By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, December 08, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will announce the schedule for the much-awaited general elections, possibly on December 14, triggering cut-throat electioneering across the country. The commission recently published the final list of delimitations clearing a major hurdle to the announcement of the polls. It is in the final phase of appointment of district returning officers, returning officers and assistant officers as per the provisions of…
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Reuters in Dawn, September 28th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Just a day after Russia claimed to have made its first Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) delivery to Pakistan, the government distanced itself from the import, triggering a controversy over the shipment amid an energy crisis. The energy ministry on Wednesday said Islamabad was ascertaining the facts after Russia’s embassy tweeted that Moscow had made its first LPG delivery to Pakistan. However, the ministry made it clear that the government…
Agency report, August 3, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s exiled opposition leader was sentenced in absentia to nine years jail for corruption on Wednesday, lawyers said, triggering protests from hundreds of supporters who called the trial politically motivated. Tarique Rahman, 55, acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and son of ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia, was handed the nine-year sentence and his wife, Zubaida Rahman, was given three years, Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khushid Alam Khan told AFP.…
By Ghulam Mursalin Marwat | Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 29th, 2023PESHAWAR/LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army confirmed on Friday that militants targeted security forces in three overnight attacks in the Lakki Marwat district, triggering shoot-outs in which three soldiers were martyred and seven militants were killed. In the first attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a security forces camp, located in the Government Postgraduate College, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)…