Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme of the Ministry of National Health Services claimed on Sunday that it is “finally back on track”, having faced several controversies in the past six months, as during the December campaign front-line workers had vaccinated over 100 per cent children i.e. 43.9 million of the targeted 39.6m children across […]

Facebook has blocked live streaming of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation’s (PBC) news bulletins for highlighting Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday. However, temporary arrangements have been made to continue live streaming of Radio Pakistan’s bulletins on YouTube, the report added.In its report, Radio Pakistan has included screenshots of earlier warning messages […]

ISLAMABAD: Assailing the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for promulgating the controversial National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amendment Ordinance, the country’s major opposition parties have asked the government to bring the newly-introduced ordinance to parliament for debate. The leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) are alleging that the government has […]

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to pay proper attention to tribal districts’ development to end the sense of deprivation prevailing in the region. While talking to the KP governor, chief minister and members of his cabinet on the lawns of Governor House, the prime minister reminded them that the […]

KARACHI: President Arif Alvi on Saturday called out to the world’s ‘collective conscience’ to stand with the people of occupied Kashmir in their just and rightful struggle against the “fascist regime” of New Delhi. The president was speaking as the chief guest at the 112th Midshipmen and 21st Short Service Commission (SSC) course commissioning parade […]

PPP Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday criticised the government’s decision to bring in amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance, saying that the changes were introduced “to save their allies”. “In order to save their saathhi (allies), they have introduced amendments in the NAB ordinance so that whether it is the Malam Jabba case […]

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday showed its strength by holding a public meeting in Liaquat Bagh, 12 years after former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at the same place. Party workers and supporters from across the country and the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad attended the gathering to observe the […]

LAHORE: A PML-N leader has passed the buck to party vice-president Maryam Nawaz before the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) while explaining the videotapes of accountability judge Arshad Malik who had convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia Mills corruption case. A three-member FIA Counter Terrorism Wing team headed by Babar Bakht Qureshi arrived […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday vowed to continue exposing Indian excesses in occupied Kashmir and its Hindu nationalist agenda. He was speaking at a consultative session with former foreign secretaries on threats to peace in the region due to India’s belligerent actions.The former foreign secretaries, who took part in the meeting, included […]

ISLAMABAD: Four more polio cases have been reported — two each from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — taking the tally for the current year to 119. According to a notification issued by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad, the cases in Sindh have been reported from Sukkur and Tando Allahyar districts, and in […]