ISLAMABAD – Special Assistant to Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said Wednesday that Maulaw Fazlur Rehman, chairman of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, wants seminary students to sit and be in trouble. Dr. ISLAMABAD – Special Assistant to Information Broadcasting, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, said Wednesday that Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, and […]
PPP President Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Wednesday that his party will not join the long anti-government march that Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced to start, but promised provide "moral and political support". Bilawal, while talking to reporters in Jamshoro, said that PPP has had a "clear and consistent policy regarding dharna politics in
The Minister of the Economic Affairs Division, Hammad Azhar, discussed Pakistan's progress in Financial Action The action plan of the Working Group (FATF) during meetings with the Joint Asia-Pacific Group (APG), the regional affiliate of the regulator, the ministry of finance said on Wednesday. According to a press release, a high-level delegation headed by Azhar
Punjab Prime Minister spokesman Dr. Shahbaz Gill announced on Wednesday that Prime Minister Usman Buzdar had ordered that each deputy police superintendent (DSP) and district police officer (DPO) in the province should file a statement sworn that there was no torture cell within the jurisdiction of their respective station. The order comes after several cases
On Wednesday, an accountability court sent a man, who is nominated in a case related to money laundering, to jail until September 20 in pretrial detention after he withdrew his request to reach an agreement with the National Office of Accountability (NAB). During a hearing in an accountability court today, Khursheed Anwar Jamali, who had
Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Wednesday that he would celebrate a "great jalsa"(demonstration) in Muzaffarabad on September 13 (Friday). In a post shared on Twitter, the prime minister said the jalsa was to "send a message to the world about the continuous siege of [Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir] IOJK by the Indian occupation
Former PTI legislator Baldev Kumar seeks political asylum in India and accused the government led by Imran Khan of mistreating minorities in Pakistan. Kumar is currently in India on a three-month visa to receive medical treatment from his 12-year-old daughter who is a thalassemia patient. At a press conference on Tuesday in Khanna, India, the
Shangla police arrested two suspects on Tuesday for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl in the Lilonai area of Shangla district. According to the FIR registered against the two suspects the day before, the girl arrived at the Alpuri police station along with her father and reported that the two men had raped her on September
Many of the faithful beat their chest and tied themselves with chains in a symbolic expression of pain. Shiite communities across the Muslim world on Tuesday commemorated the death of Imam Husain in Ashura, the tenth day of Muharram. Imam Husain was martyred along with members of his family during the Battle of Karbala that
Qazi Azmat Isa is the executive director of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund since 2011 and has been in the development sector for 30 years. He has worked tirelessly to transform society, empower the poor and give them a voice. And through these years, if there is a valuable lesson you have learned, it is
