Martyrdom anniversary of Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed being observed today
The 50th martyrdom anniversary of Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) is being observed today (Sunday). He was born on 4th of April 1938 in a...
Sindh Culture Day Being Observed Today
Sindh Culture Day is being observed with traditional zeal and fervor on Sunday to promote the centuries old culture of Indus valley civilization. Various programmes...
Cousins Shot Dead Assistant Commissioner Jhang
Jhang: Assistant Commissioner (AC) Jhang Imran Jaffer has been shot dead by his cousins on Sunday in area of Chiniot district. Reports quoting sources said...
Body Of Srilankan Manager Shifted To Lahore, To Be Sent His Country On Monday
LAHORE: Body of Sri Lankan factory manager, who was killed by mob, has been shifted to Lahore. District administration have shifted body of Priyantha Diyawadana...
School Bus Falls From Bridge Claims Three Lives Including Teacher and Students
JHELUM: A bus carrying students and teachers on a school tour has fallen from Jhelum-Dina bridge, leaving two female students and a teacher dead and...
Coronavirus Approaches To End As Six Deaths Reported Across The Country
LAHORE: Pakistan has reported 6 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,286,825. The...
NA-133 Lahore By-Election: Polling Underway
LAHORE: The polling for by-poll in NA-133 Lahore is underway amid tight security. The polling began at 8am and will continue till 5pm. A total...
Bad Light Stops First Day Play Between Pakistan and Bangladesh
DHAKACaptain Babar Azam struck a fifty to help Pakistan make steady progress against Bangladesh before bad light forced early stumps on the first day of...
Govt Focused to Provide Sports Facilities to Youth: PM
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan says government is focused to provide sports facilities to youth. Chairing a high level meeting on National Sports Policy and...
Sialkot Incident: Sri Lankan PM Confident PM Khan Will Keep His Commitment
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Saturday he is confident that his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan will keep his commitment to bring...
Initial Report Into Sialkot Incident Forwarded to PM, CM
SIALKOT: Initial investigation report into SIalkot incident has been sent to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Punjab CM Usman Buzdar. Police investigators have compiled an...
Time Bombs Planted In Society Will Continue To Explose If Not Defused: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: While condemning the Sialkot incident that shook the nation, Federal Minister of Information Fawad Chaudhry Saturday said that “time bombs that we planted in...
Case of Sialkot Incident Registered
LAHORE: Police have registered a case against hundreds of unidentified people after a mob of factory workers lynched their Sri Lankan manager in Sialkot. The...
Pakistan Batting in Second Test Against Bangladesh
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s left-arm spinner Taijul Islam removed both openers after Pakistan made a steady start in the second Test at Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on...
Punjab CM Vows To Provide Justice In Sialkot Incident
LAHORE: Chief Minister of Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar on Saturday has said that every Pakistani is saddened by the tragic Sialkot incident. Punjab Chief Minister,...
India Releases 10 Pakistani Prisoners
LAHORE: Ten Pakistani fishermen imprisoned in Indian jails have been released. The fishermen were handed over to Pakistani authorities via Wagah border. The fishermen had...
Sialkot Incident Has Broken My Heart: Maryam
LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that the heartbreaking incident that took place in Sialkot has broken her heart. Is this brutality our...
Envoy of Belarus Calls on COAS General Bajwa
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa has emphasized on swiftly devising an institutional mechanism for channeling humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in order...
NSA Moeed Yusuf Meets His Kazakhstani Counterpart
ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser (NSA), Dr Moeed Yusuf Friday met Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Asset Issekeshiv in Nur-Sultan on...
Punjab Police Arrest Prime Suspect in Sialkot Incident
LAHORE: Punjab police on Friday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the murder case of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot was arrested....
COAS Condemns Murder of Sri Lankan Citizen
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday condemned the brutal murder of a Sri Lanka citizen by a mob in...
US Dollar Touches High Against PKR
KARACHI: US Dollar has touched the highest level in history against Pakistani rupee after gaining 48 paisa to trade at Rs176.90. According to details, the...
Gold Prices Increase by Rs350 Per Tola
KARACHI: The price of 24 karat per tola gold witnessed increase of Rs 350 and was sold at Rs124,000 in the local market on Friday...
Lynching of Sri Lankan National Shame For Pakistan: PM Imran
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has termed the horrific vigilante attack on factory in Sialkot and the burning alive of Sri Lankan manager as a...
Saudi Envoy Calls On Naval Chief
Islamabad: Saudi Arabia ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Bin Saeed Al-Maliki on Friday called on Naval Chief Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niyazi at the Naval Headquarter...
