PK plans faceless terrorism courts, Rs70bn for police to take on militants
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s governor-led administration plans to set up faceless anti-terrorism courts, in which judges, prosecutors and witnesses would be shielded from identification, and to spend about Rs70bn a year on the province’s police and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).
Crop losses reach 90 percent in drought-hit Thar, Sindh declares district calamity-hit
KARACHI: Authorities in Sindh province have decided to declare the drought-stricken district of Tharparkar a calamity-hit area after officials reported that up to 90 percent of crops across the region had been destroyed.
Imran Khan’s jailed wife tells court her eyesight is worsening, seeks treatment outside Adiala jail
ISLAMABAD: The jailed wife of former prime minister Imran Khan has asked the Islamabad High Court to order an immediate eye examination and to let her be treated by doctors of her choice, at her own expense, saying her eyesight is deteriorating in prison.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Pakistan targets $6 billion auto exports in five-year push to cut tariffs
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan unveiled a five-year auto policy that targets $6 billion of automotive exports, ties manufacturer incentives to local production and cuts taxes on electric vehicles, seeking to end decades of tariff protection that left the industry small, its cars costly and its exports thin.
Pakistan to send astronaut to Chinese orbital outpost in landmark mission
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani astronaut is to become the first foreigner to visit China’s Tiangong space station, Beijing’s manned space agency has announced.