School principal held for rape of student in Lodhran – Pakistan
BAHAWALPUR: The principal of a private school in Lodhran was arrested on Friday on charge of raping a 7th grade student in a classroom nine months back. Lodhran Saddar Police arrested the suspect, who was also the owner of the school, on complaint of the father of the 12-year-old girl who quitted going to school […]
Info minister says man pushed off container during PTI protest injured but ‘completely fine’ – Pakistan
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Saturday confirmed that a man who reportedly fell from a container during the PTI’s Islamabad protest was injured but “completely fine”, refuting claims circulating online about his death. On November 26, Islamabad witnessed pitched battles between security forces and PTI supporters as the latter inched towards the heavily barricaded D-Chowk […]
Schools in India shut as heavy storm approaches Tamil Nadu coast – World
Schools in India’s south were shut and hundreds of people moved inland to storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone storm set to hit the region on Saturday. Cyclonic storm Fengal is forecast to make landfall in Tamil Nadu state with sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres per hour in the afternoon, India’s weather bureau said. […]
Levies post attacked, six kidnapped from Balochistan dam construction site – Pakistan
QUETTA: Unknown armed men attacked a checkpoint and construction site of the Gandari Dam in the Reko Zarin Jungle area along the Kharan-Noshki highway and abducted six people. Security sources said on Friday that a group of armed men blocked the Kharan-Noshki highway between Thursday night and Friday and launched an attack on the Levies […]
Dentistry degree will now take five years – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has officially announced the extension of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme from four to five years. The new policy will be implemented across the country from the session 2024-2025. In a statement on Friday, PM&DC president Prof Dr Rizwan Taj highlighted the significant benefits of […]
Anti-Damascus fighters enter Aleppo after lightning assault – World
• Fierce fighting leaves over 250 dead in three days• Syrian and Russian jets carry out strikes in Idlib BEIRUT: Fighters battling the Syrian army and their Ankara-backed allies reached the country’s second city of Aleppo on Friday, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iran- and Russia-backed government. The fighting is […]
PTI in disarray
THE PTI’s worst tendencies are once again in full view of the public. Following the debacle that marked the culmination of its ‘last call’ earlier this week, its leadership has quickly turned on itself. Several resignations have already been tendered, and more may be in the offing as a chaotic internal reckoning leads to finger-pointing […]
Tired tactics – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
THE faces change but the playbook remains the same. It is a sad fact that governments in Pakistan, throughout the country’s history, have misused the law to silence dissent, and punish critics. The arrest of journalist Matiullah Jan in the aftermath of the PTI’s disastrous protest in Islamabad certainly appears to be a case of […]
FO dismisses foreign criticism of law enforcers’ crackdown on PTI protests – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday dismissed international criticism of the crackdown on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) protests as ill-informed, but refrained from directly addressing comments by the European Union’s envoy regarding the arrest of journalist Matiullah Jan and the charges against him. “We have seen some external commentary on recent developments in Pakistan. We believe […]
Ipsos Pakistan joins DawnMedia’s ‘Breathe Pakistan’ initiative on climate change – Pakistan
KARACHI: DawnMedia has partnered with Ipsos Pakistan — one of the leading international research companies in Pakistan — for its climate change initiative ‘Breathe Pakistan’. Ipsos Pakistan will be coming on board as a research partner and will be providing DawnMedia with different findings and data on climate change. An MoU in this regard was […]