Culture and democracy are inextricably linked to each other: MarriyumISLAMABAD: Culture and democracy are inextricably linked to each other and during dictatorial regimes, arts,artist communities and freedom of expression got suppressed. This was stated by Information...
65 universities have doubled seats for FATA studentsISLAMABAD: Briefing the Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Region (SAFRON), the Higher Education Commission (HEC) executive director Dr. Arshad Ali said on Friday that 65 public and priv...
LHCBA to elect a new body todayLAHORE: As many as 16,254 members of the Lahore High Court Bar Association will on Saturday (today) exercise their right of vote in the election for the new body to run the bar affairs in 2018-19. Cha...
IHC summons reply over elimination of clauses in Elections Act nomination formISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday summoned a reply from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), attorney general, the Law Ministry and the secretaries of parliamentary affairs in...
UN wants prosecutions for South Sudan war crimesA UN rights commission in South Sudan said Friday there was sufficient evidence to charge at least 41 senior officers and officials with war crimes and crimes against humanity. South Sudan’s four-year...
EU doubles Sahel force fundingEuropean leaders on Friday doubled their funding for a joint African force tackling jihadists in the Sahel at an international conference in Brussels, as fresh violence highlights the region’s fraught...
Dutch parliament recognises 1915 Armenian massacre as genocideTHE HAGUE: The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a motion recognising as genocide the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, although the government said it would not become official...
Pakistan and US need to work together for Afghanistan’s stability: Aizaz ChaudhryWASHINGTON: Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that Pakistan and the US needed to work together to achieve the common objectives of peace and stability in the reg...
Gulalai officially announces her party, says PML-N ministers should be sent to jailISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ayesha Gulalai, after waiting a long time, has announced her own political party called PTI-Gulalai on Friday. Addressing a press conference, Ay...
NAB to file supplementary references in Dar corruption caseISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor in the corruption reference against former finance minister Ishaq Dar informed the court on Friday that the bureau would file supplementa...
Imran’s plea for exemption in 2014 sit-in cases rejectedISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Friday rejected a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan seeking exemption from appearance in violence cases related to 2014 sit-in....
ECP decides to review legal aspect of NA-154 by-pollsISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday has decided to review the legal aspect of NA-154 by-election in Lodhran after the disqualification of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif as P...
PHC moved to transfer Asma Rani murder case from Kohat to PeshawarPESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday summoned the police official investigating the murder of a medical student in Kohat along with records of the case on next hearing. A bench of the high cour...
AJK president discusses LoC situation with COASRAWALPINDI: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan called on Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Friday. The meeting came hour...