Pakistan on Saturday expressed "deep concern" over the ruling of the Supreme Court of India in the historic Babri Masjid case, and said it had made it clear that "minorities in India are no longer safe." In announcing his trial on a disputed land where Hindu extremists demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in 1992, the […]
PESHAWAR: An application will be launched on November 19 to help people, especially tourists, find public toilets throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This was announced by Imranullah Mohmand, assistant coordinator of the water and sanitation services (W&SC) cell of the local government department, while informing the special assistant of the Chief Minister of Science and Technology,
LAHORE: More than 1.2 million patients were denied treatment in the 44 tertiary care hospitals in Punjab during a month-long strike by employees against the government's plan to enforce the Medical Education Institutions Ordinance (MTI) . The figure appeared in the analysis conducted by the Department of Specialized Medical Care and Medical Education that worked
SIALKOT: The poetry of Allama Iqbal has become a point of unification at the border posts of Pakistan and India in Sucheetgarh, at the Sialkot working limit. The Rangers of Pakistan and the Border Security Force (BSF) of India are almost no face-to-face on any issue, given the rivalry and frequent tension at the border,
ISLAMABAD: The Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC) has given the attorney general a week to submit a response on identical petitions filed against the recent dissolution of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). The development occurred on Friday after Judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resumed the hearing of the petitions and Attorney General Anwar Mansoor
ISLAMABAD: The majority of illegal Pakistani immigrants prefer to remain incarcerated and do low-level jobs in the hope of obtaining legal status abroad instead of opting to return home, the foreign ministry said Friday to a parliamentary committee . "They are mostly asylum seekers, who have torn their passports and, despite facing extreme difficulties in
ISLAMABAD: "We are independent, but we also depend on others at the same time," Judge Syed Mansoor Ali Shah observed with a smile on his face as he rose for a day after attending tax-related cases in the Supreme Court on Friday. The observation came when the judges withdrew for a short break during judicial
Nawaz Sharif's personal doctor, Dr. Adnan Khan, said Friday that the former prime minister's condition was "critical," while two British doctors, according to family sources, advised the Sharif family to bring Nawaz to London for receive specialized treatment immediately. Dr. Khan also supported the view that the supreme PML-N needs to be transferred abroad to
The Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting, Firdous Ashiq Awan, announced Friday that the government will immediately provide Rs6 billion to the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) to reduce commodity prices. "The amount will substantially reduce the prices of flour, edible oil, sugar, rice and legumes," he said in a tweet.
PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz said Friday that it would be very difficult if she cannot accompany her father, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, abroad to receive medical treatment. She, however, said that "certainly" should go if her health requires it. After an appearance before an accountability court in Lahore regarding the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM)
