ISLAMABAD: A five-day polio immunisation drive commenced across the country on Monday with a target to vaccinate over 40.1 million children against the crippling disease. The first anti-polio drive of 2021 would…
–Says no organised terrorist infrastructure in country: Army shouldn’t be dragged into politics–Dismisses rumours about army holding talks with PDM: COAS to meet victim families of Machh incident this week RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services…
The next power show of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) took place in Makaland, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), on Monday wherein Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief…
ISLAMABAD: With the second wave of the coronavirus running rampant, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Monday once again urged the nation to adopt precautionary measures to curb the…
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore issued a 15-year sentence and Rs300,000 fine to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi on Friday in a terrorism financing case. UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61,…
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he is ready to visit Quetta to meet with the members of the Hazara community, but only if they bury their dead, saying that making…
RAWALPINDI: A 35-year-old Pakistani soldier, Sepoy Fazal Elahi, embraced martyrdom on Wednesday night when Indian forces initiated unprovoked firing in Khuiratta Sector along the Line of Control (LoC), to which Pakistan responded befittingly,…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy on Wednesday conducted a successful demonstration of missiles’ firing from surface to air. According to a press statement, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Mohammad Amjad Khan Niazi observed…
Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad has been appointed as the new Ruet-e-Hilal Committee (RHC) chairman and will replace Mufti Muneebur Rehman, read a government notification on Wednesday. A newly formed committee will comprise…
KARAK: A highly-charged mob on Wednesday, reportedly led by local clerics, vandalised and set ablaze a historic Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Karak district, officials said. The temple in Karak’s Terri area…
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday dropped a hint about conducting a forensic audit of the resignations of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmakers after the two declared them as fake. Speaking…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has constituted a five-member committee headed by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan to review the census process, data collection and…
KARACHI: A four-member investigation committee has been constituted to probe into irregularities in recruitments of daily wage employees in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). The management of the national carrier on Wednesday constituted a…
KARACHI: Hearing a suo motu case pertaining to the provision of drinking water in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area on Wednesday, the Supreme Court (SC) came down hard on the Cantonment Board…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that the Indian media was trying to divert the world’s attention from the Indian government’s illegal steps in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said…
ISLAMABAD: The death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic in the country crossed the grave mark of 10,000 and reached 10,047 after 55 more people died of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours,…
ISLAMABAD: India has no clarity about its military and strategic objectives vis-à-vis its stated adversaries, Pakistan and China, and can defeat neither of them in a war, said NC Asthana, a former…
