SWAT: A schoolteacher Dina Kumari, belonging to the Sikh community of village Pacha Kale in Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, accepted Islam and got married with youth of her village. The parents of Dina and local Sikh community members, however, demanded action against the youth, alleging that the girl was kidnapped and forced to marriage. The Sikh community blocked the main highway in protest to register a case of abduction of a Sikh girl. On the other hand, Buner police took Newly Muslim Dina and her husband Hizbullah into custody from Shangla District and produced them in the court. During the protest of the Sikh community, a patient died on the way because he did not reach the hospital on time.

The official vehicle of Ring Road Police worth millions of rupees was stolen. The police kept making announcements on the wireless set about the stolen vehicle, but the vehicle could not be found. According to the details, near Gajomata Gol Chakkar area of Police station Kahana, unidentified thieves stole the official vehicle of Ring Road Police. The colour of the stolen vehicle is white and model is of 2007. According to the sources the official wireless set of the Ring Road Police was also in the vehicle at the time of theft.

Me: A State needs an able and honest government to make policies, both domestic and foreign. He: But Sir, can you name any of the aforementioned pre-requisites presently available in the socio-political milieu of Pakistan? This is the time that your country needs you the most. The writer is a former Ambassador of Pakistan and author of seven books in three languages. He can be reached at najmussaqib1960@msn.comA State needs an able and honest government to make policies, both domestic and foreign.

PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan on Sunday maintained that only his party could keep the nation united and the army could never do it alone. The PTI chief said only a political party could keep the country united. Imran maintained that all methods of fixing the economy and bringing political stability would fail unless free and fair elections were held. “Whatever wrong is happening in Pakistan, it is being attributed to you [neutrals],” Imran claimed. “Why was there a need to remove Imran Khan?” the PTI chief questioned.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman (PTI) Imran Khan Sunday said his disqualification would be the nation’s loss, as his party was the only party in the country that enjoyed popular support across Pakistan. “Regime change was staged in Pakistan as Imran Khan has rejected the US slavery. Condemning Shahbaz Gill’s arrest, Imran Khan said, “Gill was abducted and tortured. They made photos of Shahbaz Gill after subjecting him to torture.”He added that he would never accept the rule of thieves. The PTI chairman claimed that Nawaz Sharif and Khawaja Asif had said more bitter things against the army than Shahbaz Gill, but no one caught them because they were powerful.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Sunday booked for threatening Islamabad police officers and female magistrate under Section 7 of anti-Terrorism act (ATA) regarding his statements at the PTI rally, a day ago. the former prime minister lauded his workers, saying that people have come out in large numbers on 24 hours notice. The former prime minister said that the sleeping nation has woken up for the first time. Challenging the coalition government, Imran Khan said that whatever the government does, it will not stop the masses, because people want freedom. Imran Khan said his party will not spare Islamabad’s IG and DIG, saying a vulnerable person was tortured.

A major mishap was averted at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Saturday when a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft came face-to-face with a private carrier plane allegedly due to an air traffic controller (ATC) miscommunication and negligence. The incident occurred when the Karachi-bound aircraft from Lahore was preparing to land on the runway when it observed a plane taxiing from the opposite direction. With only three-miles distance left between the two, both planes nearly collided. According to the sources, the airtaffic controller immediately directed the private airline's aircraft to land on runway number 7 while the PIA flight was directed to land on runway number 25. The PIA captain landed the aircraft and directed the oncoming plane for a go-around manoeuvre.

Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday asked the "neutrals" why he was ousted through a ‘foreign-funded’ vote of no-confidence in parliament, saying that his only crime is that he has not accepted the "imported" government. What has Imran khan done? He said that when police resorted to violence on PTI’s May 25 rally, they were informed that they had orders to do so. If you weaken PTI you will weaken the country," he added. Imran said that he did not want to end his May 25 rally but he did so anyway to avoid bloodshed in the country.

The rally was staged by the PTI to express solidarity with Gill and record a protest against, what Imran claimed, the “blatant fascism” prevalent under the “imported regime”. “I want to tell my neutrals that this is a problem of Pakistan [hence] it’s imperative for you to stand with the people and justice instead of ‘thieves’,” Imran added. In Gill’s case, Imran claimed, when the PTI had approached the Islamabad police and Adiala jail authorities to inquire who was involved in torturing him, they simply replied that they had received orders from the “top”. Alleging that the rule of law was violated in Gill’s case, he said the PTI would approach the apex court. The PTI chief said he was seeing that the nation had fully awakened.

MULTAN – Agriculture department has extended date for receipt of applications to provide laser land levelers to farmers under National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses (Phase II) till August 25, 2022. The applicants must have own tractor for use of laser levelers. While all such farmers who have obtained laser land leveler under any other scheme would not be eligible to apply. Interested farmers could submit complete applications to the office of their respective Deputy Director (Irrigation Reform) by 25 August 2022. Farmers might contact the Ministry of Agriculture (Irrigation Reform) on phone number 042-99200757 during office hours, said a handout issued here on Saturday.

It is a matter of shame for the ruling class despite heavy flood warnings from the metrological department, they have done nothing to ensure the life of underdeveloped areas of Pakistan. In the aftermath of the flood are diseases that can take the life of large numbers, especially in areas like Balochistan where health facilities are not sufficient. Unlike the other areas of Pakistan, Balochistan is the most affected and deprived province in terms of climatic change. Due to a lack of interest in the local population, the poverty rate raised more than 47%, and this deadly flood will add more numbers to it. People need to move forward like in the 2010 heavy flood by donating tents, medicines, blankets, and eatables in order to rehabilitate the people.

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PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday called on the “neutrals” — the term he uses for the military establishment — to stand with the nation, justice and Pakistan, instead of “thieves”, referring to government leaders. The PTI chief was addressing a party rally in Islamabad’s F-9 park (Fatima Jinnah Park) to express solidarity with embattled party leader Shahbaz Gill and record a protest against the government. “I’m asking and want to say to the neutrals [that] this is a matter of the country. It’s very important for you to stand with the nation, justice and Pakistan and not these thieves (government leaders),” Imran said to the crowd. Imran said he wanted to ask the neutrals if they were “really neutral”.

Mir Balach Nosherwani, who hailed from Kharan, saw the boy fall into the well while picking garbage. Balach and the minor are yet more casualties of a natural disaster currently ripping through Pakistan, with authorities expecting figures to continue to rise. In a situation report published on August 13, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that over 1 million people have been affected by heavy rains and flash floods across Pakistan this monsoon season. This year’s monsoon season resulted in record-breaking rainfall with 133% more rain than in the past 30 years. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Food Security and Agriculture Working Group (FSAWG) has estimated that, as of August 13, over 1 million acres of standing crops have been damaged in floods.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday launched Rs37.2 billion flood relief cash programme to disburse Rs50,000 cash assistance in two install­ments among 1.5 million affected families each in the country, particularly in Balochistan where hundreds died and infrastructure was damaged the most by floods amid heavy monsoon rains. Fund are being given through the Benazir Income Support Programme in collabo­ration with the National Disaster Manage­ment Authority and other allied departments. The disbursement of cash would be completed within three days as assured by the NDMA chairman to help rain-hit people afford their food and other immediate needs, said Prime Minister Sharif at the launch of the flood relief cash programme. Beneficiaries in the Jhal Magsi area were seen through a video link at the launching ceremony receiving cash assistance. The current anti-polio campaign for Kar­achi and six districts of southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa started on August 15, while the national polio vaccination drive is scheduled to commence on August 22.