Nawaz, Maryam and Safdar released on parole The government on late Wednesday released former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (r) Safdar on parole to attend the funeral of former first lady Be...
Begum Kulsoom passes away in LondonBegum Kulsoom Nawaz, the former first lady of Pakistan, passed away in London on Tuesday after fighting throat cancer for over a year. She remained in a coma for several months and was also put on lif...
US has assured it won’t block our bid to seek IMF bailout: Fawad ChaudhryIslamabad: United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured last week that Washington would not block any request from Pakistan for a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Infor...
Aitzaz admits his mistake, apologises to the Sharif familyRealising the hurt caused by his controversial remarks over Begum Kulsoom's illness, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senator Aitzaz Ahsan on Tuesday apologised to the Sharif family, but only after the pa...
Careless talk on CPEC: Don’t jeopardize Pak-China relationsAttempts to project the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in a negative light or caste aspersions on it that it is a new way of colonising countries like Pakistan are nothing new. Neither are th...
Govt set to abolish SafronThe federal government has decided to dissolve the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron), following the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Speakin...
PM granted appearance exemption in 2014 sit-in casesAn anti-terrorism court on Tuesday granted Prime Minister Imran Khan permanent exemption from appearing before it in cases related to attacks on Pakistan Television (PTV) and Parliament House in 2014....
No compromise on CPEC security, army chief tells Chinese envoyChief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the economic future of Pakistan and its security shall never be compromised. The army...
Six more take oath, Soomro declines minister of state slotSix new ministers were inducted into the federal cabinet on Tuesday, while a senior leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf declined the offer on the last moment on learning that he had been offered a s...
PTI, bot accounts spread misinformation as donations stand at Rs 2.17bnThe Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday tweeted that latest figures received by finance minister Asad Umar for donations in the joint Prime Minister and Chief Justice fund for Bhasha Dam in the l...