KARACHI, Sep 26(ABC): The city’s power utility, K-Electric (KE), on Monday was stopped from collecting municipal charges in its bills, noting that residents cannot face the possibility of losing their power if they do not pay the power bill because of auxiliary charges which are not linked to their power consumption. This was directed Monday by the Sindh High Court …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 26(ABC): Senior journalist Ayaz Amir’s ex-wife and mother of Shahnawaz — who allegedly killed his wife Sara at home after a row over a “family issue” — has approached an Islamabad court for bail to avoid arrest in the murder case. Shahnawaz — who was detained by the police from a farmhouse in Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad area for …

KARACHI, Sep 26(ABC): The army personnel cleared the National Highway and restored traffic on the main artery of communication in Sindh, removing scores of vehicles which were stuck there because of the devastating floods, officials said on Sunday. The highway saw a severe logjam due to flood damages between Kandiyaro and Halani, for several hours. The army took immediate action …

KARACHI, Sep 26(ABC): Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecast a windy and partly cloudy weather in the port city on Monday. “Currently southwesterly winds are blowing with a speed of 12 kilometers per hour, which will reach 20 to 25km per hour in the day ahead,” according to the weather office. “The mercury presently stands at 27 degrees Celsius”, PMD stated …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 26(ABC): The number of dengue cases in Islamabad is continuously on the rise as the federal capital has reported 68 infections in the past 24 hours, reported on Monday. According to District Health Officer (DHO) Islamabad, as many as 68 dengue cases were reported in the federal capital during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of …

RAWALPINDI, Sep 26(ABC): Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that the conditions of the poor segments will get worse if the political tussle continues in the country. In a tweet, the former interior minister said that an example of relations with Israel and trade with India has come to light in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s leaked …

ISLAMABAD, Sep 26(ABC):  Apparently due to sheer negligence, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to get possession of more than 700 developed plots from Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in lieu of the civic agency’s land which was handed over to DHA some 14 years ago. The CDA and DHA in 2007 signed an agreement, under which the CDA handed …

LAHORE, Sep 26(ABC): Pakistan has reported no death in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,572,371. The nationwide tally of fatalities stands at 30,612 on Monday. According to the latest figures by the National Institute of Health (NIH), at least 55 persons were tested positive for COVID-19 across the …

RAWALPINDI, Sep 24 (ABC): Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Athar Minallah on Saturday paid a visit to Central Jail Adiala Rawalpindi and he received a briefing that the Jail was inhabiting 6,000 prisoners against it’s existing capacity of 2,100. He visited the jail on the petition filed by Human Rights Commission (HRC) against torturing the prisoners, corruption and other …

PESHAWAR, Sep 23(ABC):  The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has kickstarted an investigation into alleged corruption in the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Peshawar. The anti-graft body has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the additional chief secretary of the Planning & Development Board to hand over the records of the project. According to a letter, written to the additional chief …