI lost another wicket, this time a former member of the National Assembly from Punjab and party’s women wing president Munazza Hassan who joined Istehkham-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) and made the decision public at a joint presser with IPP patron and former confidant of the PTI chairman, Jahangir Khan Tareen, on Friday. About PTI’s future, Mr Tareen said: “It will be premature to say whether the PTI will be in elections or not. Certain things are being worked out in this regard and they will come to the fore very soon.” Some senior leaders of PML-N, including former opposition leader Raja Riaz, believed PTI’s election symbol, bat, would not be on the ballot papers in upcoming elections. Mr Tareen, during the press conference, attempted to dispel the impression that his party was ‘king’s party’. Munazza Hassan joins Istehkham-i-Pakistan Party “The establishment does not interfere in politics. We don’t need the support of the establishment bu...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered the Sindh chief secretary on Friday to constitute an inquiry committee within 10 days to investigate an alleged fake appointment scandal in the Sindh Education Department (SED). The committee will scrutinise the entire recruitment process of the provincial education department while verifying the authenticity of appointment letters issued to 56 petitioners whose jobs were subsequently revoked by the department shortly after their hiring. “In our considered view, before declaring the appointments illegal or taking any action against the petitioners, a drastic action should have been taken against the responsible persons who committed illegality, if any, at the departmental level,” observed Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar in a judgement he wrote. Justice Mazhar was a member of a three-judge Supreme Court bench, which also consisted of Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Musarrat Hilali that had taken up an appeal against the Nov 28, 2022, ...

LAHORE: Tension gripped Daska on Thursday as the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) threatened to raze the minarets of a historic worship place of the Ahmadiyya community. The worship place, located in the old Daska city, was built before Partition by Sir Zafarullah Khan, a member of the Pakistan Movement and the first foreign minister of the independent nation. According to the district police, the wor­ship place was next to Mr Khan’s house and its minarets were hardly visible. There is no board or inscription of a mos­que on the worship place — an act outlawed in the Pakistan Penal Code. Concerns have been raised after TLP announced a rally for Friday (today) over alleged desecration by Ahmadi community members of Islam’s Holy figures and the non-cooperation of authorities over the issue. TLP says it will demolish minarets of building built by Sir Zafarullah Khan Banners have been put up across the city while videos being shared on social media urged people from all walks o...

RAWALPINDI: A Sikh ‘Hakeem’ has sought police protection for his community after alleging that he had received a threatening letter from an unidentified person while going to Taxila from Saddar. Ram Singh, a resident of Dhoke Maskeen Hassanabdal lodged an FIR with the Cantt police saying that he is practicing herbal medicine at Sohan Highway. Some one-and-a-half months ago he boarded a passenger wagon from Saddar for Taxila. He said as the wagon stopped at Peshawar Road after crossing a traffic signal, a motorcycle with two persons riding on it stopped close to the wagon. He said that the motorcycle riders threw a letter into his lap and sped off. Mr Ram said while reading the letter that they would soon end Sikhs in Hazro, Hassanabdal, Taxila, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. “This is a muslim country not that of Sikh’s”. He further said in the FIR that they would send such letters to Hassanabad and be ready for the consequences. Ram said later he went to his community and sho...

QUETTA: The central leader of Awami National Party (ANP) and provincial president of National Lawyers’ Forum, Advocate Arbab Ghulam Kasi, was found dead in Kuchlak area, some 25 kilometres from the provincial capital, on Quetta-Chaman Highway, on Tuesday night. Officials said the body of the ANP leader was found in an abandoned area of Killi Sheikh Jamal Atozai in a mysterious condition. The people of the area spotted the body and informed the Kuchlak police about the presence of the body. After receiving the information, police rushed to the area and took the body of the ANP leader into custody and shifted it to Quetta Civil Hospital. “The body was lying near an abandoned gas station while a pistol was also found near the body of the ANP leader,” Abid Mengal, a senior police officer, said. Hospital sources said the deceased suffered a bullet injury close to his ear that proved fatal. Police officials were in a fix over the cause of the ANP leader’s death, saying that “it s...

