Category: Pakistan

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday approved Rs250 million for the renovation of St Patrick’s Cathedral’s interior, including glass and woodworks. The chief minister took the decision in a meeting with a delegation of the cathedral, led by Rector Rev Fr Mario Rodrigues, who called on him at the CM House. CM […]

QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that Balochistan issues could not be resolved through the use of force and dialogue was needed to heal people’s wounds. Speaking to party workers at the residence of Senator Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar at the end of her two-day visit to Quetta, she urged […]

KASUR: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Friday inaugurated three mega projects worth Rs1.5 billion and laid foundation of two other schemes amounting to Rs220 million in Kasur. He also inaugurated the Safe City Authority centre, Punjab Police Command, Control and Communication Centre and Rescue 1122 emergency service centres in Mustafabad and Khudian, says a handout. […]

MANSEHRA: At least six people were killed in rain-related incidents across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a 24-hour period spread over Thursday and Friday. Four people, including two members of a family from Punjab, were buried alive in Kaghan valley of Mansehra district amid heavy rain. Thousands of others remained stranded for over 24 hours amid a […]

Punjab police on Friday named PML-N and PPP leaders, including Shehbaz Sharif and Qamar Zaman Kaira, in first investigation reports regarding Thursday’s rally — one of the many held to observe ‘black day’ on the first anniversary of the 2018 general elections — at Lahore’s Mall Road. Two separate FIRs have been registered against 58 named PPP […]

A driver sustained bullet injuries when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a container truck carrying supplies to Nato troops in Afghanistan in Khyber tribal district on Friday, police said. The incident took place at the main Pakistan-Afghanistan border road near Takhta Baig check-post, Khyber District Police Officer Hussain Khan told DawnNewsTV. He said that the attackers […]

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday approved Pak Saarzameen Party (PSP) leader Mustafa Kamal’s request for protective bail. On June 22, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference against Kamal and others regarding the alleged illegal allotment of around 5,500 square yards of commercial land to Bahria Town for a multistorey building. Following this, […]

DERA GHAZI KHAN: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Dera Ghazi Khan on Thursday awarded 298-year imprisonment to three gangsters, including Chotu gang leader Ghulam Rasool alias Chotu, for killing two policemen in 2011. The other gangsters who have been convicted by the court were identified as Sher Khan and Ghulam Rasool Kahu. The ATC also […]

ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has claimed that the no-trust motion against Senate Chairman Moham­mad Sadiq Sanjrani is bound to be defeated. “We are not holding meetings with the leaders of opposition parties to seek their support, but to warn them against setting a wrong precedence for short-term political gains,” Leader of the House […]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman retired Maj Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa on Friday told a Senate panel that the government should either increase the body’s “technical capabilities” or block social media websites in the country in order to stop the circulation of “blasphemous content”. While briefing the Senate Special Committee to examine purported grievances, Bajwa […]