A group of foreign media correspondents in Pakistan visited the Control Line (LoC) on Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, the military media wing said, while tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi continue to be raised by the Indian movement to revoke the special autonomy of occupied Kashmir. Journalists reporting to foreign media organizations were […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday called on all Pakistanis to participate in "Kashmir Time", which is observed on Friday at 12 p.m., to send a strong message of solidarity to the cashmere. "I want all Pakistanis to leave tomorrow from 12 noon to 12.30 p.m. M. To show solidarity with the people of Kashmir
PPP co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Thursday for medical exams, DawnNewsTV reported. According to Pims staff, the results of the tests performed today will determine whether the former president should be admitted to the hospital. Hospital sources said Zardari suffers from back pain and heart
Foreign Ministry spokesman Dr. Mohammad Faisal said Thursday that Pakistan could close its airspace to India at the time it chooses, but so far, no decision has been made on the matter. Addressing a weekly press conference, Dr. Faisal said the issue had been discussed at the highest level. "It is one of the many
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan has said that Pakistan and AJK will not allow India to link the Kashmir movement for freedom with terrorism. "We will remain alert to ensure that India does not succeed in doing so," Haider told a news conference Tuesday night at Pakistan's
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) admitted on Wednesday a request for a regular hearing filed against the appointment of two members of the Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP) by President Dr. Arif Alvi using his discretionary powers. President Alvi appointed Khalid Mehmood Siddiqui of Sindh and Munir Ahmed Kakar of Balochistan on August 22
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday approved a series of amendments to the laws aimed at providing exemptions from income tax, sales tax and customs duties to the port and the Gwadar free zone until 2039, but could not decide how to give legal coverage to the decision. A meeting of the Cabinet's Economic Coordination Committee
KARACHI: About a week after the federal government moved to the Supreme Court in search of funds deposited by Bahria Town Limited for the resolution of cases on its project in Karachi, the Sindh government also filed an application on Wednesday in the superior court with an identical request. Sindh's Advocate General, Salman Talibuddin, filed
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition of the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N) has "condemned" the government movement to transfer judges to hear cases against party leaders and asked the President of the Supreme Court to Pakistan, Asif Saeed Khosa, take note of what they described as "obvious" and a dazzling attack on the judiciary by the executive.
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Energy and its companies were severely criticized on Wednesday by the ruling party and opposition lawmakers for alleged corruption, mismanagement and lack of progress in development activities in the electricity sector. While members of the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League opposition left a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Energy Committee in protest,