Category: Pakistan

The Court of Arbitration for Sport  will determine today if Manchester  will play in the next season of the UEFA Champions League as the court is expected to delivers its verdict on the club’s appeal against a two-season ban from European competitions. The stakes could not be higher for the English side, who have always […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s aide on commerce, Abdul Razak Dawood, on Tuesday announced that German fashion giant Hugo Boss has placed its first order of sportswear at a Pakistani company. “Happy to note that well known brand, Hugo Boss, has placed its first order of sportswear to a Pakistani company,” Dawood, Adviser to the […]

Pakistan observed the 21st martyrdom anniversary of its national heroes Captain Karnal Sher Khan shaheed (Nishan-e- Haider) and Havaldar Lalak Jan shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. In the native towns of the heroes, Swabi (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Ghizer (Gilgit-Baltistan), wreath-laying ceremonies were held to pay homage to the sacrifices of Kargil […]

To date, 40 MPs and members of the ruling PTI have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while two have died, showed a tally compiled by Geo.tv. Majority of those infected, since the outbreak of the virus in February, are members of the provincial assemblies (MPAs) associated with the PTI. While 15 members of the national […]

KARACHI: Heavy downpour and thundershowers are expected to hit the port city again today, said the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Tuesday. According to the PMD, it will be cloudy in the port city during the next 24 hours with the possibility of thundershowers and rain. Director MET Sardar Sarfraz said that the rain system […]

LAHORE: The arrest and detention on March 12 of Jang Geo Media Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is “a mala fide act”, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) said Sunday. In a press release following a meeting of its Executive Committee, the PBC said it was seriously concerned over MSR’s arrest. […]

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan announced late Saturday that the provincial government will cancel fake domiciles of federal employees working on the province’s quota. The chief minister had directed all the deputy commissioners to scrutinise the domiciles after which he said 400 had been cancelled by the Mastung deputy commissioner. “Mastung deputy commissioner […]

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sindh’s leaders and MPAs have announced a sit-in in Karachi against its electricity problems and demanded the federal government bring in another electric supply company in Karachi to end the monopoly of K-Electric. Opposition Leader in the Sindh Assembly Firdous Shamim Naqvi, in a press conference outside K-Electric’s office, said that the people […]

Railways minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad on Saturday said that all unmanned crossings will be done away with “this month”, a day after a tragic train accident claimed 22 lives near Sheikhupura. Yesterday’s train-van collision has been blamed on the van driver’s negligence and hasty decision to go off the path of a fenced crossing and […]

KARACHI: The sacrifice of animals is a tenet of Islam incumbent upon all those who can fulfil it, and sadqa (alms) is no substitute for it, Chairman Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman said Thursday. He said that those making the current circumstances (coronavirus outbreak) a basis for giving out alms instead were speaking against Islamic […]