Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that the government was committed to recovering the looted national wealth and hard-earned money of the people. Speaking at a meeting on legal reforms, the prime minister said: “Giving undue facilities to influential convicts in jail and discrimination between them and poor inmates is against the norms […]

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday disallowed PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz to have home-made food. A source told Dawn the NAB had withdrawn the facility of allowing home-made food to Ms Maryam on the order from the ‘top’. “From now on she will have food prepared at the NAB headquarters at Thokar Niaz Beg,” […]

Four soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and one other was injured in two separate incidents of firing by militants near the Afghan border, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. The first incident occurred in North Waziristan tribal district, where miscreants opened fired on a routine patrolling party of security forces near Abba […]

A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred after Indian troops resorted to “unprovoked firing” in the Hajipir sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The official was identified by the military’s media wing as 33-year-old Havaldar Nasir Hussain, a resident of Narowal, who had been in service for 16 years. […]

In a sudden turn of events, Dr Shahbaz Gill on Friday tendered his resignation as the spokesperson for Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. “I hereby resign from the post of official spokesperson to CM Punjab,” Gill stated in a note of resignation addressed to the chief minister, a copy of which is available with DawnNewsTV. The […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday urged National Assembly members from Sindh not to create an impression for the world that there is “a wave of provincial discrimination” in Pakistan. In a reference to remarks made by PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Qureshi said that it was not reasonable for him to speak about “Sindhu […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday held a rally in Muzaffarabad to show solidarity with residents of occupied Kashmir, who have been under a lockdown for more than 40 days after India moved to annex the territory. The premier began his address to the mammoth gathering by thanking them for giving him a splendid welcome. […]

ISLAMABAD: A seven-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial is likely to commence from Sept 17 formal hearing of petitions moved against the filing of presidential references against Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court and Justice K.K. Agha of the Sindh High Court. In addition to the presiding judge, the […]

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari briefed the Senate Committee on Human Rights on Thursday about human rights violations committed by Indian forces in India-held Kashmir. Dr Mazari told senators that India was climbing the escalation ladder, adding: “We need to tell the world vociferously that all Indian deployments are focused against Pakistan. […]

A three-judge Supreme Court bench on Friday struck down any increase in private schools’ fee since 2017 in its verdict on appeals pertaining to exorbitant hikes by private institutions. In a 65-page verdict, the court said that private schools had “excessively increased fee since 2017 in violation of the law” and that the charges should […]