WAGAH: From grins in a carefully synchronised daily flag ceremony to murderous exchanges across barbed wire in Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border is a 70-year-old scar that will not heal. Thousands cheer at the Wagah border crossing this week as the two countries celebrate the anniversaries of their independence, when British India was carved into two […]
GUJRANWALA: Dozens of citizens staged a protest demonstration in front of the CPO office on Friday. The protesters including men and women chanting slogans against Sadar police and alleged that their relative Sohail resident of Kot Bakar was gunned down by an influential person Hassan about three months ago while local police have taken no […]
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair inaugurated The Millennium University College (TMUC), Clifton on Sunday. “The Millennium University College is spreading education nationwide with consistency and academic excellence under the dynamic leadership of Chief Executive Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq,” a press release issued by the university said. “Another milestone in the history of Roots Millennium Schools was […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday summoned India’s deputy high commissioner over the continued ceasefire violations by Indian troops along the Line of Control (LoC). SA and SAARC Director General Dr Muhammad Faisal summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh and condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces in Chirikot Sector (Kakuta, Nullah and […]
ISLAMABAD: PPP Vice President Sherry Rehman on Monday voiced her strong opposition against the Pakistan Print Media Regulatory Authority (PPMRA) Ordinance draft which threatens press freedom. During the last PPP government, she said, “We repealed this kind of black press law in the first hundred days of our government. It was a promise Shaheed Mohtarma […]
Islamabad: NAB (National Accountability Bureau) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry called corruption the mother of all evils as it deprives deserving persons of their due rights and contributes to the breakdown of law and order in society and said that NAB was committed to rooting out corruption with “iron hands”. He stated that the organisation’s anti-corruption […]
KHAIRPUR/SUKKUR: A meeting regarding security arrangements for Muharram was held on Saturday. The meeting was presided over by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sayed Feroze Shah. Shah emphasised on the importance of combing and searching operations and close coordination between all security agencies during the holy month. While giving a briefing, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghulam […]
After a long session just shy of four hours, when Shahbaz Sharif emerged out of the Judicial Academy he said less about what he was quizzed and more about the political environment the house of Sharifs was going through. Selective accountability was his complaint and the target was Musharraf and camp that supported him. […]
SUKKUR: Opposition Leader in Parliament Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah visited the various minors and distributaries of the Rohri, Salehpat and Pano Akil taluka over the repeated complaints and protests of the growers of power theft and water shortage in tell end growers. In a protest in front of Syed Khursheed shah house growers of the […]
BEIJING: Strongly condemning terrorist attack and opposing all forms of terrorism, a Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson assured that China would always stand behind Pakistan in its fight against terrorism and its efforts for stability of the country and security of its people on Saturday. “We will always stand behind the Pakistani side in its fight […]
ISLAMABAD: People started dragging themselves back to work after Eid holidays in the government and private sector offices. Thin attendance was observed in offices on Thursday, the first working day after Eidul Fitr. The government had announced Eid holidays for its employees from Monday, June 26, to Wednesday, June 28. However, the government and private […]
The Women’s Digital League (WDL), which is a local social enterprise has come into an agreement with social networking site Facebook to help advance and promote the efforts and careers of home-based women entrepreneurs throughout the country. It is their belief that when women start earning independently, not only do they gain a newfound sense […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday ordered Shell Pakistan to pay at least $2.4 million in compensation after more than 200 people were killed when one of its tankers overturned and exploded in a devastating inferno last month. The tanker contracted by Royal Dutch Shell’s local subsidiary crashed on a main highway in central Punjab province while […]
ISLAMABAD: “Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), being the premier social safety net programme of the country and the custodian of multidimensional precious data of 27 million households, has the responsibility to guide other development organisations in utilising this data for research, policy making and planning of development projects,” was stated by state minister and BISP […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Air Force (PAF), in a landmark event in its history, inaugurated a newly established main operating base – PAF Base Bholari – earlier on Monday, said a statement by the PAF. The establishment of PAF’s new operational airbase would play a key role in safeguarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, said […]
LAHORE: The fifteen hundred passed out students from Indus University Dera Ghazi Khan who were given fake degrees, are protesting against it but still the matter could not be resolved. The tragedy for the students is, on university convocation, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif had distributed by his own hands these fake degrees among […]
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal on Friday said Pakistani armed forces were fully capable of responding to any Indian aggression. During the weekly press briefing, Dr Faisal said that Indian forces violated the ceasefire in 2018 on 200 occasions. “The number was more than 1,900 during the year 2017. The ceasefire violations by […]
آئی فون پر مفت سلاٹس گیمز کھیلنے کے لیے درکار اقدامات اور بہترین ایپس کی معلومات، جانیے کیسے محفوظ اور لطف اندوز طریقے سے گیمز سے فائدہ اٹھائیں۔
ISLAMABAD: Nawaf Saeed Al Malikiy, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, called on Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in Islamabad on Thursday. The PM congratulated Al Malikiy on his new assignment as ambassador to Pakistan. The PM stated that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoyed very close relations that were marked by close brotherly relations, commonalities […]
KARACHI: Media Times Private Limited celebrated the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Day on Saturday to discuss various dimensions of the initiative and its impact on the economy of Pakistan. Speakers at the event included Council General of People’s Republic of China Wang Yu, Balochistan Economic Forum President Sardar Shauqat Popalzai and the Pakistan Stock […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Wednesday chaired a meeting on Hajj policy at his office. Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf, Religious Affairs Division secretary, Pakistan ambassador to Saudi Arabia and senior officials were present during the meeting. The prime minister was given a detailed briefing on Hajj operations and efforts being made […]
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