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Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has approached the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) over what he described as false, fabricated, and malicious allegations circulating on social media linking him and his son, Rawal Memon, to the alleged murder of young Wafflix owner Mir Raza Ali. A formal written complaint was submitted to the deputy director of the NCCIA Karachi Zone on Aug 9, 2026, through his lawyer, Advocate Syeda Malaika Naqvi of Naqvi Law Associates. The complaint named unknown individuals and accused them of operating social media accounts, allegedly harassing the complainant, creating and disseminating false and malicious content, and damaging the reputation and standing of Memon and his son. Read: Murder charge added to Mir Raza case after re-postmortem report The complaint said the complainant did not know the identities of the individuals allegedly operating various social media accounts, pages and groups. It claimed that content against Me...

Pakistan's solar debate often gets reduced to immediate questions: what rate will exported units get? Will net billing hurt payback? And, are solar users shifting costs onto others? These questions matter. But once distributed solar reaches meaningful scale, the deeper issue is no longer just pricing. It is integration. Pakistan's first solar phase was driven by consumer economics. Grid electricity became expensive, service quality uneven, solar equipment cheaper, and consumers responded rationally. But when many users generate part of their own electricity, solar stops being only a consumer decision and becomes a power-system issue. This is not because solar is a mistake. It is because Pakistan's electricity system was built around centralised logic: large generation, top-down planning, one-way power flows, and consumers visible mainly through conventional billing. Distributed solar changes that picture. It places generation at the edge of the system, unevenly acros...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has postponed the sit-ins scheduled for Sunday in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta and announced that nationwide sit-ins will now be held simultaneously on August 16. The decision was taken at a special meeting chaired by JI Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman to review preparations for the planned protests. The party also decided to observe Independence Day celebrations across the country with full participation. JI Deputy Ameers Liaqat Baloch and Usama Razi, Acting Secretary General Nazir Ahmad Janjua, Syed Waqas Anjum Jafri, Azhar Iqbal Hassan, Rasool Khan Babar, Javed Qasuri and Ziauddin Ansari attended the meeting. Emirs of all provinces and major cities participated through video link. Read: Road chaos as JI rally blocks major routes In a video statement, Rehman said the sit-ins had been shifted from August 9 to August 16 because of Independence Day celebrations. He said simultaneous sit-ins would be held in all four provinces on August 16, marking t...

Polling in the Bagh and Haveli constituencies of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Rawalakot Division will be held on Monday, amid heightened security, while elections in Rawalakot are likely to be conducted on August 20 or 21 if the ongoing protest sit-in in Rawalakot is resolved within the next few days, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Ghulam Mustafa Mughal said on Saturday. Speaking to the media, the chief election commissioner said the AJK Election Commission had decided to hold polling in Bagh and Haveli first due to security considerations, with security personnel already deployed in the two districts and election material being transported under the supervision of the armed forces. He said sufficient security arrangements had been made at polling stations, particularly those declared highly sensitive. As many as eight security personnel would be deployed at each highly sensitive polling station, he added. Read: Final phase of AJK electoral process hits a sna...

The federal government on Friday reduced the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs2.20 and Rs1.50 per litre, respectively, for the next three days, until August 10. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Petroleum, the price of petrol has been fixed at Rs327.62 per litre, while HSD will now cost Rs380.86 per litre.  The latest revision comes a day after the government decreased petrol by Rs3.19 and HSD by Rs1.50 per litre for Aug 7. READ: Govt reduces petrol price by Rs3.19, HSD by Rs1.50 for August 7 On July 17, the government introduced a daily fuel price review mechanism amid volatility in global oil prices following renewed hostilities in the Middle East. The daily fuel prices are based on a seven-day average of international market rates to align with international standards. According to the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25, petroleum products constitute one of the country's largest import categories, making the economy highly vulner...

A large protest demonstration against unrest and in support of sustainable peace was held under the auspices of Swat Awami Pasawon at Nishat Chowk in Mingora city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district on Friday. The protest came days after at least 15 people, including six police personnel, were martyred and several others were wounded in a suicide attack outside Kabal police station in Swat district on Sunday. Thousands of people from various schools of thought took part in the rally. Protesters carried placards, banners and black flags while the entire area echoed with the slogan, ‘We want peace on our own land.’ Participants demanded an end to insecurity in Swat, the establishment of lasting peace and firm protection for the public. Raising strong slogans against terrorism and disorder, they made clear that the people of Swat would no longer accept any form of unrest. Read: Suicide attack outside police station in Swat leaves 15 martyred, including six polic...