Category: Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday approved the purchase of additional planes for Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) existing fleet. According to a press release issued by the airline’s spokesperson, the decision was taken during a meeting of the aviation division. Federal Minister for Aviation Chaudhry Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance […]

Police in Khanewal on Wednesday stopped the marriage of a 15-year-old girl to a 14-year-old boy and arrested the fathers of the two minors. A case was registered at the Nawan Shaher police station in Kabirwala, Khanewal and legal proceedings have been initiated. According to the First Information Report (FIR), the case was registered under […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will attend the coming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council next month for highlighting the plight of the Kashmiris in India-held Kashmir. “I’ll personally attend the Human Rights Council meeting and apprise the members about the aggravating human rights situation in Occupied Kashmir,” Mr Qureshi told the […]

KARACHI: A local court has granted two-week time to the police investigating officer to complete an investigation in a case registered against the owner and top management of K-Electric relating to death of three youths allegedly from electrocution during the recent monsoon rains in Defence Housing Authority. Three friends — 28-year-old Talha Tanvir, 25-year-old Faizan […]

Less than 24 hours after “designating” former mayor Mustafa Kamal as “Project Director Garbage on voluntary basis” to clean the city, Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar on Tuesday suspended the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief from the position. “I had appointed him thinking that he sincerely wanted to solve the city’s problems. However, after the press […]

British Member of Parliament Barrister Imran Hussain on Tuesday said that while the meeting held by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the Kashmir issue earlier this month was a “welcome” development, the council still had a role to play to take the dispute to its logical end. “The fact that this issue was taken up […]

Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday announced that the federal cabinet was considering restoration of a complete ban on the use of Pakistani airspace for Indian flights. Taking to Twitter, the minister revealed that a blanket ban on the use of Pakistani land routes for India’s trade with Afghanistan was also suggested […]

Considered previously to be ‘comparatively’ safe, the remote Gurez sub-valley in the upper belt of the Neelum district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was heavily shelled by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday, leaving two civilians dead and four others wounded, local officials said. Gurez lies beyond Kel — […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday postponed its verdict on a petition challenging the appointment of Maryam Nawaz as vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for want of more information. A three-member bench of the commission, headed by Chief Elec­tion Commissioner retired Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza, had reserved the judgement on […]

ISLAMABAD: The long march call given by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) received a cold response from other parties when the proposal was taken up during a meeting of the opposition’s Rehbar Committee here on Monday. Sources told Dawn that almost all the parties expressed their concern over the unilateral announcement by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman that his party […]