PESHAWAR Once again the womenfolk were deprived of their right to vote on Saturday in general election as in some parts of the KPK and FATA, no woman voter turned out to cast her vote. InLower Dir, a jirga decided a day earlier not to allow women to vote inLower ...
lahore - The business community has shown its disappointment over the refusal of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to make speedy arrangements to enable more than 8 million overseas Pakistanis to vote on May 11 elections. They observed that it is unfortunate that 8 million overseas ...
RAWALPINDI - A woman was deprived of cash, gold ornaments, mobile phone and other valuables by two armed bike riders while auto-theft gang pilfered a car from different localities of the city on Monday.Police have been investigating the cases after filing first information reports (FIR) with no ...
LAHORE - Though Pakistan is trying to facilitate overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes in the coming general elections, jail population which is more than 60,000 in Punjab only is being deprived of their right to vote, said sources in the Punjab Prisons Department on Sunday.They said a very ...
ISLAMABAD – The Marghazar Zoo in the federal capital, supposed to be model for other cities across the country, gives a miserable look with cages of lions, leopards and snakes lying vacant for last several years.However, the blithe attitude on part of the city administration is more ...
Supreme Court (SC) has once again directed Attorney General (AG) and Election Commission (EC) to evolve procedure by March 18 to facilitate overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote.A 3-member bench of SC presided over by the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad ...
ISLAMABAD – In yet another daylight robbery, some unidentified robbers looted a citizen in busy Jinnah Supermarket and deprived him of Rs 320,000 and mobile phone.On Tuesday, M Hassan was looted in front of Standard Charted Bank. Police said that after withdrawing cash from bank, when Hassan ...
SWABI – A senior clerk of Tarbela Dam Power House has been deprived of prize bonds worth Rs 6,50,000 on gunpoint.Addressing a press conference on Monday, Fazal Mehmood said he belonged to Kundi, a region of tehsil Ghazi, adding that the incident occurred a few weeks back. “I have sold ...
HAFIZABAD - Two dacoits snatched a motorcycle on gunpoint in the broad daylight while another bike was stolen separately here the other day.Javaid Iqbal, a resident of Mohallah Tajpura, was on the way to home when two dacoits intercepted him on gunpoint, snatched his bike HZK-9256 and Rs400 and ...
RAWALPINDI - Unknown robbers snatched cash and mobile phone from a citizen at gunpoint in the limits of Police Station RA Bazaar on Tuesday.Police, on the complaint of the victim, registered the case and started investigation. According to details, a man namely Muhammad Riaz was heading towards his ...
LAHORE - A pickup was stolen on Shakir Road in the Icchra Police limits the other day.A journalist’s relative Muhammad Waseem registered a case with the police, saying that he had parked his pickup bearing registration LES-8453 outside his home on Zeeldar Road late Wednesday. He said he did ...
ISLAMABAD - People of Hazara division have, for the first time, been deprived of representation in the Senate, as there will be no member representing Hazara in the Upper House after March 2 elections.“This has been deliberately done by the ruling PPP and its allied party ANP in order to ...
LAHORE –1800 doctors working in the Punjab Social Security hospitals have been deprived of the pay raise announced by the Chief Minister Punjab despite a lapse of six months. The general body meeting of the Social Security Doctors Association Punjab would be held today (Saturday) at PMA ...
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Waiting for their posting, several grade 22 officers are suffering from sense of deprivation as grade 21 officers are serving as a federal secretaries in various ministries.Sources familiar with the development told Online on Sunday that grade 21 officer of 6th common Kamran ...
NANKANA SAHIB - 12 dacoits looted 37 tolas of gold, 160 grams of silver, cash and 3 mobile phones worth Rs2.3 millions from a family after taking them hostage in their house. According to details, dacoits armed with latest weapons and door-opening tools stormed into the house of one goldsmith Ahmed ...
OUR STAFF REPORTER KHAN GARH - President of the Pakistan Democratic Party and Pakistan Democratic Front, Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmad Khan, while addressing a news conference in Khan Garh on Saturday, said that they were disheartened over poor policies and hollow commitments of the government. He ...
KHAN GARH - Pakistan Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmad Khan has criticised the incumbent PPP government, saying the PPP government has ruined the country both economically and politically. The policies of the government are negating its own slogan and election manifesto and ...
TOBA TEK SINGH - Armed dacoits deprived an PAF squadron leader and his wife of valuables worth amounting to Rs4.5 million here the other night. As per detail, both Hammad Akram and his wife were way to Shorkot PAF Base from Sargodha. However, when they reached near Dabbanwala, four armed bandits in ...
KARACHI - Street criminals deprived The Nation Bureau Chief Zamir Sheikh of cash and other valuables, including important documents, on Friday evening. As per detail, the said incident occurred at the busiest area of Guru Mandar, where the important offices and noted worship places are situated ...
MULTAN (APP) - Teachers and other staff of Government Girls College Kachehri road were shocked when they offered relief items (biscuits, bread, milk, tooth paste etc) to flood affectees accommodated in their college and they questioned about tooth paste and brush. What is this. ? How is it ...
LAHORE The performance of the City Police is on the decline since the provincial government appointed Mohammad Aslam Tareen as Capital City Police Officer (CCPO). A comparative study reveals that the crime rate has shot up by 25 per cent since Aslam Tareen took the charge as CCPO. The crime rate ...
LAHORE - As many as 14,000 employees of the Punjab Police have been deprived of technical and dearness allowances they were entitled to under the rules, after the Punjab government raised the basic salaries of the provincial Police Department in 2009. The 'so-called increase has become meaningless ...
ISLAMABAD - Muhammad Aslam, a Rawalpindi-based contractor, who was looted on gunpoint by a criminal gang of Thrro-Jial village of Mandra is seeking justice after a cold shoulder response from the police. According to details, a criminal gang headed by one Haji Sikandar gave an advertisement in a ...
JAVED MAHMOOD and RAMZAN CHANDIO KARACHI - Unprecedented hike in the prices of the domestic sugar has deprived the consumers of a massive amount of Rs 31 billion in just six months of present calendar year, TheNation learnt. The average retail price of sugar in the country had been raised to a ...
KARACHI - The librarians at UC libraries have been deprived of medical, salary bonus, conveyance allowance, and many other basic facilities, The Nation has learnt. It was told to The Nation that the librarians were given house building finance and the money for their uniform, which have been ...
KARACHI - Various senior officers of Planning and Development Department of Sindh have been deprived of government vehicles and other basic facilities due to the harsh attitude of bureaucracy, sources told The Nation. The victim officers told that at least 30 senior officers of 18 grade holding the ...
LAHORE - The misinterpretation of Punjab chief minister's orders to abolish self-finance scheme which was primarily meant for medical colleges, was wrongly implemented in polytechnic institutes and colleges of technology depriving thousands of poor students of admission in various disciplines of ...






