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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that he has always promoted politics of brotherhood, fraternity, equality and humanity but some people are trying to earn political sympathies by advancing the arguments of hatred and division

SHINKIARI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Wednesday visited Junior Leaders Academy (JLA), Shinkiari and got detailed briefing on the army’s premium training institution.

The JLA is a premium army institution which imparts

ISLAMABAD: Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works (KS-EW) Wednesday handed over a 32-ton Bollard Pull (BP) Tug to Pakistan Navy.

Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Kaleem Shaukat was the chief guest at the handing over ceremony held at KS-EW in Karachi, which

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has failed a single proper answer to 128 asked to him in Avenfield property reference, said PTI spokesman Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday.

“The court asked one thing while Nawaz Sharif replied something else and kept on t

ISLAMABAD: Terming hatred and intolerance as a major threat to peace, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Wednesday called on all political forces to join hands to combat the menace.

“No society can go forward and progress with such kind of a mindset,” warned the

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the four-month protest sit-in staged by PTI and PAT in 2014 was planted to oust him from power over his decision to put Pervez Musharraf on trial for high treason.

Addressing a

ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Wednesday called for promoting tolerance in society and in political system or it would create anarchy in the country.

Speaking on a point of order in the National

BARKHAN: Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti has taken notice of the video circulating on social media which shows Levies men misbehaving with a Pakora seller.

According to Geo News, Deputy Commissioner Barkhan Munir Ahmed Kakar has

ISLAMABAD: Privatization Minister Daniyal Aziz on Wednesday said behavior of PTI leader Naeemul Haq was pre-planned.

Speaking to media a day after being slapped at a TV show by Naeemul Haq, the minister said there was nothing that could have promoted Naeeumul Haq to

The threat of extremism appeared on the horizon about a decade and a half ago, plunging Pakistan into a different kind of war. The armed forces until then, had been concerned with tackling and keeping malicious forces in check at the borders, but now they had a new enemy much closer

KARACHI: The 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh, who was killed in a mass shooting at Texas high school, was laid to rest in Karachi on Wednesday.

He funeral prayers  were offered  at the Hakim Saeed Ground in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality where a

LONDON: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) hired a lobbying firm in Washington for one month in February this year and paid $100,000 fees for setting up meetings and media interviews for Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Papers available with The News – and filed with t

ISLAMABAD: Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Jehangir Tareen, two senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), exchanged harsh words at party’s core group meeting here Tuesday.

Sources said the cause of the barbs between two senior leaders was Rai Hassan Nawaz, another

RAWALPINDI: US Army General Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command USCENTCOM, called Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and condoled unfortunate death of Pakistani student Sabika Sheikh in Texas school firing.

According to

With Karachi and other parts of Pakistan being hit with the severest kind of heat wave, the animals inhabited in the country, similar to humans, are also exposed to the perils of the sweltering sun.

Here are all the ways you can help keep animals safe in the blazing weather.

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ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. (Retd) Nasser Khan Janjua said that the fight against terrorism should be waged on the basis of norms and principles of international law; terrorism should not be associated with any religion, nationality or

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet has approved the placement of draft constitutional amendment before the Parliament for the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

KARACHI: One girl was killed when shacks caught fire in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal town on Tuesday.

The fire broke out due to explosion of a gas cylinder which burnt about 200 tents there, the fire department informed Geo News.

Sources add that six fire trucks were tasked to cool down

JOHANNESBURG: Two Pakistani brothers were killed for resisting an armed robbery in South African city of Johannesburg on Monday, family said.

Farooq, son of one of the two victims, said that his father Raza Al-Mustafa and his two brothers Raza Al-Atta and Raza

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited the residence of Shaheed Colonel Sohail Abid in Islamabad and condoled with his family including father and children in Islamabad on Tuesday.

PPP Chairman offered fateha for the

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs to generate 1.3 million additional jobs on average every year as the plethora of people attaining the working age most likely to rise from the current 4 million to around 5 million by 2035. 

According to United Nations Development

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah said on Tuesday that loss of precious lives due to heatwave in Karachi was a very tragic and unfortunate incident.

In a statement here, he said that Ministry of Climate Change took a proactive

ISLAMABAD: Calling Imran Khan a "NATO" (no action talk only) commander, Federal Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal described PTI’s 100-day plan as an incomplete, incoherent, unrealistic and imaginative document.

““In our politics, there is

LAHORE: A passenger train traveling from Karachi to Islamabad collided with a freight carriage in Lahore on Tuesday, Geo reported.

The Green Line Train was on its way to Islamabad before it hit freight cars at Lahore Railway Station, causing damage to

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received 50 applications from various political parties for allotment of symbol for the next general elections.

According to ECP, all political parties which have representation in the parliament, have already applied for

ISLAMABAD: PPP leaders on Tuesday took a jibe at PTI, saying Imran Khan’s party wanted to implement the so-called 100-day plan with 100 turncoats.

“PTI cannot enforce its 100-day plan even in 420 days. Yes, Imran Khan has gathered 100 turncoats in 50 days,” PPP MNA

ISLAMABAD:   Deadlock persisted as the meeting between Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi  and Leader of the Opposition ended without a decision on the caretaker prime minister here on Tuesday.

Today's was the  fourth formal meeting between the two leaders to decide the  the

A deadly tropical cyclone gaining strength in the Arabian Sea shortly after Cyclone Sagar killed at least 15 in Somalia, poses no threat for Pakistan’s coastline, said the Met Office on Tuesday.

The new cyclone, a remnant of Cyclone Sagar, is