TAXILA: The Hassanabdal Municipal Administration has marked a renovation and beautification plan for the areas around Gurdwara Punja Sahib. This was stated by assistant commissioner Adnan Anjum Raja while talking to reporters on Wednesday. Raja said the renovation project will be completed before November 15 when Sikh pilgrims from around the world will visit the […]
LARKANA: The president of the Popular Party of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, said he supports the initiative of Prime Minister Imran Khan to act as a facilitator of the talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia to help calm the growing tensions between the two countries. He said the war would have a devastating impact on the
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights, headed by an opposition legislator, will deal with the crucial issues of media censorship and denial of facilities to prisoners under trial by the National Office of Responsibility (NAB ) at your meeting on Friday. The five-point agenda issued by the Senate Secretariat for the meeting shows
QUETTA: Disturbed by the recent cases of alleged blackmail and harassment at the University of Balochistan, the provincial government on Wednesday ordered all universities to set up special committees against harassment. Also on Wednesday, the university's academic association said that none of its faculty members were involved in the video scandal, which arose a month
ISLAMABAD: Judge Qazi Faez Isa has declared before the Supreme Court that the president, prime minister or the minister of law is not free to undermine the constitution and destroy the independence of the judiciary. "A self-service charge has been filed and the petitioner (Judge Isa) and his family have been persecuted and their lives
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had responded positively to Prime Minister Imran Khan's initiative to calm tensions in the Gulf region by agreeing to give peace a chance. “Saudi leaders have responded positively. It was agreed that diplomacy would be preferred and that differences would be resolved through
From meeting with the prime minister to visiting the mountainous north, Prince William and Kate have spent two busy days in Pakistan. They have been in the country for only two days, but the inaugural visit of Prince William of Great Britain and his wife Kate Middleton to Pakistan has been a whirlwind of activity.
Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, while visiting the troops stationed along the Control Line (LoC) on Wednesday, promised "never to leave the cashmere alone" in their fight against Indian oppression. “The cashmere in IOJ and K bravely face Indian atrocities under continuous siege. We will never leave them alone and will play our legitimate
At least three protesting drivers were killed and another injured when the Border Works Organization (FWO) staff opened fire in an attempt to disperse a demonstration in Superhighway near Karachi on Wednesday, police said. Several heavy vehicle drivers were shot during their protest near Kathore against what the police said was an attempt by FWO
On Wednesday, a Lahore anti-terrorist court extended the physical detention of the alleged serial killer Suhail Shehzad, accused of raping and killing four minor children in Kasur's Chunian tehsil. Shehzad had been taken into police custody on October 2 and today the court granted a 14-day extension in his preventive detention. Judge Abdul Qayyum Khan,
