ISLAMABAD: PTI Senator Falak Naz Chitrali was suspended for two days for using inappropriate language against Senator Faisal Vawda in the Senate on Tuesday. The incident unfolded during a session chaired by Senate Chairman Yousaf Raza Gillani. Tensions escalated when PTI senators re-entered the chamber following a walkout, and Vawda was delivering a speech criticising […]
BANNU: The Anti-Corruption Department in Bannu has obtained warrants for the arrest of a judge based in Islamabad on the charge of occupying state land along with his brothers for a housing scheme. Humayun Dilawar, the special judge (central) Islamabad, had sentenced PTI founder Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case on August 5, 2023. However,
CHITRAL: Fire erupted at a fuel station on Bypass Road Chitral on Tuesday morning. Rescue 1122 Lower Chitral said that after being alerted about the incident its staffer along with firefighting vehicles reached the petrol pump. The fire had erupted in a Suzuki pickup at the filling station due to unknown reasons. The Rescue 1122
DROSH: A shopkeeper was shot dead in Drosh bazar on Monday night. Police said that Fazle Mola had a mobile phone shop in the Drosh bazar near Kesu Ada. He was shot by an unidentified man while going home before midnight on Tuesday. The injured was rushed to hospital where he died. The police have
ISLAMABAD: The federal capital police on Monday evening started a crackdown on leaders of the embattled PTI and arrested its leaders, including Members National Assembly (MNAs) and Chairman Gohar Ali Khan, Sher Afzal Marwat and Shuab Shaheen. Gohar Khan and Marwat were picked and taken away from outside Parliament House while Shaheen was held from
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CHITRAL: A woman and her son were arrested by the Lower Chitral police after recovery of charas from their possession. The police in a statement said on Monday that a team of police from Ayun police station led by Station House Officer Bulbul Hassan set up a picket at the Chatar bridge. During random checking,
CHITRAL: Traders in Chitral have announced that they would join the protest against the Consumer Protection Council additional director on Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the interim cabinet of the traders union held with former president Haji Jalil on Sunday. Political parties, the district bar and other stakeholders have announced the
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KARACHI: Amina Sohail veers through heavy traffic to pick up her next passenger — the sight of a woman riding a motorcycle drawing stares in Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi. The 28-year-old is the first woman in her family to enter the workforce, a pattern emerging in urban households coming under increasing financial pressure in Pakistan.
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ISLAMABAD: The global tech giant Google on Thursday launched an initiative to produce half a million chromebooks in Pakistan, marking the occasion by presenting the first device to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at a ceremony here. President of Google Asia Pacific (APAC) Scott Beaumont presented locally manufactured chromebook to the prime minister. Addressing the ceremony,
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LASPUR: The district administration of Ghizer aided by police and local people demolished structures being constructed at Mulan Shal, the last settlement on Chitral side of Shandur, after declaring it an encroachment on their pasture on Tuesday. However, the deputy commissioner of Upper Chitral on Wednesday visited the area where the residents informed him about
