Category: Politics
The ISPR released a statement on Friday, announcing that 37 brigadiers have been promoted to the rank of major-general. What’s interesting: Out of 37, 2 women have been promoted to the rank of major general, ...
Federal Minister for Housing Tariq Bashir Cheema of the Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid came under fire on Tuesday after video clips surfaced on social media allegedly showing several of his family members getting vaccinated ...
Hub: A license of permission has been afforded to a Chinese liquor company to construct and establish a manufacturing plant in Pakistan. Sources and reports have emerged to the foreground saying that the Securities and ...
Karachi: One of Karachi’s most prestigious A-Level schools, The Lyceum School has decided to seek judicial aid in disputing the March 17th suspension of it’s registration by the Sindh Directorate of Inspection and Registration of ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan took the coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. During the occasion, Imran Khan appealed to the nation to ensure full implementation of SOPs in view of the third wave of Corona while a ...
A video of Faisal Vawda started to trend on Pakistani social media on Thursday, where Vawda is seen arguing with the journalist over a question about his American citizenship. Vawda told Matiullah Jan to stop trying to add sensationalism in ...
Last week, Video of a young woman proposing to a fellow male student on the premises of University of Lahore went viral on social media causing outrage while landing the duo in trouble when the ...
Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have arrested two suspects during an operation in the Lari Adda (General Bus Stand) area of Lahore on Wednesday. According to CTD sources, the arrested terrorists belonged to a banned organization ...
Due to differences on the issue of resignations from the assemblies, the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) long march set to take place on March 26 has been postponed. JUI-F’s stance: While addressing a press conference after ...
Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen along with his three friends has been booked under the treason charge for allegedly raising slogans against the country and its institutions. The incident: The FIR was lodged with the local police ...
A session on Balochistan called “Balochistan Ek Mukalima” (Balochistan: A Dialogue) was set to take place on the third day of the fourth edition of Sindh Literature Festival, was cancelled just hours before and the auditorium shut. Reason for cancellation: ...
Dr. Sarah Qureshi has designed the world’s first eco-friendly aircraft engine which is currently under development. It runs via an idiosyncratic pressure-based condensation system that will help in cooling the water vapors in the airplane exhaust. The water will ...
Popular Islamic cleric Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza survived an assassination attempt at a religious academy in Jhelum on Monday. A suspect who allegedly attacked Mirza with a sharp-edged weapon on Sunday afternoon was taken into custody ...
The Pakistani rupee hit over a 13-month high at Rs156.99 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market on Monday, as flow of foreign currencies remained high compared to outflows. The inflows have kept the country’s foreign currency reserves ...
Last month a video of Pakistan’s renowned real estate tycoon Malik Riaz’s nephew Nasir Malik went viral on social media where Malik is seen ordering his guards to open fire on General Secretary of Kennel Club ...
The Federal Bureau of Revenue seized a massive stock of cigarettes after intercepting two vehicles at the Burhan Motorway Interchange. Over 6,000,000 sticks of local brands of illegal cigarettes valued over Rs 40 million were recovered from the ...
Aurat March has been subjected to online propaganda. A number of doctored videos and images have been doing the rounds on social media framing the Aurat Marchers as blasphemers, over 200 journalists and activists have said in a statement. “We ...
China is working on its fourth aircraft carrier and it is “likely to be nuclear powered”, a new report revealed on Saturday, citing sources close to the People’s Liberation Army. Delays: After a two-year delay because ...
The already controversial Senate election became even more contentious when ‘spy’ cameras were found in the polling booth ahead of voting for the chairman and deputy chairman slots. What the Opposition said: The Opposition led by ...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has ordered the internet service providers to straight away block access to TikTok, the popular video-sharing platform, on the directions of Peshawar High Court. What the PTA said: “In respectful compliance to the ...
On Saturday, Myanmar security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to break up a protest in Yangon, hours after a United Nations special envoy called on the Security Council to take action against the ...
February 27th marks two years since the Balakot airstrike and Pakistan shooting down an Indian plane while capturing one pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. Abhinandan was later freed as a gesture of peace on March 1 and ...
What happened US intelligence agencies disclosed in a newly declassified intelligence report that Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown ...
What happened? On Friday Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that Pakistan has signed a $1.1 billion loan agreement with International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). What you should know State-owned Pakistan State Oil, Pak-Arab Refinery, ...
