How can a prisoner’s property be turned into a sub-jail against his will? Justice Hasan Aurangzeb The Islamabad High Court reserved its decision on the request to transfer Bushra Bibi from Bani Gala to Adiala Jail. In the High Court, a hearing was held on the transfer request of Bushra Bibi from Bani Gala Sub…
Rawalpindi: A case was registered against the women in the car after the incident of verbal altercation with the Motorway Police. The police have registered a case against women car riders in the incident of being stopped for overspeed and negligent driving on the issue of bitter words between women and police officers on the…
The assailant was riding a black motorcycle and was wearing a helmet of the same color, eyewitnesses said Lahore: A policeman was martyred by the firing of a motorcyclist in Taksali Gate area, special teams were formed to arrest the accused. According to Express News, a motorcycle-riding assailant opened fire on a Bawardi policeman in…
Karachi: An emergency meeting of the Provincial Apex Committee has been called at 9 am today at the Chief Minister’s House. According to sources, the meeting of the Apex Committee will be chaired by the Chief Minister of Sindh, Corps Commander Karachi, DG Rangers, IG Sindh and other officials will participate in the meeting. In…
Karachi: The city continued to experience scorching heat for the third day, with the maximum temperature recorded at 39.4 degrees Celsius during the hot and dry day. From Friday, the temperature is expected to drop and the weather will remain mild. According to Express News, due to the desert winds of Balochistan, the weather remained…
The Punjab government transferred 49 officers yesterday – Photo: File Lahore: The Punjab government has issued orders for the appointment and transfer of 31 senior officers while further shaking up the provincial bureaucracy. The provincial government appointed Saqib Manan, Member of Inquiries IV S&GAD, Member Judicial VII Board of Revenue, Member Judicial V Chief Settlement…
In a statement released late on Wednesday the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he had been deeply distressed to hear of the hundreds of lives lost and many others affected by the deluge in Kenya as well as Burundi, Somalia, Tanzania and other parts of East Africa. He extended his condolences to the Governments and…
A 2022 initiative, resolution76/262, calls for the UN’s most representative body to meet within 10 days if the veto is used in the Security Council by one of its permanent members – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – who are granted this special voting power. During a Council meeting on…
Results from 17 countries showed that boys and girls aged seven to nine spent more time looking at screens and less time playing outside, mirroring an increase in overweight children in this same age range. More than 50,000 children were surveyed from 2021-23, following the start of the worldwide shutdowns in March 2020. A nuanced…
“One-third of all the families who live here have children under five, so many babies, so many kids,” said Matthew Hollingworth, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine Country Director, speaking from a school in Deir Al Balah, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. “What they need is school, though what they need…
