RAWALPINDI: Residents of different cantonment areas have requested the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) to clear encroachments that are causing locals trouble in their daily lives. They claimed that the authorities in concern appeared uninterested in pursuing violations. Illegal commercial activities have been observed in various RCB residential neighbourhoods, including Gawalmandi, Chor, Masrial Road, Tench Bhatta, […]
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FM meets President of the Spanish Congress of Deputies to discuss FATF
MADRID – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met with President of the Spanish Congress of Deputies Meritxell Batet on Tuesday to address a number of problems, including Pakistan’s progress on the FATF action plan and the situation in Afghanistan. Meritxell Batet greeted FM Qureshi and his delegation upon their arrival at Spain’s Parliament House. Good […]
Taliban critic, lecturer detained by Taliban, released after arrest
KABUL: A prominent Afghan university professor arrested by Taliban authorities after criticising them on television was released on Tuesday, his daughter said. Professor Faizullah Jalal was detained in Kabul on Saturday and taken to an unknown location by Taliban forces, who stormed back to power in August. Since their takeover, the hardline group have cracked […]
Shehbaz comes down hard on PTI-led federal government over mini-budget
Shehbaz Sharif, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has slammed the PTI-led federal government for doing yet another ‘U-turn’ by introducing the mini-budget, calling Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration “the most incompetent in the country’s history.” “On the Rs350 billion mini-budget, the PTI made an usual U-turn. If the average person’s pockets […]
IHC gives orders to seal Monal restaurant, take over navy’s golf course
IHC gives orders to seal Monal restaurant. On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered the Islamabad chief commissioner and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to immediately close Monal Restaurant and take over the navy’s golf course. During a hearing on encroachment in Margalla Hills National Park, the IHC chief justice made these remarks. During […]
PPP seems unlikely to become part of joint opposition alliance
ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari, the former president and co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), declared on Tuesday that the PPP is unlikely to rejoin the joint opposition alliance, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). The former president told reporters after receiving a pre-arrest bond in the New York Property case that he doesn’t know for […]
Country achieves milestone by inoculating 100 million people
On Tuesday, Asad Umar, the head of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), said the government has reached “another big milestone” in its fight against the Covid-19 epidemic by partially inoculating at least 100 million people. “Of these nearly 75 million are fully vaccinated,” Umar said in a tweet, adding that the ‘work was […]
Sania Nishtar briefs diplomats on Social Protection Knowledge
ISLAMABAD: Dr Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, informed the heads of foreign missions in Islamabad on the ‘Declaration on Establishing a Global Social Protection Knowledge Platform’ on Monday at the Foreign Office. The proclamation is being led by Pakistan in New York, in partnership with a […]