Police officials in Dera Ghazi Khan have apprehended a man for blackmailing girls using fake social media accounts. According to SHO Police Station Civil Lines, Iftikhar Ahmad Malikani, the accused used to add girls to his fake social media accounts. Once befriended, the accused edited pictures and videos of the girls to blackmail and extort money from them.
In a latest notification issues by the Ministry of Communications, fines for moving and parking violations on the Motorway have been amended. New and increased fines ranging from minimum Rs. 750 to Rs. 10,000 have been put in place. The fine for over speeding for cars has now been increased to Rs. 2500 from Rs. 750. The details of the fine are as follows:
In an ongoing hearing about the dilapidated conditions of prison Adiala situated in Rawalpindi, it was revealed that the prison houses 4800 inmates, exceeding double its limit. Chief Justice Athar Minallah at Islamabad High Court expressed his frustrations over lack of ownership from Human Rights Ministry or Ministry of Health upon finding them not being represented in the court to debate the matter.
Direct flights between Azerbaijan and Pakistan to start next year, strengthening bilateral trade and economic relations as well as people-to-people contacts between the two countries. Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Pakistan Ali Alizada said that investors in Azerbaijan are keen to invest in potential sectors of Pakistan, adding that Azerbaijan attached immense importance to improvement in trade, economic and cultural relations with Pakistan.
The Department of Excise and Taxation has established an online system that will allow people to pay token taxes for vehicles registered with the Excise and Taxation Office (ETO) in Islamabad. Now, people will not have to visit the Excise office physically and can pay tax online which will be received by all branches of the National Bank of Pakistan.
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has launched the online registration facility for ID cards. The new initiative from NADRA will let people register themselves in the country’s database from the comfort of their homes by filling in a few details on NADRA website.. The fee of online registration for an Identity card is PKR 560 for normal card and PKR 750 for the smart card.
A case has been registered against a woman who misbehaved with a traffic policeman after she was pulled over for violating a traffic signal in Karachi’s upscale Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area. The development came about after the video went viral on social media, in which the female motorist can be seen resorting to uncouth language as well as threatening the cop.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index 2019, Pakistan has been ranked at a poor 116th place out of 140 countries in the freedom of press rankings. While the European countries are expectedly included in the top 10, countries like Jamaica, Costa Rica, and New Zealand are also rated highly. China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Iran are all listed at the bottom.
Government officials have been advised by federal Ministry of Information Technology to discard Whatsapp for official correspondence after an Israeli spyware infected millions of users. The spyware, Pegasus, gives access to “hostile intelligence” agencies of users’ activities and sensitive data. According to experts, Pakistani mobile users could be in double jeopardy as Indian government is also reportedly using Pegasus to steal data.
Pensioners who receive money through Pakistan Post will no longer have to stand in the long queues outside the banks to collect their dues as the national postal service is introducing a debit card facility for them which will enable them to collect their pensions from any nearby ATM. According to a key official of the postal service, the decision was taken after many complaints from the pensioners.