What happened? According to The Forensic Department of Khyber Medical College University’s new proposal, a set of charges has been laid out for its forensic services. The proposed plan suggests that the medical examination of ...
What happened On Thursday, Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat announced that a Cosmetics Control Bill 2021 will soon be presented before the provincial assembly in order to ensure strict action against the sub-standard cosmetic manufacturers ...
Breaking news: Late on Friday night, multiple earthquake tremors were felt in various cities across Pakistan including Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Multan, Abottabad and Karachi. There are also reports emerging from Kashmir, stating that shocks ...
The headline: Traffic police in Mansehra district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has banned female students and women from sitting in the front seat of school vans. Inside the story: Parents in Mansehra are facing an unusual issue ...
What happened On Thursday the Supreme Court ruled that Justice Qazi Faez Isa should not hear cases involving Prime Minister Imran Khan as he has filed a petition against the premier in his personal capacity What ...
What happened At least 2,000 people gathered at D-Chowk and planned to march towards the Parliament House, Wednesday. The protesters demand the federal and provincial governments increase their salaries and pensions. The government officers have ...
What happened A jirga in Bajaur’s Wara Mamund district has banned the women of the area from calling the radio and visiting the Sada-e-Aman Centre, where women are given cash for giving birth. Upon the ...
What Happened? On Friday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it has jurisdiction in Palestine, clearing its chief prosecutor to investigate alleged atrocities despite intense Israeli objections. Fatou Bensouda, the ICC chief prosecutor, previously ...
In a meeting on 2 February, the standing committee on religious affairs and interfaith harmony turned down the Protection of the Rights of Religious Minorities Bill ( seeking protection for Pakistan’s minorities against religiously motivated ...
Peace talks In an interview with a local news agency, TCM, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid when asked about the role of foreign countries and their interference in the Afghan peace negotiations mentioned that, “no ...
Who was Asma Jahangir? Asma Jahangir (1952-2018) was Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer. She showed incredible courage in defending the most defenceless Pakistanis – women, children, religious minorities and the poor for about three-decades, and founded ...
Bombay High Court acquitted a 39-year-old man charged with groping a 12-year-old girl since there was “no skin-on-skin contact,” and ruled that groping a child through their clothing does not constitute as sexual assault. Outrage ...
What Happened In a press conference on Friday, 22 January, Mufti Qavi’s uncle Abdul Wahid Nadeem stated that different people have used Abdul Qavi over the years for media attention. “We are from a respected ...
What happened: On Tuesday 19 January, actress Iffat Omar was called in as a character witness to record her statement in the Meesha Shafi vs Ali Zafar defamation case. A video shows Iffat getting followed ...
What happened: Lt-Gen (retired) Bilal Akbar has been appointed as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia replacing a career diplomat, Raja Ali Ejaz who is retiring from service in May. Raza Ali Ejaz has been the ...
What Happened: The federal cabinet took the decision to remove Bukhari as chairman PTV as per IHC court order, resuming Aamer Manzoor as the managing director who was earlier eliminated by the firms’ board of ...
How does Aseefa prove to be as a politician? The political dynasty of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) debuted another family member during the final months of 2020 – no doubt preparing for the new ...
Broadsheet and Pakistan Broadsheet LLC is a UK asset recovery firm that Pakistan hired about 20 years ago to investigate and recover UK-based assets of Pakistanis, it also helped establish the National Accountability Bureau. Up ...
Authors note: The following is a work of satire, keep your pants on will you.The author, Hamza Ghaznavi, can be followed on Twitter at @Hamza_Ghaznavi Dear Dad, WTF? Even Sheru seems to be constantly barking ...
What the Ministry of National Health Services is saying: Dr Nausheen Hamid, Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of NHS, has stated Pakistan will receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of January. Currently, ...
What happened: On Monday, police uncovered a shocking crime from Lahore when a seven-year-old girl’s body was recovered from a canal in the Mohlanwal area of the city. Behind the story: The victim’s family stated ...
What happened: On Friday, the Indian Army resorted to unprovoked violence at the Line of Control (LoC) by targeting a United Nations Military Observers (UNMOs) vehicle, said the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). Two military ...
What happened: MNA Ali Wazir has been arrested in Peshawar, at the request of the Sindh Police, in connection with a recent rally he attended in Karachi. According to the police, Ali Wazir and several ...
