Inside Story of Cabinet Meeting Surfaces: Very Much Worried on Long Load Shedding: PM
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday said he is very much worried over the long load shedding in the country while we are trying...
Punjab Govt Announces Free Electricity For 100-unit Consumers
LAHORE,: Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has said that the government will provide free electricity to domestic consumers using up to 100 units per month....
Cabinet Decides To Establish Indigenous Fuel Power Plants
Islamabad: Federal Cabinet at its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Monday decided to install only indigenous fuel power plants in...
IHC Orders Recovery Of Missing Persons
Islamabad: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered to recover the missing persons. The IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the pleas of recovering missing...
PTI Demands Forensic Test Of Phone Tapping Of Bushra Bibi
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday demanded a forensic test of phone tapping of wife of Imran khan Bushra Bibi. Fawad Chauhdry and Shereen Mazari...
PTI Chairman Imran Khan Challenges Election Amendment Act In SC
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday challenged an election amendment act in Supreme Court of Pakistan. The former premier adopted the view...
Reshuffle In NAB hierarchy On Large Scale
Lahore: Reshuffling on a large scale has been made in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The Director General (DG) NAB Lahore Saleem Shahzad removed from...
Dollar Depreciates In Inter-bank Market By 60 Paisa
Karachi: Increase and decrease trend of the USA dollar value continues on Monday. According to the forex dealer association dollar depreciates by 60 paisa. The...
Electricity Prices Increased For K-Electric Consumers
Karachi: Electricity prices have been increased by Rs 9.66 for K-electric consumers. The increase has been carried out in the fuel adjudtment charges of month...
PM Shahabaz Directs To Revive Police Of Load Shedding
Islamabad: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has directed to revise the policy of gas load shedding for gas-fired power plants to ensure productive delivery of...
Pakistan Reports 675 New Coronavirus Cases
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported two deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 538,622....
Karachi Receives Light Rain
KARACHI: Light rain in different parts of Karachi and its adjacent areas on late Thursday night turned the weather pleasant. Rain brought much needed relief...
Imran Khan Has Become Mentally Unstable After Losing His Govt: Maryam Nawaz
Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Sunday said the ex-premier Imran Khan lost his government the day he lost...
Nation Facing Consequences Of Imran’s Wrong Decisions: Ministers
LAHORE: Railways and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Sunday that the nation was facing the consequences of wrong decisions of former prime minister...
PM Orders For Making Shut-down Power Plants Functional
Islamabad: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has directed the authorities concerned to take immediate steps for making the shut-down power plants functional. He issued the...
Govt Announces Five Holidays On Eid-Ul- Azha
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved five Eid-ul-Azha holidays with effect from Friday. According to a notification from PM Office, Eid-ul-Azha holidays will be...
Farah Gogi And Her Husband Will Bring Back To Country Via Interpol: Atta Tarar
LAHORE: Punjab Home Minister Atta Tarar on Sunday vowed to bring back Farah Gogi and her husband Ahsan Jameel Gujjar via Interpol in the country....
Countrywide 650 Cases Of Coronavirus Reported
Islamabad: The fresh COVID-19 case count in Pakistan slumped down to 650 a day after a sharp hike in infections across the country, the National...
19 Killed As Passenger Coach Plunges Into Deep Ravine At Dana Sar
Quetta: Nineteen passengers were killed and 14 others injured when a passenger coach fell into a deep ravine at Dana Sar area of District Sherani...
NED University In Its Report Rejects Departmental Store Collapse Affected by Fire
Islamabad: A team of experts from NED University Karachi has submitted a report to the Sindh Building Control Authority (SCBA) regarding the condition of the...
Heavy Rainfall Likely To Lash Karachi This Evening
KARACHI: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted likely rainfall in Karachi from this evening. A monsoon system persists over the Arabian Sea, eastern Sindh and...
PTI Govt left No Choice But to Take Tough Decisions: Maryam Nawaz
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice president Maryam Nawaz on Saturday while lashing out at former PM and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said...
Toppling Govt Is My Only Motive: Imran
ISLAMABAD; Former PM and Pakistan Tehreeke-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that he didn’t take to streets to wage a war against state...
Court Rejects Plea To Change IO in Dua Zehra Case
KARACHI: A court in Karachi has rejected plea of Dua Zehra’s father, Mehdi Ali Kazmi to change the investigation officer of the case. According to...
Asif Zardari Meets Shujaat Hussain in Lahore
LAHORE: Former president and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday met Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in Lahore....
Dr Aafia’s Mother Passes Away
KARACHI: Asmat Siddiqui, the mother of a Pakistani woman jailed in United States Dr Aafia Siddiqui, passed away in Karachi on Saturday. Pasban e Pakistan...
