Pakistan

KARACHI: The Karachi administration sent 27 shopkeepers to jail and imposed fine of Rs.500,000 over 358 shopkeepers for violating official price lists.

Those who were found violating the official price lists included milk sellers, grocers, fruit sellers, greengrocers and

Karachi: Giving powers of legislation to the bureaucracy in Islamabad and brazenly denying the people their rights is an affront to the people of Gilgit Baltistan that will have far reaching consequences for political stability.

This has been stated by Bilawal Bhutto

PESHAWAR:  Workers of  Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl  (JUI-F)  clashed with  police outside the Khyber Paktunkhwa Assembly  to protest the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Paktunkhwa through a constitutional  ame

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan’s party vowed Sunday to oust the country’s "corrupt" rulers, as the nuclear-armed state announced it will hold general elections on July 25.

The poll will bring to a head political tensions that have

Pakistan has signed an agreement with Turkey to procure 30 Turkish attack helicopters, Daily Sabah newspaper reported on Saturday.

Accoring to the Turkish newspaper, the ruling Justic and Devlopment Party (AK Party) has also mentioned the

LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Lahore claimed to have killed six terrorists affiliated to banned outfit in Upper Jhelum area of Gujrat.

The CTD spokesman said the terrorists were involved in Ferozpur Road blast that had claimed lives of 26 people

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has accorded his approval to a summary for holding of general elections on July 25, official sources in the President House confirmed on Saturday.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had sent a summary to the President proposing July 25,

KARACHI: A special prayer for rain was held at New Memon Masjid on MA Jinnah Road on Saturday in the wake of the growing heatwave in the city.

Hundreds of believers gathered at the metropolitan’s prominent mosque to offer Salat Al-Istisqa (Prayer for Rain) to plead r

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly has adopted an amendment bill, allowing divorced or widowed Hindu women the right to marry six months after separation from spouse or his demise.

The Sindh Hindu Marriage Amendment Bill 2018 allows women in

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the development Sector generates employment opportunities, rotate capital in the economy and creates development activities etc. He added that the policy makers always attach priority to the development

MULTAN: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday offered Fateha for labourers who lost their lives while working on the Shujabad Interchange of M5 Multan-Sukkur motorway and announced Rs 1 million each as compensation for the bereaved

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ambassador-designate to Washington Ali Jahangir Siddiqui will travel to the United States tonight to take charge of his office on May 29.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had appointed the investment banking expert and his

ISLAMABAD:  Pakistan expects to obtain fresh Chinese loans worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, Pakistani government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad’s growing reliance on Beijing for financial support.

Lending to Pakistan by

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is committing $728 million through four projects to put Pakistan on the path of climate resilient development which will benefit millions of its citizens.

These projects will protect the environment

PESHAWAR: Wife of Khyber Paktunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak was not  allowed to board a plan on Saturday after she failed to produce complete  travel documents.

According to Geo News, Amira Khattak wanted to  travel on her US passport through a  foreign airline b

SHUJABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday that said a national dialogue must be held to evolve consensus for new province but it should not be used as mere election slogan.

Addressing a public gathering here after inaugurating Multan-Shujabad

PESHAWAR: Khyber Paktunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Opposition Leader in the provincial assembly Maulana Lutfur Rehman has agreed on  the name of caretaker chief minister of the province.

Citing unnamed sources, Geo TV reported that the opposition leader

10th Ramazan marks advent of Islam in Indian subcontinent with the arrival of Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim in Sindh at the port of Deebal in 712 A.D.

The day in Sindh is commemorated as Youme Babul Islam. Ceremonies are organized  to inform the people about

ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was still playing game with them.

Addressing a press conference here Friday, Asif Zardari questioned Nawaz Sharif’s loyalties to the c

RAWALPINDI: DG ISPR Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor on Friday announced that Pakistan Army has summoned former ISI chief Lt-Gen (retd) Asad Durrani on May 28 to  explain his position on views attributed to him in book ‘Spy Chronicles’, co-a

MANANWALA (Sheikhupura): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Friday said that those who were not loyal to the party could never be loyal to masses and the people will reject the opportunists in upcoming elections in July.

Addressing a public gathering after

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan has announced an honorarium equivalent to three basic pays for all the employees of federal government.

The prime minister has announced grant special performance incentive for the officers/officials of the federal

KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has asked the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to suspend  local flight operations of  Shaheen Air for its failure to pay Federal Excise Duty (FED) amounting to millions of rupees.

The FBR

Veteran PPP leader and former Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday said if any civilian  had co-authored a book with an Indian counterpart he would have been declared a traitor, referring to "The Spy Chronicles: RAW,

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday passed  FATA reforms bill seeking merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)  with Khyber Paktunkhwa, a day after it sailed through the National Assembly  with two-third majority.

According to Geo News, 71 lawmakers  voted in favor of the bill  w

CHINIOT: A man on Thursday shot dead his father in Punjab's Chiniot district for not fulfilling his promise.

According to Geo News, Riaz Ahmed, 50, a resident of Moza Bakhs Wala had promised his son Karman that he would buy him a tractor for farming. 

Ahmed, however,

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said no law can stop trial of Pervez Musharraf, and it would come to its final conclusion one day.

Speaking to reporters inside the Accountability Court, he said Musharraf can't get rid of the trial. "Sooner or later