What happened: Pakistan has repaid Saudi Arabia $1 billion of the $3 billion it owes the Arab state, in the second installment of the soft loan, while Islamabad is reaching out to Beijing for a ...
What happened: It has been six years since the horrific attack on Army Public School in Peshawar and today, on the 6th anniversary of the attack committed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a delegation led by ...
Sheikh Rasheed has had a long and fruitful career in politics, spanning 15 years and 35 ministries. Though how he has managed to stay in power for so long is incomprehensible for the vast majority ...
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, was signed by Governor Anandiben Patel on the 28th of November. It was formulated four days earlier by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, against forced and fraudulent ...
What happened: On Wednesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan stated that the constitution has provided an option for removing a sitting government through a no-confidence motion. He said, “If the opposition wants to move a no-confidence ...
What happened: Shortly after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that he would hold by-elections if the opposition resigns en masse from the national and provincial assemblies, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) declared that all members ...
What happened: On Monday, Prime Minister Imran Khan trimmed the number of people he followed on twitter, reducing it to zero. He was following 19 accounts before this unfollowing spree. Prime Minister Imran Khan created ...
Fang Fang or Christine Fang, a Chinese national, is believed to have targeted rising politicians in California’s Bay Area and other cities as part of a Chinese intelligence operation, according to an investigation by news ...
What Happened : Addressing the UN General Assembly through a virtual session, Prime Minister Imran Khan delivered, on Friday , a 10 point agenda on how to prevent economic decline in developing countries. Attended by ...
In the latest chapter of the PTI government’s drive to muzzle all criticism of its performance it has decided to try to name and shame journalists on Twitter. Just last month, the PTI government installed ...
What is happening: The nationwide strike called for by central trade unions on Thursday, coupled with the ‘Delhi Chalo’ rallies of farmers in north India, led to a near total shutdown in a few states ...
What Happened: On Saturday, The Wildlife Department Chakwal registered a case against TV anchor Imran Riaz Khan for hunting partridges in the forest of Chakwal.Ghulam Rasool, Deputy Director Wildlife (OPS) Salt Range, Chakwal was suspended ...
What Happened: The Pro-Democracy activist Joshua Wong will spend more than a year in jail over an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in June last year Fellow activists Agnes Chow, 23, and Ivan Lam, 26, ...
Former finance minister Ishaq Dar, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, appeared on BBC HardTalk, where the programme host Stephen Sackur grilled him about his properties and return to Pakistan in the show’s characteristic interrogative ...
Students “dying to become a doctor “should opt for biotech, says Fawad Chaudhary The federal Minister for Science and Technology on Wednesday took to Twitter and advised all the students who want to pursue their ...
Background: In an exclusive interview with the BBC, when asked about allegations of Pakistan’s military interfering in political affairs, the former ISI chief said that people were angry at the military’s interference in political affairs. ...
What happened: Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s Wife, Sarina Isa, has urged the Supreme Court to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan from his post. She alleged that the Prime Minister was a “tax cheat” and did ...
Lawyer, TV personality, and PTI member Naeem Bukhari was recently appointed as head of the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV). But, Bukhari’s appointment is just another instance of cronyism in Pakistan. PTV’s new chairman Naeem Bukhari ...
What’s happening: Thousands of farmers have entered the capital New Delhi for a planned protest against new farm laws hours after the police fired several rounds of tear gas and used water cannons to stop ...
What happened: On Tuesday, Chief Justice High Court Lahore suspended a notification against Ammar Ali Jan, calling it an unconstitutional attack on civil liberties. After the Student Solidarity March, arrest warrants were issued by Punjab ...
On this day, 1967 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People Party and set a new face of democratic front in the political discourse of Pakistan. PPP has witnessed both democratic and military regime control. ...
What happened: Opposition parties are expected today (Monday) to hold a PDM rally against the government authorities. Over the weekend, Administrative government deployed containers and registered FIRs to thwart the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM ) ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is threatening to turn the country into a one-party state. Recently, The Economist reported in an article citing Modi’s continuous effort to erode democratic checks and balances. Tip of the ...
What happened: A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 110 people. The killings took place in the early afternoon of Saturday in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in ...