CJCSC Calls on Iranian President
RAWALPINDI: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Nadeem Raza who is on official visit to Iran, called on President of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisol-Sadati....
Rana Sanaullah Pays Tribute To Martyrs of Police
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has paid rich tribute to the martyrs of Police for their sacrifices in maintaining law and order. Addressing a ceremony...
Three Terrorists Killed in NW: ISPR
RAWALPINDI: Security Forces have killed three terrorists during an Intelligence based operation at Ghulam Khan Kalay area in North Waziristan. According to ISPR, these terrorists...
Pakistan Lodges Strong Protest Over Blocking of Twitter Accounts in India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered a strong protest with New Delhi over its recent blocking of Twitter accounts of Pakistan’s diplomatic missions and the national broadcaster...
PMD Forecasts Rains in Sindh, Balochistan from Today
KARACHI: The first spell of monsoon rains is likely to hit Karachi from today evening, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecast on Saturday. The port city...
818 Pakistanis Infected With Covid-19
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported four deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of confirmed positive cases has surged to 1,537,297....
PMS Sharif Urges US Firms To Invest in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says Pakistan has huge economic and demographic potential and US companies should invest in Pakistan’s large market. He was talking...
PM Shehbaz, Punjab CM Take Notice of Attack on Ayaz Amir
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz have taken a notice of the attack on senior journalist and analyst Ayaz Amir by...
Senior Journalist Ayaz Amir ‘Attacked’ in Lahore
LAHORE: Senior journalist and columnist Ayaz Amir was allegedly attacked by unidentified assailants in Lahore on Friday night. Ayaz, associated with a local TV channel,...
Winner of By-polls Should Be Given Province’s Charge: Hamza Shahbaz
Lahore: Punjab Chief Hamza Shahbaz on Friday while reacting to the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Punjab chief minister election said that during the by-elections...
Agreement With IMF To Be Finalised Soon: Miftah Ismail
ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that it is the prerogative of the Prime Minister to change him. The agreement with the IMF...
CM Murad Warns of ‘Tough Measures’ if COVID-19 Spreads
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah Friday warned of taking “tough measures” if the COVID-19 situation continues to worsen in the province, especially in the...
Govt Planning To Generate Electricity Through Solar Power Plants: Musadik
Islamabad: Minister of State for Petroleum Dr Musadik Malik says the government is striving hard to generate extra electricity from solar, wind and other energy...
Uninterrupted Electricity Is Being Supplied To Industrial Sector To Protect Employment: Khurram Dastagir
Islamabad: Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir on Friday said that despite carrying out load-shedding for domestic consumers, consistent and uninterrupted electricity was supplied to...
Re-election Will Be Held On July 22 Until Then Hamza Shahbaz Will Remain CM Punjab:SC
Islamabad: Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Friday announced that re-election of Chief Minister Punjab will be held on July 22 until then Hamza Shahbaz...
Miftah Lauds FBR For Collecting Record Amount Of Tax Worth Rs 763 Bln Last Month
Islamabad: Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail has appreciated the Federal Board of Revenue for collecting a record amount of tax worth 763 billion...
PM Vows To Overcome Power Load Shedding By Restoring Halted Projects
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed the resolve to overcome power load shedding by restoring halted projects. Addressing a meeting held to review measures...
Karachi Reports 407 Fresh Cases Of Covid-19
Karachi: Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Karachi as 407 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. The positivity ratio reached 19.76 in the...
SC Summons Hamza Shahbaz, Pervez Elahi To Ask Them About PTI’s Plea
Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday summoned Hamza Shahbaz and Pervez Elahi, the two contenders for the Punjab chief minister’s slot, to ask...
Second Route of Peoples Bus Service Opens Today
Buses on route No. 2 of the Sindh Intra-District Peoples Bus Service in Karachi will start their formal commercial operations on Friday (today). This was...
Govt To Introduce Digital System For Distribution Of Advertisements
Islamabad: The government has decided to introduce digital system to ensure transparency in the distribution of public sector advertisements. The decision to this effect was...
PM Inaugurates Innovation Hub Program In Islamabad
Islamabad: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif formally inaugurated Innovation Hub Program in Islamabad on Friday. The objective of the programme is participation of public in...
Imran Khan Blasts On Govt Over Price Increase Of petroleum Products
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday slammed the ‘imported government’ over recent hike in petrol and diesel prices...
Miftah Justifies Increase In Prices Of Petroleum Products
ISLAMABAD, Jun 30 (APP):Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Miftah Ismail justified the price-hike made by the government in the petroleum products, citing deviation from...