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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has fixed a plea challenging SHC’s verdict in Dua Zehra case for hearing, ARY News reported on Tuesday. A three-member bench of SC will hear the plea of Dua Zehra’s father on Thursday. Last week, Dua Zehra’s father challenged the Sindh High Court’s verdict in …

LONDON – Britain’s railway network this week faces its biggest strike action in more than three decades in a row over pay as soaring inflation erodes earnings. Rail union the RMT has said that more than 50,000 workers will take part in a three-day national strike, coinciding with major events …

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) have reached a comprehensive agreement on a formal political partnership. A delegation of MWM led by the chief Allama Raja Nasir Abbas called on PTI Chairman Imran Khan, PTI Vice President Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Senior Central Vice President Dr Shirin Mazari and others. …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday decided in principle to provide subsidy on five essential items including wheat flour, sugar, ghee/edible oil, pulses and rice for the poor and backward segments during the next fiscal year. The said subsidy, a major relief for the poor and backward segments, will be …

Former Chairman WAPDA lieutenant general (retd) Muzammil Hussain on Monday appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) where he would be grilled over the delay in the Tarbela Fourth Hydropower project that caused losses of millions of dollars to the national exchequer. A single-member team of the NAB will grill …

In a shocking incident, a Rajanpur man sold his sister for Rs400,000 with help of his accomplices. According to the local police, a man named Bilal with the help of his accomplices sold his sister for rupees 400,000 in Rajanpur’s Jampur area. The case of the incident has been registered …

  Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan while declaring June 20 a  black day  said that the National Accountability (Amendment) Bill 2022 will protect white collar criminals from accountability. In a series of Tweets on Monday, the former prime minister highlighted that Rs1,100 billion of the Rs1,200 billion that was …

The Punjab government has decided to provide scooties (motorcycles) to all female teachers, lady polio workers, women health workers and working women of all government and semi-government institutions across the province. These scooties will only be given to permanent women employees during the new financial year 2022-23. This year, 160,000 …

Pakistani-American Zahid Quraishi has assumed charge as the first Muslim judge on a federal bench in the US – one step below the country’s top court. Zahid, who was nominated as the first Muslim in US history, was picked by US President Biden for the coveted slot last year, after …

Pakistani actor and comedian Masood Khawaja passed away in Islamabad on Monday after a prolonged illness. The senior actor was hospitalised at Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi after his health condition deteriorated. He breathed his last on Monday. Earlier, Khawaja had also appealed to the prime minister and Punjab chief minister …