Ikram Sehgal is well known for being a defence analyst and chairman of the Pathfinder group (which owns two of the largest security companies of the country). However, what is not common knowledge is that ...
On Friday, Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an attack outside Tehran. Mohsen was widely seen as the mastermind of Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons by Western intelligence. This incident has ...
What happened: The Switzerland parliament released a bombshell report, which exposed Swiss-based tech company Crypto AG. This company was actually a front for the CIA and German secret service and have been providing crucial information ...
What happened: A businessman who donated $2.5 million wants a refund from a pro-Trump group which claimed to find evidence of fraud in the US election. Donor was disappointed with the group’s incompetence and inability ...
What happened: On Friday, Pakistan participated in the 47th session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Niamey, Niger. Major contribution: Speaking at the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood ...
What happened: Prime Minister Imran Khan categorically said the government would not give permission to the opposition to hold its rallies in Multan and other cities. “The coronavirus is spreading dangerously, therefore the opposition should ...
Pakistan is set to witness its third consecutive student solidarity march today, on the 27th of November. The march is taking place across multiple major cities, and if last year’s turnout is to relied upon ...
What happened: In conversation with journalists at Jati Umrah, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz claimed that she “was fed rat-contaminated food” while incarcerated in Kot Lakhpat Jail. She also complained that the medication she was ...
Background: 18 November 2020, seven protesters were killed by police and dozens were injured in protests that broke out across Uganda, over the arrest of popular musician and presidential candidate Bobi Wine. Bobi Wine, real ...
What happened: On Wednesday, The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has announced that it will not recognize two-year bachelors’ degrees issued to students enrolled in such programmes after the 2018 academic year. In this regard, the ...
What happened: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Mohsin Dawar decided to part ways from an 11-party alliance of Pakistan Democratic Movement. On Tuesday, Dawar made this announcement on his official twitter account and also presented a ...
What happened: Scotland has become the first country to allow free and universal access to menstrual products, including tampons and pads, in public facilities, a landmark victory for the global movement against period poverty. Nicola ...
T/W: Assault, Rape, Domestic Violence Background: Today is International Violence Against Women Day, this day celebrates the struggle of government and organizations for eliminating every kind of violence against all women. So let’s talk about ...
What happened: On Tuesday, The Foreign Office debunked the rumor that Pakistan might be considering to accept Israel as a sovereign state. FO spokesperson said that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “statements in this context have ...
What happened: Newly appointed chairman of Pakistan Television Naeem Bukhari has hinted at total ‘blackout’ of the opposition on PTV. While talking to reporters outside Supreme Court, Naeem Bukhari confirmed the rumors. He was asked ...
What happened: On Monday, The Lahore High Court suspended a notice issued by the Inland Revenue department of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to a sugar mill of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s senior leader Jahangir Khan ...
Muslim world is facing an intense dilemma amid a raging pandemic and it’s not concerned with the lives of people which are literally on stake because of lack of resources and faith. This dilemma revolves ...
This year has been a rollercoaster ride for the world in every aspect. From raging pandemic to social unrest, we have witnessed superpowers struggling with basic health policies and due election process. But one thing ...
What happened: Protesters broke into Guatemala’s congress and burned part of the building amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a budget that cut educational and health spending. When: The ...
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has strongly denounced what they term an “extremely biased” article from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The PTI’s upset stems from their view that the article only reports the narrative of ...
Shamim Akhtar, more popularly known as Shamim Bibi was the mother of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and his brother, current opposition leader in the National Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif. Shamim Bibi passed ...
19th Nov, 2020 Khadim Hussain Rizvi, leader of Pakistan’s most prominent religious party died because of cardiac arrest. Khadim led the most charged up Sunni-Barelvi movement in the last two years. From intense rhetoric to ...
The Federal Human Rights Minister, Shireen Mazari issued an apology and clarification to with regards to her tweet likening the French President to a Nazi. In the now deleted tweet, the minister had stated that, ...
I only need the youth of Pakistan to bring change, not big names or big politicians, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan during his first maga public demonstration. Background: This promise led to the ...
Back in 2014, Jon Boone, a senior analyst at The Guardian, wrote an article about Imran Khan and Haqani exposé The article states, “The political party led by the former cricket star Imran Khan claims ...
Khadim Rizvi, the head of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), passed away yesterday and condolences from the highest echelons of power have swiftly come pouring in. From the Prime Minister to the Chief of Army Staff ...