PM Reviews Arrangements For Upcoming Polio Eradication Campaign
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan directed the district governments to take responsibility to initiate deterrent legal action in cases of harassment or attacks on polio...
Minister for Industries Calls On PM To Brief On Production Capacity Of Fertilizers In Country
Islamabad: Minister for Industries and Production Khusro Bakhtiar called on Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Friday and gave a detailed briefing on the...
Social Media Accounts Of Pakistani Embassy In Serbia Hacked
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) has said that the official social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram ) account of Pakistan’s embassy in Serbia has been hacked,....
Govt Handed Over Everything To IMF For A Few Dollars: Siraj Ul Haq
Peshawar: Ameer Jamate Islami(JI) Siraj Ul Haq has said that the government has handed over everything to International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a few dollars....
Agha Siraj Durrani Arrested From Outside The SC
Islamabad: Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani has been arrested from the outside the Supreme Court by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The Sindh Assembly...
Mixed Trend Witnessed At PSX
Karachi: The Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed mixed trend Friday after it lost 197 points in the KSE-100 index. The market, in the first half of...
After PSP, PTI Challenges Sindh LB Amendment Bill 2021 In SHC
KARACHI: After Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP), the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday challenged Sindh Local Bodies (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Sindh High Court (SHC),...
NAB Teams Arrive SC To Arrest Agha Siraj Durrani
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani to surrender to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in assets beyond means...
Coronavirus Continues To Decrease As 8 Deaths Reported
LAHORE: Pakistan has reported 8 deaths in the last 24 hours by novel coronavirus as the number of positive cases has surged to 1,286,022. The...
Azam Swati Apologies To ECP
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Railway Azam Swati has tendered a written apology on the issue of allegations to the Election Commission of Pakistan. A three-member...
Rupee Loses Nearly Re1 Against US Dollar
KARACHI: The Pakistani currency plunged to an all-time low of Rs176.42 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market on Thursday. This owing to a...
FBR Jacks-up Property Valuation Rates
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has jacked-up the valuation rates of FBR-notified rates of immovable property, including commercial, residential, apartments, flats and other...
PM Orders Govt Members To Ensure Attendance In PAC Sessions
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the government members to ensure their attendance in the sessions of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The government...
Fawad Lauds ECP’s Decision To Constitute Committees On Matter Of EVMs
Islamabad: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has welcomed the decision of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to constitute technical committees on the...
UN Committee Defer Action on bid by Taliban to appoint envoys to world body
UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations committee has put off action on requests by the Taliban government in Afghanistan and Myanmar’s military regime to take their...
Opposition Parties Decide To Boycott In-Camera Briefing Of NSC
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties have announced to boycott the in-camera session of the parliamentary committee on national security to discuss the security situation in the region....
Bearish Trend Witnessed At PSX As Market Loses 2000 Points
Karachi: Severe pressure witnessed today in the selling of shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange while KSE 100-Index lost more than 2000 points. Owing to...
Teachers Protest Against Placing Education Directorate Under Municipal Corporation
ISLAMABAD: Teachers and employees on Thursday staged a protest against placing Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) under the Municipal Corporation Islamabad (MCI). According to details,...
President Alvi Ratifies 31 Bills Passed in Joint Sitting of Parliament
ISLAMABAD: A total of 31 bills were ratified by President Arif Alvi , which were passed during the joint sitting of Parliament on November 17,...
Punjab Announces To Hold Next LB Polls Using EVMs
LAHORE: The Punjab government is considering using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in upcoming local government elections, scheduled to be held next year in the province....
COAS Visits Azad Kashmir Regimental Centre Mansar Camp
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited the Azad Kashmir (AK) Regimental Centre Mansar Camp on Wednesday. According to statement issued...
PIA’s Saudi Operation Restored
ISLAMABAD: After the easing of travel restrictions by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan International Airlines’s (PIA) Saudi Arabia operation has become fully operational and the first flight...
PM Imran Orders Concrete Steps To Stop Smuggling of Essential Commodities
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the authorities concerned to undertake emergency measures and bring out- of-box solutions to control smuggling of essential commodities....
Dollar Weakens Against Rupee
KARACHI: The exchange rate of US Dollar weakened by 24 paisa in the interbank on Wednesday against Pakistani rupee.The greenback closed at Rs175.48 on third...
Bullish Trend Prevails At PSX
KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) had a topsy turvy day on Wednesday amid economic challenges and the uncertainty posed by the new Omicron coronavirus variant....