Dir, JUN 4: Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday asked the “neutrals” why they did not defend the country against the “conspiracy” to oust his government and reiterated that fair and transparent elections were the “only way out” of the crises the country was facing. Addressing a huge rally in Dir, he said, “We ask the neutrals … when your work is to defend the country and it was discovered that this cipher had come and [US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia] Donald LuRead More

Islamabad, JUN 4: /DNA/ – Speakers at the webinar urged the government to come up with a national green energy policy reducing reliance on fossil fuel consumption and exploring to develop solar energy financing for every household. It would reduce heavy reliance on hydropower and hydrocarbon use and centralized grid stations. The Green CPEC Alliance is expected to boost such initiatives with local partnerships once the enabling environment is provided and the one-window system is operationalized. Government shall direct most of the investments towards green energy generation rather than explorationRead More

ISLAMABAD, JUN 4: President Dr Arif Alvi on Saturday returned two bills seeking to reverse the controversial changes made in the election laws by the previous PTI government regarding the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and i-voting for overseas Pakistanis and clipping the vast powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), to the prime minister for “reconsideration and detailed deliberation by the parliament and its committee(s)”. Both bills were passed by the National Assembly and the Senate last month. After their approval from both houses, only the president’s assent was requiredRead More

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has asked the government to exempt the industrial zones from electricity load shedding, as the power crisis, all over the country, has worsened and the total shortfall has crossed the level of more than 6,500MW.   PIAF senior vice chairman Nasir Hameed and vice chairman Javed Siddiqi in a joint statement, said that all the major industrial cities of the country are facing electricity load shedding due to which the production activities are badly suffering. He said that rural areas are alsoRead More

ISLAMABAD, JUN 4: The counsel for the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) confirmed to a special court in Lahore on Saturday that the agency wanted to arrest Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, in a Rs16 billion money laundering case. The counsel’s confirmation was in response to presiding judge of the Special Court (Central-I) Ijaz Hassan Awan’s query on whether the FIA wanted to arrest the father-son duo in the case against them and their family. The court also reissued the arrest warrants for suspectsRead More