Category: Pakistan

The National Assembly and Senate’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence approved the three bills pertaining to amendments to the Army Act, the Navy Act and the Air Force Act on Friday afternoon. The bills, pertaining to the tenure of the three services chiefs, were approved unanimously by the committee and will be presented for approval […]

Scores of protesters surrounded the Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, located in its namesake city, on Friday afternoon, threatening to overrun the holy site if their demands for the release of suspects in an alleged forced conversion case were not met. However, the protesters dispersed after several hours in the evening following successful negotiations between them and […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that the country’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) will provide Chinese industries the requisite environment to relocate to Pakistan. “There are many industries that wish to relocate from China. We had yet to provide them the environment for them to relocate to Pakistan. This special economic zone is that […]

A three-year-old girl was rescued alive after 21 hours from underneath the debris of a multi-storey building which had collapsed a day earlier in Sukkur. According to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) officials and army officers who participated in the rescue efforts on Friday, the girl miraculously “did not even have a scratch on her”. […]

Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the new Indian Army Chief Lt Gen MM Naravane’s “irresponsible statement” regarding “pre-emptive strikes” across the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). In a press release, the Foreign Office (FO) said: “There should be no doubt about Pakistan’s resolve and readiness to thwart against any aggressive Indian […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Accoun­ta­bility Bureau (NAB) recovered Rs150 billion from corrupt elements last year by filing 206 references in different accountability courts. Presiding over a meeting on Wednesday to review the anti-graft watchdog’s performance in 2019, NAB chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal said that due to investigations conducted on scientific lines, the conviction rate in […]

The federal government on Thursday filed a civil miscellaneous petition with the Supreme Court, seeking a stay order on the apex court’s Nov 28, 2019 verdict regarding the extension of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). The petition requested that a stay order remain in effect until a decision on the government’s review petition on […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that the amendment to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, was “a tough decision” but one that had to be made in the interest of the country. “The decision was difficult because a party that has had a 22-year-long struggle against accountability and is considered strict and is viewed […]

More than a dozen people are feared trapped after a three-storey building collapsed in Sindh’s Sukkur district on Thursday evening, rescue sources said. At least three people including a child were pulled out of the debris in an injured condition. They were shifted to Sukkur’s Civil Hospital for first aid. Rescue sources said at least […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has restrained Air Marshal Arshad Malik from carrying out any function as the chief executive officer of Pakistan International Airlines till Jan 22 on a petition challenging his appointment. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui also issued notices to respondents as well as the deputy attorney general […]