NCOC to review opening of educational institutions

A special meeting of the National Command and Operation Center is being held in Islamabad on Tuesday to review the opening of educational institutions. In a tweet the forum said the meeting would also review the SOPs for Ramzan-ul-Mubarak in the light of the suggestions […]

Police arrest five suspects in ATC judge murder case

Police have registered a first information report (FIR) of the assasination of a Swat Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge with his three family members at the Swabi Interchange on Islamabad-Peshwar Motorway. The case was registered on a complaint of the judge’s son at Chota Lahore police […]

Sindh minister wants ban on inter-provincial transport

Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani on Monday demanded to ban inter-provincial transport including air and rail from Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid a sharp increase of COVID-19 cases. Coronavirus can rapidly increase in Sindh if people continue to commute from Punjab and KP, Ghani said […]

LHC extends interim bail of Capt (r) Safdar

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday extended interim pre-arrest bail of Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, son-in-law of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, till April 15, in an assets beyond means inquiry. The court extended the bail after a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) […]

Hammad to replace Hafeez as Finance Minister

ISLAMABAD – The federal government has decided to replace Finance Minister Abdul Hafiz Sheikh from the portfolio of Finance Ministry on account of rising inflation in the country. Federal Information Minister and Senator Shibli Faraz while ratifying removal of Finance Minister Abdul Hafiz Sheikh said that Finance Minister […]