PM, FM express distress over loss of lives in India train crash
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday expressed deep sorrow and distress over the loss of human lives in...
Court discharges Dr Yasmin Rashid in Jinnah House attack case
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday discharged PTI Central Punjab president Dr Yasmin Rashid in Lahore’s Jinnah House, also known as Corps Commander House,...
Ex-deputy speaker KP Assembly arrested in murder case
PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday arrested the former deputy speaker of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and two others in a murder case. Mehmood Jan belongs to the...
Former MPA Farhat Farooq arrested in Jinnah House attack case
LAHORE: Police have arrested former Punjab MPA Farhat Farooq in a case related to attack on the Jinnah House in Lahore during May 9 protests....
Parvez Elahi to be produced in Gujranwala anti-corruption court today
GUJRANWALA: PTI President Parvez Elahi will be produced before an anti-corruption court in Gujranwala today (Saturday) in two corruption cases. Police, in a statement, said...
PM Shehbaz in Ankara to attend Erdogan’s inauguration
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in Ankara on a two-day official visit to Turkiye to attend the inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On...
Pirzada rejects Western media reports about HR abuses against May 9 miscreants
Minister for Human Rights Riaz Hussain Pirzada took exception to the Western media reports about human rights violations with regard to the arrests of miscreants...
Zardari, Shujaat discuss political situation
LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) supremo Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain discussed the country’s political situation on Friday. Mr Hussain called...
PTI’s Waleed Iqbal condemns May 9 riots
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Waleed Iqbal on Friday condemned the events that transpired on May 9. Speaking to media, Mr Iqbal said, “The military...
Usman Buzdar quits politics over May 9 violence
QUETTA: Former Punjab chief minister Sardar Usman Buzdar is the latest PTI leader to have quit politics. Addressing a presser at the Quetta Press Club,...
SC fixes JI’s plea for Panama Papers hearing
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday fixed the petition related to Panama Papers for hearing. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood would preside over the nine-member bench...
NSC moot delayed owing to PM’s Turkiye visit
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) was postponed due to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Turkiye to attend the inaugural ceremony...
PTI’s Pervez Khattak steps down from party position
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Pervez Khattak announced stepping down as the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter president late Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad,...
Five of family die in Kot Addu blast
KOT ADDU: Five family members were killed and three others injured when a blast tore apart a house at Daira Din Panah – a small...
Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rahman sworn in as Federal Shariat Court CJ
ISLAMABAD: Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rahman on Thursday took oath as the chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court. Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial...
Sanaullah condemns attack on polio team in North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD- Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack on a polio vaccination team in North Waziristan and paid tribute to the...
Petrol price slashed by Rs8 per litre
The federal government reduced the prices of petroleum products Wednesday by up to Rs8 per litre. The decision was announced by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar...
Ex-PTI members from South Punjab formally join PPP
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members from South Punjab, who have recently parted ways with the party, have formally joined Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on...
PM affirms Pakistan’s commitment to build beneficial tie with Belarus
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has affirmed Pakistan’s commitment to build mutually beneficial cooperation with Belarus in the areas of economic, agriculture, science, technology, education and...
FM Bilawal leaves for Jordan to attend ‘royal wedding’
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is travelling this afternoon to Jordan and Iraq, the state-run APP quoted Foreign Office as saying on Wednesday. In the first leg of...