Imran defends nomination of Buzdar as CMISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday defended the nomination of Sardar Usman Buzdar as his party's candidate for the Punjab chief minister's slot. The newly elected prime minister took to...
South Asians for Human Rights pay tribute to Asma JahangirOn a warm Colombo summer evening, South Asians for Human Rights paid a rich tribute to their founding member, Asma Jahangir, who was a spokesperson of the organization at the time of her passing. SAHR...
One killed, two injured in North Waziristan blastMIRANSHAH: A man was killed and two other injured in a bomb blast in North Waziristan on Saturday, security sources said. The blast took place in a business centre situated in Muhammad Khel Bazaar of...
Summon issuedLahore. Special Judicial Magistrate issued summon again to an accused Muhammad Sarfraz resident of Chichawatni passing an order that the attendance of an accused person is necessary to answer a charge...
Imran Khan, playboy Pakistan cricket hero turned prime ministerImran Khan was catapulted to global fame as a World Cup cricket champion, but the man known in the West as a celebrity playboy has become prime minister of Pakistan as a populist, religiously devout,...
PTA holds sit-in for fair investigation into murder case of 17-year-old Ahad QadamLARKANA: The Primary Teachers Association (PTA), the Anjuman Ittehad-e-Abbasia (AIA), civil society and scores of residents of Larkana on Saturday staged a sit-in at Jinnah Bagh roundabout against all...
IBA starts IT training for schoolchildrenSHIKARPUR: Executive Development Center (EDC) at Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Sukkur, on Saturday, initiated a much needed program of training the school children with Information and C...
Christian sanitary workers protest against non-attendance of Muslim workersChristian sanitary workers staged a protest demonstration against the lack of manpower and absenteeism of the Muslim sanitary workers outside the office of Chairman, Municipal Corporation (MC), on Sat...
PPP’s Ghulam Mujtaba Isran passes away at 75Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) senior politician Ghulam Mujtaba Khan Isran passed away on Saturday at the age of 75 following a prolonged illness. He was born on December 11 in the year 1943 in Khairp...
Pakistan denies treating Ghazni attackersThe Foreign Office on Saturday rejected the reports that some Taliban fighters involved in the Ghazni attack in Afghanistan were offered medical treatment in Pakistani hospitals. In a statement, Forei...
Domestic worker, raped by employer, found deadShama Parveen, a young woman aged 21, was found dead at her employer's house on Saturday. Shama, at the end of 2017, started working as a domestic servant at the house of an influential man. At the fo...
Chief secretary urges govt depts to ensure meritThe Punjab Chief Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said on Saturday that all department heads must formulate, adopt and instigate merit-based policies and selection system in their respective department...
Police ‘torture’ boy over goat theftA 12-year-old boy was brutally tortured by police on Saturday for allegedly stealing a goat. Reportedly, Arsalan told the media that police took him to the Alam Chowk police check post and beat him wi...
Youth electrocuted in welding shopAn 18-year-old youth was electrocuted to death on Saturday while working in a welding shop in Kot Ladha area of Gujranwala. Reportedly, Asif received fatal electric shocks when he was working in his f...
SKMCH launches hide collection campaignShaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (SKMCH&RC)will launch its'Hide Collection' campaign on Eid Azha, just like the previous years. As per previous practice, a large numbe...
Salahuddin Mehsud to assume charge of KP IGSalahuddin Khan Mehsud has been appointed as the new Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) following the oath-taking ceremony of the new Prime Minister Imran Khan. In his exclus...