Category: Pakistan

Security forces killed a terrorist and injured two others in an intelligence-based operation in Panjgur.  The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the operation was carried out on information in Panjgur district.  During the operation, a terrorist named Liaquat Chakar was killed and two others were injured.  The army’s media wing said weapons, […]

Chief of Army Staff Gen Syed Asim Munir on Thursday met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.  According to sources, the meeting took place before the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) apex committee meeting. The army chief took the prime minister into confidence about his visit to Saudi Arabia.  The premier expressed his satisfaction on Pak-Saudi relations.  […]

The intelligence-based operation carried out by Pakistan on March 18 was not an invasion of Afghanistan but an action against the sanctuaries of terrorists hiding inside Afghanistan and posing threats to Pakistan’s security, said Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in her weekly press briefing on Thursday. “Pakistan has not invaded Afghanistan. We have no […]

Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied. Al Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, is now one of the few healthcare facilities even partially operational in the north of the […]

The act of the Punjab government to hold an administrative meeting with former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif in chair has been challenged in the Lahore High Court. An application against the administrative meeting chaired by Nawaz Sharif was filed in the Lahore High Court on behalf of Nadeem Sarwar Advocate. The petitioner took the […]

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and members of the federal cabinet on Wednesday decided to voluntarily forego their salaries and perks as part of the government’s efforts to promote austerity. The decision was made in a cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister which took up different agenda items including the briefing on Staff Level Agreement […]

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has released the list of candidates for the upcoming Senate election scheduled for April 2. Nomination papers submitted by several Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders have been rejected. Punjab Out of 21 candidates vying for 12 seats for Punjab, papers of 7 have been rejected. Zulfi Bukhari’s nomination was rejected […]

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court against the alleged rigging in the February 8 elections. The former prime minister filed petition in the Supreme Court through senior lawyer Hamid Khan seeking formation of a judicial commission to probe the alleged rigging. In the petition, he prayed for establishment of a […]

Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development recently has planned to propose the dedication of a special quota for Pakistani skilled and semi-skilled workers for NEOM and other upcoming projects. Additionally, a proposal for Saudi Arabia to establish a state-of-the-art Skill University in Pakistan further aligns the two nations in their pursuit of economic […]

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the special committee concerned to formulate a package of constitutional and legal reforms to bring in judicial reforms in the country. The prime minister, chairing the maiden meeting of the special committee on legal and judicial reforms, also instructed the committee to formulate a strategy to simplify the […]