Category: Pakistan

LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has sent a legal notice to the PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah for levelling false accusations against her and demanded he should pay her Rs2 billion in damages. The notice served on Mr Sanaullah through a legal team says the purpose behind the “false […]

SLAMABAD: With all opposition parties flexing muscles for their already announced separate plans for holding anti-government protests after Eid, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has convened an important meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) at Zardari House here on Monday (June 10) to review “the country’s overall political situation” and devise […]

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) will take up in its next week’s general house meeting a resolution seeking withdrawal of a reference filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court. Rana Asadullah Khan, a former secretary of the LHCBA, moved the resolution with signatures of over 200 members of the […]

MULTAN: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi says Imran Khan is the prime minister of the country and he (Qureshi) is not willing to become the prime minister. “The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the allied parties agree with him (Mr Khan) being the prime minister. I am not a candidate for the premiership and […]

ISLAMABAD: Defence budget during the next fiscal year will remain unchanged as compared to the outgoing fiscal year in rupee terms due to the country’s dire economic condition. Prime Minister Imran Khan took to Twitter on the eve of Eidul Fitr to announce that the military had “voluntarily agreed” to cut its expenditures due to […]

Prominent religious scholar and head of the Jaffria Alliance Allama Abbas Kumaili passed away on Saturday in Karachi, the spokesperson for the Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) told DawnNewsTV. According to the MWM spokesperson, the deceased had been undergoing treatment for the past few days at a hospital in the city’s Soldier Bazaar area. MWM, along with the Shia […]

Bannu: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday rejected Counter-Terrorism Department’s plea for extension in physical remand of MNA Mohsin Dawar. The court ordered the authorities to shift the lawmaker to Peshawar Central Jail due to security reasons and directed the police to present him before the court on June 19. Earlier, Dawar was handed over […]

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has expressed his profound grief over death of Dr Anwar Sajjad, a renowned progressive writer. The PPP Chairman said Dr Sajjad’s lasting contributions to progressive literature would be long remembered in addition to his brave struggle for restoration of democracy and against Zia dictatorship when he […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan once again on Friday addressed his Indian counterpart PM Narendra Modi over an offer of dialogue. According to reports, the premier, in a letter addressed to the newly re-elected Indian PM Modi congratulated him over his landslide victory in the general elections held last month. In the letter, PM Khan […]

LAHORE: Prominent drama writer Dr Anwar Sajjad was laid to rest at Lahore’s Miani Sahib graveyard on Friday. Earlier, his Namaz-e-Janaza was offered near his residence in the city that was attended by Qavi Khan, Asghar Nadeem Syed and other notable media personalities. On Thursday, the acclaimed writer  born on May 27, 1935 in Lahore […]