Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister of Japan Kentaro Sonoura has expressed his interest in assisting Pakistan in socio-economic development, particularly through export promotion, increase in agricultural productivity, ICT, polio eradication and water resource management. According to a PM Office statement issued on Monday, the Japanese official called on Prime Minister […]

Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday visited the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, where he said that the armed forces are “fully prepared to thwart any misadventure” or aggression for the country’s defence, the military’s media wing announced. The visit comes as Indian and Pakistani troops have been exchanging […]

MINGORA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s secretary general Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday that while in office the PML-N had put the nation on track to development and it was making the country what Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted the motherland to be. Addressing a party workers’ convention in Khwaza Khela in Swat, he said the PML-N […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal on Monday for recording his statement in a multi-billion-rupee case relating to the controversial Sports City Project in Narowal. It is the second time in two months that the anti-graft watchdog has summoned the PML-N leader to seek details of […]

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Science and Technology will meet on Tuesday to discuss amendments to a bill titled National Institute of Oceanography, 2019. The National Institute of Oceanography has faced continuous challenges to stop sea intrusion and erosion caused not just by rising sea levels, but also the phenomenon of sediment starvation […]

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday announced that he will not appear before the Nat­ional Accountability Bureau (NAB) on December 24, saying the call-up notice served to him by the anti-corruption watchdog is “unconstitutional and illegal”. NAB had summoned the PPP chairperson for a second time this month in the fake bank accounts and money […]

SWABI: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser inaugurated several projects, including expansion of Swabi-Mardan road, here on Friday. Speaking at a gathering held to inaugurate the projects, the chief minister said that the previous provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had delivered according to the people’s expectations and that was why they […]

A district and sessions court in Multan on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, a former university lecturer, to death on blasphemy charges. Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Hafeez was booked on blasphemy charges and was arrested by police on March 13, 2013. The trial […]

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President and daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, on Saturday submitted a second petition with the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking removal of her name from the Exit Control List (ECL). The petition has been set for hearing by a two-member bench headed by Justice Ali […]

ISLAMBAD: The Nat­ional Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for a second time this month in the fake bank accounts and money laundering case. According to NAB, Mr Bilawal had 25 per cent shares in a private firm, Opal-225, a joint venture of the Zardari Group. Mr Bilawal’s spokesman […]