Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police have successfully repelled several miscreants attacks on police stations and checkposts in the province over the past two nights. The Central Police Office’s reports revealed that miscreants attacks were reported in Bannu, Karak, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, and Peshawar, where police have bravely countered the assaults. The temporary hideouts of miscreants in […]
PM invites Afiniti to set-up world-class call center in Pakistan
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has asked the leading American multinational IT company, Afiniti, to establish world-class call center in Pakistan for national and international customers. He was talking to a four-member delegation of renowned American multinational IT company, Afiniti, which called on him in Islamabad today under the leadership of company’s Chief Executive Officer, […]
IMF rejects tax relief on power bills
The federal government has presented a proposal to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revise electricity tariffs for solar panel owners using net metering. The plan includes purchasing surplus electricity generated by solar users at a significantly lower rate, reducing it from the current Rs27 per unit to approximately Rs10 per unit, Express News reported […]
Bajwa must be questioned for resettling terrorists: Kh Asif
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has questioned why former Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa resettled terrorists in Pakistan, saying that he should be asked as former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Hamid is already under arrest. Speaking to the media at Parliament House on Thursday, Asif said that terrorism is a global issue that […]
PTI says not ashamed of maintaining contact with establishment
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter’s President Junaid Akbar on Thursday admitted that his party has direct and indirect contacts with the establishment and “we are not ashamed of it because they are our institutions”. “We are not in conflict with any institution,” said Akbar while addressing the media outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail, where PTI founder […]
Neither army nor military courts part of judiciary: SC judge
Supreme Court Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar has observed that neither the armed forces nor the military court are part of the judiciary, nor is it written in any judicial verdict that the military court is part of the judiciary. His remarks come as a seven-member constitutional bench of the apex court – headed by Justice […]
Progress hinges on terror elimination, says PM on one year in power
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to eliminate terrorism from the country to pave way for the foreign investment in the country as the PML-N coalition government completed its one year in power. “We should work in unison instead of pulling each other’s legs,” the premier said while addressing a special session of the federal […]
Pakistan ‘partly free’ in political rights, civil liberties but drops 3 points: report
As freedom declined around the world last year, Pakistan was ranked “partly free” by Freedom House and declined three points in conditions for political rights and civil liberties in the organisation’s annual report published on Wednesday. Global freedom declined for the 19th consecutive year in 2024, according to Freedom House, a Washington DC-based organisation that […]
Historic day for Pakistan despite loss to New Zealand
Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari joined thousands of fans at the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday for the start of the Champions Trophy, the first international cricket tournament to be hosted in the country for three decades. The eight-nation event, which was launched with Pakistan’s Air Force flying over the stadium to mark the occasion, […]
COAS Gen Asim Munir awarded guard of honour during UK visit
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir was awarded a ceremonial guard of honour during his visit to the United Kingdom, according to a statement by the military’s media wing. The army chief is set to participate in the seventh Regional Stabilisation Conference at the esteemed Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he will deliver […]