Tag: Farooq

The authorities have placed the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest in Srinagar, Occupied Kashmir. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday arrested Umar Farooq Bhoja, owner of Bhoja Airlines, as Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announced that a...

Former Senate chairman and senior PPP leader, Farooq Naik was appointed federal minister for law, justice and parliamentary affairs on Wednesday. Naik was...

Four runs by Arshad Khan and three each by Farooq, Arif, and Rashid helped Army retain the title, crushing Wapda 18-1 in the final...

Recent developments in the ongoing investigations into former MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq’s murder appear to have attained the same degree of complexity as...

Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has handed over ‘evidence’ against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain to Scotland Yard, media reports...

Former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza reportedly contacted Scotland Yard on Wednesday and made an offer to share his evidence regarding assassination of MQM...

London police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has confirmed the arrests of two alleged killers of Dr Imran Farooq, co-founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),...

Rejecting the press conference from Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s Coordination Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar, the Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh said on...

British police offered a reward of £20,000 on Thursday for providing information about the murder of Pakistani politician Imran Farooq in London one year...

National Peace Committee for Interfaith Harmony Chairman Pir Allama Yousaf Awan on Sunday appointed Khurram Farooq as Interior Ministry’s National Peace Committee Punjab (NPCP)...

LONDON - Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Raja Farooq Haider Khan called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif at his London residence. United Kingdom (UK) PML-N President Zubair Gull Nasir Butt, senior vice president and other PML-N workers were also present on the occasion. During the meeting, the issues related to upcoming elections in Azad Kashmir were also discussed. PML-N UK Women Wing President Begum Nawadar Khan also met

KARACHI - A delegation of the All Karachi Tajir Ittehad called on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar on Saturday and informed him that extortionists are harassing the trader community. MQM Rabita Committee member Wasim Aftab and Karachi Tanzimi Committee In-charge Hammad Siddiqui were also present on the occasion. The delegation told Dr Sattar extortionists are sending them slips demanding large sums of money and threatening them of

FAISALABAD - Former textile minister and PPP leader Rana Farooq Saeed Khan has denied the speculations that he is quitting PPP over his non-induction in the cabinet.
"We have always offered sacrifices for the party and we ill continue to do so in future as well," he said. His statement has brought to an end the rumours that he is leaving the party after being dropped from the cabinet.
"To me it is a sin to disobey the party policy as I strongly feel that becoming a minister

LAHORE - Minister for Textile Industry Rana Muhammad Farooq Saeed Khan has assured five-day gas supply to the textile industry in Punjab.
He was talking to media at the office of All Pakistan Textile Mills association (APTMA) following a meeting with APTMA office-bearers. The minister said that the textile sector of Pakistan is competent and has the potential to touch the export target of $25 billion. He stated that the cotton production could have been reasonably good but recent

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

KARACHI: Karachi was virtually shut down on Saturday as MQM's murdered leader, Dr Imran Farooq's body was laid to rest in front of wailing crowds shouting slogans.
The MQM leader was laid to rest at the Shuhda Qabristan in Yasinabad after his body was brought to Karachi from London in the morning. Senior MQM leaders including Dr Farooq Sattar, Haider Abbas Rizvi, Dr Imran Farooq's widow, children and father were also aboard.
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