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Justice (r) Dost Muhammad Khan named KP caretaker CM

PESHAWAR: Ex-Supreme Court judge  Justice Dost Mohammad Khan has been appointed as caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtwnkha by the Election Commission of Pakistan here on Tuesday.

The announcement to this effect was made by  the Additional Secretary Admin  after a...

Meet the youngest Pakistani girl to score Guinness World Record
Meet the youngest Pakistani girl to score Guinness World Record

KARACHI: Liba Wahaj, daughter of a well-known Karachi-based educationist Wahaj Hussain, has become the youngest Pakistani ever to achieve a Guinness World Record.

Liba now holds the world record for solving a 6-level Tower of Hanoi a mathematical game or...

Sheerazi brothers of PML-N from Thatta, Sujawal join PPP

KARACHI: A delegation of Sheerazi group, led by Syed Aijaz Ali Shah Sheerazi, from Sujawal and Thatta districts called on the former president and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and announced joining PPP at Bilawal House on Monday evening.

One...

Chief Justice takes notice of acute water shortage in country
Chief Justice takes notice of acute water shortage in country

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Monday took notice of the acute shortage of water supply throughout the country.

Notices have been issued to Attorney General for Pakistan, Advocate General Islamabad, Secretary CADD, Mayor of Metropolitan Corporation...

Wasim Akram, Zulfi Bukhari, Ijaz Rehman send defamation notice to Reham in London
Wasim Akram, Zulfi Bukhari, Ijaz Rehman send defamation notice to Reham in London

LONDON: Reham Khan’s former husband Ijaz Rehman, close aide of Imran Khan Zulfiqar Bukhari, former skipper Pakistan cricket team Wasim Akram and Pakistani origin British woman have sent a defamation notice to former wife of Imran Khan over...

President Mamnoon to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to boost ties
President Mamnoon to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to boost ties

BEIJING: Within a period of two months, another high-level meeting is set to be held with Chinese President Xi Jinping to boost Pakistan China ties.

President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain will meet President of China Xi Jinping to boost our relations,...

Khadija Siddiqi stabbing convict acquitted
Khadija Siddiqi stabbing convict acquitted

ISLAMABAD: Lahore High Court on Monday acquitted a man accused of stabbing his female classmate 24 times.

The convict Shah Hussain had been sentenced to five years in jail by a trial court on charges of stabbing Khadija Siddiqui.

The Lahore High Court heard his appeal against...

Imran lacks qualification to stand in elections: Reham
Imran lacks qualification to stand in elections: Reham

LONDON: PTI chairman Imran Khan doesn’t meet the legal requirements to stand in elections under Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution as he had hidden his marriage for two months, Reham Khan alleged.

Reham, ex-spot of Khan, is making headlines again after the...

Incumbency can be plus or minus for PML-N: ex-PM Shaukat Aziz
Incumbency can be plus or minus for PML-N: ex-PM Shaukat Aziz

LONDON: Pakistan’s former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said that PML-N has a big foot print, but only time will tell whether incumbency can be a plus or a minus for the outgoing ruling party in the next general elections.

“To me the right person would be w...

No space for war between nuclear states: DG ISPR
No space for war between nuclear states: DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: DG ISPR Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor said that Pakistan army would be compelled to retaliate if India targeted civilian population.

“DG MO has given an undertaking to his Indian counterpart about respecting the 2003 ceasefire agreement and Pakistan army is committed t...