Category: Pakistan

The National Assembly on Friday cut its session short by a week and prorogued proceedings due to concerns raised by treasury and opposition members over coronavirus. When the session had begun on March 9, the House Business Advisory Committee had decided that the assembly was to remain in session till March 20. Earlier in the […]

Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that a bill will be tabled in the National Assembly for the creation of the South Punjab province. Addressing the media after a high-level meeting, Qureshi said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken the decision to move forward with the process of creation of […]

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill, 2019 with a majority vote, days after the Senate had also given its approval to legislation that seeks to expedite investigation and punishment for perpetrators of child abuse. Having received approval from both Houses of Parliament, the bill now requires the president’s […]

Spokesperson for the Sindh government, Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday said the coordination that should have existed between the federal and the provincial governments with regards to coronavirus, was lacking. So far 20 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Pakistan — 15 of which have emerged in Sindh. One of the patients has recovered. […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the government will facilitate the construction sector in order to provide the people of Pakistan with affordable housing. The premier expressed these views at a ceremony in Islamabad, after laying the foundation stone of seven housing projects aimed at building 20,000 housing units at a cost of […]

PPP Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar on Wednesday said that the Senate Committee on Human Rights has barred the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) from reviewing the film, Zindagi Tamasha, and directed the Central Board of Film Censors to provide the panel a copy of the movie for screening. A screening of Zindagi Tamasha will be arranged for the […]

Two terrorists were killed on Monday as security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Tank district of DI Khan to foil a “major terrorist activity”, a press release from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to ISPR, the operation was conducted on a terrorist hideout and Colonel Mujeebur Rehman was martyred during the exchange […]

All 25 individuals on board a passenger coaster were killed after the vehicle fell into River Sindh in Rondu tehsil in Skardu district on Monday, Deputy Commissioner Skardu Khurram Pervaiz confirmed. The coaster was travelling from Rawalpindi to Skardu when the accident took place. Pervaiz said that the process of recovering and shifting bodies was […]

The Supreme Court on Monday — hearing over 70 appeals against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision to acquit convicts sentenced by the military courts — directed the defence ministry to present a full record of the convicts and the charges against them. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, presided over the case. […]

Islamabad’s Kohsar Police on Monday registered a case against 12 individuals – including local religious leaders and JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Majeed Hizravi – for trying to disrupt yesterday’s Aurat March in the capital. On Sunday, one person was injured after participants of the march in Islamabad were attacked by some men who shouted slogans and […]