Category: Pakistan

The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia to record a strong protest against the “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC) on October 6 and 7. An elderly woman had died and three other civilians had sustained injuries in the firing in Chirikot sector […]

President Dr Arif Alvi has promulgated an ordinance for the establishment of the ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority (CPECA)’, Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday. As per the report, it is aimed at “accelerating the pace of CPEC-related activities, find new drives of growth, unlock the potential of interlinked production network and global value chains through regional and global […]

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Tuesday urged the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) led marchers to call off their march as the purpose of their programme had been greatly met. The JKLF led march had come to a halt some eight kilometres before the Line of Control (LoC) in […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said that the government was “absolutely not afraid” of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) upcoming ‘Azaadi March’. Talking to reporters in his hometown of Multan, the minister said: “It is their (JUI-F) democratic right but I had said earlier and I repeat that the timing is wrong, the date is […]

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Central Additional Secretary General Abu Hassan Ansari tendered his resignation on Monday after developing differences with former secretary general Jahangir Tareen over the party’s constitution, PTI sources said. Hassan is the author of the PTI party constitution 2019 and party sources told DawnNewsTV that he was being forced by Tareen, who holds no official […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan will head to China on Monday for an official visit in order to discuss issues of regional and bilateral importance with the Chinese leadership, Radio Pakistan reported. He will meet separately with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. The Foreign Office (FO) in a statement today said that the prime minister […]

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday acquitted three people, who had been sentenced to death by a sessions court in the murder case of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice retired Javed Iqbal’s parents, over lack of sufficient evidence. In 2011, Javed’s parents were found murdered in their house, which was guarded round the clock. Police […]

ISLAMABAD: A tug of war has erupted between officers of the Pakistan Administrative Services (PAS) and the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) over police reforms. A committee of retired chief secretaries at a meeting held on Saturday discussed the situation emerging from the development regarding police reforms, said a statement issued by the committee. The […]

BAHAWALPUR: The Nowshehra Jadid police have collected blood samples of 25 suspects for DNA tests after the preliminary post-mortem report of an eight-year-old girl stated that she may have been raped before murder by unidentified people who kidnapped her. According to police reports, the eight-year-old had disappeared three weeks ago while going to her relatives’ […]

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to review the evidence linked to a controversial video and statement of former accountability judge Arshad Malik before deciding the PML-N supremo’s appeal against his conviction in the Al Azizia case. Last month, Nawaz’s lawyer Khawaja Haris had urged the two-judge bench hearing his […]