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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar has accused the prime minister of hoodwinking the people of Pakistan by slashing just Rs7 from the Rs60 power tariff, pointing out that it stood at Rs17 during the PTI government. Flanked by party MPAs, Mr Bhachar told a presser at Lahore Press Club on Saturday that the incumbent ‘Form-47 government’ did not give any relief to the agriculture sector.
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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
KASUR: The court of additional district sessions judge Kot Radha Kishan on Saturday awarded 14 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs1.1m to a schoolteacher who had attempted to rape his eight-year-old girl student. According to the prosecution, the teacher at Kot Radha Kishan institution had committed the crime some two years back. ADSJ Rana Muhammad Farooq Wakil awarded the teacher 14 years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs1m on him.
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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
DAWN.COM E-Paper | April 06, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications SWAT: Office-bearers of an organisation set up to oppose construction of a cantonment in the Kabal tehsil of Swat on Saturday threatened to stage a sit-in if the government didn’t reverse the decision.
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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
DAWN.COM E-Paper | April 06, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications NAWABSHAH: A man gunned down a co-villager and then killed his wife and teenage sister reportedly in the name of honour in a riverine village near Qazi Ahmed town on Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday announced the provision of land in Karachi, Khairpur and Jamshoro, along with a financial commitment of Rs437 million for the development of educational infrastructure in recognition of the enduring collaboration between the government and SOS Children’s Villages.
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2 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
SUZUKA: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in action during qualifying for the Japanese F1 Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit on Saturday.—Reuters SUZUKA: World champion Max Verstappen took pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday, stunning the McLarens with a late flying lap to put his Red Bull at the front of the grid for the fourth year in a row at Suzuka.
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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Rana Bilal |Faisal Bari |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
DAWN.COM E-Paper | February 28, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications A man who self-immolated on Tuesday at the Lahore High Court in protest against a delay in justice died in a hospital on Friday, his family confirmed. On Tuesday, eyewitnesses saw the man, identified as Asif Javed, walk out of Justice Shujaat Ali Khan’s courtroom.
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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Jamal Shahid |Faisal Bari |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Thursday voiced concerns about the dire conditions in prisons, particularly crowding and prolonged delays in justice for death row inmates. A meeting of the committee, chaired by Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri, was held at Parliament House to address the deteriorating prison conditions and human rights violations affecting thousands of incarcerated individuals.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arab.news | Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
South Asian parliaments need better systems for elections on reserved seats Short Urlhttps://arab.news/y4qgx Elections on reserved seats for women and non-Muslims in the assemblies of Pakistan generated a huge controversy recently which is still alive as the Supreme Court has yet to give its final verdict on the question of allocating seats to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) or other parties.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Harris Khalique |Amin Ahmed |Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
We know that the first claim to fame for Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973) is the founding of the Indian Progressive Writers Association (PWA), followed by being the first secretary-general of the erstwhile Communist Party of Pakistan, which resulted in him serving a prison term for more than four years in Pakistan. In 1935, in London, he drafted the manifesto for the PWA with M.D. Taseer, Mulk Raj Anand, Pramod Sengupta and Jyoti Ghosh.
