Category: Politics
Ousted Prime Minister’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, sat down with with Voice Of America (VOA) Urdu to talk about the current political climate of the country. Here’s a look at everything she just said.
Ms Omar is a US citizen who emigrated from Somalia with her family after fleeing the country’s civil war. The chants, which came after Mr Trump criticised Ms Omar and three other congresswomen, were widely ...
The stickers show a black cross superimposed on a rainbow flag. The weekly publication – which has a circulation of around 110,000 – openly supports the conservative governing Law and Justice party (PiS). The move ...
The assault comes amid a series of peace talks between Washington and the Taliban that both sides say are making progress, but which so far have yielded no reduction in violence in the gruelling Afghan ...
Police said the 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto Animation studio on Thursday morning and sprayed petrol before igniting it. The suspect has been detained and was taken to hospital with injuries. Japan’s Prime Minister ...
Nelson Mandela is known around the world as a freedom fighter who inspired millions to fight for self-determination. However, many people do not know the struggles Mandela had to face during his lifetime. Here are ...
The victims, who were eating at a restaurant when gunmen opened fire, were reportedly Turkey’s deputy consul in the city and an Iraqi civilian. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the “heinous attack”. No-one has ...
Trump, who didn’t name Saeed, said: “After a ten-year search, the so-called ‘mastermind’ of the Mumbai Terror attacks has been arrested in Pakistan. Great pressure has been exerted over the last two years to find ...
Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. He escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2015, but was ...
The move loosens a deadlock that has gripped the country, following nationwide mass protests that began against Bashir in December but then continued after a military council ousted him on April 11. The unrest has ...
More than two billion people lack access to healthy food, putting them at risk of health problems — and many of them live in North America or Europe, the United Nations said on Monday, urging ...
Ramez Azimi, director of the Samaa station in the city of Ghazni, the capital of eastern Ghazni province, said he received phone calls as well as written warning notes purportedly from the Taliban commander. Zabihullah ...
He lashed out at what he described as a “media lynching”, saying the energy he had spent defending himself had hampered his work as minister. An investigative website said he had spent large sums of ...
If the Europeans and the Americans don’t want to carry out their duties… we will decrease our commitments and… reverse the conditions to four years ago,” agency spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said, quoted by IRNA state ...
“If you are not happy, if you are complaining all the time, you can leave,” he told a heated news conference outside the White House. On Sunday Mr Trump called on the women, who are ...
China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under Beijing’s control. China regularly calls Taiwan the most sensitive issue in its relations with ...
Three people were arrested, two of them near Forli airport. Neo-Nazi propaganda was also seized, in the raids. The raids were part of an investigation into Italian far-right help for Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern ...
The social media giant has launched Creator Shows, which are filmed in a vertical format. Schwarzenegger’s show is called Rules of Success and features him giving motivational advice. More series will premiere this summer from ...
Hunt, who is battling Boris Johnson to become Britain’s next leader, raised the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the jailing of activists in China and Vietnam, and the murder of reporters in Mexico. ...
The resolution, which passed by a narrow margin, mandates a comprehensive written report into the human rights situation in the country. It will focus on reports of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances. The ...
An estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are held in internment camps in the northwest region of Xinjiang — a system that Beijing defends as necessary to counter religious extremism and terrorism. The UN ...
The family members of a young boy and girl took out a protest rally in Hyderabad on Thursday evening after the two siblings — who had gone missing from the city’s GOR Colony area on ...
SSP Investigation South Tariq Dharejo said on Thursday that the suspect Atif Zaman has admitted before the police that he planned to kill as many as five people after the investors demanded their money back ...
“Remittances for the past fiscal year came in much higher at 9.7 percent annual growth and totaled $21.8 billion for the year,” Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a tweet. The prime minister thanked the ...
The accident occured when when a bus carrying passengers overturned near the Bahtar Interchange on the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway. Police said that the accident occurred in the early hours while it was raining. SP Pothohar Syed ...
