Category: Pakistan

A doctor belonging to the Shia community was shot dead in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Friday, said police. According to police, Dr Haider Askari, 58, was gunned down by two armed pillion riders at KDA Market, Block- 3, near Disco Bakery, while he was driving his car. According to Gulshan SP Shahnawaz Chachar, the incident occurred at […]

A high-level committee, headed by Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat, has been constituted by the provincial government in order to negotiate with a 30-member committee formed by Pakistan’s Sikh community in relation to a case pertaining to the alleged forced conversion of a Sikh girl, it emerged on Friday. According to a memorandum sent to […]

Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal on Thursday said that Pakistan could exercise the closure of its airspace for India at a time of its choosing, but so far, no decision has been taken on the matter. While addressing a weekly press briefing, Dr Faisal said that the issue had been discussed at the highest […]

PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was taken to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Thursday for medical tests, DawnNewsTV reported. According to Pims staff, results of the tests being conducted today will determine if the former president should be admitted to the hospital. Sources from the hospital said that Zardari is suffering from back pain and […]

Lightning strikes killed three people and a number of animals in several areas of Thar district as rains lashed parts of Sindh on Thursday. According to police and hospital sources, a woman, Parma Takar, 30, was killed in village Arjak near Diplo town after being struck by lightning. Separately, two boys identified as Yasin Asharaf […]

A group of foreign media correspondents in Pakistan on Thursday visited the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the military’s media wing said, as tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi remain high over India’s move to revoke occupied Kashmir’s special autonomy. The journalists reporting for foreign media organisations were briefed on the regional situation […]

ISLAMABAD: The power ministry and its companies came under severe criticism on Wednes­day from the ruling party and opp­osition lawmakers over alleged corruption, mismanagement and lack of progress on development activities in the power sector. While members of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz walked out of a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on […]

ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has “condemned” the government’s move to transfer judges hearing cases against party leaders and asked Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa to take notice of what they described as a “blatant and glaring attack on the judiciary by the executive”. Speaking at an emergency news conference […]

Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) court judge Masood Arshad stopped the hearing of Rana Sanaullah’s case midway on Wednesday after learning that he had been repatriated back to the Lahore High Court (LHC). Following the development, it emerged that a notification from the Ministry of Law and Justice, dated August 26, had recalled three accountability judges; Masood, […]

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday regretted that the issue of garbage collection in Karachi was being politicised by various parties when the task was the responsibility of the district municipal corporations (DMC) of the city. “First the federal government [took charge of the matter] and now MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) and PSP […]