Category: Politics
Since August of this year, the Indian government has kept the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir on lockdown and it has now been reported by a trade body in the region that the economic ...
The impeachment enquiry against US President Donald Trump is ongoing with Congress looking into allegations of wrongdoing. The impeachment inquiry is centred around whether Trump pressured the Ukrainian President to investigate former Vice-President Joe Biden ...
Former Prime Minister and PML-N head Nawaz Sharif is set to leave the city today via an air ambulance at 10am. He will be accompanied by his brother Shahbaz Sharif and his personal physician Doctor ...
On Monday, PML-N Leader Ahsan Iqbal announced that his party wants ‘fresh and fair’ elections in 2020. Speaking to reporters in Lahore after a meeting with the party’s parliamentary committee, the PML-N leader said that ...
On Monday, Pakistan conducted the training launch of its surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-1 which turned out successful, according to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). The ISPR claimed that the launch took place as part of ...
Pakistani President Arif Alvi condemned remarks made from a former Indian army official advocating for the rape of Kashmiri women, terming them ‘disgraceful’. Pakistani President Arif Alvi condemned comments made by a former Indian army ...
In a ‘meta-movie project’ titled ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’, Nicholas Cage is set to star as himself as Lionsgate wraps up final negotiations for the film. The meta-movie project will be directed by ...
A 13 year old girl minor who was subjected to rape gave birth to a baby girl in Shiekh Zaid Hospital, Larkana. The minor, who was subjected to rape over a period of several months ...
400 pages of internal documents leaked to The New York Times show a program of mass detention taking place in China against Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. In the leaked 403 pages, it is ...
As Lahore’s air quality was moved from ‘hazardous’ to ‘unhealthy’ it has now become the third most polluted city in the world. According to the Air Quality Index on Saturday, Lahore ranked 157 making it ...
Earlier this year, Pakistan’s external debt and liabilities increased $600 million totalling to an incredible $106.9 billion. This was announced after the first quarter of the fiscal year, (July-September) as Pakistan had to borrow more ...
Olympian swimmer Kiran Khan won 10 gold medals for her team ‘Army’ at the National Games in Peshawar this week. Originally from Lahore, Kiran has always been at the top of her game. In 2001, ...
District authorities plan on turning Lahore into a ‘smoke-free city’ in an attempt to control passive smoking The intention will be to ban smoking in all public spaces like parks, marriage halls, and public transport ...
Yesterday’s successful negotiations resulted in both parties agreeing to withdraw their respective motions. After the government dropped 11 whole ordinances in the lower house without following parliamentary procedures on November 7, the opposition filed a ...
An Air Traffic Controller from the Civil Aviation Authority in Pakistan saved a plane going from India to Oman from a major air disaster. According to reports, the plane which was travelling from Jaipur to ...
“The government has stooped to a new low,” said Shahbaz Sharif on their alleged request of multi-billion dollar indemnity bonds According to the PML-N President, the government has asked for the bonds in exchange for ...
The Punjab government has ordered officials to not hire staff on ‘contingent’ basis, resulting in a sit in by visually impaired workers Recently the Punjab government gave a 150% salary raise to provincial bureaucratic elite ...
Instagram began testing the removal of likes from posts earlier this year and the test has now expanded globally. The Facebook-owned photo and video sharing app announced last week that it would test the removal ...
Following an increase in hazardous levels of smog on Thursday, the provincial government considered artificial rain as a quick solution to the health emergency. Due to an increase of rain over the week, levels of ...
The JUI-F have kicked off ‘Plan B’ starting with blocking major highways in four districts of KP Party members and supporters held sit-ins on the Grand Trunk Road near Nowshera, Karakoram Highway in Hazara region, ...
Famous Pakistani actor, Hamza Ali Abbasi, quits showbiz for good following an announcement in a video posting online on Thursday. On Thursday, the actor famously known for his role in Pyare Afzal shared a detailed ...
In 2006, the Gen Musharraf’s government organised a student convention that was presided over by Gen Musharraf himself. One of the students who were allowed to voice their opinions to the President gave a speech ...
Facebook has made 17,807 content restrictions worldwide and 31% of these requests were from Pakistan. According to Facebook’s transparency report released on Wednesday, 5,690 content pieces were blocked based on requests from Pakistan between January ...
Pakistan is expected to be the only Asia-Pacific country to see a decrease in salaries in 2020 according to a report by mobility consultancy ECA International. According to the report, the average real salary increase ...
