MIRNASHAH: Four persons, including a minor girl, sustained injuries in two separate incidents in North Waziristan district on Saturday, sources said. The sources said that nine-year-old Safeen was collecting firewood in Muhammadkhel village in Dattakhel subdivision when an explosive device lying there went off. She sustained injuries in the blast and was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital...
Saturday, 31 August 2019
Women among three held in fraud case
PESHAWAR: Police arrested a woman and two men for alleged involvement in fraudulently collecting money from people through social media.
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Continuous curfew, lockdown raising concerns of human tragedy in IHK: Buzdar
LAHORE: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar felicitated the people of Punjab on observing solidarity with Kashmiris and said that he wants to thank the public with the core of his heart for their strong show of love and affection for Kashmirs by enthusiastically participating in the rallies.In a statement here on Saturday, Usman Buzdar said that on the appeal of Prime Minister Imran Khan, voice had...
Cotton crop in south Punjab under massive pest attack
MULTAN: A severe attack of mealybug is being witnessed on cotton crop in south Punjab districts.In the wake of the attack, the Punjab Agriculture Department has warned the cotton growers to adopt measures to offset the attack. The Punjab Agriculture Department has assessed that mealybug has attacked almost 60pc cotton crop in all 11 districts of the south Punjab.Mealybug infestations appear on plants...
Brecht play performed at PNCA
Islamabad: The stage play of a Brecht Urdu version was performed here at the auditorium of the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).The performance was organised by 29 Production in collaboration with the German Embassy and PNCA. Translated by Mansoor Saeed, directed by Asif Shah and co-directed by Akash Bukhari, the play tells the story of a rich merchant, who must cross the fictional Ya-hi...
Faryal Talpur’s lawyers allege political victimisation
ISLAMABAD: The family members and lawyers of Faryal Talpur held meeting with her at Adiala Jail on Saturday.The lawyers included former provincial minister Ziaul Hussain Lanjaar and Ghulam Mustafa Laghari. After the meeting, Ziaul Hussain said Faryal Talpur has not been provided B-class as per the court order along with lack of health facilities."Due to recent heat wave in Rawalpindi, Faryal Talpur...
Electronic motorcycles, rickshaws to ply soon: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said the ministry was planning to introduce electronic motorcycles and rickshaws across the country.During his visit to Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) here, the minister said Pakistan was among those countries which were using highest number of motorcycles, said a press release. Electronic...
Petition filed against Fawad for ‘concealing assets’
ISLAMABAD: A petition was on Saturday filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry, seeking his disqualification under Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution.The petition mentioned that Fawad had concealed his assets while submitting his nomination papers with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). It pleaded with the court to disqualify...
Student electrocuted in Gujranwala
GUJRANWALA: A student was electrocuted at Rahwali on Saturday. Adeel, a class 10 student, was ironing his school uniform when suddenly he touched a livewire. As a result, he received electric shocks and died on the spot.
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Kashmir Hour marked at several Pakistani missions across world
ISLAMABAD: The Kashmir Hour was marked at several Pakistani missions abroad wherein a large number of overseas Pakistanis rallied to express solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren and condemn Indian atrocities against the innocent people of the occupied valley.United Kingdom:A ceremony was held at Pakistan High Commission in London on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day. Over 300 people from around...
Monsoon rainfall expected in Balochistan
LAHORE: The synoptic situation shows a seasonal low lay over northern Balochistan and its adjoining areas. Monsoon currents are likely to penetrate the southern parts of the country.On Saturday Lahore, received moderate to heavy showers which lowered the temperature and turned the weather pleasant.It provided respite to people from hot and humid weather conditions. The maximum and minimum temperatures...
PFA to check ghee, butter
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will start checking of ghee, butter and cheese from Sept 4 across the province. The purpose of the campaign was to ensure provision of safe and healthy food to consumers.PFA Director General Muhammad Usman directed the teams to collect samples of the products from the open market for laboratory test. The campaign would be continued till Sept 5. He said the samples...
India locked down mosques, worship places in held Kashmir, says Qureshi
SUKKUR: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said revocation of Kashmir’s special status is a clear message to the world to see how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has violated religious freedom as he locked down mosques and other worship places in the occupied Kashmir, while Pakistan gives freedom to all the religious minorities to perform their rituals.While addressing a convention in Thar...