KARACHI: City Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab has urged the representative organisations of the Mauripur truck stand to ensure payment of land rent and municipal utility charges and taxes (MUCT). Presiding over a meeting regarding the truck stand held in his office on Monday, he held out assurance that all kinds of encroachments would be removed from the truck stand. He asked the relevant departments to immediately issue notices for the recovery of dues against land rent and MUCT. The mayor directed that the land department should depute its staff in the office of the representative organisations of the truck stand to collect all dues and identify illegal encroachments so that the anti-encroachment department could remove them with the help of local representative bodies. It was told in the meeting that the Sindh High Court had issued a stay order on 17 plots of the Mauripur truck stand, and so far the land department had issued 200 recovery notices for the rent of the land ...

LAHORE: A consultative meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N’s) youth coordinators for Lahore was chaired by Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz on Sunday. The meeting is part of a series of activities that the PML-N is conducting these days to make preparations for giving a rousing welcome to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he returns home on Oct 21. Mr Sharif had gone to London for medical treatment on Nov 19, 2019, after being released on bail from a seven-year jail term for corruption. Arranging a befitting reception, to be attended by at least one million people for the ex-prime minister, is a test case for PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam’s skills for cadre mobilization and crowd-pulling in the face of issues like differences among party leaders and ambiguity on the return of the elder Sharif because of protective bail concerns. Currently, party leaders like Shehbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar, Khwaja Asif, and Azam Nazir Tarar, etc, ar...

Attock Jail official files response to Imran’s contempt plea in special court http://dlvr.it/SwCvCy

PIA requires Rs33 billion in order to meet mandatory payments to both domestic and foreign institutions http://dlvr.it/SwCv3f

KHUZDAR: Three members of a family were killed in a collision between a pick-up van and a passenger coach on Quetta-Karachi highway, on Friday. Police said a Quetta-bound passenger coach bumped into a pick-up van in the Pashkaram area of Mastung. “All the three people travelling in the pick-up van received fatal injuries and died on the spot,” police said. They were later identified as Ahmed Shahwani, Nisar Ahmed Shahwani, and Salal Ahmed Shahwani, all hailing from the Mastung area. While the coach overturned after the deadly collision, all the passengers as well as driver remained safe. Later, police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani memorial hospital. Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2023 http://dlvr.it/Sw9wtk

QUETTA: The CTD killed two alleged terrorists of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army during an operation in Khuzdar on Friday night. A CTD spokesman said Amir Bakhsh alias Mazar Baloch and Ejaz Ahmed alias Aftab, close aides to BLA commander Siraj Bhattar, had been tasked with carrying out terrorist activities in Khuzdar. He said the terrorists had left Shore-Parody camp on a motorcycle, adding that after getting the information, a CTD team set up a temporary blockade in the Jaffarabad area to check the suspicious motorcycle’s movement. During the course of action, two suspicious motorcyclists with their faces muffled were signalled to stop, but the rider and his accomplice started indiscriminate firing. The CTD personnelreturned fire, resulting in the killing of both terrorists, the spokesman said. Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2023 http://dlvr.it/Sw9wkX

• Party says Nawaz will seek protective bail before returning to Pakistan • PTI celebrates verdict that will put ‘criminals back in the dock’ LAHORE: “A controversial decision by a controversial bench,” is how the PML-N has described the Supreme Court’s act of striking down amendments to the accountability law. But the party maintained that the decision will have a bigger impact on the PTI and its chief, Imran Khan, rather than the Sharif family. “Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial made the institution controversial and this verdict has made it more controversial,” PML-N Punjab chapter president and former interior minister Rana Sanaullah told a press conference in Model Town on Friday. Flanked by the party’s provincial information secretary Azma Bokhari, Mr Sanaullah said he was not personally in favour of the amendments that would tone down some of NAB’s sweeping powers because he wanted others — an obvious reference to the PTI — to face the music as well. “Now the law has been ...