More than 265 sites have been busted for serving Indian interests by spreading false, negative news on Pakistan A European NGO called EU Disinfolab has shared its discovery of a large network of fake news ...
Since the abolition of Article 370 on August 5th, effectively ending it’s autonomy, Kashmir has been facing a lockdown with strict curfews, violence against protesters and growing tensions between India and Pakistan. Here’s a timeline ...
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan mentioned in a speech that his economic team had ‘stabilised the economy’ and the government was now going to shift it’s focus to creating more job opportunities and facilitating ...
On August 5th, the Indian government withdrew Article 370, which gave the disputed territories of Jammu and Kashmir partial autonomy, from the Indian constitution Following this was an imposition of a strict curfew and the ...
The federal government has decided to restore Hindu temples across the country over time on demand of Hindu minority According to an Indian news source, most Hindu temples were encroached by Muslims after the Partition ...
Following meetings between the Federal Cabinet and Sub-Committee, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif refused to travel abroad on Tuesday to seek medical treatment under the conditions proposed by the government. The PML-N leader rejected the ...
A lifesize statue of Indian pilot Abhinandan has been installed at Karachi’s PAF Museum Abhinandan Varthaman, the Wing Commander whose plane was shot down by Pakistan Air Force over Indian-occupied Kashmir, has made it Karachi’s ...
Murad Saeed, the Minister for Communication, while briefing the National Assembly’s session on Monday announced the Hazara Motorway will open by 15 November. The same project in which Rs. 10.8 Billion was embezzled. The minister ...
Tehreek-i-Labbaik leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi is among 26 charged for violent protests initiated by TLP in reference to Asia Bibi last year A total of 26 suspects were issued copies of the challan after an ...
Sacked employees of PMDC met with Maulana Fazlur Rehman to discuss the role JUI-F could play in preventing the PMC ordinance from getting approved After the PMDC was dissolved on October 19 upon the promulgation ...
While Karachi is being invaded by swarms of desert locusts, Sindh’s Agriculture Minister tells citizens not to worry and make locust biryani and karahi instead On Sunday afternoon photos and videos of locusts were shared ...
A video has surfaced in which Prime Minister Imran Khan can be heard telling Chief Spokesperson Firdous Awan to “sit down, lest there be a casualty” PM Imran Khan is seen travelling with a group ...
A Pakistani bus driver’s response to an Indian journalist on Kartarpur Corridor is one that is causing waves in the Sikh community across the border. The Indian reporter who goes by the name Ravinder Singh ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan welcomed the first group of Sikh pilgrims from around the world today. Gurdwara Darbar Sahib is one of Sikhism’s holiest sites. The opening of the Kartarpur corridor on Saturday, 9 November ...
Today marks the historic opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, but reports have emerged from a section of Indian media raising doubts about the true intentions of this event Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to ...
Sikh pilgrims have started to arrive in Lahore to visit Baba Guru Nanak’s shrine in Kartarpur, a historic moment in Pak-India relations Foreign diplomats as well as Sunny Deol will be attending the ceremony. Indian ...
Here is what you need to know about the decades old Ayodhya dispute. How it started It is believed that in 1528, the Babri Masjid was built in Ayodhya by Mir Baqi, the commander of ...
Pakistani officials have been accused of attempting to cover up an outbreak of the most dangerous polio strain and trying to contain it with a covert vaccination programme According to The Guardian, the P2 strain ...
Ex PM Nawaz Sharif has agreed to travel abroad for medical treatment on the advice of doctors and family The Sharif family source told a private news agency on Thursday that the former PML-N leader ...
More than 80 farmers have been arrested across India for crop burning, which releases pollutants that lend to the smog that’s currently choking cities The post-harvest crop burning combined with car and factory emissions has ...
Billboards praising Imran Khan for allowing Sikh pilgrims to enter Pakistan with minimum requirements were taken down hours later by Indian authorities The Sikh community in Amritsar had put up billboards praising Imran Khan with ...
A final post-mortem examination report of Nimrita Kumari, a Pak-Hindu dental student at BADC, reveals the cause behind her death and how it was executed Nimrita, who had been in her final year at Bibi ...
A recent report reveals only 47% of Pakistanis claim to be concerned about environmental issues, despite the current attack of toxic smog Around 1500 Pakistanis were asked the same question: Are you someone who is ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan directed authorities to visit the site of the anti-government Azadi March to see what aid they could provide the activists following a major temperature drop in the capital On Tuesday, unexpected ...
