RAWALPINDI: All formalities have been completed to send the body of a 47-year-old American national of Pakistani origin to the US on Friday morning. Wajiha Farooq Swati’s body was lying at the District Headquarters Hospital mortuary since the police retrieved it from a house in Lakki Marwat on Dec 25. She had gone missing after arriving in Rawalpindi on Oct 16. The body was claimed by her brother Ahmad Farooq and sister Aamira Farooq on Thursday and taken to the Rawalpindi Medical College for embalming (preserving against decaying). Ms Shabana, Wajiha’s lawyer, confirmed to Dawn that the body would be airlifted…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
South Africa captain Dean Elgar produced a heroic unbeaten innings of 96 runs to lead his team to a seven-wicket victory over India in the second Test at the Wanderers on Thursday. Elgar defied a hostile Indian attack and body blows from balls that struck him on a difficult pitch to deliver a match-winning performance as he led a successful 240-run chase, fittingly hitting a boundary to secure the victory. South Africa reached 243-3 near the end of a rain-restricted fourth day to level the series after India had won the first test in Pretoria by 113 runs, with the deciding match…
ALMATY: Bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets of Kazakhstan’s largest city on Thursday as Moscow-led troops arrived to help quell mass unrest that left dozens dead and hundreds detained. Fighting in Almaty continued a day after protesters stormed several government buildings, with a correspondent hearing regular eruptions of gunfire from the direction of a central square. Local media reports said security forces had cleared demonstrators from the square and other key government buildings, but there were also reports of gunfire elsewhere in the city. The first units of Russian forces from a Moscow-led peacekeeping force had meanwhile arrived in…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Thursday said that a comprehensive plan was under way to control inflation in the country. Addressing a press conference, the minister said that Pakistan’s all economic indicators, including growth rate, were on an upward trajectory despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The growth rate was at four to five per cent as per the projections of different financial departments, he said and foresaw economic stability and massive decline in inflation in the coming months. He said a National Assembly session had been summoned on January 10 and it was expected that the…
DUBAI: Dubai ports giant DP World is set to build an inland port in India-held Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi’s representative in the occupied territory said on Thursday. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, in Dubai this week to promote investment, said DP World would soon visit the 250-acre site earmarked for the inland port facility. “We will finalise it shortly,” he said, describing the project as a “firm commitment” by state-owned DP World. A DP World spokesperson said the company had a “productive meeting” with Sinha on Thursday and that it was preparing a proposal for the project. The announcement last…
KARACHI: Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) chairman Redha Jumma Mohammad Ali-Al Saleh has said that under the Vision 2040, his country is working in five sectors — mining, logistics, tourism, food security and industrial growth — and Pakistan can join it in these areas. Oman is open for foreign investment as under the new rules, investors can now invest 100 per cent capital with no need for having a local partner but it is better to have a local partner who could help in easily setting up businesses in Oman, he said during a visit to the Karachi…
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja reiterated on Thursday that the country’s cricket governing body needed to work on three key areas if Pakistan is to win in Australia, England and New Zealand. “We have to show excellence in three departments which are the pillars to get better and better results,” Ramiz said here at the HBL Pakistan Super League Trophy Tour event. “These are the organisational, commercial and cricketing departments and then we will beat Australia in Australia, England in England and New Zealand in New Zealand.” With the seventh edition of the PSL beginning Jan 27, Ramiz…
WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi planned to visit New York and Washington next week, but the Omicron virus forced him to postpone the trip, official sources in the US capital told Dawn. Sources in New York said that the virus has also affected President UN General Assembly (UNGA) Abdulla Shahid and senior members of the UN Secretary General’s staff, including his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. This week, the United States registered more than a million Omicron cases, causing school closures and reinforced social-distancing and stirring talks of yet another shutdown. Mr. Qureshi was expected in New York on Jan. 13 to attend…
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan has released the final consolidated election results of 41 of the 65 tehsil councils in the province, where polling was held on Dec 19 for the post of mayor and chairman showing the opposition Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl winning 15 seats and the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and opposition Awami National Party eight and six seats, respectively. Independent candidates won in six of the tehsil councils, Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz secured three seats, whereas Pakistan Peoples Party, Jamaat-i-Islami and Tehreek-i-Islahat Pakistan bagged one seat each. Election results for 24 of the tehsil councils were not released due…
ISLAMABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that the province of Sindh is not a place for humans to live with decency. Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club on Thursday, he said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had been in power in Sindh for the last 13 years, but “the corrupt and biased provincial government is sowing the seeds of discord that may turn the people of Karachi and other urban areas of Sindh into terrorists out of frustration”. Mr Kamal said the Sindh government had received Rs10.24 trillion through the NFC [National…
