Category: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan Post) – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz said that the people threw in dustbin the narrative of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and Nawaz Sharif and voted in favour of Pakistan Tehreek I Insaf (PTI) in the election of Gilgit Baltistan awarding the party a majority. Addressing a press conference here, […]

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan Post) – The Cabinet Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved in principal the voluntary separation from service scheme for PIA on Monday. The decision was taken in today’s meeting of the committee held in Islamabad with Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh in the chair. The forum […]

ISLAMABAD (Paksitan Post) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed satisfaction over winning the Gilgit-Baltistan elections and said that the voters have rejected Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’s narrative. Prime Minister Imran Khan made these remarks at a meeting of party leaders and spokespersons on Monday. He said that the newly formed government would solve the […]

GILGIT (Pakistan Post) – Workers of Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) on Monday took to the street against alleged rigging in general election of Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA). The charged workers of the PPP staged a protest demonstration, burned tyres outside RO office and blocked the road for traffic. The die-hard PPP workers staged a sit-in […]

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan Post) Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday announced a ban on holding rallies across the country amid rise in the number of coronavirus cases during the second wave. Addressing the nation after a meeting of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on the COVID-19 in Islamabad on Monday, PM Imran Khan said that COVID-19 […]

PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday said the Sindh government will approach the relevant courts to seek a review in the case of Arzoo, a teenage Christian girl who was allegedly abducted from her Karachi residence before being forcefully converted and married off to a Muslim man. Bilawal’s statement comes a day after a sessions court in […]

Islamabad police on Friday briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades near the Red Zone in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against the printing of blasphemous images depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). No one was injured and protesters later moved back towards a gathering spot originally agreed with […]

Information Minister Shibli Faraz on Friday said that the time to apologise for PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq’s remarks had passed, adding that now the law will take its course. The information minister was referring to Sadiq’s statement made in the National Assembly, in which the latter suggested that the PTI government had released Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman […]

ISLAMABAD: A day after the government’s decision to limit commercial and social activities, federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday revealed that the national level positivity rate of Covid-19 has exceeded the three per cent mark. “After more than 70 days the national covid positivity ratio was higher than 3% yesterday. Ncoc […]

Balochistan government spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani on Friday urged the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to delay its upcoming public meeting in Quetta citing a security threat alert issued by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta). PDM, an anti-government alliance of 11 opposition parties, is scheduled to hold its third power show in Quetta on October 25. […]