ISLAMABAD: The Islamic Ideology Council (IIC) has validated around a hundred fatwas, also known as religious edicts, in support of polio vaccination, generating hopes that religious resistance against vaccines will decrease. According to an IIC document available with Dawn, the main body of the council unanimously decided to ratify fatwas by ulema in support of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told an accountability court on Monday that a defendant Faisal Shaheen in a video leak case had confessed to making a video of former accountability judge Mohammad Arshad Malik. In the video, the former judge admitted to convicting former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under duress. The FIA presented the
ISLAMABAD: Security personnel from the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) with the assistance of local forces, paramilitary troops and the police will provide security to the visiting royal couple during their stay in Pakistan. An advanced security team in the United Kingdom, made up of more than half a dozen personnel, had arrived in the capital
KARACHI: The Department of Fight against Terrorism (CTD) suspects that al-Qaeda's ban on the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is "regrouping" in the city to carry out terrorist attacks, emerged Monday. The CTD also claimed to have busted two other teams whose members had been actively involved in sectarian killings and police killings. "We have received reports
KARACHI: The investment in government papers, mainly dominated by the banking sector, set a new record by crossing Rs10 billion mark. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in its latest report published on Monday, showed that banks and non-banks, including corporate sector investments in government documents, reached Rs10.3 billion at the end of August. Most
ISLAMABAD: Dengue cases exceeded the previous record in the country amid better surveillance and follow-up of officials' claims. At least 47 people have died and more than 30,000 have contracted the virus so far this year, according to official figures. But the disease is not as deadly as in 2011 when 370 people died. According
ISLAMABAD: The cracks within the ranks of the opposition began to emerge before the long anti-government march, as the Popular Party of Pakistan (PPP) requested a clarification of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) on Monday Act of support to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the next partial elections in a seat of the Larkana Sindh Assembly. The
QUETTA: An Antiterrorist Court (ATC) here on Monday acquitted 15 defendants in the case of a terrorist attack by the Ziarat Residence. ATC judge Rahim Daad Khilji delivered the verdict by acquitting 15 of the 33 people nominated in the first information report (FIR) for lack of evidence against him. Lawyers Mumtaz, Shoukat Rakhshani and
LAHORE: Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) on Monday cleared uncertainty about its participation in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) protest, deciding that the opposition party will join the & # 39; March Azadi & # 39; if it remains a demonstration or becomes a sit-in against the government. The decision was made at another marathon meeting of
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet, which met Monday under Prime Minister Imran Khan, made some important decisions, passed an ordinance on the formation of a regulatory authority in real estate and called a meeting of the provinces to reduce the dizzying prices of The essential items. The cabinet, which usually meets on Tuesdays, met a day