Former Prime Minister and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, along with daughter Maryam Nawaz, leave Lahore’s Services Hospital for Jati Umra Although Nawaz Sharif was discharged from hospital yesterday, he refused to leave for Jati Umra ...
India’s supreme court has banned stubble burning citing it as one of the major contributors to the deteriorating air quality in the metropolis. This week, a public health emergency was declared in India following air ...
An image making rounds on twitter shows the prestigious King Edward Medical College stating one criteria for their sanitation worker job as ‘non-muslims only’. The image shows an application form with multiple job vacancies at ...
On Monday, the Lahore High Court approved the bail plea of PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Case following her arrest on August 8th. A two-member division bench headed by Justice Ali ...
The governments social welfare programme ‘Ehsaas’ has introduced a new project titled ‘Ehsaas for Students’. This project’s aim is to provide scholarships to at least 200,000 students from lower-income, disadvantaged families over the course of ...
This Sunday saw the 550th birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak Dev. Over 1,100 Indian Sikhs crossed the wagha border and arrived in Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal to partake in ...
Protesters this week were spotted holding the Taliban flag at Maulana Fazlur Rehmans Azadi March this week. Government officials were quick to criticise this move. The special assistant to the Prime Minister on youth affairs, ...
An inquiry conducted by the Pakistan Railways’ team concluded that the primary cause of the Tezgam Express tragedy on Thursday was a gas leak and subsequent explosion of two cylinders The Federal Government Inspector of Railways (FGIR) will ...
PM Imran addressed JUI-F and former PM Nawaz during a public meeting on Friday, saying that he won’t resign or give NRO to the corrupt “This is a new Pakistan. Sit as long as you ...
An Indonesian man who worked with an organisation to help draft extreme adultery laws received a public whipping after being caught having an affair with a married woman The man, Mukhlis bin Muhammad, was flogged ...
It is estimated that 95% of Pakistan’s female journalists facing online violence feel it has affected their professional work According to a report by Media Matters for Democracy, 77% of women journalists censor themselves in ...
Senior medics at Jhang DHQ Hospital, Lahore have been found guilty for the deaths of seven newborns due to negligence In a confidential official report submitted by the Jhang CEO to the Health Secretary asking ...
Top profile officials in countries like Pakistan that are allies of the US were targeted early in the year by expert hackers through Whatsapp The list of country officials affected has been updated and Pakistan ...
With the arrival of winter, smog has spread from Lahore to Islamabad and Pakistan must look upon itself if it wants someone to blame for the air pollution According to experts, the smog is being ...
The premier has waived off two requirements for Sikh pilgrims traveling to Pakistan for Baba Guru Nanak’s 50th anniversary The Kartarpur Corridor’s inauguration is set to take place on November 9, three days before the ...
According to the Ministry of Railways, the Pakistan Railways have seen more than 74 accidents nationwide over almost a year Out of these 74, the Ministry reported that 24 occurred due to freight trains derailing ...
At least 12 people have been killed and 25 more injured after a large portion of a Tezgam train caught fire near Liaquatpur city According to Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid, the fire was caused by ...
The Creative Process Projects, an artist collective, called out Karachi Biennale for dismissing the destruction of Suleman’s public art piece, “The Killing Fields Of Karachi” The statement released by the group was signed by major ...
A video of a group of lawyers beating up a woman outside a local court in Shakargarh, Narowal has gone viral; the motivation for the assault is still unclear The victim, who has been identified ...
A Karachi court has sentenced film director Mansoor Mujahid and accomplice Anab Hameed to lifetime imprisonment for the murder of their friend, Faisal Nabi The award winning filmmaker behind ‘Seedlings’ was first convicted for the ...
Separatist political leaders from Manipur have announced unilateral independence from India and plan to form a government-in-exile in Britain Manipur is one of India’s smallest states with a population of around 2.8 million people, and ...
Indian media has reported that Indians have smaller brains in comparison to other Eastern and Western populations According to researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad who created the first Indian Brain ...
In what first struck as a surprising development, it has now been revealed that the politicians belong to right wing, anti-Islam parties A 28 member delegation of the European Parliament arrived in Jammu and Kashmir ...
Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif refuses to go abroad for treatment of his medical condition, and is adamant on being treated in Pakistan instead The former premier is ailed with multiple diseases, which resulted in him being ...
PEMRA has barred TV News anchors from stating personal opinions on matters during talk shows, requesting them to limit their role to ‘moderators’ The notice was issued to those concerned over the weekend, with the ...