Govt failed to make useful diplomacy on Kashmir, claims Ahsan
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has said the government should make serious diplomatic efforts to highlight the Kashmir dispute.Addressing a press conference after a PML-N re-organization committee meeting on Saturday, he said giving more time to the government was tantamount to putting the country’s security and democracy at risk.The PTI government failed...
Iqama-holders also doing politics on Kashmir today: Hammad
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Division Hammad Azhar has wondered that even Arab countries Iqama-holders are also trying to do politics on the issue of Kashmir today.In a message, he said on Saturday the whole nation took to the streets on Friday to express solidarity with the oppressed Kashmiris, but none of them was seen anywhere in the country. He said these were the politicians...
Gunmen open fire at Shah Hussain Express in Gojra, a passenger injured
TOBA TEK SINGH: A passenger sustained injuries when some unidentified men opened fired at the Shah Hussain Express at Gojra on Friday night. The passenger was identified as Kashif of Lahore. Witnesses said when the train reached near the railway level crossing, the accused opened indiscriminate fire at the train and one of the bullets broke a widow-glass of a bogie and hit the passenger. The injured...
Two commit in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: Two people committed suicide in separate incidents here on Saturday. In the first incident, Shamim Bibi, who had recently married with Bahadur Ali of Syedwala, ended her life by swallowing poisonous pills. The motive behind the incident is said to be a domestic issue. In another incident, Zafar Iqbal exchanged hot words with his father Chiragh Din ober some issue. Later, Zafar committed...
Closed for 12 years over security concerns, Ahle Tashee mosque opens
LAHORE: An Ahle Tashee mosque that was shut for more than last 12 years over law and order fears was opened in the provincial metropolis here on Saturday. The mosque located in Phase 5 shall be fully managed by the DHA authorities. The administrator inaugurated the mosque on the eve of Moharamn ul Haram and more than 500 men and women of the Shia community from DHA and outside offered their first...
$1.1b import compression: FBR faces Rs68 billionshortfall in July, August
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) faced revenue shortfall of Rs68 billion in July and August mainly because of import compression of $1.1 billion on a monthly basis, The News has learnt.The FBR used to collect around 38 percent taxes through imports. The FBR’s net collection on account of Customs Duty (CD) stood at Rs49.8 billion against the desired target of Rs65 billion in the first...
Annexation of Kashmirand India’s nuclear threat
During the BJP election campaign, in an elections rally, Narendra Modi asked, in the context of nuclear weapons: “What do we have then? Have we kept our nuclear bomb for Diwali?” – as reported in The Hindu 21 April 2019. He went on to add that India had the capability to launch nuclear attacks from land, air and sea.The aggressive tone towards Pakistan from Narendra Modi’s BJP government continued...
Passenger injured in firing at train
TOBA TEK SINGH: A passenger sustained injuries when some unidentified men opened fired at the Shah Hussain Express at Gojra on Friday night.The passenger was identified as Kashif of Lahore. Witnesses said when the train reached near the railway level crossing, the accused opened indiscriminate fire at the train and one of the bullets broke a widow-glass of a bogie and hit the passenger.The injured...
Matloob breaks course record to take CNS Open lead
KARACHI: For the best part of his career, Lahore’s Matloob Ahmed has remained in the towering shadow of Shabbir Iqbal – the Jahangir Khan of Pakistan golf.But occasionally, the vastly-talented Matloob comes out of it.Saturday was one such day here at the Karachi Golf Club when Matloob produced his career-best performance to break the course record and take a one-shot lead in the 24th UMA-CNS Open...
Friday, 30 August 2019
Siraj supports PTI govt on Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD: Reiterating his party’s full support to the PTI government on Kashmir issue, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq, said all the institutions, political leadership and nation were on one page for the right of independence of Kashmiris from India.“We support government’s call for expression of solidarity with the Kashmiri people but the government should take more effective measures...
Cops kidnap, implicate govt official in drug-trafficking case
PESHAWAR: In a horrible incident of police high-handedness in the provincial capital, three cops allegedly kidnapped a government official from the posh Hayatabad locality, kept him hostage for hours and let him go after placing heroin in his car to implicate him in a drug-trafficking case, a source told The News.The incident caused concern among the general public as they were worried the once reformed...
Held Kashmir still not going India’s way
The Modi Sarkar did not anticipate major internationalisation of the Held Kashmir issue when it removed the Article 370 nor the reaction of the Kashmiri public. The curfew so far has been in place for some 20 days, something the Indian government did not consider when taking the action. It is unprecedented holding millions of people hostage for such a long time. It may continue for unforeseeable future.Then...
