TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad City Police Officer Sahibzada Bilal Umar took notice of the release of two arrested drug peddlers by Samanabad police, prompting a raid on the police station by Iqbal Town division SP Abid Zafar. During the raid, SP Zafar recovered narcotics from the cupboard of the SHO Imtiaz Ahmad. A search of…
ISLAMABAD: The constitutional deadline for the appointment of new chief election commissioner and two Election Commission of Pakistan members expired on Wednesday, with no action from the government in sight. The five-year terms of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, Sindh Member Nisar Durrani and Balochistan Member Shah Muhammad Jatoi ended on Jan 26,…
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federal governments have agreed on a framework to resolve the development funds related issues of the province and its merged tribal districts, said adviser to the chief minister on finance Muzzammil Aslam on Wednesday. Addressing a news conference here, Mr Aslam said the chief minister raised the issues related to…
Sara Batool, a 10-year-old, found brutally murdered in a bunk bed at the family home in Surrey on 10 August 2023. — Surrey police/File LONDON: The father and stepmother convicted of murdering their British-Pakistani daughter after years of torture will have their appeals heard in a UK court on Thursday. Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool,…
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday remanded a man in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a child pornography case. The US consulate general, through its special agent Christopher Peterson, had filed a complaint against the suspect, accusing him of extorting minors in the United States. Later, the FIA Cyber Crime Reporting…
KARACHI: Some greedy retailers have pushed up the retail price of sugar to as high as Rs180 per kg from Rs170 by attributing the hike to rising wholesale prices. A retailer said the wholesale rate for sugar had risen to Rs168 per kilogram from Rs153 per kg two weeks ago. The average national price of…
VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations’ drugs watchdog said on Wednesday. In 2024, opium prices reached $750 per kilogram, a tenfold growth from $75 per kilogram in 2022 when the Taliban government banned poppy…
• Summons all intra-court appeals on super tax from LHC, IHC• The more 2023 ruling is ‘dissected’, the more issues appear, observes Justice Mazhar• Civilians can be tried by military court, asserts defence ministry lawyer ISLAMABAD: In a first, the Constitutional Bench (CB) of the Supreme Court on Wednesday invoked its authority under the 26th…
THE bustle at the station is unusual, given that it is the middle of the night. The platform is crowded with people. However, most of them are not here to board a train. Their eyes are devoid of anticipation of a new journey, replaced with dread. They are waiting for a freight train carrying their…
THIS is not how it works. The biggest folly that any wielder of power can fall prey to is to take their own power for granted. It does not work that way. The world is not made of Lego blocks that it can be made, disassembled and remade into whatever shape one fancies. Trying to…