Thousands of textbooks published by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board have been found discarded and rotting in a government school’s classroom, and not for the first time Govt High School Narowal received thousands of ...
Nawaz Sharif reportedly suffered from a heart attack this morning, according to sources. However this claim has now been refuted by the hospital The former premier is reportedly suffering from angina. Currently, his platelet count ...
The district authorities have asked hostel managements to regulate movements of hostel residents, especially students, to prevent them from engaging in criminal activity A notice stated that the district magistrate offices had received complaints about ...
Twitter has blocked around a million tweets relating to Kashmir on orders given by the Indian government, an investigation reveals The investigation, conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists, reported that hundreds of thousands of ...
The Lahore High Court granted Nawaz Sharif bail from the custody of NAB on the basis of his worsening medical condition Earlier today, the court had heard an appeal brought forward by the PML-N President ...
A pair of US senators have ordered a probe into the Chinese owned video app due to concerns of national security risks leaving Americans vulnerable to Beijing spyware In a letter to the Director of ...
Around 5500 women have reportedly suffered maternal deaths in Rawalpindi every year, mainly because of lack of spacing in pregnancies According to the Population Council, every fifth woman in Punjab gets pregnant against her will. ...
A woman documented an incident witnessed outside LGS 39 Main, of a driver seemingly molesting a young girl in the parking lot The post was reshared on Instagram by user Khadijah Shah, and has caught ...
The US Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells expressed worry over the news of the alleged abduction of Gulalai Ismail’s father The US State Dept released a statement on Twitter, saying they were concerned ...
The police force charged with the murder of a family in Sahiwal has been cleared of all charges by a special anti-terrorism court In January, a family of five had been travelling in a car ...
Maryam Nawaz was sent back to Kot Lakhpat jail early in the morning from Services Hospital Lahore “despite being unwell”, according to a PML-N spokersperson Maryam was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday night following ...
The convict and his accomplice were found in possession of bags of ‘ice’ and charas near DHA Phase-VIII in Karachi The accused, named Rohail Shakeel, was found guilty of selling the notorious substance known as ...
A recently conducted report on links between education and inequality shows alarming levels of religion-based discrimination in educational institutions across the country The report calls for a radical shift and reforms in the relevant laws, ...
A group of Foreign Diplomats accompanied Pakistan army officials to LoC border to investigate the ‘destroyed launchpads’ claim made by the Indian army on Tuesday The diplomats were taken to the Neelum Valley in Azad ...
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was transported to Services Hospital Monday night as officials were alerted about his failing health Many PML-N members had gathered outside the NAB office, demanding that Nawaz be shifted to ...
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has won a minority government, as most major Canadian media outlets are projecting. The result means that the Liberals will need the support of another party, likely the NDP, to pass ...
In a surprising move on a usually quiet Sunday, President Dr. Arif Alvi decided to dissolve the PMDC and establish a new organisation called Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) to take its place Here’s what you ...
Pakistani filmmaker Jami reveals that he was sexually assaulted by a media giant, as the movement is being criticised since a professor in Lahore commit suicide after being wrongly accused The Operation 021 director, formally ...
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his “gratitude and admiration” during a farewell call for Lodhi, who will retire from her post as UN ambassador for Pakistan After a four and a half year run, ...
Despite the government’s strife in paying existing teachers’ daily wages, a Federal Minister announced that they were considering hiring 700 new teachers for schools and colleges in the capital Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood addressed ...
A lecturer from Govt MAO College has taken his life after being pinned with sexual harassment accusations, despite the fact that the claims had since proven to be baseless Muhammad Afzal, an English instructor at ...
Speculation is rising that Shahbaz Sharif is at odds with his brother, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif PML-N president, Shahbaz Sharif skipped the 10th October meeting with Nawaz in Kot Lakhpat Jail Why did he ...
The government will launch PM Imran’s programme that aims to create employment opportunities for young entrepreneurs in the country The scheme will cater to youth between 21-45 years, and provide subsidized financing through the National ...
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired a meeting regarding the Transform Peshawar Plan at his house, saying that the government is determined to make Peshawar a vibrant city with improved quality of life The CM emphasised ...
US President Donald Trump sent out a letter addressed to his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in regards to Turkey’s incursion into NorthEastern Syria The letter, issued from the White House and featuring Trump’s signature, was ...
