KARACHI: A majority of Karachi drivers would face a big challenge while bringing their vehicles on roads as the traffic police could arrest and jail them for up to a month for not having their driving licences from Monday (today)...
DIG-Traffic Dr Amir Sheikh warned the Karachi drivers to get their licences issued/renewed within the shortest possible time as they could be sent to jail under a provision of the Motor Vehicle...
KARACHI: A fresh campaign to “streamline and discipline” road traffic by checking driving licences of motorists with a penalty as strict as imprisonment for those who fail to acquire their licence within a week faced a major blow on Monday amid chaos and violence at driving licence branches, said officials and witnesses...
The situation attracted intervention from the higher authorities who postponed the campaign for a month with the...
LAHORE: The election tribunal on Tuesday ordered the verification of thumbprints in the PP-160 and NA-128 constituencies in a petition submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Karamat Ali Khokhar, reported DawnNews...
The election tribunal has ordered verification of thumbprints gathered from all polling stations in these two constituencies within a month, and has ordered that a report be provided to tribunal judge Kazim Ali Malik... ...
Karachi traffic police on Wednesday notified alternate traffic routes for Muharram 8 (Friday), 9 (Saturday) and 10 (Sunday)...
Several roads will be blocked for mourning processions throughout the city, and traffic from blocked roads will be diverted to the alternate routes...
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday granted a 25-year special purpose transmission licence to Pak Matiari-Lahore Transmission Company Ltd (PMLTCPL) — a company owned by three Chinese firms — for the construction of 878-kilometre line...
The SPV will be required to achieve commercial operation date (COD) of the transmission line by March 1, 2021 and will be empowered under the licence to run...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a 2016 judgement of the Lahore High Court that had set aside Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority's (Pemra) regulations prohibiting television broadcasters from entering the Direct-to-Home (DTH) market...
This condition was later challenged in the Lahore High CourtThe authority had subsequently argued before the Lahore High Court that the establishment of a DTH platform for...
KARACHI: Condemning the Karachi traffic police for sending violators of traffic laws to prison, the City Council demanded of the provincial government on Monday that violators not be put behind bars...
The resolution to condemn the traffic police was among total 12 different resolutions adopted by the house...
LAHORE: A lady traffic warden was allegedly kidnapped while returning from duty on Monday evening, police official said on Tuesday...
Police have registered a case on the request of victim’s sister against the brother-in-law of the missing traffic warden, said investigation in-charge Inspector Ghulam Saqlain...
The capital city police on Monday issued driving licence to a transgender person, Ali Layla, after administering all practical driving tests, DawnNewsTV reported...
This is the first time a transgender individual has been issued a driving licence in the federal capital...
7 million connections as the deadline for the biometric SIM verification ends on Sunday...
As the unprecedented biometric SIM verification (BVS) reaches its deadline, more than 94 million connections were verified...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered verification of voter thumb impressions and counterfoils in Lahore's NA-125 constituency, where Railways Minister Saad Rafique of the PML-N had defeated Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Hamid Khan in the 2013 general elections...
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali directed the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to submit a report on vote...
MULTAN: Scores of students of architecture and building department of Bahauddin Zakariya University’s Engineering College on Monday protested against what they said non-verification of their degrees...
They said the students were neither able to get admission to MSc Engineering nor they were getting employment due to the non-verification of their degrees...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Tuesday asked the home department to take measures for the installation of a biometric verification system and a video surveillance of every polling station in the Azizabad constituency of NA-246 to ensure “free, fair and transparent” election on April 23...
In a letter to the home department, the paramilitary force suggested that the biometric verification system of the National Database and...
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali on Friday vowed he will not back down from his decision to re-verify the identity cards of all Pakistanis, and reiterated that he will ensure the mammoth task is completed in the next six months...
Responding to criticism that surfaced after he announced the move earlier this week, Nisar recalled how he went ahead with his SIM registration drive despite the obstacles
7 million text messages have been received at the 8008 short code ever since the re-verification drive was launched on July 1...
”Biometric verification of mobile SIMs was completed by mobile network operators in May 2015, leaving 114 million active mobile connections in the country...