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ISLAMABAD: The Power Division on Thursday projected a Rs2.56 per unit increase in November bills for electricity consumers on account of fuel cost adjustment (FCA) for September, citing the use of expensive fuel for electricity generation. The increase is expected to bring in around Rs33bn for the P...
Kofi Alexis Amani has watched the trees on his cocoa plantation wilt and sometimes wither as rains became unpredictable and less abundant in Ivory Coast over the past several decades. “You can lose everything,” he sighed. The west African country is the world’s top cocoa producer, responsible for ne...
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the execution of the Fort Hood gunman would not be livestreamed, but that immediate families of the victims would be able to view it in person. Nidal Hasan’s execution — scheduled for Dec 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 — ...
A Saudi foreign ministry official on Thursday accused Iran of encouraging the Houthis in the latest escalation of their fight with the kingdom, adding that it continues to arm and train the group. “Iran continues to arm, train and support the Houthi militia in violation of UN security council resolu...
ISLAMABAD: Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka on Thursday granted interim bail until Oct 20 to a co-suspect in the suicide case of of a 20-year-old student, who was allegedly defrauded of millions. Laiba Ijaz, a student at International Islamic University, is said to have b...
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday rejected the Punjab government’s proposal for pushing local government polls to April next year. Earlier this month, the electoral body proposed holding local government elections in Punjab on December 14 and sent a draft of the...
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Raja Shahbaz Khan on Thursday announced a revised schedule for local body elections in the region, according to which the polling day municipal corporation seats in Chilas, Skardu and Gilgit has been fixed for Dec 5. LG polls in GB — announc...
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday directed the counsels and witnesses in a case against incarcerated rights activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to appear at the Adiala jail for the next hearing after police suggested a jail trial citing limit...
PESHAWAR: At least 31 people, including 30 students and a female teacher, were killed when a school roof collapsed in the provincial capital’s Afridi Abad area on Thursday. Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) spokesperson Muhammad Asim initially told Dawn that the death toll had risen to 33, including a fem...
Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Leo is recovering after surgery for lung cancer, is known as the “hospital of the popes”. The hospital, with a suite especially for popes, has become the preferred medical facility for modern pontiffs since the time of Pope John Paul II. What is the Gemelli? Locat...
A joint sitting of the Parliament on Thursday gave its approval of the Centre’s imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid a strong protest from the opposition. The joint session of the Parliament had been summoned to discuss separate resolutions on the imposition of emer...
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday extended the physical remand of PTI leader Hammad Azhar by 12 days in the Jinnah House attack case related to the May 9 riots. Sarwar Road police had booked several PTI leaders and workers on charges of attacking and vandalising Jinnah House during t...
