KP female lawmaker adamant on veil for female students
PESHAWAR: Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) MPA Rehana Ismail on Wednesday submitted an adjournment motion in the Assembly Secretariat seeking restoration of the decision ordering...
Audit report finds irregularities in Islamabad Club affairs
ISLAMABAD: The Federal government Directorate General Audit found irregularities such as illegal appointments, illegal investments, operating of illegal bank accounts, illegal membership and the...
Timely completion of uplift projects vital to facilitate masses: GB CM
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman has said that timely completion of ongoing development projects is necessary to facilitate the masses.
Hafeez was presiding over...
Dengue takes two more lives in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: Two more dengue patients died in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, taking the victim toll to 12 in the city.
30-year-old Abdul Basit, a resident of Chakwal, died...
KP Govt launches 4 new development projects in erstwhile FATA
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) Government has launched work on four massive projects in erstwhile FATA to provide low-priced electricity to tribal people, media reported on...
KP govt allocates Rs17b for construction of Chitral-Shandur road
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has allocated about Rs17 billion for construction of Chitral-Shandur road.
A spokesman of the provincial government said that construction of...
Customs officials foil gold smuggling bid
ISLAMABAD: The customs department on Sunday foiled a bid to smuggle gold and recovered four gold biscuits worth millions of rupees from a passenger at...
Cleric arrested for raping minor boy in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: A cleric was arrested for raping a teenage boy here on Saturday.
Superintendent Police Mazhar Iqbal said that Maulvi Liaqat Hussain sexually abused 12-year-old...
7th grade girl who went ‘missing’ in Islamabad recovered from Swat
ISLAMABAD: A teenage girl who was reported missing by her family on Sunday in Islamabad has been located and safely recovered from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat...
Transgender community seeks special ward in hospitals
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of the transgender community on Tuesday demanded a special ward and counter in hospitals to avoid any discriminatory attitude towards the community members...
Four persons killed in DI Khan landslide
ISLAMABAD: Four people and around 100 animals were killed as a huge rock fell over them in the area of Gagal Dara located in Dera...
Islamabad still awaits a permanent landfill site
ISLAMABAD: In an age of advanced technologies to recycle garbage and generate energy, the federal capital still lacks a permanent landfill site to scientifically dump trash for...
Provincial govt in denial mode as dengue causes havoc in KP
PESHAWAR: Dengue cases are on the rise in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the situation seems to be falling out of the hands of the provincial government....
PTI wants Islamabad mayor gone over ‘poor performance’
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) leadership in the federal capital is planning to approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for removal of Islamabad Mayor Sheikh...
Punjab House Murree, Governor’s Annexe to open for public from Monday
ISLAMABAD: Punjab House Murree and Governor's Annexe would be opened for general public from Monday.
According to a spokesman for the Punjab government, people could...
900 more people test positive for dengue in KP
PESHAWAR: Dengue fever outbreak on Saturday rung alarm bells across the country as over 900 more patients have been affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Majority of the...
Court to indict suspects in illegal CDA contracts case on Oct 2
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Friday fixed Oct 2 to indict suspects in a case related to the illegal contracts in Capital Development Authority...
