Category: Pakistan

QUETTA: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar said here on Sunday that his government has allocated funds for a cardiology hospital in Quetta and its construction would begin soon. Talking to newsmen after offering condolence to provincial Health Minister Mir Nasibullah Marri on the death of his sister, Mr Buzdar said that the Punjab government would […]

Senator Mussadiq Malik on Monday said that opposition parties have already devised a strategy for Tuesday’s session of the Senate. The PML-N leader, while talking to reporters in Islamabad, said that the opposition has decided to table the motion of no-confidence against Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjarani in the tomorrow’s session. “The opposition will hold a […]

PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal on Monday strongly criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan for his policies in general and his speech in Washington in particular. The prime minister, who is in the United States on a three-day visit, said yesterday while addressing a large crowd at a community event at Washington’s Capital One Arena, that a ‘Naya […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is beginning the first-ever polio plus outreach activity to provide oral polio vaccine as well as immunisation against all childhood ailments in the province from Monday. “It is the maiden activities after integration of the expanded programme on immunisation and polio eradication initiative as part of conversion of our routine outreach micro […]

Senate Chair­man Mohammad Sadiq Sanjrani has summoned a session of the Senate on July 23, a notification issued by the Secretariat on Saturday said. The session shall convene in the Parliament Building in Islamabad at 3pm. Meanwhile, the Senate chairman, prior to announcing the summoning of a session today, wrote a letter to the opposition […]

LAHORE: As the Islamabad accountability court on Friday rejected a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) application seeking legal proceedings against PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz for using a bogus trust deed in the Avenfield properties case, the anti-graft body initiated another probe against her in money laundering and income beyond means investigation. The NAB launched another investigation […]

The polling time has ended for elections to 16 general seats of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in the first-ever provincial assembly polls held in KP’s merged tribal districts on Saturday. The voters present inside the polling stations were allowed to cast their votes even beyond the 5pm deadline. The counting of votes is underway and […]

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa said on Friday that false testimony was one of the key flaws in the criminal justice system which no longer would be acceptable, adding that since the apex court had become strict about the issue, about 15 “eyewitnesses” of murder cases were being tried for committing perjury […]

LAHORE: As the malfunctioning of railways signalling and track interlocking system continues, train drivers have averted six accidents since the July 11 Akbar Express crash into a stationary goods train at the Walhar station in Rahim Yar Khan district which left 24 passengers dead. On Friday, the driver of Lahore-bound Khyber Mail averted a major […]

LAHORE: A banking court has ordered auction of two properties of Ayesha Ahmad Malik, self-claimed wife of Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz, to recover a defaulted loan of Bank Alfalah. The court issued this order on a petition filed by the bank. The bank’s counsel pleaded that Ms Malik had obtained a […]