PTI, opp alliance in neck and neck raceISLAMABAD: The number game to become Leader of the House is giving Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz a good run for the money, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. The fa...
ECP orders probe into RTS failureThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday directed the Cabinet Division to form an inquiry committee to investigate the causes of alleged failure of the Result transmission System (RTS) du...
Legislative apparatus to avert child labour in PakistanWhere the world is daunted by the number of around 70 million at the same time this menace has intimidated Pakistan by registering approximately 3.8 million children as child laborer. These children a...
CJP orders Sharifs’ counsel to deposit Rs 1m in dam fundISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday ordered the Sharif family's lawyer to deposit Rs 1 million in the dam fund after the counsel asked for more time to confer with his clients on the...
Punjab Health Dept confirms presence of poliovirus in Lahore’s sewageLAHORE: Samples of water collected from Lahore's sewage have been found to be carrying polio virus for the last two consecutive months, health authorities confirmed on Thursday. The Department of Heal...
CPNE sets up International Relations CommitteeKARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) president Arif Nizami on Thursday announced to constitute a CPNE International Relations Committee (IRC), according to a statement issued by t...
‘Democracy sans prosperity impossible’ISLAMABAD: Foreign diplomats at a summit on Thursday welcomed the continuation of democratic process in Pakistan and praised the resilience of female voters in difficult circumstances. They were speak...
GMHA stages protest against 15pc tax hike on marriage hallsGUJRANWALA: The Gujranwala Marriage Hall Association (GMHA) on Thursday staged a demonstration in front of office of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) against a recent 20 percent tax imposed on the marri...
‘Modern surgery is not possible without advanced anesthesia’In recent times, due to augmented scientific developments in medical science, field of healthcare management has seen numerus positive changes towards treatment facilities and technologies. There have...
BZU VC shifted to hospital after alleged overdose of medicineMULTAN: Bahauddin Zakariya University's (BZU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Tahir Amin, who has been taking medicines to recover from a cardiac disease, has been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of...
Twitter suspends Raza Rabbani’s accountISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and Senator Rehman Malik on Thursday lashed out at the popular micro-blogging website Twitter for suspending the account of senior PPP leader Raza Ra...
Villager shot dead by assailantsKANDHKOT: A villager was shot dead on Thursday by bike-borne assailants on Rahmatpur road near Kandhkot town. Reportedly, Imam Bakhsh Suhiryani was on his way to Kandhkot town when a few unknown armed...
‘69 bank accounts of MQM leaders detected abroad’KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency has reportedly detected 69 bank accounts of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders. This was disclosed in a report submitted by authority to an anti-terrorism c...
Three transgenders injured in knife attackPESHAWAR: Three transgender people were wounded in a knife attack by unknown assailants in the Sarband area of Peshawar. Reportedly, the area police shifted them to a hospital, where they were adminis...
24 children injured in school bus accidentPESHAWAR: At least 24 primary school children sustained critical injuries on Thursday in a fatal accident between a school bus and a truck in Matni area of Peshawar. Reportedly, nine of the injured ch...
Gen Zubair Hayat visits new air base at BholariISLAMABAD: Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on Thursday visited Pakistan Air Force's (PAF) main operating base at Bholari. Reportedly, he was received by Ch...
MQM decision to support PTI very unfortunate: PPPISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Taj Haider has termed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan's (MQM-P)'s decision to support the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the federal governmen...
Amir Muqam appears before NABPESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Amir Muqam on Thursday appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for a probe pertaining to ownership of asset...
Kazakh Ambassador meets COASRAWALPINDI: Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Barlybay Sadykov on Thursday met the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. According to...
Additional assistant commissioner shot dead in TankTANK: Tank district additional assistant commissioner Karamatullah Kundi was shot dead by unknown assailants on Thursday. Reportedly, he was going to his office when a few armed men killed him at the...