Ressa, who was named a Time Magazine “Person of the Year” in 2018 for her journalism, faces several criminal charges along with her website Rappler, in what press freedom advocates have branded an act of ...
Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May had offered her support to Kim Darroch after it was revealed he described the Trump administration as “inept”. But the man tipped to replace her in Downing Street this month, ...
The district and additional session judge issued the arrest warrant for Noor Akbar, a sub-inspector (SI) of police and the investigative officer in the Qandeel Baloch murder case for not showing up, during a hearing ...
“Tahir Ahsan, the president of Sindh Bank, was arrested in the fake accounts case from Karachi,” according to a brief statement issued by the anti-graft body. Other suspects, namely Syed Nadeem Altaf — who is ...
The prime minister, who was addressing a press conference at the Governor House in Karachi, said, “I appeal to everyone. It’s time to change our mindset. The segments of the society who don’t pay taxes ...
“I still hope you remain,” she said, warning the British authorities to “sort its side of things on Brexit”. Mrs von der Leyen was speaking at a European Parliament hearing ahead of a vote on ...
UN experts and rights groups say China is holding about one million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention camps. China claims that Uighurs are being educated in “vocational training centres” designed to combat extremism. The ...
It follows a case brought on behalf of seven individuals who had been blocked by the president. Officials using social media accounts were not allowed to silence people who disagreed with them, the judge said. ...
Hamza Ghaznavi from ProperGaanda explains Pakistan’s political blunders, and mind you, there have been more than a few! Lets take a trip down memory road and see the mistakes our state has made.
Take a look into the life of Fatima Jinnah and she was treated after her brother’s death. On Fatima Jinnah’s death anniversary, we decided to take a look at the incredible life and death of ...
Many have given their life for freedom in Kashmir but why does Burhan Wani’s death stands out? On his death anniversary, we take a look at why Burhan Wani’s life and death inspired a whole ...
On Sunday, during a session chaired by National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri, the federal minister Umar Ayub suggested that using the word ‘selected’ for Prime Minister Imran Khan should be prohibited. Qasim Suri agreed. ...
Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013 after one year in office, has collapsed in a courtroom and passed away yesterday. Hailed as Egypt’s first democratically-elected head of state, President Morsi’s ...
For a couple of days now social media has been overflowing with posts about the violence in Sudan and the courage of the pro-democratic protests. While most of us have changed our profile pictures to ...
Earlier today, the highly anticipated annual budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 was finally revealed. And as expected, almost everyone from political leaders to our uber drivers have a lot to say about it. The ...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shahbaz, from inside the Lahore High Court (LHC) in two cases regarding money laundering and holding assets beyond means. ...
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) led government is all set to finally present its first Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 in the National Assembly tomorrow. The plan for the budget is to prioritise fiscal ...
If you weren’t already aware, The United States and China are racing to be the first country to acquire 5G technology. But why? In the past month, China and the United States have been in ...
On Monday, Dawn News reported that the “Guru Nanak Mahal” near Narowal, Punjab was ruthlessly demolished and sacked by the local villagers and a fiery of news pieces on the issue started trending on social ...
Ahmedi’s have been trending in Pakistan again, as an Ahmedi was arrested for having an Islamic symbols displayed. This has led to another debate on social media regarding the treatment of this sect within Pakistan. ...
According to Shah Mehmood, Imran Khan and Donald Trump may have a meeting A meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and United States President Donald Trump might take place after some progress in the ongoing ...
Currently having the highest population of youth, Pakistan is termed as one of the youngest countries in the world and second youngest in South Asia. Coupled that with the high poverty level in Pakistan, and ...
Reham Khan is known for many things. She’s known as a journalist, an author and Imran Khan’s ex-wife. However, what many people do not know is that she is an incredible Twitter profile. Her tweets, ...
Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N President, states Prime Minister Imran Khan “lies day and night” and is “wasting the nation’s time by spreading disinformation” PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif says he is not seeking asylum in the UK. ...
On Sunday 21 April a series of coordinated bombings took place in Sri Lanka. The explosions targeted Christians at Easter Sunday church services in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa, and tourists staying in luxury hotels in ...
3 gunmen attacked Pearl Continental Gwadar on Saturday Just a few days after the Data Darbar terrorist attack, Pakistan witnessed another attack on its soil. Gunmen stormed the hotel in Gwadar, killing one security guard, ...
Three to four armed militants stormed Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar on Saturday evening according to the Gwadar Station House Officer Aslam Bangulzai. “At around 4:50pm we got reports that there are three to four ...
Fawad Chaudhary has been in the news for the past week, after going on a press tour as the new Minster of Science and Technology. However, most of the news coverage has been about his ...
The Supreme Court berates DHA for allocating state land to private entities The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday took issue with the Defence Housing Authority’s (DHA) handing over of state land in Karachi to private entities. ...
You may have missed it, but the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been in the middle of a nationwide crackdown on a Chinese sex trafficking ring. With everything else that’s going on in the news, ...
Ramzan is here, and so is the moral imperative to make sure everyone is fasting, or at least looks like they are. In Pakistan, it is illegal to eat, smoke or drink in public during ...
A suicide blast at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore today morning. Here are 15 things you need ...
Nawaz Sharif and Entourage leaves for Kot Lakhpat prison Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif left for Kot Lakhpat prison with his entourage, following the expiry of his six-week bail in ...
Gaza is under attack! Death toll rises as more than 600 rockets were fired during the weekend escalation between Israel-Palestine The death toll rise Sunday as civilian casualties increased on both sides of the border ...
US President Donald is confident in the Hermit Kingdom’s ability to keep a promise. On Saturday, he said that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un would not “break his promise,” after South Korea said Pyongyang had ...
Imran Khan lays foundations for his Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme plan; says everyone deserves a roof over their head Imran Khan has finally revealed the foundational structure of his new housing scheme, Naya Pakisran Housing ...
If you hadn’t noticed, Child marriages has come back into the limelight recently. For the past few days, pictures have been circulating on Social media of a young girl no older than 10 getting married ...
If you weren’t already aware, The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved a RS 9 increase in the price of petrol per litre on Friday. It will be sold at Rs108 per litre after approval of ...
Major changes to PML-N; Maryam Nawaz among 16 vice presidents, Abbasi named senior VP It looks like major changes are happening in all political parties. A day after Shahbaz Sharif steps down as the Public ...
Shahid Afridi reveals his real age in autobiography! Shahid Afridi reveals his real age in his new autobiography, Game Changer, released this week in India and Pakistan. In a chapter in which he describes his ...
Over 21 million children aren’t enrolled in schools in #Pakistan. If we don’t act now, it might be too late to change the future of our nation. Click here to learn about the woman who ...
Bilawal tweets old video of Edhi ‘exposing Imran Khan’ after the Premier calls him “Sahiba”
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as ...
The Food giant Nestle Pakistan has been booked under the Code of Criminal Procedure in Section 154 due to its ‘poisonous’ products that took the life of a one-month old baby. Here’s what happened One-month-old ...
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday with a chest infection. The 83-year-old Buddhist monk is reportedly stable. Up to 100,000 Tibetans living in India are ...
2,200 visas have been granted to Sikh Pilgrims by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi so they may participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations to be held in Pakistan from April 12 to 21. ...
More than a dozen live shells of an anti-aircraft gun have been found from a plot located about half a kilometre from the Banigala residence of Prime Minister Imran Khan. A senior officer of the ...
In 1971, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, tore up his papers and walked out of the UN Security Council after delivering a historic speech.
