Category: Pakistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday strongly criticised the Indian government for usurping the basic rights, including religious freedom, of the people in occupied Kashmir. The minister was addressing a convention attended by hundreds of people in Sindh’s Thar district. The gathering was hosted by the Hindu community to express solidarity with the Kashmiri […]

A thief and con man from Gujranwala, whose antics during an ATM robbery had shot him to fame on social media, was arrested on Friday evening in Rahim Yar Khan, police said. In a video that went viral on social media a few days ago, the man can be seen stealing an ATM card after […]

The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee on Saturday announced that the Muharram moon has been sighted in the country, DawnNewsTV reported. According to Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, chairman of the committee, Muharram will begin on September 1 while Ashura — Muharram 10 — will fall on Sept 10. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is a month […]

The search for at least 15 missing persons — presumed drowned after a pickup truck carrying them and 16 others plunged into the Kandia river in Kohistan last night — resumed on Saturday morning as expert divers and volunteers joined the operation. The ill-fated truck had been carrying a total 31 passengers from two different […]

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) management has laid off nearly 1,000 surplus employees and has taken other measures to reduce operational cost of the airline. This was informed by PIA president and Chief Executive Air Marshal Arshad Malik during a meeting with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan could hold talks with India over the issue of occupied Kashmir if New Delhi meets certain conditions, including allowing him to meet with the Kashmiri leadership. In an exclusive interview with BBC Urdu, the minister said Pakistan had no objection to holding bilateral talks with India and […]

ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday cancelled the joint sitting of parliament convened on Friday (today) for a constitutionally mandatory address of President Arif Alvi, prompting a strong reaction from opposition parties which have been flexing their muscles for lodging a protest and disrupting the proceedings over the issue of appointment of two members of the Election Commission […]

An accountability court in Lahore on Friday issued bailable arrest warrants for former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) case against him for making illegal appointments in the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) during his stint as federal minister for water and power. Duty judge Jawadul Hassan rejected an application […]

KARACHI: A total of 12,584 murder and narcotics cases have been decided in about five months by 167 model courts set up across the country to conduct swift trials, it emerged on Thursday. The model criminal trial courts (MCTCs) decided 4,897 murder and 7,687 narcotics cases by conducting expeditious trials since their establishment on April […]

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of Shabbar Zaidi as chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, who headed the bench, heard the petition filed by Raja Inaam Ameen Minhas. Justice Minallah observed that as the country was facing economic crunch, […]