Three civilians were killed and dozens more wounded, including at least 20 children, when a truck bomb planted by Taliban went off near a police station and partially destroyed a nearby madrassa The attack happened ...
After his one day visit to Iran two days ago, the PM is visiting Saudi Arabia today in line with his decision to engage the two countries in talks of peace and security The Foreign ...
A man was digging a grave in northern India last week for his deceased infant, when his shovel hit a clay pot and he heard the cries of a female newborn from inside it The ...
The number of dengue cases in Pakistan have gone higher than previous records, despite assurances of improved dengue treatment and preventive measures by officials More than 30,000 people have caught the virus this year and ...
Post paid mobile phone networks have been restored in Indian-occupied Kashmir, but the ban on internet services and prepaid connections will continue and are not ceasing as of yet More than 2 months have passed ...
A woman from Mian Channu, Khanewal was allegedly struck with axes by her husband and brother-in-law for refusing to make tea According to the FIR lodged by the assaulted on Monday at Mian Channu’s Sadar ...
The Royal couple will be visiting Pakistan for the first time and are expected to arrive in Islamabad at 9 pm today This visit will be the first royal tour of the country since 2006, ...
A private schoolteacher from the Khyber tribal district has been arrested in the murder case of a seventh grader; the teacher has also confessed to the crime, according to the DPO The 13 year old ...
Kashif Ali Chaudhry, the Vice President of the PML-N’s Lawyers Wing, is stated to have been kidnapped from Thokar Niaz Baig by a nameless party on Sunday According to the complaint lodged by his brother, ...
The Prime Minister will be visiting Tehran this Sunday in attempt to help defuse tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia after tanker attacks After the secret visit of a government official to both countries, a ...
In Faisalabad, former NA member MNA Nisar Jutt’s vehicle was attacked by opponents, resulting in the death of two policemen as well as one of the offenders The policemen, known as Constable Mehboob and Ayyub ...
The PTI government has proposed lowering the interest rate on bank loans for women running businesses to help them launch their trade under the Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loan Scheme The government’s aim for this ...
Only 2.5% of candidates were able to pass the written component of this year’s CSS exam According to the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan, out of 23,403 candidates that applied for the CSS exam ...
The indicted goes by Muhammad Sajjad, who has been awarded an 8 year sentence in jail in a case relating to Sajjad sharing a girl’s compromising photos online in spite A case had been registered ...
Meet the founder and current leader of the People’s Party of Canada Bernier was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec, the son of Doris (Rodrigue) and Gilles Bernier, a well-known radio host, who represented the riding of ...
An Iranian oil tanker was traveling through the Red Sea off the Saudi Arabia coast when two rockets struck the ship, resulting in an alarming explosion According to Iranian media, the explosion damaged two storerooms ...
Turkey is planning to attack North-east Syria’s Kurdish forces in a surprising move that may seem sudden and confusing to many. Here’s what you need to know about this developing story. It started with President ...
Three Pakistan Army Majors have been found guilty on charges of indiscipline and misconduct, or more specifically, for abusing their power and being involved in illegal activities The ISPR’s media wing issued a statement concerning ...
The former Prime Minister has been detained by the NAB and will be presented in front of an accountability court today The National Accountability Bureau had previously issued an arrest warrant that led to his ...
8-year old black girls ask Trudeau the question that has followed him everywhere on the campaign trail On September 19, 2019, a video surfaced of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dressed in blackface. Three ...
Pakistani Sepoy Naimat Wali was martyred and two village women injured as the Indian army resorted to ceasefire violations Inter-Services Public Relations issued a statement confirming that India had violated ceasefire regulations across the Line ...
An accountability court has extended the judicial remand of Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of PML-N, in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case An NAB prosecutor requested judge Jawadul Hassan to grant more time to file a ...
Elizabeth May is the Longest-Serving Leader as a Female of the Canadian Federal Party Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Elizabeth May immigrated to Canada with her family as a teenager. An environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer, ...
Becoming the Speaker of the House of Commons at age 32, Scheer became the youngest Speaker in the chamber’s history Andrew James Scheer PC MP (born 20 May 1979) is a Canadian politician serving as ...
PM Trudeau took the expected hits, but Jagmeet Singh may have left a lasting impression The English language leadership debate gave most Canadians their first chance to watch frontrunners, Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau have ...
In a recent Sindh Assembly session, PPP lawmakers turned down a bill against forced conversions for the second time This highly contradicts PPP’s claims of being advocates for minorities’ rights, something that they consider themselves ...
