Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Tourist traffic in cultural sites in Pakistan has experienced a massive 317 percent increase over the past five years, with a Punjab contribution of almost 95{7be40b84a6a43fc4fae13304fce9a2695859798abfc41afd127b9f8b21c5f9c5}, according to a report. The Cultural Heritage and Museum Visits report in Pakistan by Gallup Pakistan, a research organization affiliated with the Gallup International Association, indicates that tourism […]

MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit the southern Mirpur district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday (today) to express solidarity with the victims of the earthquake that shook the city by the lake and its adjacent areas on Tuesday, officials said on Sunday. . The prime minister would receive an information session

ISLAMABAD: As the Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked provincial election commissioners to update voter lists, the number of registered voters is likely to increase from the existing 109 million to 113 million, it emerged Sunday. A senior ECP official said Dawn that the provisional electoral lists would be published and displayed at the

Two British hikers have been rescued, while three others, along with a guide, are trapped and waiting to be rescued at Koyo Zom peak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, district administration officials confirmed Sunday night. Koyo Zom is a peak located on the border between the Chitral district of KP and Gilgit-Baltistan, and is located at an

A woman and a teenager were killed after being hit by Indian bombing from across the Control Line (LoC) on Sunday, residents and officials said. The victims occurred in the Nakyal sector of Kotli District, which has been constantly experiencing physical and material losses in violations of the ceasefire by Indian troops, they said. The

PPP President Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari accused "selected media and commentators" on Sunday of "exaggerating" the speech of Prime Minister Imran Khan at the 74th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), saying that the prime minister did not make a solid case for the plight of the occupied residents of Kashmir. "Our selected prime

On Sunday, a complete closure attack was observed in parts of Balochistan when Jamiat central leader Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Mohammad Hanif was buried, a day after his death in an explosion that swept through the main bazaar of Shaman. Two others were killed and at least 11 people were injured in the explosion on Saturday

KARACHI: Federal Maritime Affairs Minister Syed Ali Zaidi said on Saturday that the funds from the Karachi package of Rs162 billion recently announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan will only be released after adopting a financial discipline and monitoring policy. Speaking as a principal guest at a "Bio-Economy-Future of Pakistan" seminar organized by the FPCCI,

KARACHI: The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) denounced the promulgation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Actions Ordinance (in aid of civil power), 2019, by the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on August 5 and expressed apprehension that could lead to serious humans. violations of rights and the miscarriage of justice, against the supposed objectives of the measures.