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WASHINGTON: A four-member delegation from Pakistan headed by Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali is due to visit Washington next week to apprise the top World Bank officials about Pakistan’s serious concern over the Kishanganga hydro power project that was i

ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee on Saturday while weighing all the pros and cons in detail endorsed that the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the administrative and judicial institutional structures and laws of the province

KARACHI: The minimum amount of Fitrana and Roza Fidya has been fixed at Rs100 per person for the second consecutive year.

This was announced by the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman in a statement on Saturday.

According to the chairman, the head of a family is

Karachi, May 19-Abdul Aziz learned about the US school shooting in which his 17-year-old daughter was killed on CNN, with the story airing live as he broke his Ramadan fast thousands of miles away in Pakistan.

In those chaotic first moments of confusion

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has inaugurated the combined cycle of 1180 MW Bhikki Power Plant in Mandi Bahauddin.

The Pakistan Muslim League-N President took to Twitter to term the completion of the project as a “milestone” before he headed to Bhikki to inaugurate the power

ISLAMABAD: Government and opposition parties have reached a consensus on the nomination of caretaker Prime Minister, Geo reported on Saturday.

The name will be announced on Tuesday, May 22. 

The caretaker prime minister will take charge shortly after the government’s term c

ISLAMABAD: Led by politicians, Pakistanis on Saturday mourned the death of Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistan student, who was among 10 people, killed in a shooting at a Texas high school in the United States yesterday.

Sabika Sheikh was studying in the US as part of

QAMBAR-SHAHDADKOT: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited the Dargah Hussainabad and met spiritual leader and custodian of Dargah Syed Hussain Shah Bukhari.

According to a statement issued by the PPP on Saturday, Syed Hussain Shah Bukhari prayed for

KARACHI:   Nusrat Sehr Abbasi, a female lawmaker belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PMLF), was ordered out of  the  Sindh Assembly after she   showed a shoe to  the  Deputy Speaker in a sign of defiance during a session of the house.

Deputy

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has summoned a meeting of National Security Committee to discuss the tense situation along the Line of Control (Lo C).

The meeting will be attended by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat

A hot court room in  intense summer heat on Saturday irked former SSP Malir Rao Anwar, who is accused of killing Naqeebullah Mehsood, an aspiring model from South Waziristan, in a staged encounter in Karachi.

The former SSP was brought to an anti-terrorism court

ISTANBUL: Reiterating Pakistan’s solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of unbridled tyranny, Prime Minster Shahid Khaqan Abbasi called for  unity in the Muslim world  at  extraordinary summit of the Organization of Is

LAHORE: Another sitting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA from Rajanpur, Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari has parted ways with PML-N and joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a day after three sitting PML-N MNAs, one MPA and three former MPAs switched over to the PTI.

PML-N MNA Sardar Jaffer Laghari

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday arrived in Turkey to lead the Pakistan delegation to the 7th Extraordinary OIC Summit being held in Istanbul today to discuss the grave situation in the aftermath of blatant human rights violations by the

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned Indian aggression on Working Boundary (WB) near Sialkot in which four civilians, including three children were martyred in Indian firing.

In a statement, the

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday summoned the Indian High Commissioner and condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary.

Indian forces resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations by

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and leader of opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah Friday met here at the PM Chamber to finalize the name of caretaker prime minister.

The two leaders had regular consultations in the past to develop a

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

She was part of a notorious program under which the  CIA employed brutal interrogation

LAHORE: At least four people including  three children and a women were martyred and 10 others injured when Indian forces resorted to unprovoked shelling from across the working boundary in Charwah Sector  in Sialkot.

According to  the

KARACHI: More than half Pakistanis (55%) opine that Pakistan Muslim League-N' s position has weakened following the resignation of some of its southern Punjab members. 32% believe otherwise, according a survey.

Carried out by Gilani Research

RAWALPINDI: Vice Chairman of Chinese Central Military Commission (CMC) General Zhang Youxia called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the GHQ on Thursday, discussing regional security and enhanced bilateral defence cooperation, reads

KARACHI: The Met Office on Thursday issued heat wave warning for next six days, saying temperature will gradually increase from Saturday resulting into moderate heat wave conditions in the country.

In its advisory which was sent to all concerned departments,

Quetta: Security forces have thwarted militants attack at Frontier Corps Madadgar center near Chaman Housing Scheme, killing all the terrorists, according to Inter Services Public Relations.

The ISPR, the media wing of the military, said around five terrorist

ISLAMABAD: In a major development on the name of caretaker prime minister, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah will hold an important meeting on Friday.

Khursheed Shahd

RAWALPINDI: Colonel Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence (MI), who was martyred during intense exchange of fire with militants during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Killi Almas area of Balochistan, has been laid to rest with full military honour.

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