Recently, blogger Bilal Hussain visited the the Karachi neighbourhood, Lyari, to witness and showcase powerful murals done by local artists on the street walls. Bilal shared his experience on Instagram along with some pictures of ...
The Port’s Chinese operators have vowed to make the city the biggest contributor to Pakistan’s national economic output, with the estimate of 47,000 jobs being created for locals with new investments worth billions of dollars ...
Jimmy Dhaliwal is formally known as Jagmeet Singh MP, the social media star who wants to take over the NDP Singh, born January 2, 1979, is a Canadian lawyer and politician serving as leader of ...
If you’re living in Canada and wondering how exactly the government works, here’s a step by step guide to everything you need to know so you’re politically informed this Election Cycle. The Canadian Government operates ...
More than one hundred school buildings were destroyed in the Battagram district, and since then students have been forced to attend classes out in the open According to the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority, construction ...
The Turkish Red Crescent laid the first foundation stone as part of the restoration process of a 118 year old historical mosque in Punjab The mosque known as ‘Hazarat Ibrahim Mosque’ is located in the ...
The US will blacklist 28 Chinese entities that are allegedly involved in the abuse and rights violations of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region The ostracized organizations include video surveillance company Hikvision, ...
The National Assembly has passed the Zainab Alert Bill in order to set up an agency that will report and work on missing children cases The Bill will allow Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Agency ...
Indian authorities say the travel advisory on Indian-Occupied Kashmir will be lifted on Thursday, more than two months after the lockdown on the region after revoking its special status Thousands of tourists, pilgrims, and workers ...
The Sindh High Court has ordered provincial authorities to set up women rescue police centres in every branch of the province, and to discharge the endorsed amount of Rs.145 million for safe houses for women ...
The Ehsaas-Saylani Langar scheme is part of the government’s Ehsaas Programme which aims to defeat starvation in the country The scheme will commence in Islamabad in collaboration with the Saylani Trust, which is one of ...
Mark Zaid confirmed on Twitter that a second whistleblower would provide ‘firsthand information’ on events that brought about the impeachment order The mere notion of a second whistleblower with incriminating information on Trump’s alleged abuse ...
Today’s development in Moon Sighting Controversies features the Science Minister accusing the Committee for misinformation on Safar moon sighting In a media press release, the Federal Science and Technology Minister said, “[My ministry] has released ...
Mohammad Arif, the absconding brother of Qandeel Baloch has been apprehended by the Multan police with the help of Interpol. Qandeel Baloch, the outspoken social media sensation, was strangulated to death in July 2016. One ...
On 5 August 2019, the Indian Government abolished the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir- an area that has been the subject of dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since 1947. The special status ...
In the last couple of weeks, the Iraqi government has been subjected to surprise demonstrations from civilians in southern Iraq. After small outbursts here and there, the outcry did not come as a shock but ...
The recently arrested suspect for the rape and murder of four boys in Chunian, Kasur revealed he had been molested as a minor Upon confessing to his illicit crimes, Sohail Shehzada also disclosed during interrogation ...
A former Indian Supreme Court Judge warns the Muslim minority in the country of ruling BJP’s wrath, says Muslims in India will be treated like Jews in Germany The retired judge, who goes by Markandey ...
In a Mardan village, a PTI politician takes it upon himself to purchase and circulate burqas among schoolgirls The Village Councillor Muzafar Shah bought a number of burqas totalling to Rs. 100,000 and distributed them ...
The Peshawar High Court has issued a stay order to prevent local police from arresting a man believed to be behind an online anti-polio vaccination campaign The suspect, Azmat Khan, was charged for waging war ...
The White House will officially reject Trump’s impeachment requested by Democrats today The White House Counsel’s Office was reportedly writing up a letter to send to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in opposition of the impeachment ...
The government estimates that Pakistan’s total public debt will increase from Rs. 31 trillion to Rs. 45.57 trillion The ministry of finance has also calculated total external debt to jump up 80%, from Rs. 10.446tr ...
A court in London decreed that £35m present in a bank account would be given to the descendants of an Indian Royal, and not Pakistan The feud over the money started back in 1948, when ...
The military’s media department has issued a statement about the trending meeting the Army Chief Gen had with powerful business tycoons a while ago According to sources, tension at the dinner table conference escalated when ...
The Sindh government has seized 65 properties belonging to 4 banned organisations as part of measures being taken to stop terror financing Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah met with a US congressional delegation ...
