Citizen Facilitation Centres planned

Special Assistant to the KP Chief Minister on Information and Public Relations Shafi Jan. Photo: APP (file) PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Science, Technology and Information Technology Shafi Jan has directed the establishment of Citizen Facilitation Centres in every district of the province to provide multiple government services to citizens under one roof. He issued the…

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'Closed-door decisions' bleeding K-P: CM

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi has said that "closed-door decisions" and flawed security policies have left the province bloodied, despite 22 major military operations and nearly 14,000 intelligence-based operations being conducted over the years. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Jameel Chowk Underpass on Thursday, the chief minister said the province continued to face…

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‘Improved governance helping fight poverty’

BUSINESS PROSPECTS: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz is being briefed during a visit to the headquarters of the Chinese Tyren Wisdom Dairy Company. PHOTO: EXPRESS LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif met Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee and Communist Party Secretary and Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), He Zhongyou…

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Fire safety lapses exposed at capital hospitals

RAWALPINDI: Following the tragic fire at PIMS Hospital that resulted in the deaths of newborn babies, serious deficiencies have also been found in fire prevention and emergency response arrangements at other major government hospitals in the federal capital. Fire safety inspections of Capital Hospital and the Federal Government Polyclinic identified the absence of several basic…

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The scroll is finally getting a curfew

For millions of American teenagers, the nightly ritual of scrolling through Instagram or Facebook is about to acquire something unfamiliar: a stopping point. Under a sweeping settlement, Meta will impose curfews and daily usage limits on young users, fundamentally changing how they can spend time on its platforms. The agreement, reached with nearly all US…

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Domestic worker confesses to crime, police say

Court grants police three-day remand of Hina Javed’s husband and domestic worker Hina Javed’s murder suspects in Rawalpindi magestrial court on August 26, 2026. Photo: Express Tribune RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police on Thursday claimed that a domestic worker arrested in connection with the murder of 45-year-old digital designer Hina Javed had confessed to the crime and…

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PML-N rifts deepen over AJK premiership

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Punjab Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Thursday announced that Barrister Iftikhar Gilani had been nominated as the party’s candidate for prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). In a post on social media platform X, Aurangzeb said that Gilani had been nominated for the office of AJK…

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IMF opposes gas price reduction

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is seeking to curtail powers of the federal government for making a downward revision in gas prices in a bid to prevent further accumulation of circular debt. In a recent meeting, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCOE) was informed that the IMF while noticing the burgeoning tariff differential adding…

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