DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, according to multiple sources, as violence escalated to levels unseen since the country's independence over fifty years ago. Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced in a televised address that Hasina, 76, had left...

KARACHI: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said Saturday that Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa had told him that he was "not interested" in extension of his tenure as the top judge. Tarar gave...

ISLAMABAD: The government has increased the reward amount from 5 percent to 30 percent for the officials who would help recover electricity arrears of more than two years from defaulters.   The system braves Rs589 billion loss every year in the head of electricity theft, transmission and distribution losses, and inefficiencies that add to circular debt. Electricity theft has already been declared a cognisable offense through an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code (0) 462 through an ordinance. The federal cabinet has approved the increase in reward amount to 30 percent from...