What happened: Singapore government charged an activist for staging a one-man protest without a permit over an incident in which he held up a sign bearing a crudely drawn smiley face outside a police station. ...
What happened: On Wednesday, the Iraqi border ports commission said that Iraq and Saudi Arabia had opened the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time in three decades. Background: Arar had been closed ...
What happened: On Wednesday, Bahrain and Israel said they would open embassies, establish online visa systems and launch weekly flights between the countries soon, in a broadened cooperation promoted by Washington as an economic boon. ...
What happened: On Thursday Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was sentenced to 10 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two more terror cases. Saeed, a ...
What happened: Prime Minister Imran Khan visits the Afghan capital, Kabul for delegation-level talks with President Ashraf Ghani on bilateral ties, the stuttering Afghan peace process and other issues. This will be the PM’s first ...
What happened: On Wednesday Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri revealed that, United Arab Emirates has temporarily suspended the issuance of visit visas to Pakistan, including a dozen of other countries, until further notice. Why: ...
What happened: On Tuesday evening, a government website (https://sindhinvestment.gos.pk/) belonging to the investment department of the government of Sindh was hacked by Anonymous hackers as a result of a cyber-attack. Hacked By Anonymous. This is ...
What happened: Barack Obama’s memoir “A Promised Land” was released on Tuesday and gives a detailed account of the raid by American commandos that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist on May 2, 2011 inside ...
What happened: Donald Trump has fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election and pushed back on the president’s baseless claims of voter fraud. CISA Director Christopher ...
What happened: On Monday, Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) approved the transaction structure for the divestment of 96.6 per cent shares of Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC), and constituted a committee to improve upon the transaction ...
Background: Over the last few years, Pakistan’s Barelvi movement has become politically active and religiously mobilized. The social movement discourse in Pakistan has been disrupted as new actors are getting involved through dangerous channels. Not to ...
What WHO is saying: The World Health Organization has declared educational institutions as a significant source of coronavirus transmission in the general population. WHO has expressed concern about the government’s failure to decide about school ...
What happened: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the single largest party in the elections for the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly by securing 10 seats. Meanwhile Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) which scored three seats and ...
What happened: Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has ended its Faizabad march/dhara in Islamabad shortly after a midnight announcement by its leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi. This announcement was made after the government negotiated with the leadership of ...
Dozens of police officers have been injured in violent clashes with Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) supporters, at Faizabad. The TLP protest against blasphemous caricatures published in France has continued for the second consecutive day, today. Videos ...
What happened: It is a well-established fact that Indian right-wing extremists tend to go a bit overboard when it comes to supporting their form of patriotism. In doing so, they sometimes lose sight of reality ...
What happened: On Friday, Police arrested more than 150 workers of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in order to prevent them from participating in a protest march against France today. According to media reports, police have arrested ...
What happened: On Friday, Indian and Pakistani armed forces exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir after Indian army resorted to “indiscriminate and unprovoked” shelling, targeting mainly the civilian ...
What happened: The deputy inspector-general (DIG) of police for Larkana, Nasir Aftab told media, that the main suspect who was arrested following the Kashmore gang-rape, Rafiq Malik, was shot dead by an accomplice as police ...
The Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBA) election is set to take place on November 15, 2020. A dozen political and religious groups, including the three largest political parties in Pakistan, have campaigned in the region ...
Background: Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that “Gilgit-Baltistan is going to become Pakistan’s fifth province”. PM Khan was speaking at an Independence Day parade in Gilgit-Baltistan on 1st November. It also marks ...
What happened: On Friday The Counter-Terrorism Department has arrested most wanted terrorists of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan after an alleged shootout near Manghopir Road, Karachi. According to the CTD officials, two most wanted terrorists of SMP are ...
T/W: Rape, Assault What happened: On Thursday, Sindh police arrested a suspect accused in the gang-rape and torture of a four-year-old minor girl and her mother in the Kashmore While talking to media reporters, Kashmore ...
If we look at 2020, nearly every country has faced the repercussions of pandemic through economic downfall or social unrest. But America has shown itself to be exceptional in the worst possible ways. No other ...
On Tuesday, the Election Commission of Pakistan released the details of the assets and liabilities of the members of the National Assembly, for the financial year 2019-2020. The assets of Prime Minister Imran Khan took ...