The report by the NGO Sahil, titled ‘Cruel Numbers 2018’, has been compiled by monitoring 85 regional and national newspapers, and from the cases that have been reported. Here are the major findings: 3,832 cases ...
Brunei will be imposing harsh punishments starting next week under its anti-LGBT Law and is facing much backlash from Human rights organisations including amnesty
The United Nations has unanimously adopted a resolution put forth by Turkey which condemns violence and terrorism targeting individuals belonging to religious minorities
On Tuesday, the United Nations unanimously passed a resolution put forth by Turkey and co-sponsored by Pakistan which strongly condemns violence and terrorism targeting individuals belonging to religious minorities. Swipe to read the highlights
“He usually hits me a lot but this time he even shaved my head aswell and then beat me with pipes” – Asma
When will people stop asking Jemima about Imran Khan?
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif received a warm welcome from family and supporters on returning home on bail
Mehwish Hayat received a lot of hate after being awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on 23rd March by President Dr Arif Alvi. Today, the actress took to social media to reply to her haters.
In an unsurprising turn of event, a bureaucrat from karachi abused the police for asking to show his ID card
Mosharraf Zaidi criticises America and India for damaging Pakistan’s Sovereignty.
Bilawal Bhutto trolled ImranKhan and the Insaafians were prepared with the most savage comebacks!
This Christian woman was forced to convert, raped and paraded naked through the streets. Where is the accountability?
The first episode of the #InfoTonic series on #TheGreatMughals features #Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire. But did you know that this king lost all his kingdoms before establishing one of the greatest empires ...
The second episode of the #infotonic series on the #MughalEmpire looks at the battles and losses in Humayun’s reign.
In the third episode of the #infotonic series on the #MughalEmpire we discover why Akbar will always be remembered as the greatest Mughal ruler.
In the next episode of the #infotonic series on the #MughalEmpire we discover how Aurangzeb worked hard on expanding his empire and was he successful?
In the last episode of the #infotonic series on the #MughalEmpire we will look at how and why the Mughal rule ended.
In this episode of the infotonic series on the MughalEmpire we take a look at Jehangir‘s battle of getting to and regaining the throne.
An American woman has been granted legal residency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after The New York Times wrote about her ordeal a week ago. Bethany Vierra was stuck illegally in Saudi Arabia with ...
Major English and Urdu newspapers in occupied Kashmir on Sunday published blank front pages in protest against the Indian State government’s suspension of advertising to two local English dailies – Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader.
Afzal Kohistani, the whistleblower who brought the gnarly truth of the Kohistan video scandal forward, was shot dead in Abbottabad on Wednesday by unidentified men. Kohistani has repeatedly asked form security. According to Express Tribune, just ...
A group of men reportedly belonging to a Hindutva outfit attacked two Kashmiri roadside vendors in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow on Wednesday. The police registered a case of rioting and breach of peace and arrested ...
The Indian CM Mamata Banerjee made some hard hitting remarks against the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘doing opportunistic politics over the dead bodies’ of Indian Armed forces. The popular CM vowed to remove ...
Former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (MNS) stated that he would rather die with dignity that beg the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government to provide him with medical facilities. During a family meeting at Kot Kakhpat Jail ...
The crew of India’s National carrier, Air India, has to say ‘Jai Hind’ and that too ‘with fervour’ to keep in line with the national sentiment. The move comes as tensions between India and Pakistan ...
Punjab Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar, has asked Fayazul Hassan Chohan to hand in his resignation from his post as Provincial Information and Culture Minister over his anti-Hindu remarks, sources have confirmed. “The Punjab CM sought ...
Early on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Navy foiled an intrusion attempt into Pakistani waters by an Indian Submarine. This is the second time the Indian Navy has tried to intrude Pakistani waters since November 2016. A Navy ...
On Monday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s official account tweeted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s message in Hindi and Twitterati on both sides of the border went crazy. Sharing Imran’s earlier tweet on Nobel Prize, PTI tweeted: “मैं नोबेल ...
