ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (EW): Pakistan has voted against the draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the capital punishment but a body of the UN General Assembly passed it anyway arguing that the death sentence was against the principles of human rights. In Pakistan, the moratorium on the death sentence was imposed in 2008. No executions were carried out …
MELBOURNE, Nov 14 (EW): Two Pakistani players, Shadab Khan and Shaheen Afridi make it to the Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 team of the tournament named by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday. The top cricket authority announced the most valuable team of the tournament, a day after England beat Pakistan in a thrilling final to clinch the …
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (EW): The first rain of winter rain lashed different parts of the country including Lahore, Islamabad, Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, increased the intensity of cold, while snowfall has started in Swat, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir. Earlier PMD shared that rain-thunderstorm (snow over the hills) is expected in upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, upper Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during the …
Captain Babar Azam told his rejuvenated Pakistan side on Saturday to ride the wave of four consecutive victories and win the Twenty20 World Cup final. The 2009 champions suffered last-ball losses to India and Zimbabwe to start their tournament but bounced back to surge into Sunday’s final against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. “We have lost the first …
LAHORE, Nov 12 (EW): The Punjab government has increased the minimum pension of its retired employees, a move that will help them amid skyrocketing inflation in the country. The former government employees will get Rs10,000 in pension per month as the minimum pension has been increased by Rs4,000. Similarly, the family pension has also been raised from Rs4500 to …
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (EW): The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Haqeeqi Azadi March will resume from Lala Musa and Jhang today, party leader Musarrat Cheema said on Saturday. Musarrat said Lala Musa was the last pit stop, adding that a second procession will march from Jhang, under the leadership of PTI Secretary General Asad Umar. She said that besides the two …
Pakistan will not be satisfied unless UN climate summit negotiators unlock emergency cash for the country to rebuild after this year’s devastating floods, its climate minister said Thursday. “The dystopia has already come to our doorstep,” the country’s climate minister, Sherry Rehman, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the COP27 summit in Egypt. She lamented the glacial pace of …
MELBOURNE, Nov 11 (Reuters): England and Pakistan’s staff will be poring over weather charts as well as tactics in the lead-up to the Twenty20 World Cup final, with a gloomy forecast threatening to scupper the decider at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Heavy rain is expected on Sunday’s match day and also the reserve day on Monday as a multi-year …
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Nov 10 (AP): The foreign minister repeated calls for compensation for the unprecedented destruction caused to Pakistan by this summer’s flooding, saying debt relief could be a mechanism for doing so. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari told The Associated Press that at the UN climate summit in Egypt that the world is unequipped to deal with weather-related disasters of this scale …
ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (EW): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday dismissed petitions for the disqualification of former president Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah issued the detailed verdict. “As a judge, I do not claim supremacy over the elected representatives. The high standard of Sadiq and Amin does not exist …