ISLAMABAD: The participants of the second Pakistan-Afghanistan Civil Society Conference on Exploring Approaches for Regional Peace and Stability discussed the need for a joint strategy to counter proxy terrorist organisations. According to a press release, the participants at the conference organised by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in collaboration with its Afghan partner, the Organisation for Economic Studies and Peace (OESP), emphasised the importance of addressing security threats posed by groups like Al-Qaeda, TTP, and IS to the entire region. While acknowledging the tension in Chitral as a serious security challenge, the forum recognised the need to understand the mentalities of these extremist groups to be able to cope with them and encouraged diplomatic engagement to resolve issues instead of media allegations and blame games. The dialogue brought together prominent civil society stakeholders from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan to discuss pres...

ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of non-implementation of its order regarding removal of the board members of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) who have been working on deputation, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has sought an explanation from CDA Chairman retired Capt Anwarul Haq. An official of the ECP told Dawn the ECP had sent a reminder to the CDA chairman on September 12 asking him “to state the reasons, if any, for the non issuance of the orders [for the removal of the board members], and immediately take up the issue with the interior secretary.” The orders for the removal of the CDA’s board of members had been issued by the ECP on September 5 in response to a CDA’s inquiry report and some media reports highlighting the mega land scam at the CDA’s Land Directorate. “On perusal of the case, the commission has noted that the CDA/ICT Administration plays an important role in conduct of free and fair elections. “It has been desired as the general elections are at ha...

LAHORE: The Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) recovered a total of Rs27 million from 1,276 chronic defaulters in its various circles of operation on the first day of its recovery campaign in collaboration with tehsildars on Wednesday. According to Lesco spokesman, company’s chief engineer O&M (T&G) Zafar Iqbal with the support of city tehsildar Mujahid Zia and Shalimar tehsildar Noreez Humayun recovered outstanding dues of Rs4.31m from 145 defaulters in northern circle and Rs3.51m from 249 defaulters in eastern circle. Similarly, Lesco manager (material disposal) Anwar Wattoo along with Model Town tehsildar Rana Arsal and Cantt tehsildar Sajjad Qureshi recovered Rs840,000 from 106 defaulters in central circle and Rs 2.72m from 65 defaulters in southern circle, while manager (technical) Muhammad Farooq with the assistance of Nankana tehsildar Muhammad Iqbal Rasheed and Sheikhupura tehsildar Muhammad Aslam Gujjar recovered Rs1.56m from 31 defaulters in Nankana circle and...

LAHORE: Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has ordered to reopen all the closed commercial theatres throughout the province. The decision was taken in a meeting headed by the CM. The chief minister was briefed in the meeting on the amendments made in the 150-year-old 1876 Dramatic Act. The briefing was given by Minister for Culture and Information Amir Mir. The CM allowed the reopening of commercial theatres with the condition of checks and balances on performances. The CM stressed on promoting art and culture. The meeting was attended by the Punjab chief secretary, additional chief secretary, information and culture secretary, Lahore commissioner, DIG operations and deputy commissioner. Published in Dawn, September 14th, 2023 http://dlvr.it/Sw4b9V

LAHORE: The Lahore police has appointed new ‘night shift’ station house officers (SHOs) at all the 84 police stations in the provincial capital after ‘crime analysis reports’ revealed that 40 per cent of the total heinous crimes were being committed between 10pm and 8am. The new appointments were made from the list of over 100 police officials, mostly in sub-inspector rank, who were shortlisted and then interviewed by a panel of senior police officers headed by Lahore Operations DIG Nasir Rizvi. The department took the step when the police experts and analysis reports suggested that most of the heinous crimes were occurring during the night time. The crime analysts were of the view that the criminals have been targeting people mostly after midnight when the regular SHOs and other staff at police stations would get tired after their daylong hectic duties. An official says heinous crimes, including house robberies, car and motorbike thefts and snatching are on the rise in the pro...

