KARACHI: The Sindh government on Friday communicated a detailed plan for the upcoming Covid-19 vaccination drive under which first priority would be given to front-line health workers then senior citizens and people with underlying conditions before turning to the general public...
An official said that Sindh had become the first province in the country that designed such a strategy to meet the challenge...
ISLAMABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah asked the federal government on Tuesday to release block-wise data of the census to allay fears of political parties...
Flanked by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah and Sindh Information Minister Nasir Shah, the chief minister regretted that none of his proposals for conducting the census was approved...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has designed a polling station-wise result management system for the coming general elections to improve accuracy, efficiency and transparency of result tabulation process...
The system is being used by returning officers in pilot projects during by-elections at the time of preparing unofficial results and for consolidation of election results...
ISLAMABAD: The idea of holding local government elections in phases in Sindh and Punjab appears to be gaining momentum with both the provincial governments seeking staggered polls for better management — a proposal that also suits the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...
A senior ECP official told Dawn on Wednesday that the commission had received a recommendation from the National Assembly’s standing committee on parliamentary...
72bn in direct taxes collected by the Federal Board of Revenue in 2014-15 came from three cities — Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — counted among the country’s most developed urban centres...
The combined population of the three cities is a little over 30m of Pakistan’s total estimated population of 190m...
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul Haq has expressed reservations over Punjab government’s decision of holding the local body polls in phases and has termed it a tactic to achieve the desired results...
In a statement issued here on Thursday, he feared that phased elections and indirect election to the reserved seats would open flood gates of rigging, coercion and horse trading of the elected councilors...
A column carried on Tuesday by DPRK Today, one of the reclusive and dynastic state's mouthpieces, described Trump as a “wise politician” and the right choice for United States voters in the Nov 8 US presidential election...
Trump instead has told Reuters he was prepared to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear programme, and that China should also help solve the problem...
BERLIN: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde called on Monday for tax reforms to be included in a global climate deal to raise incentives for consumers to reduce their energy consumption and to boost demand for cleaner fuels...
“With a fairer carbon price, energy savings will be encouraged and demand strengthened for cleaner energy sources and ‘greener’ investments,” Lagarde wrote, adding price changes could be...
Who wouldn’t recall his lament in parliament when Pakistan’s enemy number one, the mass murderer Hakeemullah Mehsud, was taken out by a missile fired from a US drone? Nisar Ali Khan was so outraged that the floor of the house shook with his anger because the man he was so keen to negotiate with was no more...
If someone else matched the interior minister’s sense of outrage at Mehsud’s killing it was the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief...
Veteran television and theatre actress Sania Saeed was visiting Islamabad for the completion of ILO’s six-year programme which worked with women entrepreneurs and provided them trainings...
Dawn caught up with her in Islamabad to talk about the quality of work being produced in theatres and on television...
TAXILA: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is going through a critical phase as the ruling party...
He was addressing the party workers in Dhoke Nadar in Taxila and a youth convention organised by the PML-N youth wing’s local chapter at a hotel in Wah Cantt on Saturday...
ISLAMABAD: Shocked by serious discrepancies in voter-to-population proportions across the country, the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) has called for age-wise data of population to determine the exact number of citizens eligible to vote in the next general elections...
The network, which is an amalgam of over four dozen NGOs, said that availability of data on the age composition of the population would enable a realistic...
Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that there is no difference of opinion among PML-N party leaders that confrontation with the higher judiciary of the country is not a wise idea...
While addressing a press conference in Taxila, Nisar said that the difference exists within the party on the "execution" of the policy, adding: "This difference [about confrontation with the judges] has grown deeper and...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday issued a preliminary report of the draft proposals for the delimitation of constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies for the upcoming general elections in the country, with more than 30 unusually large and small constituencies in terms of population...
While the average population per constituency calculated on the basis of the last year census findings in...
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Saturday decided to impose a phase-wise ban on use of polythene and plastic bags in the province, with Sukkur being the first district where such bags would be banned within next three months...
The meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, was held at the New Sindh Secretariat with all provincial ministers, advisers and special assistants, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Inspector...