Reforms in criminal justice system top priority: ImranPrime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said reforming criminal justice system and ensuring easy and speedy justice to the common man were the central planks of PTI agenda, adding that his government was...
NAB chairman says corruption is a cancer, lauds performance of BureauISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal, while chairing a meeting at the NAB Headquarters to review the performance of NAB operations and prosecution div...
Poor condition of only public school in Larkana leaves girl students in a fixThe Sindh government has failed to improve state of education despite of imposition of 'Education Emergency' in the province, and the dysfunctional Government Girls Elementary School, in Sobdar Sargan...
Soan Gardens president urges state minister to investigate corruption of previous managementPresident Soan Gardens Cooperative Housing Society Ilays Khan and residents of the society appealed to the State Minister for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi to investigate the alleged wrongdoings of th...
Govt all set to achieve PM’s 100 Days Agenda: Shehzad ArbabAdviser to the Prime Minister on Establishment Mohammad Shehzad Arbab, on Thursday, said that the federal and provincial governments were working seven days a week to achieve the targets set under the...
Air Chief contributes to Dam Fund in a meeting with CJPThe Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar visited the Air Headquarters, Islamabad and met Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan on Wednesday. During the meeting, the Air Chief pre...
SC’s advice sought on Omni Group’s pleaA banking court on Wednesday forwarded to the Supreme Court for advice Omni Group's plea to get its bank accounts unfrozen. The accounts were frozen in connection with a money laundering probe against...
ICJ to hold Jadhav public hearings in Feb 2019The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has scheduled public hearings in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, self-confessed Indian spy caught by Pakistani authorities, in February 2019. In an announcement...
Liberal reading of law on disqualification soughtJustice Umar Ata Bandial said on Wednesday that a lenient approach should be taken in interpretation of laws on disqualification for holding dual citizenship. He made these remarks as the Supreme Cour...
Polio affectee devotes life to education of differently abled childrenMULTAN: Babar Sultan is one of many polio affectees who has not let this crippling and infectious disease become his weakness. Sultan, aged 28 and a victim of polio since childhood, established a scho...
Violent extremism a serious threat to peace and development: speakersISLAMABAD: Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday maintained that violent extremism poses a serious threat to the peace and security, social harmony and economic and social development of the country, an...
Operation against encroachments enters 3rd day in GujranwalaThe Gujranwala district administration on Wednesday continued the anti-encroachment drive for the third consecutive day and demolished dozens of shops and other constructions belonging to land mafia....
Senate committee to seek prayer leaders’ help to curb power lossesThe Senate Standing Committee on Energy has recommended seeking the help of prayer leaders to curb electricity theft across the country. A sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Energy head...
All politicians are product of establishment, says Javed Hashmi“All politicians are the product of establishment," said the veteran politician and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Wednesday. Talking to journalists at his reside...
PM Imran meets Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, says government will address issues of seminariesThe Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, in a special meeting with the chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi at the Parliament House on Wednesday, resolved that the go...
Journalists pay tribute to martyred colleague Ameer Bakhsh BrohiThe 15th death anniversary of a notable journalist Ameer Bakhsh Brohi, who was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Oct 3 in 2003, was observed in Shikarpur on Wednesday. Reportedly, a large number...
Shehbaz irked over question about ‘deal’ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday showed displeasure when a reporter questioned him about party leader Rana Mashhood's statement about a 'deal' with...