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RAWALPINDI: The divisional police chiefs, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), and Special Branch have been instructed to closely monitor activities of proscribed organisations and initiate action if they found collecting sacrificial animals hides on Eidul Azha. The government’s policy for collection of hides be followed in later and spirit. Intensive patrolling on highways and cattle markets during eid holidays should be made to ensure the safety of commuters. The Punjab police chief issued a guideline for the law enforcement agencies regarding “security arrangements for cattle markets across the province during Eidul Azha 2024” directing them to launch a crackdown on activities of proscribed organisations which are involved in any unlawful activities, and special attention should be given to control street crimes, road robberies and cattle theft during the Eid holidays. Under the guideline, the police have been directed to establish police pickets at vital points, includi...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday approved the current financial year’s Rs306.52 billion supplementary budget, including Rs292.9 billion current and Rs13.5 billion development expenditure. The budget had smooth sailing due to the withdrawal of cut motions by lawmakers a day ago. Speaker Babar Saleem Swati presided over the session, in which finance minister Aftab Alam moved the supplementary budget, comprising 15 demands for grants. The house passed them all, one by one. Opposition leader demands probe into ‘irregularities’ in two hydropower projects Out of the total current supplementary budget, Rs14 billion was for the salary of tehsil government employees, Rs4.1 billion for pension, Rs1.33 billion for the public health engineering department, and Rs1.49 billion for the administration of justice. After the passage of the budget, Leader of the Opposition Dr. Ibadullah Khan demanded that the speaker form a house committee to probe the alleg...

• In a ‘white paper’, ex-ruling party demands poll reforms, ECP chief’s removal; asks SC to hear its pending pleas • Tribunal seeks Form-45 and Form-46 for three Islamabad constituencies ISLAMABAD: The PTI has demanded the formation of a judicial commission to probe alleged irregularities in the general elections and recommend electoral reforms to ensure transparency, level playing field, and meritocracy in the electoral system to minimise opportunities for manipulation. In a ‘white paper’ issued by the leaders of the former ruling party at a press conference on Thursday, the PTI presented a pathway towards democracy and political and economic stability of the country. The documents dwelt on practices from the run-up to the elections to the issuance of the official gazette notification of results, claiming to expose the “corrupt practices, including alteration of final results through fudging, forgery and manipulation of Form-47”. The PTI said the polls needed to be i...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by ex-premier Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi seeking her transfer form her Banigala residence — which had been declared a sub-jail — to Adiala Jail, where her husband is incarcerated. Although the petition had been disposed of last month due to the former first lady’s lawyers failing to appear before the court, a plea was filed the same day seeking its restoration. The former first lady was taken into custody on January 31 after an Islamabad accountability court sentenced her and Imran to 14 years in jail in the Toshakhana reference. While the IHC had on April 1 suspended their sentences in the Toshakhana reference, she remains in custody in the Iddat case. Imran also remains incarcerated in other cases. Following the Toshakhana verdict, Bushra had arrived at Adiala Jail, where the National Accountability Bureau’s team was already present, to surrender to the authorities. Subsequently, she wa...

PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah on Thursday stressed the need for “seriousness” from the PTI on holding a political dialogue, highlighting its conflicting statements. Speaking on Geo News programme ‘Geo Pakistan’, Sanaullah, who was recently appointed as the adviser to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on political affairs, said the solution to current political and economic crises was that all political parties “sit together”. When asked if the PML-N had plans to form a committee for talks with other political parties, specifically the PTI, Sanaullah replied: “Absolutely, we as a political party and as a [political] worker, think that right now, the solution to the political situation faced by the country is that dialogue is held.” Recalling ex-premier Nawaz Sharif’s homecoming speech in October, he said the PML-N supremo had given a similar message back then that the solution to the political crises was that “everyone — meaning all political parties and also all i...

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