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Jan 17, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah |Ghazan Jamal
KARACHI: Pakistan’s prisons are housing 152 per cent of their authorised capacity, while three-quarters of the total inmates are either awaiting or undergoing trial, according to a report.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ghazan Jamal
IT has now been more than five years since the Federally Administered Tribal Areas were merged into KP. The reason the five-year mark is significant is because the government’s plans used to justify the merger, most notably, the August 2016 Report of the Committee on Fata Reforms, headed by Sartaj Aziz, recommended a five-year transition period. During this transition, a number of necessary “complementary objectives and prerequisites” were to be fulfilled before the merger could be truly achieved.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani |Ghazan Jamal
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Friday announced a 20 per cent increase in the value of diyat (compensation for murder payable to the heirs), raising it to Rs8.1 million for the fiscal year 2024-25, and also reduced the return on provident funds. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Finance, the government has set the value of diyat at Rs8,103,955, as required under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) of 1860.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Munawer Azeem |Ghazan Jamal
Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x ISLAMABAD: An amount of around Rs27 million was spent and a force of 6,000 personnel used to counter PTI’s Friday protest. Police officers told Dawn on condition of anonymity that 600 containers were used to block 27 points in the capital. The average rent of a container is Rs40,000 per day, and the total amount for 600 containers came to Rs24million.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ghazan Jamal
LAHORE: The police barricaded all the entry and exit points of the provincial capital by placing containers, set up hundreds of checkpoints and deployed a large number of personnel here on Friday in response to the protest call given by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for today (Saturday).
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mansoor Malik |Ghazan Jamal
• Maryam holds marathon meetings to stop protest in its tracks; Rangers being deployed• PTI plans to celebrate Imran’s birthday at Minar-i-Pakistan today, claims it has ‘surprise’ in store LAHORE: A showdown between the PTI and the Punjab government in Lahore today (Saturday) appears almost certain as the party plans to hold a protest at Minar-i-Pakistan to demand a cut in inflation, independence of judiciary and release of party founder Imran Khan.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ghazan Jamal
Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x ONE of the signature projects envisaged under the CPEC umbrella is the Mainline-1 railway scheme, which is yet to see the light of day. However, the administration is apparently making renewed efforts to ensure that this multibillion-dollar project is put on track, hoping that the presence of senior Chinese leaders at the SCO summit in Islamabad later this month will provide the necessary impetus to finally launch ML-1.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Imran Gabol |Aamir Yasin |Ghazan Jamal
RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Northern areas, including the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, are expected to receive rains from October 5 to 8, as a new system of westerly waves is likely to approach the country on Saturday. Under the influence of this weather system, the new spell of rains has been forecast for Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and upper parts of Balochistan. However, the people of Sindh will continue to brave hot and dry weather.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Jamil Nagri |Ghazan Jamal
SIRBAZ Khan is the only Pakistani climber to have summited Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, twice.—Instagram / sirbazkhan_mission14 GILGIT: Sirbaz Khan has become the first Pakistani climber to summit all 14 mountains with a height of over 8,000m in the world after his latest feat at the Shishapangma peak (8,027m) in Tibet.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ghazan Jamal
KARACHI: DawnMedia is launching an initiative to combat climate change, ‘Breathe Pakistan’, that aims to mobilise citizens to incorporate environmental sustainability in their daily lives.