Thousands attended the funeral of Shakirullah alias Mohammad Ilyas, the Pakistani prisoner who was lynched in an Indian jail. Shakirullah’s body arrived via the Wagah border and people threw rose petals on the ambulance carrying ...
Did you know who was the woman accompanying the captured Indian Pilot Abhinandan? Well, get ready to be blown away. (For the dramatic effects) Who is she? She is Dr Fariha Bugti, one of Pakistan’s ...
Hamza Ali Abassi, popular actor and well known supporter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf on Thursday night tweeted what we think was supposed to be a heartfelt message. The tweet was directed at the son of the ...
In response to the deadly Pulwama attack, India launched pre-emptive air strikes across the LoC, against the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. While Indian media claims that 350 JeM militants have been targeted and killed, Pakistani journalists visiting ...
Less than a fortnight ago, the Pulwama attack claimed the lives of over 40 Indian Soldiers. Among the soldiers who passed away in the attack was Babloo Santra who hailed from Howrah, West Bengal. As tension between ...
As tensions escalate between the two nuclear nations, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai took to twitter to share a message of peace. Malala tweeted with the hashtag #SayNoToWar which has been trending on twitter for the ...
Lot has happened since India violated Pakistan’s airspace and dropped the payload. For one, they violated the Air Space again. Here are all the major headlines that took over after. Pakistan will respond to uncalled-for ...
Following in the footsteps of the Pakistani leadership, the citizens seem more inclined to taking a measured and mature position on the hostile responses from it’s neighbour. Soon after Pakistan announced successful airstrikes across the ...
Throughout Tuesday, the news was rife with reports of Line of Control violation by Indian Air Forces and the subsequent payload drop at Balakot. While India claims 350 militants of JeM, a militant group that ...
The International Olympic Committee has suspended all Indian applications to host future events and urged international sports federations not to stage competitions in the country after two Pakistanis were denied visas to compete in New ...
On 21st February, the young Pakistan People’s Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spoke at the Oxford Union His talk came at a time when Pakistan is much backlash from India, due to the recent events in ...
On 14th February 2019, an attack in Indian occupied Kashmir led to the death of more than 40 Indian soldiers. Jaish-E-Mohammad, a militant group, based in Pakistan has been blamed for the attack. Whats more, ...
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, visited Pakistan for two days starting Sunday. The visit comes at a time when Pakistan’s ties with its neighbour India are under duress due to the ...
Who are the Uighurs? Uighurs are the oldest Turkic speaking people of Central Asia; they have been mentioned in Chinese records dating back to the 3rd century CE. In the 8th century, the Uighurs established ...
Aleem Khan is known to be one of the biggest financiers of current ruling party, the Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf. His arrest and physical remand by the National Accountability Bureau has shocked more than ...
The Faizabad protest of 2017, orchestrated by the right-wing Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labaik held the city of Islamabad hostage for 21 days. The leaders of the TLP, including Khadim Hussain Rizvi, openly threatened, abused and promoted ...
1947 The year marked the end of British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu majority India and the Muslim majority state of Pakistan. Late 1947 The Maharaja of Kashmir signs a treaty of ...
Sherry Rehman has presented an amendment to the Child Marriage Restriction Act of 1929 that sets the marriageable age of girls at 16 and of boys at 18. Rehman argued that the marriageable age of girls be raised ...
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After eight years of being on death row, Aasia Bibi was acquitted by the Supreme Court in October 2017. But even after being declared innocent, Aasia remained a hostage in Pakistan as the Islamist party ...
World Economic Forum convened Annual Meeting of World leaders in the Swiss Mountains of Davos. Nearly 3000 delegates from various spheres gathered for five-days sessions to voice their perspective on the pressing world issues . ...
On Wednesday, 23rd January, Finance Minister Asad Umar rolled over government’s third finance bill in their efforts to stabalise the plummeting economy. Government believes that the new mini-budget plan will help to generate more revenue ...