KARACHI: Caretaker Home Minister retired Brigadier Haris Nawaz has directed law enforcement agencies to speed up intelligence-based operations against street criminals, drug dealers, land grabbers and comb out illegal immigrants from the city. He said this while presiding over a high-level meeting on law and order. The meeting was attended by Home Secretary Muhmmad Iqbal Memon, Sindh police chief Riffat Mukhtar and senior officers of other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The home minister asked the authorities to evolve a joint strategy for launching a grand operation against riverine area gangs and their facilitators. He vowed to take the operation against the lawbreakers to its logical conclusion. Published in Dawn, September 14th, 2023 http://dlvr.it/Sw4ZyW

ویب ڈیسک: بالی ووڈ کی نامور اداکارہ شرمیلا ٹیگور اور ریتوپرنا نیشنل ایوارڈ یافتہ ہدایت کار سمن گھوش کی آنے والی بنگالی فلم پوراٹاون میں کام کرنے کے لیے تیار ہیں۔ شرمیلا ٹیگور 14 سال کے وقفے کے بعد بنگالی مزید پڑھیں The post شرمیلا ٹیگور 14 سال بعد بنگالی فلم میں کام کرنے کیلئے تیار appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/Sw1pb0

KHYBER: A suspected militant was killed when an explosive device he was trying to plant along the roadside went off in the early hours on Monday, the police said. They said the incident took place at around 2am in Sultankhel area. Local residents also confirmed the incident and said that they heard a huge bang at around 2am. The police said that they cordoned off the locality after receipt of information about the incident, and also closed the main Peshawar-Torkham Road. They said that the suspected militant died instantly in the blast, while they recovered a Kalashnikov, a hand grenade and a remote from near the body. The body was first taken to the Landi Kotal Hospital for autopsy, and later shifted to a morgue in Peshawar as it could not be identified. The main road remained closed till 11am with local residents raising doubts about the local police’s ability to tackle such a situation. They alleged that the body of the suspected militant remained on the spot for n...

CHITRAL: The people of Chitral have hailed the youth of the Shiekhandeh area of Bumburate valley for swiftly carrying ammunition and other paraphernalia of the security forces to the Astoi post located on the border with Afghanistan on the morning of Sept 6 when the militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan launched an attack on the security posts here. Khalilur Rahman, chairman of Bumburate village council, told Dawn that when he came to know about the clash on the morning of that fateful day, he rushed to the Shiekhandeh post of security forces in his village and offered his services. “I was told that replenishment of ammunition and ration to the border post was to be made on an emergency basis.” “Within a few minutes, about 60 young men assembled in front of the Shiekhandeh post and started carrying boxes of ammunition and sacks of other articles from there to the Astoi post,” he said, adding it took the youth three hours to reach the border post as there is no road up ...

ہمارے ایک بزرگ پڑوسی کی شخصیت میں بڑی ہمہ رنگی ہے ، ایک اچھے میزبان ہیں اور ہر اتوار کو اپنے ہاں دوستوں کی محفل سجائے رکھتے ہیں ۔ اس بار مُلکی حالات پہ باتیں کرتے ہوئے موصوف ترنگ میں مزید پڑھیں The post اب جھوٹ کے پاؤں ہوتے ہیں appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/Svtkj0

ماحولیاتی آلودگی سے متاثرہ شہروں کے مکینوں کی زندگیوں میں تین چار پانچ پانچ سال کمی کی خبریں ان دنوں اخبارات میں شائع ہوئی ہیں ان شہروں کے ناموں کا تذکرہ میں اس لئے نہیں کروں گی کہ میں خود مزید پڑھیں The post حد سے تجاوز appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/Svtkf8

