Centre-KP frost thaws as PM, CM Afridi break the ice

ISLAMABAD: After weeks of sharp exchanges and hardened positions, Centre and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa tested detente in a rare political thaw on Monday as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief Minister Sohail Afridi sat across the table for the first time at the Prime Minister’s Office, signalling cautious movement in a relationship long frozen by mistrust, funding … Read more

Reinstated civil servants entitled to full back pay, rules SC

Bench states financial restitution not discretionary where dismissal found wrongful Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. REUTERS ISLAMABAD: In a ruling with far-reaching implications for public service law, the Supreme Court has held that a civil servant who is reinstated after a wrongful dismissal is, … Read more

Armed gang loots jewellery market at dawn

Eight suspects overpower lone watchman, make off with gold, silver, cash, safes worth millions KARACHI: Unknown armed assailants carried out a major robbery at K Area Market in Korangi after overpowering the lone night watchman at gunpoint and breaking into several jewellery shops, making off with gold and silver ornaments worth millions of rupees, along … Read more