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On Friday, Pope Francis urged predator priests who have sexually abused minors to turn themselves in, making one of his strongest comments ever on the crisis sweeping the Roman Catholic Church. This is the first ...
On Friday, Germany closed its last black coal mine with an emotional tribute to the 2 century old industry. The black coal industry had once fueled the country’s economic development but was out run by ...
The Chinese government has provided 50 motorcycles and 200 bulletproof jackets to Gilgit-Baltistan government to ensure the security of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor route in the region. The provision of motorcycles and jackets is part of ...
The opposition leader in the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on Wednesday alleged that two judges’ posts, including that of chief judge of GB Supreme Appellate Court, had been kept vacant deliberately. Captain retired Mohammad Shafi Khan ...
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn got himself into trouble on Wednesday for apparently muttering “stupid woman” at Prime Minister Theresa May during a heated exchange in parliament over her delaying tactics on Brexit. The Labour ...
The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey said on Tuesday that a new Syrian Constitutional Committee should convene early next year, kicking off a viable political peace process. In a joint statement read out ...
President’s rule is set to be imposed in Indian-occupied Kashmir from Thursday, December 20 as the governor’s rule expires after six months today. The Union home ministry conveyed this to Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya ...
North Korea on Sunday condemned the Trump administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to “exchanges of fire” and that peace with Pyongyang could be blocked forever. ...
Clashes erupted Tuesday morning in Yemen just minutes after a ceasefire deal took effect in the country’s flashpoint port city of Hodeida, a pro-government official said. The official told AFP that sporadic clashes in the ...
The Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has sparked outrage with his recent statements on the role of women in combat roles in the army. In an interview with News18, General Rawat listed out strings ...
Germany approved an official third gender category for gender non-conforming, intersex, and non-binary people on Thursday, making it the first European country to do so. In addition to the categories of male and female, citizens ...
In a positive development, China is most likely to park $2 billion in Pakistan reserves sometime in the ongoing month of December, and, more importantly, the economic diplomacy with the UAE is also going to ...
A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. This is what you need to know: 1. Japanese police say 41 people were injured in the explosion, with ...
The Pakistan Army announced on Saturday that work on fencing along the border with Afghanistan was going apace and that the project would complete by next December. 1. Pakistan and Afghanistan share a long porous ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reached Kabul to attend the 2nd meeting of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Trilateral Mechanism, starting today (Dec 15). 1. Afghanistan is hosting a three-way meeting with neighbours China and Pakistan to ...
The core purpose of US economic engagement with Pakistan is to ensure that it’s not a failure in the future and stops being such a poor country, says a senior official of the US Treasury ...
Social media has overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers said on Monday, highlighting the growing importance of services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the troubled state of legacy ...
Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans. There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean weighing up to 269,000 ...
An Australian citizen returned the statue of Buddha belonging to the Gandhara civilization of Pakistan as a goodwill gesture. 1. The statue was in the possession of Ms Romy Dingle, an Australian citizen whose mother ...
Recently famous journalist and anchor Nusrat Javed came at the center of Pakistani Twitter after claiming that he survived an assumption attempt and blamed Imran Khan for it. After some storm on Twitter the journalist said ...
Pakistan Navy will be hosting a major multinational maritime ‘AMAN Exercise 2019’ in the beginning of the next year. The final planning conference was held in Karachi on Tuesday. Forty one representatives of participating countries ...
The United States said on Tuesday it has added Pakistan to its blacklist of countries that violate religious freedom, ramping up pressure over the treatment of minorities in the country. In January, the US Commission ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered a massive blow in three state elections just months before the Indian national elections. Here are 5 things you need to know: 1. The Election Commission announced the ...
Maulana Tariq Jameel has been praising PM Khan since he took office and announced to transform Pakistan into a Madina-like Islamic Welfare state. Prominent religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel called on Prime Minister Imran Khan ...
