Sindh's Transportation Secretary, Ghulam Abbas, said Sunday that private application-based transportation companies, Airlift and Swvl, have not been banned and, instead, have been ordered to take their operations to the realm of law. Speaking to DawnNewsTVHe said private services were operating without route permits and certificates of no objection. The transportation department was not aware […]
While the country celebrated Eid-i-Miladun Nabi on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) marked the end of a story of inhumanity, oppression, tyranny, ignorance, injustice and deviation from the right path, Pakistan Radio reported. In his message on the occasion, the prime minister added that the birth of the
While the country celebrated Eid Miladun Nabi on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) marked the end of a story of inhumanity, oppression, tyranny, ignorance, injustice and deviation from the right path. Pakistan Radio reported. In his message on the occasion, the prime minister added that the birth of
ISLAMABAD: In a report, the Federal Ombudsman admitted to the Supreme Court that a total of 77,275 inmates are currently in 114 prisons in the four provinces against a sanctioned capacity of only 57,742. Of the 77,275 inmates, 47,077 have been housed in 42 prisons in Punjab, where the sanctioned force is 32,477. In the
ISLAMABAD: The opposition of the Muslim League of Pakistan-Nawaz (PML-N) was challenged on Saturday in the presidential ordinances of the High Court of Islamabad (IHC) promulgated by the government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on November 7. The ordinances were related to the conversion of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council into the Pakistan Medical Commission, the
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: In a dramatic turn of events, the government delayed the removal of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's name from the air exclusion list on Saturday, forcing a change in his plan to go to London to receive treatment on Sunday. Both the National Responsibility Office (NAB) and the Ministry of Interior could
Amid the current political turmoil, accountability and the National Office of Accountability (NAB) occupy a prominent place. On the one hand, there is a passionate section of the population eager to punish and even "hang" anyone who, in their opinion, has plundered national wealth. NAB is the main instrument through which they wish to fulfill
After verifying that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was seriously ill and probably aware of the consequences of something happening to him, a government committed to the "responsibility" of all its political opponents seems to have lost its value. This, for me, is the reason why Mr. Sharif has been allowed to travel abroad to
A Karachi court on Saturday sentenced a defendant convicted of killing an inspector during an armed robbery in 2016. Muhammad Danish, aka Punchi, was convicted of shooting 30-year-old Hasham Younus for resistance during an assault attempt within the mandate of the Brigade police station in August 2016. Additional District and Sessions Judge (East) Haleem Ahmed
The inauguration comes only a few days before the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak on November 12. Hundreds of Indian Sikhs made a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan, crossing a white door to reach one of the most sacred places of their religion, after a historic inauguration of the Kartarpur corridor on Saturday. The cheerful Sikhs
