KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) revealed its decision today on the appeals submitted by 4 convicts in the Daniel Pearl case, acquitting three while transforming the death sentence of prime implicated Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh’s death sentence into a seven-year jail term. A two-judge SHC bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha, had […]

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— Defence costs to be increased ‘in light of the geopolitical situation’ ISLAMABAD: The federal government has actually predicted a 5.1 percent economic growth rate during the next three years. A three- year medium-term budget technique prepared by the Ministry of Financing predicted 3 percent economic growth in 20-21, 4.5 percent in 2021-2022 and 5.1 […]

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Federal Minister for Port and Shipping Ali Zaidi promoted the elimination of then Karachi Port Trust (KPT) chairman Back Admiral (r) Jamil Akhtar after the latter declined to grant a contract for a mega project to the minister’s blue-eyed business, a reporter declared. Speaking on a Din TELEVISION show, reporter Mumtaz Bhatti declared that Zaidi […]

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RAWALPINDI: A couple of Pakistan Army departments have actually revealed that they would donate their salaries “to support national efforts in the fight against COVID-19,” a declaration released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated on Tuesday. According to the ISPR, researchers, engineers and workers of the National Command Authority (NCA) and Strategic Plans Division […]

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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the federal government to instantly bring back the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). While hearing the case, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani revealed distress over federal government’s failure to bring back PMDC within the offered due date and purchased its immediate restoration. The judge likewise alerted that […]

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has actually declared that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) federal government is using the Corona Relief Fund to advance its political program, for that reason, a parliamentary tracking committee should be developed for oversight of the funds to ensure their warranted use. According to a declaration released on Monday, in […]

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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Sunday authorized a proposition to release about 4,000 convicts from jail in order to avoid the spread of the unique coronavirus in the province’s prisons. The summary is yet to be authorized by the Sindh cabinet, following which the detainees would be launched. Previously, the inspector general […]

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari alerted the Sindh federal government on Sunday versus disregarding the clingy throughout the coronavirus break out, directing them to assist those impacted the most by the pandemic. Bilawal was chairing a conference on procedures to assist day-to-day wage earners throughout the province-wise lockdown in Sindh. “Sindh government should […]

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PESHAWAR: In a quote to ‘revive the economy’, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Animals Department has actually finished the circulation of 100,000 kinds under the Domestic Poultry Farming Scheme revealed by Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2015. The project was at first executed in Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat, Karak, Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts […]

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BARCELONA: As the coronavirus scenario continues to degrade in Spain, Pakistani taxi drivers in Barcelona– the cosmopolitan capital of the sixth-largest European economy — have actually melted the hearts of Spaniards by supplying free transport services to the medical personnel, designated with dealing with COVID-19 clients. According to Mohammad Shahbaz Khatana, a cab driver in […]

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