Pressure mounting on India over Article 370
Pressure is continuously mounting on India over the abrogation of Article 370 in Held Kashmir and there is no denying it. The Indians are in much panic and have started realising that the world will not keep silent on the issue. On August 16, President Trump told Prime Minister Imran Khan that he would speak to Narendra Modi on Kashmir and India-Pakistan tensions. Modi and the Indian establishment...
Clerk held for corruption
GUJRANWALA: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) team arrested a revenue clerk receiving bribe in Hafizabad on Friday. A citizen told the ACE that senior clerk Ghulam Mustafa was demanding bribe from him to clear his property documents.
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CM underlines media’s role in democracy
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan said Friday journalists had played an important role in promoting democratic norms, transparency, soft image of Pakistan internationally, strengthening accountability and defeating terrorism.He was addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the elected office-bearers of the Peshawar Press Club, said an official handout. Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai, Advisor...
US actress Valerie Harper dead at 80
Los Angeles: Valerie Harper, one of US television´s biggest stars in the 1970s for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spin-off "Rhoda," died Friday after a long battle with lung and brain cancer. She was 80.Harper won four Emmys and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern, Moore´s brash, wisecracking and neurotic neighbor, eventually earning her own sitcom.A 1974 episode of "Rhoda"...
Rallies held across KP to express solidarity with Kashmiris
PESHAWAR: Protest rallies were staged across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday to express solidarity with Kashmiris. In the provincial capital, the main rally was held near the Chief Minister’s House.Governor Shah Farman, Speaker KP Assembly Mushtaq Ghani, provincial cabinet, members of the provincial assembly and entire civil bureaucracy also participated in the rallies to express solidarity with Kashmiris.Speaking...
Modi can’t suppress Kashmiris through bullets: Mishal Malik
ISLAMABAD: Mishal Malik, the wife of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik on Friday said that extremist Modi government cannot suppress the passion of the Kashmiris through bullets and entire Pakistani nation standing shoulder to shoulder with them against brutalities done by Indian government.Talking to private news channel, she thanked Pakistani nation for observing ''Kashmir hour'' to express solidarity...
Chitral villagers set deadline for restoration of irrigation system
CHITRAL: The residents of three villages on Chitral-Booni road on Friday announced to stage protest and road blockade if the irrigation system was not restored within three days.Speaking at the 'Press Forum', Khwaja Amanullah, Wali Muhammad, Hamidullah, Zafar Ahmed, Muhammad Sharif and Motabar Shah of Moori Payan, Barghuzi and Kojo Bala villages said that the people had been living a miserable life...
COMSATS University staff protests human rights violations in held Kashmir
Islamabad: University faculty and staff gathered to protest against Indian aggression and violations of human rights by the Indian Army in the Indian Occupied Kashmir at the Islamabad Campus of the COMSATS University here on Friday. The protest was held on the call of Prime Minister Imran Khan, which was subsequently endorsed by the Higher Education Commission.Participants held banners against Indian...
Funds embezzlement in Torghar being probed: MPA
MANSEHRA: Awami National Party (ANP) MPA Laiq Mohammad Khan Swati has said that those who have embezzled the funds meant for people of Torghar would face the music."There is huge corruption in funds meant for Torghar and the corrupt would be brought to justice," Swati told reporters in Oghi on Friday. He said that Rs50 million had been earmarked by the tehsil municipal authority Judbah, the district...
Sirajul Haq supports PTI govt on Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD: Reiterating his party’s full support to the PTI government on Kashmir issue, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) ameer Senator Sirajul Haq, said all the institutions, political leadership and nation were on one page for the right of independence of Kashmiris from India.“We support government’s call for expression of solidarity with the Kashmiri people but the government should take more effective measures...
AIOU staff takes out rally to express solidarity with innocent Kashmiris
Islamabad: Responding to the call of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the academic and services’ staff of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on Friday took a rally giving a message of solidarity to the Kashmiri people for getting freedom from occupation of the Indian extremist forces.The largely attended rally was holding banners and posters that inscribed with the slogans 'Kashmir Ban-e-Ga Pakistan' and...
Faisal Masjid sermon highlights Kashmir
Islamabad: President of the International Islamic University Prof. Dr. Ahmed bin Yousif Al-Draiweesh delivered the Jumma prayer sermon on Kashmir issue at Faisal Masjid.The sermon was attended by IIU Rector Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, senior staff members of the university and a large number of people from twin cities and people hailing from different walks of life.The IIU president prayed for the end of...