1. The World Bank has cancelled a $250-million emergency relief loan for Pakistan after both sides could not converge on a new macroeconomic framework due to deteriorating external-sector condition of Pakistan. 2. The loan was ...
The outcome of the elections to Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana and Chhattisgarh assemblies will be a test of the electoral strategy of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...
Mukwege and Nadia Murad says one thing: survivor stories matter. Mukwege, a gynecologist who set up a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has treated thousands of rape survivors who suffered traumatic injuries at ...
PML-N MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq alleges that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is using drugs and torture as tools for extracting ‘favourable’ statements from the people arrested in the Paragon Housing Society scam. “Qaiser Amin ...
The employees and contractors of Bahria Town, who had blocked the Super Highway while protesting against non-payment of salaries on Saturday, ended their demonstration after six hours of negotiations with the police and provincial authorities. ...
Protesters in Paris are back on the streets, despite appeals by the authorities for moderate members of the “yellow vest”, an anti-government rebellion, to stay home on Saturday, to avoid giving cover to hooligans. The ...
On Sunday, an anti-terror court (ATC) in Karachi indicted Karachi’s Mayor, Waseem Akhtar, with others in 2 cases related to the 12th May riots. On 12th May 2007, as Rawalpindi saw Pervez Musharraf address a ...
On Friday , The Inter-Provincial Committee of All Pakistan Bar Council announced a countrywide strike on Dec 17 to support the demand of the Punjab Bar Council. The Punjab Bar council has been demanding for ...
Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said on Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands. ...
PTI federal minister Azam Swati served his resignation to Prime minster Imran Khan on Thursday. Swati, who was bearing charge of the Ministry for Science and Technology, is currently being investigated for charges of abuse ...
On late Thursday night, the CNN New York offices were evacuated after receiving a bomb threat. Later the police searched the premises and gave an all clear as no actual explosives were found. This comes ...
From 6th December, Cuban citizens will have full access to the internet from their mobile devices as the country moves towards digital connectivity. The Situation In Cuba After spending decades off the grid, Cuba is ...
After spending decades in the darkness of power-outages and electricity rationing, Pakistan is set to export electricity. Pakistan has decided to export electricity to Tajikistan in winters through the CASA-1000. The trade is being carried ...
This article has been contributed by our featured writer Muneeb Khan According to 2018 ranking of Passport index, the passport of Pakistan secured third last place. That’s not very exciting for Pakistani Passport holders. But, ...
Punjab Information and Culture Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan on Tuesday dissolved the governing body of the Alhamra Arts Council in Lahore and mandated production companies to seek a prior approval of their play scripts by ...
After an attack on local police that left two dead, 4 suspects have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack. The assailants attacked the police over rumors of cow slaughter. Briefing the media, senior ...
This piece has been contributed by our featured writer Muneeb Khan. Prime Minister Imran khan gave a detailed interview to a panel of journalists from different organizations, on several subjects of national standing, stretching ...
Monday 3rd December, was the International Disability Day. A day to remind us that there are some who are differently abled and we must create a society that provides equal opportunities to all. To ensure ...
Once again, the raging bull of Pakistani economy is in debates. This time, initiated after a “Chicken Economy” statement from the PM of Pakistan. What Happened? The Prime Minister in a speech claimed to change ...
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, is set to hold an emergency meeting with senior ministers on Sunday in the aftermath of riots that turned violent. Here are 7 things you need to know about the ...
The Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhary, said in a press conference on Saturday that the TLP leader and populist cleric Khadim Rizvi has been charged with treason and terrorism. The move comes ...
This article has been contributed by Taimur Khan, one of the core committee members of Progressive Students’ Collective: Students in all major cities of Pakistan, from both private and public sectors, are organizing a march ...
