ISLAMABAD, (DNA) – Since assuming office on August 18, Prime Minister Imran Khan has established some 14 task forces, committees and commissions to recommend ways of expediting the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ‘s first-100-day plan to improve national governance. Each forum has been given just a couple of weeks to firm up the impatiently awaited proposals for a series of daunting tasks taken up by the PTI government. But it could be a case of deja vu. In past decades, such talk-shops were formed by successive governments to address the very sameRead More

LAHORE, (DNA) – The Lahore High Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for failing to appear before the court in the contempt case. A citizen, Riaz Anjum had filed a petition against former PM, accusing him of committing contempt of court by using derogatory language on electronic media against an Appellate Election Tribunal (AET) of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench Judge Abdul Rehman Lodhi. The LHC Judge Saddaqt Ali Khan had referred the case to LHC larger bench for further hearing.Read More

PESHAWAR, (DNA) – Shaukat Ali Yousafzai deserves to win the by-election for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly constituency, PK-23 Shangla, being held today as he had won the seat in the July 25 general election and lost it due to no fault of his. Contesting on the ticket of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), he had polled 17,399 votes to defeat Mohammad Rishad Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) who secured 15,533 votes. He had clearly won, but the Election Commission declared his election null and void because less than 10Read More

KARACHI: (DNA) – A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will take place today to sight the Muharram-ul Haram moon which will mark the advent of the new Hijri year 1440. Chairman Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman will preside over the meeting of the moon sighting body at Pakistan Meteorological Department’s office in the metropolis. Earlier, the Met Office had predicted that Muharram-ul-Haram will begin on September 12, which meant Ashura, which marks the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (R.A), will fall on September 21. According to Abdul Rashid, director atRead More

SHANGLA, (DNA) – Re-electon is in progress on a vacant seat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly PK-23, Shangla-I on Monday The polling will continue till 6pm, without any break. The July 25 election in the constituency was declared null and void by the Election Commission of Pakistan over low women turnout. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Shaukat Yousafzai had won the seat by securing 17,399 votes and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Mohammad Rashad remained the runner-up with 15,533 votes. This time only Yousafzai and Rashad are in the running as majority of theRead More