FIR lodged against DMC South for allowing billboards in KarachiBy: Web Desk on August 8, 2020A man has lodged a FIR against District Municipal Corporation South Advertising Director Wazir Ali for allowing billboards to be placed in Karachi’s roads despite the Supreme Court’s orders. The incident occurred on Thursday when the fourth spell of monsoon rain began in Karachi during where two motorcyclists were injured after a billboard collapsed on […]
Pakistan at tipping point in terms of job creation, development: PMBy: News Desk on August 8, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday terming the Ravi Urban Development Project one of the mega projects in the country’s history, said the venture would create millions of jobs, besides paying off the national debt. “It will create millions of jobs as 40 industries are connected to housing and construction and (will) create wealth, enabling […]
Back channel diplomacy with India out of question: PakistanBy: News Desk on August 7, 2020The on Thursday dismissed any back channel diplomacy underway between Pakistan and India, saying it was out of question owing to worsening human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). “Not at all in the circumstances we are. Not in the face of the brutality that is happening in IIOJK,” Foreign Office […]
Modi committed ‘strategic blunder’ on Aug 5: ImranBy: News Desk on August 6, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said having all of their miscalculated assumptions on Kashmir fallen apart, Narendra Modi’s fascist regime has been trapped in a blind alley and the situation will ultimately culminate into the freedom of the occupied valley. “They are up in a blind alley. If they backtrack, they lose Kashmir. If they […]
Death toll in Beirut port blasts reaches 1000, over 4000 injuredBy: Web Desk on August 5, 2020Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000. The blast at port warehouses storing highly explosive material was the most powerful in years in Beirut, already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus […]
IIOJK made part of new political map of PakistanBy: Staff Report on August 5, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday unveiled a political map of Pakistan at a ceremony here, saying the whole political leadership of the country, federal cabinet and the Kashmiri leadership fully endorse it. Speaking on the occasion, he said the new map clearly shows the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as a disputed territory […]
World not openly speaking out on Kashmir: PakistanBy: Agencies on August 4, 2020Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Monday said that the world is not openly speaking out on the issue of occupied valley of Kashmir due to economic and other interests it shares with India. “Indian forces deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) have been targeting innocent Kashmiris and the evidence of that is the wounded […]
Pakistan set to launch fresh diplomatic push on KashmirBy: News Desk on August 1, 2020The government on Friday unveiled an aggressive action plan to observe the first anniversary of India’s illegal action in the IIOJK on August 5 last year. The day will be marked by holding worldwide rallies, solidarity marches led by top leadership, renaming of an inter-provincial highway, special postal stamps with hard-hitting depiction and parliamentary session. […]
Senate passes bill to curb terror financingBy: News Desk on July 31, 2020The Senate on Wednesday passed the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to fulfil the international obligations against terror financing after incorporating the amendments proposed by the opposition. The bill was moved in the House by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan after presentation of the report of Standing Committee on Law […]
Tania Aidrus, Zafar Mirza call it a day ‘over criticism’By: Agencies on July 30, 2020Amid criticism levelled against several special assistants over possession of dual citizenship, Tania Aidrus and Dr Zafar Mirza on Wednesday resigned from their posts as special assistants to the prime minister on Digital Pakistan and National Health respectively. The resignations were accepted by the prime minister later in the evening. Ex-Google executive Aidrus, in a […]