CM approves project to solarize agriculture tube-wells By: Agencies on July 27, 2024Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has granted approval of the agriculture tube well solarisation project. The farmers owning 25-acre agriculture land will be eligible for the solarisation project. The 67 pc payment of the project will be paid by the government and farmers have to pay only 33 pc payment for the agriculture tube-well solarisation […]
Zardari approves appointment of SC ad hoc judges By: Agencies on July 27, 2024President Asif Ali Zardari has approved the appointments of Justice (retd) Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice (retd) Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel as ad hoc judges to the Supreme Court for one year. An official statement issued by the President House on Friday said the approval was given under Article 182 of the Constitution. The Judicial […]
PM, Tajik envoy discuss regional connectivity projects By: APP on July 27, 2024Ambassador of Tajikistan to Pakistan Sharifzoda Yusuf Toir Friday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif at the PM House. The prime minister welcomed the ambassador and wished him a successful tenure in Pakistan. While fondly recalling his recent visit to Dushanbe earlier this month, the prime minister said he was touched […]
Hearing of £190m reference adjourned without proceedings By: Agencies on July 27, 2024An accountability court has adjourned the case hearing of the 190 million pounds reference without proceeding against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi until July 30. Accountability court’s judge Muhammad Ali Warraich heard the 190 million pounds reference. During the hearing, defendant lawyers and both accused, Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi couldn’t appear before […]
Law minister rules out snap polls By: Agencies on July 27, 2024Federal Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar ruled out early elections in the country. Tarar said that early elections may be the wish of the opposition leader. He said that the term of the assemblies is five years in the constitution, and there are no conditions for early elections. He further said that everything was going […]
Security forces gun down terrorist in N Waziristan By: APP on July 27, 2024Security forces on Friday killed a terrorist involved in numerous terror activities and killings of innocent masses and soldiers during an intelligence-based operation in North Waziristan District. During conduct of the operation, after intense fire exchange, Khawarji Terrorist Razzaq was sent to hell, an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release said. He was a […]
Mid-air row sparkes chaotic arrest of two Pakistani men at Manchester Airport on July 27, 2024A mid-air row involving their mother is believed to have precipitated the chaotic arrest of two men at Manchester Airport in which one was kicked in the face and stamped on the head by a police officer. As demonstrators protest on the streets of Manchester and Rochdale over the treatment of the Fahir and Amaad […]
‘Fantastic place to fly’: Polish aviator makes history with glider flight over Pakistan’s K2 on July 27, 2024Sebastian Piotr Kawa, one of the Polish aviators who made history last week by flying above the 8,611-meter-high K2 mountain in northern Pakistan, hoped he had “cleared the path” for future pilots to achieve the same feat. Kawa and Sebastian Lampart became the first pair to fly over the second-highest mountain in the world, K2, […]
Third phase of drug-free Peshawar campaign to be launched in August By: inp on July 27, 2024The third phase of the drug-free Peshawar campaign is going to start from the first week of August under the leadership of Commissioner Peshawar Division Riaz Khan Mehsud. In this regard, a meeting was held which was attended by Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Captain Retired Sarmad Salim, District Officer Social Welfare Noor Muhammad, Excise Department, Anti-Narcotics […]
Police ‘release’ HRCP chairman after holding him briefly By: inp on July 27, 2024Gulberg police on Thursday late night “picked up” Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairman Asad Iqbal Butt from his house but allowed him to go after questioning him for a couple of hours. According to a police source, he was taken into custody in a raid on his residence in Federal B Area “in […]