Students up in arms against Punjab government

Intermediate students, including girls, continued to protest against the Punjab Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) across the province on Saturday against errors...

48-member Malaysian businessmen delegation to attend Expo Pakistan ’12

A 48-member strong delegation of Malaysian entrepreneurs and businessmen is set to attend the 7th edition of Expo Pakistan to be held in Karachi...

Punjab bureaucracy puts heads together to tackle NAB

LAHORE: The bureaucratic muscle of the Punjab government has decided to counter the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) sweep in Ashiana Housing Scheme scandal, which resulted...

11 injured in Peshawar CNG explosion

PESHAWAR: At least 11 people were reportedly injured on Saturday due to an apparent gas explosion at a fuel station on Charsadda Road in Peshawar. According...

Most Pakistanis favor new provinces on administrative basis: survey

Most Pakistanis (40 percent) favor administrative basis or a combination of administrative and linguistic basis (42 percent) to redraw provincial boundaries, while only 15...

KP govt sacks industries minister, adviser to CM

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has sacked its Minister for Industries Shaukat Yousafzai and Adviser to Chief Minister on Transport Yasin Khalil. A statement issued by...

US likely to de-escalate Pakistan, India tension

Ambassador Haley says President Trump may also participate in process The Trump administration will try and find its place to be a part of...

Daniyal Aziz’s judgement day tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) will announce its verdict in the contempt case against former federal privatisation minister Daniyal Aziz on Thursday. A three-judge bench...

7 killed in separate incidents in Quetta

Seven people, including two women and two real brothers were killed in separate acts of violence in different areas of Balochistan, on Sunday. According to...

Govt mulling law to devolve federal ombudsman

    With an objective to improve services delivery at grassroots level, the federal government has prepared a piece of legislation to devolve the federal ombudsman...

China offers assistance for flood affectees

China offered to dispatch relief goods worth 30 million RMB (US $ 4.7million) for the flood affectees in Sindh and Balochistan. “The Chinese Ambassador, Liu...

First batch of newly promoted grade 22 officers meets PM

PM urged the officers that nation expects them to deliver in public interest.

Rain expected in different parts of country

LAHORE: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) predicted rainfall across different parts of the country on Tuesday. Rainfall in Lahore during night and Islamabad in the morning lowered...

Panamagate: PM is ‘innocent’, says counsel

Several pages of book of PM’s life missing: SC Justice Asif Saeed Khosa-led five-member bench gave Makhdoom Ali Khan, PM Nawaz Sharif’s counsel, a tough...

PTI endorses decision to lay off over 700 PTDC employees

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has endorsed the decision of previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) administration on sacking 706 illegally appointed employees of Pakistan...

Afghan peace council to meet Mullah Baradar in Pakistan

    After weeks of mystery surrounding Taliban senior leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghan officials on Wednesday said Pakistan had agreed to allow representatives of...

Kayani, Pasha meet PM as tensions ease with US

With the United States assuring Pakistan of the key role of facilitator in peace talks between Washington and the Taliban and also expressing its...