Arnab Goswami falls both in the category of ‘anti-hero’ and ‘icon’ at the same time to his followers. Goswami has, during his career, broken every rule of journalism but still manages to succeed in ‘popularity’, ...
What happened: The fiasco started after PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday posted a screenshot on the Twitter of an article by The Washington Post titled “Trump’s defeat is a blow for the world’s demagogues ...
Background: On Monday National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser called a crucial meeting of the parliamentary leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate for a briefing by “military officials on the current issues of national ...
What happened: On Monday National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser called a crucial meeting of the parliamentary leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate for a briefing by “military officials on the current issues of ...
Hope seems to be in the air everywhere. Trump lost the election, Modi is trailing behind his opponents in the polls from the Bihar election, the Chileans did away with the unjust Pinochet era constitution, ...
What happened: A video of newly elected American Vice president, Kamala Harris resurfaced on the internet which is worrying a lot of supporter; especially Muslim supporters. Back in 2017 Kamala delivered a speech at the ...
In just few month American elections have brought the most intense political drama. Analysts and political scientists are worried about the outcome of the results. According to the experts, even if Trump loses he might ...
Pakistan and America are old allies with an often tumultuous relationship but never before has the Pakistani public felt so close to the Americans. The current U.S election has shaped up to be strikingly similar ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan, with what appeared to be thinly veiled admiration, recently shared how both he and the American President, Donald Trump, have had to get creative and do “a lot of out of ...
PDM- Pakistan Democratic Movement is an alliance of 11-political party which has three major stakeholders; two leaders from political dynasties, PML-N Vice president Maryam Nawaz and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the head of ...
Cabinet Committee for Legislation Affairs has approved the proposed draft of the law under which CPEC Authority chairman and other officers will have immunity from investigations of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation ...
I recently came across a story about a child in Pakistan who was taught by her mother that a potato is actually a boti because they couldn’t afford chicken and she didn’t want her child ...
What Happened: Authorities have sealed the office of Jammu’s oldest English newspaper publisher, Kashmir Times. The paper’s executive editor Anuradha Bhasin took to twitter saying “Estates Deptt locked our office without any due process of ...
Saturday, 17 Oct, one day after PDM rally, PM Imran Khan replied to Nawaz Sharif’s speech. What happened: While addressing the Tiger Force convention in Islamabad, PM Imran Khan called out former PM Nawaz Sharif ...
What’s the news: Pakistan has been included in the list of a select few countries to which the Italian government has opened up more than 30,000 work visas for the year 2020-21. Why it matters: ...
Yesterday the Punjab government granted permission to opposition political parties for holding a rally at Gujranwala’s Jinnah Stadium on Friday, October 16. This is going to be the first public demonstration of the Pakistan Democratic ...
While the media has been banned from airing news about the motorway incident, many other cases of harassment are coming forward and making headlines. On Thursday alone, news broke that a 2 year old girl, ...
Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari has dismissed claims suggesting that the Federal Investigation Agency had registered cases against journalists and rights activists under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016. In a series of ...
Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xianjing, according to the report of the Australian think tank published on Friday. In just three years time period, thousands of mosques have been damaged or destroyed. ...
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl leader and Deputy Chairman of Senate Abdul Ghafoor Haideri had said that Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa invited the JUI-F delegation for a meeting before last year Azadi march, where he insisted ...
According to the State Bank of Pakistan, the rupee remained stable against the dollar at PKR 166.22 in the inter-bank market. On May 12, 2019, after an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a loan, ...
Karachi continues to sink beneath a torrential wave of storms and rainwater. The city has been in turmoil since before the monsoon, what with sewage overflowing onto main roads as well as distressingly long power ...
Pakistan’s biggest metropolis, with a population of over 1.6 crore, is drowning in a sea of neglect – both literally and metaphorically. Various parts of Karachi have been affected by the monsoon system, with some ...
Since the conflict began, Israel and Hamas have engaged in a bloody back and forth with Gaza in the middle. Once Israel declared Hamas-led Gaza an enemy, violence ensued on a devastating scale. Israel placed ...
In an arraignment earlier today, former President Asif Ali Zardari pleaded not guilty in front of an accountability court via video appearance. He has been accused of using undue influence to obtain a loan amounting ...