A British security contractors’ compound was attacked in Kabul in Wednesday, 28th November. The attackers entered the premises and opened fire on the civilians after a car-bomb went off near the compound, wounding 19 and ...
On Wednesday, 28th November, Pakistan moved forth from historical animosity towards India, as Prime Minister Imran Khan performed the ground-breaking of the project to open the Kartarpur corridor, linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur area ...
On Tuesday, WWF Pakistan held the seventh annual Green Office Confrence in Islamabad, focusing on the issue of air pollution. The conference was attended by academia, corporate partners, public sector leaders, and industry personalities from ...
In one of the deadliest attacks this year, 50 people were killed as a suicide bomber targeted religious celebration in Kabul on Tuesday. The attack comes after the Afghan government and the US establishment have ...
On Tuesday, Prime Minster Imran Khan opened the two day International Rehmat Ul-il-Alameen confrence. The confrence was held at the Islamabad convention centre, and was attended by Imam e Kaaba, vice chancellor of al Azhar ...
On Monday, the Supreme Court formed a larger bench for the formation of Joint Investigation Team (JIT), to probe the Model town case. A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib ...
Newly elected and for some, selected government, inherited an economy in crisis. Balance of payment, circular debt, rising imports and countless other issues were already there. In that case, new government had no choice, other ...
How Did it Happen? Tahir Dawar was working as the Superintendent of Police (SP) of rural Peshawar in 2018, when he went missing from the federal capital on 26th October. Dawar was in the capital ...
On Tuesday, spokesperson for the Foreign Office (FO) Dr. Mohammad Faisal confirmed that the Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi discussed Asia Bibi with his Canadian counterpart. This discussion comes after Asia Bibi was acquainted in ...
Punjab Government removes Umar Saif from the chairmanship of Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB). Dr. Umar Saif was appointed on the position in November 2011. Dr Saif said, no notification has been issued as of ...
Last week thousands of Google employees walked out in protest against the out of court settlements of higher executives in accusations of sexual harassment. This forced Google to take notice and change policies on workplace ...
The known journalist, Urooj zia, who accused Faisal Edhi of sexual harassment, recently caused a storm on Pakistani Twitter. This time not as an immediate victim, but as a representative of anonymous victims. The accused, ...
ڈی جی نیب شہزاد سلیم (ریٹائرڈ میجر) نے اپنی تعلیم2002 میں الخیر یونیورسٹی سے مکمل کی اور ایچ ای سی سے2015 میں منظور ہوئ۔۔۔ایسا کہنا ہے نیب کا۔ ان کی صند پر جعلی ہونے کا ...
On October 23rd and 24th, a plane from Israel allegedly landed in Islamabad, Pakistan. This was around the time the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Oman out of the blue. Avi Scharf, an editor ...
The US president made news once again when he attacked a CNN reported at a press conference after the Mid term elections. The journalist, Jim Acosta, questioned the president on his statment on the Migrant ...
Technological advancement, as much as, favors the constructive mindset; it is equally vulnerable to be learned by the destructive mindset. Cyber-attacks are the perfect example of technology being misused. Such attacks are defined as politically ...
تازہ ترین خبر کے مطابق آسیہ بی بی کو ملتان سے اسلام آباد منتقل کیا گیا ہے۔ وفاقی حکومت نے آسیہ بی بی کے وطن چھوڑنے کی خبر مسترد کردی۔ اطلاعات کے مطابق ان کا ...
Yesterday, news reports of recently acquitted Asia Bibi being flown from the Multan’s women prison to an “unkown destination” was spread across social media. On Thursday, the Foreign Office Spokesperson, Dr Muhammad Faisal denied the ...
The USA is having its Mid-Term elections, which could potentially change the US political scenario quite drastically. The voter turn out is expected to be low as compared to the last Presidential election. Even though ...
The political climate in Sri Lanka has been particularly tense since President Maithripala Sirisena sacked the sitting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26th and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa – a two-time controversial former ...
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