The Supreme Court has implored the provincial governments to look into the possibility of accommodating visually impaired persons by giving replies in Braille format On Wednesday Mohammad Bilal, a disabled person, requested the court to ...
A large gathering of plastic bag manufacturers and workers put up a protest against the ban on production of plastic bags at The Mall, Lahore The ban on plastic bags will render over one million ...
The Prime Minister has ordered relevant authorities to construct a mobile application to track cases of child abuse and abduction in the country As reported by the Prime Minister Office’s Press Release, the app that ...
A team of Taliban members is currently calling on regional powers around the world after US Taliban peace talks halted last month, and their representative, Suhail Shaheen, has said they will be visiting Islamabad to ...
Two of the suspects arrested are confirmed to have been police officers The six suspects for the gang rape case from Karachi appeared in court on Tuesday, and were handed over to the police to ...
An asset recovery firm once hired by NAB during Musharraf’s regime, has laid a claim on London flats once owned by ex-PM Nawaz Sharif after failure to pay the $22M bill owed by NAB for ...
The Prime Minister will be visiting China some time next week, making this his third visit to the neighboring country this year. During his stay there, he is expected to meet the Chinese leadership and ...
India’s Supreme Court issued the order on Monday, giving the government until November 14 to file a response to the petitions protesting against annexation of Indian Occupied Kashmir. The petitions particularly highlight the communication blockade ...
India’s red meat exports have been falling, which is good news for Pakistan. Their exports to Gulf countries are reported to have dropped by 30%, which opens a space for Pakistan in the Middle Eastern ...
The Governor of The State Bank of Pakistan has reason to believe that the latest IMF loan programme will be the last, as the recent structural reforms being carried out with IMF’s help have enabled ...
18 International airlines have been ordered by The Aviation Division to stop using plastic cutlery and packaging during flights. “We have given directives to airlines that they cannot use plastic cutlery in the flights as ...
In a shocking move, Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the appointment of ambassador Munir Akram as Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, in place of Maleeha Lodhi, as part of ...
How It Happened: 24 year old Zoya Ayaz was crossing a pedestrian bridge when she came across a young man shamelessly masturbating out in the open. Where It Happened: Abu Bakr Block, New Garden Town, ...
India has ordered elections to take place in Indian Occupied Kashmir after nearly two months of illegally revoking J&K’s special status. The elections held will be for a council government, which is the second tier ...
Since 2014, cultural sites in Pakistan have gained popularity with tourists, with the number of visits going from 1.4 million to 2.7 million in five years. Punjab is reported to have a 95% contribution to ...
The Punjab Health Department reported that almost 200 cases of dengue have been registered in hospitals across the province during the last 24 hours, bringing the tally up to 3377 from the start of this ...
The Afghan Taliban have been bombing various areas in Afghanistan throughout the two month campaign for the presidential elections. Voting is now underway, despite the Taliban’s repeated warnings of intentions to attacking the polling centres. ...
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari spent Friday holding meetings in Larkana, in efforts to boost their PS-11 by-election campaign. The PPP leader met with representatives of different parties at Naudero House with Provincial Party President Nisar ...
The Rawalpindi District Police organised a march in solidarity with Kashmir and condemnation of India’s annexation of IOK. Led by City Police Officer, Muhammad Faisal Rana, the rally started at Murree Road and concluded at ...
The Balochistan high court election tribunal has declared Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri’s as void and ordered a re-election in the NA-265 (Quetta II) constituency. The tribunal has not announced a date for the re-election, ...
IHC Awaits Results On Drug Abuse In Schools The Islamabad High Court had summoned Islamabad Deputy Commissioner to discuss the case related to increasing drug usage in schools in the capital. The Commissioner was ordered ...
A young woman passed away after falling from the fourth floor of Bahria University in Islamabad, according to police and hospital staff. 23 year old Haleema Amin was an undergrad student in her second semester ...
India has reportedly deployed warships, submarines, maritime patrol aircraft and fighter jets to keep track of a major naval exercise by Pakistan in the North Arabian Sea, which will include missile and rocket firings as ...
Bill & Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Pakistan for its Ehsas initiative on poverty alleviation, under which it will provide Pakistan an amount of 200 million ...
This is the second such case to come from a KPK institution where they have taken back a culture-fuelled ban. The administration of Baccha Khan University’s Charsadda Campus reversed the prudish decision to ban ‘coupling’ ...
The leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (among others) are reportedly involved in India’s ‘biggest’ ever ‘quid pro quo sex scandal’, according to Times of India. The scandal made headlines when a ‘honeytrap probe’ was launched ...
