Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistan could hold talks with India on the issue of occupied Kashmir if New Delhi meets certain conditions, including allowing it to meet with Kashmir leaders. In an exclusive interview with BBC Urdu, the minister said that Pakistan had no objection to bilateral talks with India and would also […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Office of Accountability (NAB) pledged on Friday to an accountability court to complete the investigation against former finance minister Miftah Ismail in the next 14 days. The interim judge of the accountability court Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan, with the safety of the NAB investigative officer, extended Mr. Ismail's pretrial detention until September
ISLAMABAD: Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, calling it a violation of basic human rights, attacked Friday against the government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for moving former president Asif Ali Zardari of the Institute of Medical Sciences of Pakistan (PIMS) to Adiala prison despite having serious heart problems and warned that if something happened to Mr. Zardari, then the
ISLAMABAD: It was time for Pakistan to withdraw from the Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO), as it was worse than the United Nations, former Senate President Mian Raza Rabbani said Friday. Participating in a discussion about Kashmir in the Senate, he said that "the bubble of an Islamic Ummah had burst" and that Pakistan should reassess
ISLAMABAD: The president of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Asif Saeed Khosa, said Friday that the initiative of the model courts had instilled a new provision in the masses to place confidence in the institution of the judiciary, which would otherwise have been blamed of undue delays. Speaking at the awards distribution ceremony of the
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) administration has laid off almost 1,000 surplus employees and has taken other measures to reduce the operating cost of the airline. This was reported by the president and chief executive of the PIA, air marshal Arshad Malik, during a meeting with the advisor to the prime minister of Finance,
Four bodies were recovered from the Kandia river in Kohistan after a van with 31 passengers fell, authorities said. Sunrise on Friday. According to the initial information available, the vehicle sank into the river after a wooden bridge collapsed over the river. The river is passing through the Barigo area of the Kandia district in
The meeting of the Central Ruud Hilal Committee on sightings of Karachi-Muharram-ul-Haram will take place in the Sind capital on Saturday. The chairman of the Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman Committee will preside. Meeting with john The meeting of the Central Ruud Hilal Committee on sightings of Karachi-Muharram-ul-Haram will take place in the Sind capital on Saturday. The
The Bill of Amendments to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, also known as the NAB (National Accountability Bureau), is ready to be presented in parliament and includes a provision for private citizens not related to the holders of public charges to be excluded from the scope of the accountability dog, Dawn.com has learned "The application
Prime Minister Imran Khan leads a demonstration on Kashmir in an attempt to conquer world opinion. Cities across the country were paralyzed around noon on Friday when tens of thousands of people took to the streets in a demonstration of solidarity led by the government with occupied Kashmir, after India revoked its autonomy earlier this
