Dr Arif Alvi’s dental clinic in Karachi sealed by SBCA – Pakistan
KARACHI: The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) on Thursday sealed the dental clinic of former president Dr Arif Alvi in Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society on the grounds that the senior PTI leader was running a “commercial operation in a residential building”. The SBCA spokesman confirmed the development calling it a “routine job” from the […]
Indian govt slammed for failure to stop stubble burning – World
NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court asked authorities on Thursday to report back within a week on what they were doing to stop farmers from burning crop residue as smog began to pollute the air in the capital Delhi and surrounding regions, local media reported. Farmers in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh […]
Winning back the Pakhtun belt – Pakistan
TO say that there is a breakdown of trust between the state and its populace in Pakistan is an understatement. There is an ongoing, violent separatist movement in Balochistan; incidents of militant Islamist insurgency are increasing in the Pakhtun territories; dacoits roam freely in southern Punjab and inner Sindh; military exchanges along the Pak-Afghan border […]
Oil jumps 5pc on supply concerns – Pakistan
HOUSTON: Oil prices rose on Thursday with all eyes on key producing countries in the Middle East and mounting concerns that a widening regional conflict could pose a threat to global crude flows. Brent crude futures were up $3.59, or 4.86 per cent, at $77.49 a barrel by 1:08 p.m. EDT. US West Texas Intermediate […]
Rs250m spent without selling a single Disco – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: As the government has yet to privatise any state-owned enterprise, the Senate Standing Committee on Privatisation was informed on Thursday that Rs250 million was spent on the divestment process of power distribution companies (Discos) without completing a single transaction. Seeking details of this enormous expenditure, committee chair Senator Tallal Badar lamented that in a […]
‘Inefficient’ KE grilled over long outages, overbilling – Business
• NA panel to hold next meeting in Karachi to judge performance• KE seeks 51 paise tariff hike for August ISLAMABAD: Despite overcapacity in the system and its resultant unaffordable cost to consumers, the complaints about overbilling, overcharging and extensive loadshedding, particularly in Karachi, continued to echo at the parliamentary and regulatory forums on Thursday. […]
Govt told to remove names of Elahi family from PCL – Pakistan
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court ordered the Ministry of Interior and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday to remove the names of PTI President Parvez Elahi, his son Rasikh Elahi and daughter-in-law Zahra Elahi from the Passport Control List (PCL). Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza passed the order allowing two separate petitions filed by Mr […]
Allies, foes alike urge PTI to postpone protests – Pakistan
• Naqvi asks PTI to defer demo till 17th; Fazl advises to wait until foreign dignitaries leave; Punjab governor says nothing wrong with a little delay• Over 300 containers on Islamabad roads; M1 motorway blocked at Burhan• Gandapur vows to reach D-Chowk today, come what may LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: On the eve of the main opposition PTI’s […]
Dozens more killed as Israel continues attacks on Lebanon – World
A CLOUD of smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on a southern Lebanese village, on Thursday.—AFP • 46 people die in Israeli strikes over 24 hours• IDF claims striking intel HQ in Beirut• Hezbollah keeps up cross-border fire; nine Israeli soldiers killed so far BEIRUT: Israel’s military said on Thursday it had hit Hezbollah’s intelligence […]