The situation in Karachi has been dismal during this monsoon season. With five people dead and three more electrocuted, and city streets turned into rivers, it is natural to expect that the PPP government would ...
Four different Muslim majority nations have experienced either fires or explosions in key areas during the past three days. The latest incident is a fire that occurred today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia near a train ...
75 years on from the bombing of Hiroshima, proponents of nuclear weapons continue to vehemently defend the existence of nuclear weapons as important tools of deterrence and self-defense in international relations. For instance, one major ...
On Tuesday, Beirut saw a massive explosion on its sea port. The shockwaves were horrific, and the consequences, even more so. A report claims that the Prime Minister of Lebanon has promised he will hold ...
This article was written by Shaheer Shazib, a student in Karachi. Yesterday the Pakistani government, in a spirit of nationalistic vigor, took out a new political map of the country. The updated map shows AJK ...
“Kashmir banega Pakistan”, vow Pakistanis in support of their Kashmiri brethren. This sentiment comes from two very separate places. Sometimes it comes from a place of true love and empathy, lacking in any possessiveness – ...
Earlier today, PM Imran Khan proudly announced that the official map of Pakistan would now include Indian illegally-occupied Kashmir as part of its territory. While a great nationalistic move applauded by the rest of Pakistan, ...
Nothing riles up Pakistan like a blasphemy case. Murder is something generally unacceptable to both the law and to society. The one exception, however, usually lies with individuals accused of blasphemy. Their murder is often ...
The Holocaust remains one of mankind’s most horrific memories and one of the most brutal instances of the inhumanity mankind can display. The line “Never forget” is often associated with it. But it appears that ...
Skirmishes on the Pak-Afghan border are not a rare occurrence. The two countries share an uncommonly long border – spanning nearly 2,500 kilometres. But more than the length of the frontier, it is their fraught ...
The extrajudicial murder of Tahir Ahmad Naeem was bad enough, but what was arguably worse was the reaction of the Pakistani people followed. The celebration of another example of extrajudicial “justice” and the proclamation of ...
Turkey’s new bill exercising a massive amount of control over social media presents a strange and bewildering turn of events. Defying opposition, it has officially become law – to be implemented starting from October 1st. ...
As another year in the Islamic calendar approaches its end, thousands of Muslims are once again partaking in the holy religious ritual that is Hajj, although this time in significantly lower quantity and in much ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan made it clear long ago that loyalty to Pakistan required official documentation. If it doesn’t say ‘Pakistani’ on your passport, you are not fit to hold a position in government. In ...
The resignation of Dr Zafar Mirza, the Special Assistant to PM on Health earlier today came as a shock to many Pakistanis. Only a few days ago, Mirza was addressing news conferences and giving advice ...
When the Nazi Germany invaded Poland to launch World War 2, the poet W.H. Auden called the period leading up to this disastrous conflict a “low, dishonest decade.” It was termed dishonest because people pretended ...
The Punjab Tahaffuz Bunyad-e-Islam Bill 2020 has kicked up quite a storm not only on social media but also within political and religious groups, and rightly so – many are questioning what the bill means ...
When Imran Khan’s PTI lost the general election in 2014, the collective hearts of Pakistan’s youth sank in despair. More than half a decade ago, Imran Khan represented change, dynamism and a future worth fighting ...
Discourse in Pakistan is often plagued by the logical fallacy that is ‘whataboutism’. Whether a discussion be about violence against women, or the treatment of minorities or even xenophobia against Muslims, the argument “But, what ...
With journalists being abducted in broad daylight, textbooks being censored at an alarming rate, and a disturbing trend of civil rights violations being observed, one is driven to wonder if somehow the all-watching Big Brother ...
As the public sees it, Pakistan’s prime ministers hold the nation in the palm of their hands. It is true that ‘head-of-government’ is not a title to be taken lightly. But with a lofty title ...
When Pakistan caught alleged RAW agent Kulbhushan Jadhav red-handed, there were several strategic options available to the country. Eventually, Pakistan decided to use Jadhav as a tool to demonstrate its magnanimity and benevolence to the ...
Prominent journalist Matiullah Jan’s kidnapping by uninformed thugs in broad daylight doesn’t come as a surprise and that is where the crux of the problem lies; Pakistan has been on a fast track on becoming ...
