The federal government on Saturday transferred BS-20 officer Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi from his post as inspector general of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police and appointed him director general of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), according to a notificatio...
All passengers travelling abroad from September 14 will be required to carry a vaccination certificate linked to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), it emerged on Saturday. The requirement was announced by Border Health Services-Pakistan (BHS-P) in a notice ...
LAHORE: Differences continued to mar the working relationship between the PPP and PML-N as the coalition partners’ coordination committees met on Saturday to resolve outstanding issues and iron out their differences. The PML-N-led government enjoys a two-thirds majority in the Na...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced a major administrative reshuffle, promoting four BS-19 officers to BS-20 and transferring 54 BS-17 officials across the country with immediate effect. The orders, issued with the approval of the Chief Election Com...
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti said on Saturday there would be “no dialogue in any case” with those who took up arms against the state. He made the remarks while speaking via video link to the country’s media anchors, senior journalists and other representatives at the ...
United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi fighters, who have seized a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia, have asked Washington not to intervene. The Houthis have taken control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast after capturin...
THE draft New Energy Vehicle policy gets its destination right. Electrifying transport, cutting the oil import bill and building an export-oriented auto industry are worthwhile goals. But the incentive structure chosen to achieve them rewards the wrong technology. The main flaw i...
England overcame a major wobble to beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the third Test at Edgbaston on Saturday, sealing a 3-0 series sweep. The home team, chasing just 130 to win, were in deep trouble when openers Ben Duckett and Emilio Gay were dismissed in the first over, bowled ...
PESHAWAR: The federal government has designated 26 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as “terror-affected”, declaring that all Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) and Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) officers posted therein are eligible for an ‘extraordinary law and order and...
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah said on Saturday that Parliament will decide on the matter of creating new provinces. The recent debate regarding new provinces began in late July when Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi called for new provinces as par...
More than 7,000 Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) worst outbreak of the deadly disease ever, according to figures from the Congolese authorities. Thought to have been spreading under the radar for weeks, the DRC officially detected the lat...
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday barred authorities from taking “coercive measures” against eateries legally operating and serving sheesha under permits or licences issued by the relevant authorities. The written order, seen by Dawn, was issued for the proceedings held ...
Punjab Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Saturday defended Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz amid recent criticism of her use of a government jet for a private visit and her remarks on the province facing a terrorism threat from neighbouring provinces. “The issue these days is not ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for a BRICS summit alongside leaders from India, Russia and Iran as wars, trade and energy test the divided grouping. The conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, along with global trade turbulence and energy security...
AI agents being tested by OpenAI attacked software service RubyGems two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, researchers said, the latest revelation of cyberattacks linked to major artificial intelligence (AI) developers that have spooked the public and sp...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi on Saturday called for strengthening the district judiciary, describing it as the “backbone” of the country’s justice system. “The district judiciary is the backbone of our justice system and for most citizens, this is the first contac...
Shafqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first ambassador to Armenia, presented his letters of credence to President Vahagn Khachaturyan at a formal ceremony at the presidential palace, it emerged on Saturday. President Khachaturyan warmly welcomed Ambassador Khan, congratulated him on his a...
LAHORE: Around 100 Pakistani Sikh pilgrims, including women and children, were stopped at Faisalabad International Airport on Friday from travelling to India to perform religious rituals at Gurdwara Sri Hemkund Sahib, after the immigration authorities raised questions over their ...