Category: Pakistan

A first information report (FIR) was registered on Monday against four people for vandalising the Mata Deval Bhittani temple in a village near Thar’s Chhachro town. According to the FIR — registered on the directions of Thar Senior Superintendent of Police Abdullah Ahmedyar — the temple was vandalised by four unidentified people on Sunday night, […]

Chief US diplomat for South Asian affairs, Alice Wells, appreciated the steps taken by Pakistan to advance the Afghan peace process. The US diplomat, in a media briefing after her visit to three South Asian nations — Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka — said, “Pakistan has important leverage to promote lasting security and stability in Afghanistan.” […]

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s decision of declaring Akbar S. Babar a part of PTI and reverting the case regarding the party’s foreign funding back to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). A long-winding case — filed by Babar and others […]

A pregnant woman was shot at and wounded on Saturday while waiting at the gate of a private school in Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood, according to police and hospital officials. The 36-year-old woman, identified as Mrs Kiran, had gone to Karachi Public School near Korangi Crossing-2 with her husband, Amjad, for their son’s admission. She was […]

A man suspected to have contracted the coronavirus has been admitted to the Nishtar Hospital in Multan, the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated in a press release issued on Saturday. According to Multan and South Punjab’s Focal Person for Epidemic Diseases Dr Atta ur Rehman, a 40-year-old Chinese man, Feng Fen, was shifted from […]

Prime minister’s aide Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday insisted that it was important that journalist bodies, government and all stakeholders of the media industry come together and design a roadmap to address the difficulties being faced by the media fraternity in Pakistan. Awan made these comments while talking to reporters after her visit to the […]

Senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen sent out defamation notices worth Rs1 billion each to anchorpersons Shahzeb Khanzada and Waseem Badami for making “false imputations” in their news programmes that have or are likely to cause “serious harm and injury to his reputation”. According to the notice sent to him, Khanzada in his programme Aaj Shahzeb […]

ISLAMABAD: Major opposition parties on Thursday termed the Transparency International (TI) report on corruption and state of democracy in Pakistan a “charge-sheet” against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government, saying the report had “badly exposed” the tall claims of Prime Minister Imran Khan about his government’s actions against corruption. Quoting TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which […]

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday sought an explanation from the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) — the military’s engineering organisation — and summoned its director general on its next meeting after he failed to share the Kartarpur corridor’s record with the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP). PAC chairman Rana Tanveer Hussain directed, “since […]

BAHAWALPUR/DERA GHAZI KHAN: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has claimed that there is neither any pressure group nor forward bloc in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ranks. Talking to the media here during his visit on Thursday, the chief minister said all the PTI lawmakers in Punjab were united under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan […]