GUJRAT: On Monday, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz stated that in a record-breaking six months, ten projects worth Rs400 billion for farmers had been launched. The distribution of Chief Minister Kisan Cards worth Rs150 billion marks a first in Punjabi history. On Monday, the chief minister was addressing the attendees of the Kissan Card distribution ceremony in Hafizabad. She announced an increase from 0.5 million to 0.7 million Kisan Cards. She also said that farmers who grew wheat on 12 and a half to 25 acres would get a free laser leveler. She announced that farmers with more than 25 acres…
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KARACHI: Police said that on Monday, a dumper truck struck and killed a motorcyclist in North Karachi. They claimed that enraged individuals set the dumper on fire following the accident. Sufiyan Hafeez, 18, was the victim, according to Central SSP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi, who said the dumper hit his motorcycle near Saima Blessing, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Bilal Colony police station. He was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital with serious injuries, where doctors immediately declared him dead. The SSP added that the errant driver, Fazal Wali Khan, was taken into custody.
KARACHI: Three men held for allegedly assaulting women during a dispute at a Defence Housing Authority restaurant on Sunday were granted bail by a judicial magistrate on Monday. The fight between two families became so popular on social media that the police had to step in. According to Pakistan’s Penal Code sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 337-A (punishment of shajjah), and 34 (common intention), the Darakhshan police filed an FIR on the complaint of Shahid…
ISLAMABAD: The Case Management Plan 2023, conceived by senior puisne judge Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, was approved by the Supreme Court’s full court on Monday to address the court’s growing case backlog. A one-month case management plan developed by Justice Shah was reviewed at the meeting, which was presided over by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi. This plan integrates information technology with clear standards to efficiently manage all types of cases. All SC judges attended the meeting, which was called by the CJP and included Justice Mansoor Shah, who joined via video link from overseas. The objective…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif advocated for the use of artificial intelligence (AI). He also emphasized the significance of a knowledge-based economy that is driven by innovation in the fields of AI, education, and health and called for global collaboration and partnerships to address current issues. The prime minister arrived in Riyadh earlier today to attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII), which lasts for two days. The FII, which is scheduled for the 29th and 30th of October, is a significant platform for nations to demonstrate their economic potential, attract investments from abroad, and discuss strategies for long-term growth. This year’s…
Pakistan: An Islamabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali a physical remand for three days on Tuesday for allegedly “creating a security risk” by removing road barriers. The Islamabad police arrested the couple a day ago for “creating a security risk by interfering in state duties during the visit of an international cricket team.” On October 25, a video purportedly showed Imaan and Ali allegedly moving road barriers to clear the way for traffic. As the lawyers attempted to remove the barriers multiple times, traffic constables and a man in a…
Pakistan : According to rescue officials, a passenger bus slid off the Hazara Expressway in the Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday morning, causing at least four deaths and three injuries. Amir Khadam, a spokesperson for Rescue 1122, told Dawn.com that the passenger bus was traveling from Gilgit toward Rawalpindi at the time of the accident. He stated that the King Abdullah Hospital in Mansehra was used to transport the deceased and injured. He stated, “The incident occurred as a result of heavy rain, which caused the coaster to slip and skid off the road.” Khadam went on to…
Pakistan : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa On Tuesday, militants shot and killed two police officers protecting a polio vaccination team in the Orakzai district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two attackers were also killed, according to police. Vaccination teams are frequently targeted by militants waging a campaign against security forces, and Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in which polio is still widespread. Pakistan began a week-long vaccination campaign on Monday with the goal of vaccinating over 45 million children under the age of five. A senior Orakzai police officer, Malik Sikandar, told AFP: Police officers protecting a polio vaccination team were attacked…
WASHINGTON: The race between US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Nov. 5 is poised to be one of the closest elections in modern American history. With just a week to go until election day, there is little distance between the candidates in the handful of crucial states that frame the 2024 race. Each of the 50 states in the United States would hold its own presidential election, as stated in the constitution. Each state has a set number of “electors” based on population under the intricate electoral college system. In most states, the winner takes…
TOKYO: On Monday, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged to remain in office despite his bet that snap elections would fail and leave his party without a majority for the first time since 2009. After Ishiba took office on October 1, he called Sunday’s election, but voters punished his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955. On Monday, the 67-year-old Ishiba stated that he would not tolerate a “political vacuum” in the fourth-largest economy in the world. After the party scandal, which contributed to Fumio Kishida’s downfall, he stated that “people’s suspicion, mistrust, and anger”…