Past governments flayed for ignoring water issue
Islamabad: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said that had the past governments taken the issue of water storage seriously, the country would have not been threatened by the release of the excessive river water by India today.Addressing a 'media awareness workshop on water crisis in Pakistan' organised jointly by LEAD Pakistan and Nestle on the occasion of World Water Week, the minister...
Islamabad police hold Kashmir rally
Islamabad: The Islamabad police held a rally on Friday to express solidarity with the people of Indian Held Kashmir in response to Prime Minister Imran Khan's call.The 30-minute Kashmir Solidarity Hour commenced from 12:00 pm in which sirens were sounded and national anthems of Pakistan and Kashmir were played. The rally was attended by senior police officials and personnel of the police force from...
‘Police to strengthen relations with community’
Islamabad: The Islamabad police, being a professional force, is making efforts to promote relations with community and win public support through resolving issues at their door steps.It was stated by SP (Saddar) Muhammad Umer Khan while addressing the people at `Open Kutchery’ held in area of Golra Police Station. The Open Kutcherry was organized following directions of Inspector General of Police...
Kashmiri villagers tell how Indian army tortured them
SRINAGAR: Villagers living in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) say that Indian army officer have beaten them with sticks, given them electric shocks, and filled their mouths with mud when they screamed, according to a BBC report from the Valley, international media reported on Friday.Two unnamed brothers living in a village known to be a hub of freedom fighters told the BBC's Sameer Hashmi that they were...
British MPs ask UN, UK to act on Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of British parliamentarians that visited Pakistan this week have asked the United Nations and the British government to take notice of the grave atrocities being inflicted on the people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir by a fascist and racist regime of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The delegation, headed by Khalid Mahmood MP (Labour-Perry Barr, Birmingham), included Stephen...
NAB initiates probe against PPP leader Khursheed Shah
SUKKUR: The NAB Sukkur has initiated a probe against senior PPP leader Khursheed Ahmad Shah.The director NAB Sukkur in his written communication to DC Sukkur and DC Dadu to provide complete record of the assets of former leader of opposition, PPP MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah and his family to the Combined Investigation Team by Sept 2. According to the letter, the NAB has sought information regarding...
Broghil festival to begin from Sept 6
PESHAWAR: A three-day Broghil festival will kick off at the Broghil National Park in the Upper Chitral district from September 6.
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Bollywood actress Urmila lashes out at Indian govt over IHK lockdown
MUMBAI: Bollywood actress and Congress politician Urmila Matondkar lashed out at the Indian government against the ongoing security crackdown in Indian Held Kashmir.Urmila said that due to the communications lockdown, her husband was unable to contact his parents for the last 22 days, according to a media report. The actress’ in-laws live in the Imdian-Held valley and are going through terrible conditions...
Thursday, 29 August 2019
KP Assembly condemns atrocities in held Kashmir
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution condemning Indian atrocities and change of the status of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.The joint resolution signed by the opposition and treasury members and moved by Information Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai and Maulana Lutfur Rahman of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) said: "This august House condemns the shameful act...
KP universities’ teachers resent ban on appointments
PESHAWAR: A recent decision of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government through the Higher Education Department to ban all kinds of appointments in the public sector universities owning to 'financial crisis' has caused resentment among the universities' administrations as well as the teaching community.The government has been urged to withdraw the decision without delay. The vice-chancellors of the public...
Govt asked to revise delimitation of councils in Bara
BARA: Rejecting the delimitation of village and neighbourhood councils, tribal elders have asked the government to revise the delimitation. A meeting was held here on Thursday at the office of District Election Commissioner Nadeem Khan.The tribal elders Gulmin Khan, Said Ayaz Khan, retired subedar Aman Afridi, Bara Press Club president Khialmat Shah, former president Khyber Union Ibrahim Afridi, Farooq...
Paramedics meet state minister for parliamentary affairs
Islamabad: A delegation of All Pakistan Paramedical Staff Federation held a meeting with Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan and apprised him of the problems of allied health professionals including paramedics.The delegation led by central president of the Federation, Sharatullah Yousafzai informed the minister that paramedics have been facing many problems due to non-existing...
Grandfather kills grandchildren
NAWABSHAH: A grandfather allegedly killed his grandchildren and severely injured his daughter-in-law on Thursday.According to police, the grandchildren saw Veeru Kohli in a compromising position with his daughter-in-law, Ladoni, near their railway station godown residence. Fearing disclosure, Kohli killed the children and critically injured their mother. The police recovered the bodies of the children...