As many as 579 Pakistani prisoners have been released from the jails of Saudi Arabia ever since Saudi Prince Muhammad Bin Salman’s visit to Islamabad earlier this year, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
The real estate capitalist and his son, Ali Riaz, will attend a hearing at an anti-corruption court on October 15, regarding a land fraud case. This development comes after the pair missed the scheduled hearing ...
A notice found at Block 6 of Machiyara Residency, Clifton forbids non-Muslims from coming in to purchase or rent property in the area. The images tweeted this morning by Sikandar Ali Hullio show the sign ...
The Accountability Court has furthered the physical remand of Maryam Nawaz and her cousin Yousuf Abbas for the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case by eight more days, according to Geo News. The two were first arrested ...
US President Donald Trump is behind another controversy over India and Pakistan by asserting that the Indian leader was “very aggressive” in his remarks about Pakistan there and that he had not expected him to ...
National Health Services representative, Dr. Zafar Mirza, says Punjab holds the record for most dengue cases as the number of afflicted people in the country increases. “There are 11,783 dengue patients at present in the ...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, during which he highlighted the need for a solution through dialogue rather than war between Pakistan and India. In his ...
Fom September 6 to September 13, the government’s borrowings increased by Rs443.5 billion to Rs899 billion. The amount obtained (Rs455.8bn) is almost equal to the initial amount borrowed the week before, from July 1 to ...
The Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani has said that the provincial government will award Rs 100, 000 to anyone who ‘films and identifies people discarding garbage’ on Karachi streets. Ghani gave the media two mobile ...
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government wants to turn the province into the historic centerpiece of Imran Khan’s tourism project. The area is popular among adventurers and explorers for its varying landscapes ranging from rocky mountains, valleys, hills ...
The Board of Directors of the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) approved 10 projects on Monday for disaster risk reduction costing Rs4.9 billion, including a grant of Rs3.6bn. According to an official statement, these ...
A female anti-dengue team member was held back and others beaten up by a group of people from a house in Morgah, Rawalpindi. The head of the team, Shahbaz Ali Malik, lodged a complaint to ...
On 5 August 2019, the Indian Government abolished the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir- an area that has been the subject of dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since 1947. The special status ...
Parents in Lahore gathered at Liberty Roundabout on Saturday in a demonstration against the government and private schools who are not carrying out orders by the Supreme Court about the fee issue. The protestors were ...
Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) MNA’s were released from jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur district this Saturday, according to sources. This development comes after two days from the two lawmakers being granted bail by the Peshawar ...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice Javed Iqbal said the bureau filed 600 corruption references in various accountability courts during the last 22 months. “The figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double ...
Zartaj Gul, Pakistan’s Climate Minister, was invited to attend the Climate March in Islamabad on Friday. The Minister surprised everyone though, when she took credit for organising the march itself. Ofcourse, the Climate March was ...
In some countries, the march has just begun. In many others, throngs of people have dispersed as their spirit echoed through the streets. Let’s take a look at some of the best slogans and more ...
Modi is expected to head to the US on his official tour and reach Houston by tomorrow. After the announcement of his official trip the hashtag #HowdyModi started to circulate on social media. And as ...
Larkana police have arrested two of Nimrita Kumari’s classfellows for suspected murder of the deceased BDS student. The police informed media outlets that the students were brought in on Wednesday after tracing call data from ...
Following the discovery of three young boys’ remains in Kasur, PM Imran Khan has issued a statement assuring civilians that the local police force’s inefficiency in preventing the murder and suspected rape of the missing ...
A powerful truck bomb went off near a hospital in Southern Afghanistan this morning, killing around 20 civilians and wounding 95 others. The Taliban have taken accountability for the attack in Qalat, the capital of ...
Salahuddin Ayubi, who had gone viral online in a video of him allegedly robbing an ATM, had died in police custody a day after his arrest; his father Muhammad Afzaal had claimed he had undergone ...
Three of the four children’s remains have been discovered almost three months after their kidnapping, near Chunian bypass. Muhammad Imran, aged 12, Ali Husnain, aged 8, Salman, aged 9, and Faizan, aged 8, went missing ...
Actor Riz Ahmed and actress Jameela Jamil have withdrawn from the Goalkeepers Event, in which PM Narendra Modi will receive an award by Bill Gates. The Gates Foundation, run by Bill and Melinda Gates, is ...
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