<p>ISLAMABAD: A local court on Thursday convicted three men, including a retired officer and a senior Bahria Town official, in a case regarding the illegal transfer of funds abroad for Bahria Town projects.</p> <p>The court handed down sentences of one year’s imprisonment and a fine of Rs500,000 to each of the three convicts.</p> <p>Additional District and Sessions Judge Nasaruminallah Baloch announced the verdict after hearing the final arguments from both sides.</p> <p>The three men convicte

<p>GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court on Thursday disqualified PPP candidate Fida Muhammad Nashad for concealing his assets in his nomination papers, setting aside the GB Chief Court’s decision that had allowed him to contest the elections.</p> <p>Nashad’s nomination papers were initially rejected by the returning officer (RO), prompting him to challenge the decision before the election tribunal. The tribunal, however, upheld the RO’s decision. Subsequently, Nashad challe

<p>ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on state-owned enterprises on Thursday rejected a request from two circular debt-hit state-owned gas utilities — Sui Southern and Sui Northern — for exemption from international accounting and financial reporting standards to avoid being declared insolvent.</p> <p>However, the cabinet committee, headed by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, “instructed the Petroleum Division to undertake further deliberations with the Finance Division and the Law and Ju

<p>KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Thursday handed over a 20-year-old man <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013914/20-year-old-arrested-over-suspected-rape-murder-of-6-year-old-boy-in-karachi">accused</a> of sexually assaulting and murdering a six-year-old boy to police on a five-day physical remand.</p> <p>The child’s body had been found in an empty plot near Karachi’s Lea Market on the night of July 7, a day after he went missing. Police said that although doctors had collected samples

<p>GUJRAT: A deportee hailing from Gujranwala was convicted by a local court on Thursday, taking the number of deportees from Libya and Greece sentenced over the past two weeks across three districts to 64.</p> <p>The deportees were handed 10-15 days’ imprisonment on average after summary trials in cases lodged against them by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in its three circles of the region.</p> <p>The courts of special judges central (SJCs) in Gujranwala, Gujrat and Sialkot districts

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the countrys civil and military leadership had taken a mutual and singular decision to end terrorism after multiple major terrorist incidents in Balochistan in recent days. He made the remarks at a...

<p>The US consulates in Lahore and Karachi are set to resume regular consular services from July 20, 2026, the US Embassy in Islamabad said in a statement on Wednesday.</p> <p>The consulates will provide services to US citizens as well as process non-immigrant visa applications.</p> <figure class='media w-full w-full media-- media--embed media--uneven media--tweet' data-original-src='https://x.com/usembislamabad/status/2074795709694369903?s=20'> <div class='media__item media__i

<p>Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry on Wednesday criticised laws <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013735/kp-enacts-new-law-to-raise-mpas-privileges">enacted</a> by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa expanding MPAs’ powers and immunities, taunting the PTI over its former pledges to end “VIP culture”.</p> <p>The KP Assembly passed three acts on April 30, which pertained to immunities and privileges of MPAs, the speaker and the deputy speaker, as well as salaries and allowances of lawmakers.

<p>ISLAMABAD: Amid hot and humid weather, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) has declared force majeure — a legal term that absolves contractual liability — for its inability to supply regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) for three weeks due to <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2013738">renewed</a> tensions around the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>This may significantly hamper the power supply from over 5,000MW of RLNG-based plants in Punjab and curtail the transmission of power from Sind

<p>LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday granted the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) a six-day physical remand of podcast host Rehan Tariq in a case registered under blasphemy and electronic crime laws.</p> <p>The NCCIA registered a first information report (FIR) against YouTuber Tariq on June 25 after he conducted a podcast with a religious scholar and discussed highly sensitive and controversial sectarian issues, sparking controversy among followers of different sects.</