India’s defence ministry said on Thursday a 17-year-old Indian youth was “reportedly captured” by the Chinese military after going missing near the countries’ shared border. The Indian army has contacted its Chinese counterpart to locate and return the teenager, Miram Tarom, according to a statement on the defence ministry’s Twitter account. In a separate tweet, Tapir Gao, a lawmaker for the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh where Tarom lives, said the teenager was allegedly abducted on Tuesday while a friend escaped and notified Indian authorities. The Chinese foreign ministry could not be immediately reached for comment. India and China…
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ISLAMABAD: The land in Katchi Abadis cannot be used for personal enrichment by somehow acquiring possession and then handing over the possession to a purported tenant, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. “It would be against public policy if money is permitted to be made at the expense of the landowner by exploiting the landless and then claiming ownership rights emanating from having had possession of such land,” observed Justice Qazi Faez Isa in his judgement. The observation came on an appeal by Syed Jamil Ahmed against an Aug 13, 2018, order of the Sindh High Court (SHC). A two-judge…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has cancelled the bidding process for hiring of a firm to hold the Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT). The move comes after criticism by stakeholders and filing of a case by them in Lahore High Court (LHC) that a “tailor-made” tender had been floated for the hiring of the same company which conducted MDCAT as a joint venture in 2021. A PMC letter to SOAR Testing and Evaluation Platform (SMC-private) Limited (TEPS), available with Dawn, stated: “Thank you for submitting your bid in reply to our tender titled Procurement of computer based examination services…
ISLAMABAD: The capital city witnessed the highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, after 1,131 people were reported to be infected with the virus on Thursday. In Rawalpindi, 255 new cases were reported on the same day. The twin cities recorded a total of five deaths from the virus over the last 24 hours – two in Islamabad and three in the garrison city. Moreover, at least eight educational institutions – two in the capital and six in Rawalpindi – were sealed following surfacing of fresh Covid cases. In…
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said terrorism is again rearing its head in the country because of ‘flawed’ policies of Imran Khan. “I condemn the Lahore blast and pray for the recovery of the injured. Owing to wrong policies of (prime minister) Imran Khan terrorism has again reared its head in the country,” the PML-N leader said in a tweet from London where he has been living since November 2019. PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz while condemning the blast and grieving over the loss of life, said in a tweet: “Three died and dozens injured in a bomb…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday lashed out at the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for what he called “using unfair tactics” to influence courts. Talking to a group of his spokespersons, he urged them to vehemently counter “controversies” being created by opposition leaders, especially in media. While referring to the affidavit case of former chief justice of Gilgit-Baltistan Rana Shamim, the prime minister said the PML-N generated the controversy of the affidavit to pressurise the court which was hearing the case of its leaders Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz. A participant of the meeting, while talking to Dawn,…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday allowed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Mohammad Asif to cross-examine Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with the latter’s defamation suit. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah accepted a petition filed by Mr Asif challenging the legality of the statement of the prime minister recorded through a video link in the defamation suit against the PML-N leader’s allegations about misappropriation of funds of Shaukat Khanam Memorial Trust (SKMT). In his petition, Mr Asif said the additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) had unilaterally closed his right to cross-examining Mr Khan. The petition…
A man was killed in a wall collapse in Karachi on Friday as gusty winds battered the city, turning the weather dusty. The Met Office said in a statement that strong winds were blowing in the city from the west at 25-30 knots (1kn equals 1.852kilometres per hour) as the result of a “steep pressure gradient”. Sardar Sarfaraz, chief meteorologist at the Met department, further explained in a video clip that the pressure gradient was high in western Balochistan and Iran due to the presence of a westerly low-pressure weather system in the eastern parts of Balochistan adjoining south Punjab…
Pakistan on Friday reported 7,678 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours — the highest number of cases since the pandemic began in Feb 2020. The country had last seen the highest number of coronavirus cases on June 13, 2020, with the country reporting 6,825 infections. Further, 23 fatalities were also reported during this period while the national positivity rate rose to 12.93 per cent. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the number of active cases rose to over 57,000 while 961 patients were in critical care. The data also showed that Karachi had the highest…
Opposition senators on Friday sought an explanation from Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed over the recent terrorist incidents in the country, including the blast in Lahore on Thursday which claimed the lives of three people. During today’s session, the opposition urged Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to suspend routine proceedings and debate the country’s law and order situation in the wake of the Lahore blast and the killing of a policeman in Islamabad during a shootout. Addressing the upper house, Senator Raza Rabbani lamented that terror incidents were on the rise in the country. He said that the Balochistan Liberation Army had claimed responsibility for…