In the era of Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan, there is a greater need than ever before that every citizen remains fully aware of and committed to their role in creating a fair and just society. ...
The harrowing story of Sohail Yafat unveils the failures of the Pakistani judicial system. When unable to conclude who the suspect is, or when the suspect is too powerful to pursue, the Pakistani judiciary targets ...
When 4 security forces members were martyred by Baloch insurgents in an indiscriminately violent and ruthless attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, Pakistanis were quick to blame India. The attack may very well have originated ...
The youth has been bullied and robbed by police in Pakistan for as long as the police has existed. While many police officers serve honestly in protecting the citizens of the country, many young people ...
The Federal Government on Friday provided its budget for FY20-21, amidst the coronavirus ciris. The budget was presented by the Minister of Industries, Mr. Hammad Azhar and Prime Minister Imran Khan was also present during ...
While the government of Pakistan has closed all educational institutions, the university students are still grinding to meet deadlines and move onto the next semester. Matric and Intermediate students were promoted into next classes without ...
Law enforcement officers of the Lahore police are being accused of mishandling her case, as well as aiding the perpetrators to help bury it. “The police officials arrested some people but helped them get released ...
Sajid Soomro, a professor at Sajid Ali Khan University was arrested under blasphemy charges by the local police on Wednesday. He was arrested from his home in Ali Murad Mohalla, Khairpur. “Dozens of police officials ...
The death toll of people killed in the Lyari building collapse on Tuesday has reached up to 19 people, with many more injured. Rescue workers have pulled 13 more bodies from the rubble, and state ...
HUM TV workers have reportedly been forced to continue working in a coronavirus-infested building in Karachi. The building was previously sealed off due to an infected person in the finance team, which led to the ...
As the Black Lives Matter movement spread across social media last week, Bollywood stars also began to chime in. However, it was not long before fans started questioning the stars for their selective activism and ...
Pictures and videos of Zakir Majeed’s mother and Hassan Baloch’s sister are making rounds on social media. The baloch women, with pictures of their loved ones in hands demand justice from the state for their ...
According to the Sindh Environment Protection Agency, the coronavirus lockdown has greatly improved the air quality in Karachi. 76 samples collected from 6 districts in Karachi revealed that the lockdown had caused an improvement of ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that the government expects the peak of coronavirus cases to come by the end of July or early August. Earlier in May, the government said that it expected the ...
Afsaneh, a Pakistani clothing brand by Naseem enterprises and trading pvt limited has allegedly laid off around 50 employees due to the stressful economic condition in April 2020. Employees claim that neither managerial staff nor ...
The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the city’s police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, reports The Guardian. Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council ...
The PCG on Sunday seized drugs and illegal arms in an anti-narcotics operation in the Gwadar district and arrested three suspects. A spokesperson stated that the PCG had received information about the smuggling, which led ...
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Rehman Malik has filed a Rs500 million defamation suit against the US blogger, Cynthia Ritchie, over “false, frivolous and baseless allegation of rape against him” through his lawyer in the Supreme ...
On Sunday, the Prime Minister approved a large number of investigations to be carried out through accountability organizations against the “sugar cartel”, who have allegedly been scamming the country out of multiple billions of rupees ...
As the number of coronavirus cases across the country rises, the number of beds available in hospitals dramatically falls. With an already dysfunctional healthcare system, Pakistan prepares for the worst as coronavirus peak seems imminent. ...
Airbus, the manufacturer of A320 aircraft, has said that the AIT (accident information transmission) on Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-8303, which crashed in Karachi on May 22, has been approved for release by the Pakistan ...
31 years ago to the day, tanks rolled down Tiananmen Square in Beijing to shut down student-led demonstrations against government corruption, inflation and restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and democracy. With hundreds to thousands ...
The President of Russia has declared a state of emergency after it was discovered that 20,000 tonnes of diesel oil have spilled into the Ambarnaya river in the Arctic Circle, reports BBC. According to reports, ...
The George Floyd murder occurred when Derek Chauvin, a white policeman suffocated him with a knee on his neck for approximately nine minutes. Despite protests by Floyd that he couldn’t breathe, Chauvin refused to take ...
As the world’s second-largest economy is slowly reopening, so are the smog-churning factories of the industrialized nation. From the new data released by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), it can ...
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