Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that the members of the Panama JIT were 'bias' and have affiliation with his political rival Imran Khan’s party.

The ex-premier was recording statement in Avenfield apartment’s corruption reference.

The

SINGAPORE: Moody's Investors Service said that Pakistan's (B3 stable) credit profile is supported by the country's robust growth performance and potential, a large — but low-income — economy, and an improved track record of reforms that started under its 2013-16 Int

Stafford: Houston´s Muslim community gathered to offer prayers Sunday at the funeral service for a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at her southeast Texas high school.

About 1,000 people, many with Pakistani roots and wearing traditional

SANTA FE, United States: Hundreds of people are expected to attend the funeral Sunday in Texas of Sabika Sheikh, the young Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting Friday at a high school, organizers told AFP.

The somber ceremony is to take place at an Islamic center

TEXAS: The funeral prayers for Sabika Sheikh, the young Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting Friday at Santa Fe School, was held on Sunday after Namaz-e-Zuhr, here in a local mosque.

Hundreds of people made their way to Houston on Sunday to attend the

KHAIRPUR: Turmoil broke out in the emergency ward of the Civil Hospital in Khairpur after a patient’s relatives trashed the ward and shattered the windows of ambulances, as reported by Geo News.

The patient was moved to Civil Hospital after an

ISLAMABAD: A sign language interpreter took the center stage on Sunday as PTI leaders outlined their priorities for the first 100 days if the party was able to form a government after the general elections.

The interpreter relayed the speeches made by Imran Khan,

KARACHI: Two people were killed and seven were wounded after a speeding bus was overturned near Korangi’s Veta Chowrangi area, in the early hours of Sunday.

The injured passengers were moved to the hospital and are currently undergoing treatment, while the two

ISLAMABAD - Deadly heatwaves are going to be a country’s much bigger socio-economic and health problem in the coming decades, particularly in densely populated urban areas of the country, as these global warming-induced extreme weather e

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Privatization Daniyal Aziz has rejected the bogus allegations of money laundering against former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who was an honest and righteous person in the country.

The National Assembly Committee on Law

ISLAMABAD: Government of Gilgit-Baltistan has started preparations for organizing a three-day internationally famous “Shandur Polo Festival” in July.

Minister for Tourism Gilgit Baltistan Fida Khan Fida said that G-B government was in consultation with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to

KARACHI: The scorching heat wave that has engulfed the city as well as other parts of Sindh will be elongating another four to five days, as per reports by the country’s weather monitoring authority.

According to media reports referring to

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has reiterated his commitment to transform Pakistan into a welfare state in line with principles of Islam.

“The purpose of PTI presenting a 100-day plan is to do away with the existing policies,” Khan

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday visited the residence of Colonel Raja Sohail Abid who embraced martyrdom while commanding an operation against a high value target in Quetta.

LeJ Balochistan chief Salman Badeni and two suicide bombers

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has unveiled his 100-day development and reform agenda if his party manages to form the government after the next general elections.

Senior PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister

Islamabad, 20 May 18:​Vice Chairman of Chinese Central Military Commission, General Zhang Youxia was on an official visit to Pakistan. During the visit, General Zhang Youxia called on Chief of the Naval staff, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi at Naval H

WASHINGTON: A four-member delegation from Pakistan headed by Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali is due to visit Washington next week to apprise the top World Bank officials about Pakistan’s serious concern over the Kishanganga hydro power project that was i

ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee on Saturday while weighing all the pros and cons in detail endorsed that the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the administrative and judicial institutional structures and laws of the province

KARACHI: The minimum amount of Fitrana and Roza Fidya has been fixed at Rs100 per person for the second consecutive year.

This was announced by the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman in a statement on Saturday.

According to the chairman, the head of a family is

Karachi, May 19-Abdul Aziz learned about the US school shooting in which his 17-year-old daughter was killed on CNN, with the story airing live as he broke his Ramadan fast thousands of miles away in Pakistan.

In those chaotic first moments of confusion

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has inaugurated the combined cycle of 1180 MW Bhikki Power Plant in Mandi Bahauddin.

The Pakistan Muslim League-N President took to Twitter to term the completion of the project as a “milestone” before he headed to Bhikki to inaugurate the power

ISLAMABAD: Government and opposition parties have reached a consensus on the nomination of caretaker Prime Minister, Geo reported on Saturday.

The name will be announced on Tuesday, May 22. 

The caretaker prime minister will take charge shortly after the government’s term c

ISLAMABAD: Led by politicians, Pakistanis on Saturday mourned the death of Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistan student, who was among 10 people, killed in a shooting at a Texas high school in the United States yesterday.

Sabika Sheikh was studying in the US as part of

QAMBAR-SHAHDADKOT: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited the Dargah Hussainabad and met spiritual leader and custodian of Dargah Syed Hussain Shah Bukhari.

According to a statement issued by the PPP on Saturday, Syed Hussain Shah Bukhari prayed for

KARACHI:   Nusrat Sehr Abbasi, a female lawmaker belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PMLF), was ordered out of  the  Sindh Assembly after she   showed a shoe to  the  Deputy Speaker in a sign of defiance during a session of the house.

Deputy

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has summoned a meeting of National Security Committee to discuss the tense situation along the Line of Control (Lo C).

The meeting will be attended by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat

A hot court room in  intense summer heat on Saturday irked former SSP Malir Rao Anwar, who is accused of killing Naqeebullah Mehsood, an aspiring model from South Waziristan, in a staged encounter in Karachi.

The former SSP was brought to an anti-terrorism court

ISTANBUL: Reiterating Pakistan’s solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of unbridled tyranny, Prime Minster Shahid Khaqan Abbasi called for  unity in the Muslim world  at  extraordinary summit of the Organization of Is

LAHORE: Another sitting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA from Rajanpur, Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari has parted ways with PML-N and joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a day after three sitting PML-N MNAs, one MPA and three former MPAs switched over to the PTI.

PML-N MNA Sardar Jaffer Laghari