ISLAMABAD, Jan 02 (DNA): Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar has said that Pakistan Democratic Movement will not ahead with protests and sit-ins and it will also contest Senate elections and by-polls.   Ghulam Sarwar, while talking to media persons, said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will never resign from assemblies while one faction of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is also against resignations.   Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday said the government was ready to hold dialogue with the opposition on all national issues excluding amendment in the National Accountability Bureau’sRead More

ISLAMABAD – Five officials of the Counter Terrorism Department were arrested after being booked on Saturday for the murder of a 22-year-old man in Islamabad earlier in the day. According to the first information report of the incident, registered on the complaint of the deceased’s father, Nadeem Younis Satti, at the capital’s Ramna police station, Osama received multiple bullets and died on the spot after the policemen opened fire at his car on Kashmir Highway. Satti said his son’s body was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where itRead More

ISLAMABAD, Jan 02 (DNA): Advisor to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar has said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif has failed to satisfy National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Talking to media persons along with Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Usman Dar, Barrister Shahzad Akbar has said that Khawaja Asif had assets worth Rs5.1 million in 1993 and the PML-N leader has no proof of Rs2.2 million monthly income he received from UAE. He said the assets of former federal minister Khawaja Asif multipliedRead More

  ISLAMABAD, JAN 2 (DNA) – The management of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has collected revenue of Rs 1.92 billion for the approval of building plans in 2020. While maps of 2315 buildings were approved in 2020.   According to details, Capital Development Authority (CDA) management has collected record revenue in the year 2020 for the approval of maps of commercial and residential buildings despite the worst outbreak and lockdown of COVID-19. From 1.1.2020 to 31.12.2020, the authority has approved maps of a total of 2315 buildings.   InRead More

KARACHI:  The federal and provincial education ministers are expected to discuss reopening of educational institutions in three phase. The educational institutions have been closed since November, 2020 when the federal government, on recommendation of the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC), decided that schools would reopen on January 10 after winter break. But the rising spread of the novel coronavirus across the country has cast a shadow on that decision with federal and provincial education ministers saying that it January 11 reopening is “unlikely”. It may be noted here thatRead More