NEW DELHI, MAY 1: India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives. Successive governments have steered clear of adopting such a code for fear of angering voters from India’s Hindu majority as well as its Muslim and Christian minorities. But members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its hardline affiliates want to roll outRead More

ISLAMABAD: The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee on Sunday announced that the Shawwal moon has not been sighted, hence Eidul Fitr will fall on Tuesday, May 3. The committee’s chairman, Maulana Abdul Khabeer Azad, made the announcement while addressing a press conference in Islamabad. “No authentic testimony of the moon being sighted was received therefore it was agreed with the consensus that Eidul Fitr will be on May 3,” he said. Maulana Azad said it was the committee’s effort to further strengthen itself as a platform for “unity” and spread that messageRead More

Thousands of supporters of Sri Lankan opposition parties rallied on Sunday in the commercial capital Colombo as a weeks-long political and economic crisis showed no sign of abating. Sri Lanka’s economy was hit hard by the pandemic and tax cuts by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government. Dwindling foreign currency reserves have left the island nation of 22 million people struggling to pay for fuel, food and medicine imports and brought thousands onto the streets in daily protests that have occasionally turned violent. On Sunday, opposition parties ended a week-long march fromRead More

DNA KAHACHI: The APNS expresses profound grief over the sad demise of Mrs Rafat Aslam mother of Mr Owais Aslam Ali chief editor of Monthly Economic Outlook and Press Foundation of Pakistan. Mr Sarmad Ali President and Mrs Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani Secretary General All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed their condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that Almighty Allah may rest the departed soul in eternal peace and give patience to Mr Owais Aslam Ali and the family to bear the great loss.

ISLAMABAD, May 1 (DNA): The construction of the extension of Kachhi Canal Project (KPC) has entered its final phase of completion. According to Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), the project will be completed by August 2022. According to Gwadar Pro, 32-km long water distribution system with a 40-km long main canal, will irrigate an additional 30,000 acres of virgin land in Dera Bugti, one of the backward districts of Balochistan. On Wednesday, WAPDA released a short documentary showing the progress of the project including the process of excavation,Read More

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday vowed that former prime minister Imran Khan will be arrested in a case relating to hooliganism and sloganeering against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation visiting Masjid-e-Nabawi earlier this week. In a statement, Sanaullah dubbed Imran Khan as “fitna” and said, “They will not be forgiven at all for what they did.” “Imran Khan will be arrested definitely,” he added. Referring to the FIR registered against almost 150 people, including Imran Khan, the minister said that there is no justification forRead More