LHC acquits Christian couple in blasphemy case on June 4, 2021The Lahore High Court has spared the life of a Christian couple – convicted and sentenced to death in April 2014 but imprisoned since 2013 for sharing ‘blasphemous’ texts – in a short ruling, according to defence lawyer. Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar had spent about seven years seeking mercy through courts while imprisoned on […]
Kasuri suggests peaceful resistance movement to resolve issue on November 30, 2016LAHORE: Former foreign affairs minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has suggested a peaceful resistence movement to resolve the complex issue of the disputed state of Jammu Kashmir. “Pakistan has not changed its principled stance on Kashmir, but the government must make effective diplomatic efforts for the resolution of the decades-old issue of the disputed state,” he […]
India staged Pathankot, Uri incidents to avoid dialogue: AJK PM on September 22, 2016LAHORE: Azad Jammu Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has said that India staged incidents like Pathankot in Indian Punjab and Uri in the disputed state of Jammu Kashmir to avoid comprehensive dialogue, agreed during a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and India’s Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj in Islamabad in December 2015. […]
PM Haider calls on Punjab governor, visits Iqbal tomb on September 22, 2016LAHORE: A high-level Kashmir delegation led by Azad Jammu Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has arrived here in the provincial capital, and visited the mausoleum of Allama Muhamad Iqbal, and met senior political and government officials. Accompanied by the Minister for Information Mushtaq Minhas, the Kashmiri prime minister visited laid a floral wreath and […]
Students invited to send their paintings for Indo-Pak peace calendar on September 17, 2016LAHORE: Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a friendship initiative, has invited paintings from school students from grade 8 to 12 to send their paintings on the theme of peace between Pakistan and India with a view to build harmony among the two neighbours. The Pakistani and Indian students are invited to send their respective paintings for the 5th Indo-Pakistan […]
Love, peace manifested at Raksha Bandhan festival on August 18, 2016LAHORE: Hindus on Thursday celebrated the annual Raksha Bandhan festival, a Hindu religious ritual in which girls and women tie rakhis – the sacred threads – on their brothers’ wrists, praying for their well-being, while the brothers reciprocate by giving gifts and vowing to protect them. The festival falls in August every year during ?r?vaa, […]
Video: Man shouts at Hussain Nawaz, asks him to show Saudi mills receipts on June 10, 2016 LAHORE: A video has emerged on social media, in which a man can be seen asking Hussain Nawaz, son of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to produce receipts of his family’s steel mills in Saudi Arabia. Samaa TV is running footage where an unidentified man heckles the prime minister’s son to ask him to show […]
JUI-F senator tries to attack Marvi on live TV show on June 10, 2016LAHORE: Prominent rights activist and commentator Marvi Sirmad has said that she was ‘attacked’ by Hafiz Hamdullah, chairperson of Senate’s Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, during a live TV show. In her social media post, Marvi said that Senator Hamdullah cut her comment, abused, and threatened her with violence during Nadia Mirza’s TV […]
NUST stands among worlds top 150 young universities on April 13, 2016LAHORE – The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) stands among the top world 150 young universities in a ranking unveiled by The Times Higher Education (THE). The ranking of the world’s top universities, under 50 years of age has École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, founded in 1969 in Switzerland, at the top spot, […]