Dawn: ALTHOUGH the ‘jirga’ system, notorious for its controversial decisions, such as honour killing and revenge-rape, is not in accordance with the Constitution, it is still prevalent in many parts of the country. Some 12 years ago, the Sindh High Court had banned...
Dawn: PARTICIPANTS in the rally pass through Sharea Faisal on Sunday.—Photo by Shakil Adil / White Star KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday warned that his party would lock down Karachi if a fair census was not conducted in the...
Dawn: KARACHI: SlainNaqeeb Ullah Mehsud’s family, their lawyer and a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA on Sunday expressed their apprehensions that former SSP Rao Anwar might be acquitted in his [Naqeeb’s] murder case due to a perceived lack of interest on the part of...
Dawn: KARACHI: Three senior lawyers have recently written a letter to the chief minister, urging him to direct the SindhEnvironmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to engage the public in the review process of the Sindh Environmental ProtectionAct 2014 and its rules...
Dawn: HYDERABAD: A group of women, men and children is sitting at a hunger strikers’ camp outside local press club, seeking recovery of their ‘missing’ family members. They may have different political affiliations but they have one thing in common. They share the...
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Amid rising prices during the ongoing sugarcane crushing season, the government has decided to immediately allow import of almost 850,000 tonnes of sugar without any taxes and duties to prevent price hike. This includes tax and duty free import of...
Dawn: KARACHI: Comparing and contrasting his case leading to his ouster in 2017 with that of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) foreign funding case, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has questioned why no action has been taken against the ruling PTI for...
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan reported 2,521 new Covid-19 cases and 43 deaths on Sunday, the Ministry of National Health Services (MNHS) announced that more vaccines would be registered in the country in coming weeks. According to the data released by the National...
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Apparently responding to the remarks made by the Senate deputy chairman on Saturday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has repudiated a “malicious propaganda campaign” being carried out in a section of media to malign the anti-graft watchdog...
Dawn: ANOTHER ignominious chapter has opened in the wretched saga of the national flag carrier. On Friday, it was learnt that a PIABoeing 777 had been seized at Kuala Lumpur airport on the orders of a Malaysian court in a $14m lease dispute. The aircraft was about...