مہنگائی، بھاری بھرکم یوٹیلٹی بلز اور بیروزگاری کے منفی اثرات ہر طرف نمایاں ہیں ان مسائل کی بنیادی وجہ معاشی ابتری کو قرار دیا جارہا ہے۔ یہ پہلا موقع ہرگز نہیں کہ ملک اور عوام کو اس طرح کی صورتحال مزید پڑھیں The post یہ موسمی احتساب یئے appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/Svtkbg

ویب ڈیسک: پاکستان تحریک انصاف پارلیمنٹیرین کے چیئرمین پرویز خٹک نے دورہ ہزارہ ڈویژن کے دوران کہا کہ ملک میں الیکشن ہوتے ہوئے نہیں دیکھ رہا اگر یہ معاملہ عدالت گیا تو اور وقت لگے گا۔ پرویز خٹک نے کہا مزید پڑھیں The post وکیلوں کے کہنے پر الیکشن نہیں ہوں گے، تاخیر میں فائدہ ہے، پرویز خٹک appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/SvtTfN

ویب ڈیسک: ضلع مہمند میں عوام کی جانب سے یکہ غونڈ ٹو غلنئی سڑک پر فوری طور پر کام تیز کرنے کا مطالبہ کیا جانے لگا ہے۔ عوام کے مطابق سابق پارلیمنٹرینز کی غفلت سے عوام اس مصیبت سے گزر مزید پڑھیں The post مہمند، یکہ غونڈ ٹو غلنئی سڑک پر کام کی رفتار تیز کرنے کا مطالبہ appeared first on Mashriq TV. http://dlvr.it/SvtTV6

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) was surprised when it learnt on Friday about an agreement purportedly reached bet­ween the district commissioner of Sargodha and a private organisation to check blasphemous content by monitoring areas dominated by the Christian community. Subsequently a three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan ordered the deputy commissioner concerned to appear in person with the copy of the agreement for the perusal of the court. The court’s attention was drawn towards this fact during the hearing of Aug 16 tragic Jaranwala incidents in which 20 churches and over a dozen homes belonging to the Christian community were attacked and ransacked. Samual Makson Pyara, director for Human Rights of the Voice of Christians International, had mentioned the agreement, which required the setting up of committees to control areas where Christians resided by monitoring and ascertaining whether alleged blasphemy was being committed. Mr Pyara, who earlier had r...

ISLAMABAD: US Am­­bassador in Pakistan Don­ald Blome said on Friday that the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was eager to make large-scale investments in Pakistan. During a meeting with Shahid Ashraf Tarar, the caretaker minister for communications, railways and maritime affairs, Mr Blome said the United Sta­tes was ready to help Pak­istan create a business-friendly environment to boost investments. He said Pakistan had an excellent opportunity to attract foreign investme­nts due to the diversification of industries and businesses in South Asian economies. The DFC is the US government’s development fi­­nance institution that par­tners with the private sector to finance solutions “to the most critical challen­ges facing the developing world”, its website says. The corporation invests in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors like energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, telecommunications and financing for small businesses and wom...

A local councillor of the Jamaat-i-Islami was shot dead and two party workers were injured while trying to mediate a dispute concerning illegal power connections in Karachi’s Surjani Town area late on Thursday night, according to police. Surjani Police Station House Officer Amin Solangi told Dawn.com on Friday (today) that the incident occurred in Sector-4C, near the Faizan Ashiqan-i-Rasool Mosque. The officer said that the involvement of a “kunda (illegal electric connection) mafia” was suspected in the murder, ruling out any political motivation. The victim was identified as Mohammed Habib, 61, and the injured were Syed Adnan, 43, and Muzamil, also known as Zaid. Solangi explained that the victim had gone to Abdul Rahim Goth, a slum area in Surjani where illegal power connections were prevalent, to intervene in a dispute. According to him, residents of the area purportedly make regular payments to certain officials as part of their arrangement. However, Dawn.com could not i...