Category: Politics
A man who burnt five women, including his wife and mother-in-law to death has confessed to the crime, saying he was “extremely angry” that his wife had allegedly cheated on him, police confirmed on Thursday. ...
A mentally-handicapped woman was reportedly gang-raped in Tehsil Paharpur District in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Three men forcibly broke into the house of the victim at midnight and sexually assaulted her. Later, the ...
Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday barred Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) from the screening of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha. The committee said that it would decide the film’s fate after reviewing ...
The novel coronavirus is continuing its spread in Pakistan. Pakistan has reported a total of 21 cases. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has declared the virus a global pandemic. The most important recommendation during this ...
Women have filed a petition in Lahore High court seeking to halt the authorities from conducting virginity tests. The petition was filed on Wednesday, which states that virginity tests such as ‘‘two-finger test’ and examination ...
Another coronavirus case has been confirmed in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Skardu pushing the national count to 21. The patient is a 31-year-old man. He returned to Pakistan from Iran on February 25. And has recently been diagnosed ...
As Pakistan moves towards its first-ever electric three wheeled rickshaws to reduce air pollution and curb climate change, the country is struggling to shift its momentum to electric vehicles. What is the National Electric Vehicle ...
The Punjab government has declared medical emergency as 20 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the country this week. “All the departments have to work together with the health department,” Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid ...
To contain the spread of coronavirus, India has suspended all the tourist visas till April 15, after the total tally of cases has reached 60 in the country. Its government has said that all the ...
The New York Times published a report in Thursday, stating that evidence was discovered the the New Delhi police “concertedly moved against Muslims” and “actively helped Hindu mobs” target the homes of Muslim families. This ...
The Trump administration has said that the European Union has failed to take the same precautions as the US while fighting the virus. Based on the presidential proclamation published after Trump’s address, the ban applies ...
The Sindh health department released an advisory for students after announcing to reopen schools and colleges as scheduled on March 16. The department has advised students to avoid crowded places and while at school, keep ...
Government College University (GCU) has been accused of firing a Political Science teacher Zaighum Abbas for being ‘political’ on campus, and for enabling the students to debate and think critically. Zaighum Abbas posted a status ...
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Wednesday launched an inquiry after Australian journalist Dennis Freedman accused that an immigration official at the Allama Iqbal International Airport demanded money from him for facilitation. Freedman who came ...
Four persons each were killed when a roof collapsed in Swabi and a snow avalanche hit three vehicles in Abbottabad, administration officials and police said on Wednesday. The first incident occurred in Mohallah Balarkhel area ...
British prime minister Boris Johnson once again refused to apologise over his derogatory and offensive remarks about Muslim women as well as the increasing incidents of Islamophobia in his party. The issues were raised by ...
The World Health Organisation has officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on Wednesday. WHO Director, General Tedros Adhamon Ghebreyesus, said the organisation was “deeply concerned” by the rapid spread of the viral disease ...
If you’re trying to stop touching your face to help keep from spreading coronavirus, being shamed by this website might just do the trick. Get to know more People have picked up some weird habits ...
Five former/current political officials have died, and the man heading the iranian government’s response to the COVID-19 has contracted the virus himself. Know more A former Iranian lawmaker became the latest and fifth high-profile death ...
Vladimir Putin has moved one step closer to joining the “Presidents for Life” club. Get to know more On Tuesday, President Putin backed proposals from Russian lawmakers that would clear the way for him to ...
Two extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say. What happened? Rangers had found the carcasses of the female and her calf in a village in Kenya A third ...
Gigit Baltistan reported its second coronavirus case on Wednesday, a spokesperson for GB government said. According to the spokesperson, the patient, a 14-year-old hails from Skardu is under treatment at City Hospital in Skardu. The ...
The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has announced that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will table a bill in the National Assembly for the creation of the South Punjab province. The foreign minister made the ...
A Pakistani family living in Hong Kong has responded to coronavirus fears by distributing face masks and sanitary products among the local people to help them stay safe and healthy, reported al-Jazeera on Tuesday. The demand of ...
Pakistan has reported 18 confirmed coronavirus cases, out of which 15 belong to Karachi, and who have travelled to Iran or have migrated back from Iran or china. US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has postponed ...
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim to offer expert advice on the novel coronavirus, including symptoms, prevention and how it spreads. This is misleading; experts and health agencies say there is not enough research ...
Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 aircraft crashed in Islamabad during the rehearsals of 23rd March parade, a spokesperson for the force said on Wednesday. Rescue teams have been dispatched towards the site of the crash, he ...
Organizers have rescheduled the Coachella music festival until October over coronavirus fear. The two-weekend music festival that was to take place in April will now take place over the weekends starting Friday October 9 and ...
Two of the three suspects named in the murder case of a woman and her four children were arrested Tuesday night, with another yet to be apprehended, Thatta SSP Dr Muhammad Imran Khan confirmed. The arrested suspects were ...
As the religious discrimination and torture continues in India against Indian Muslims. Pakistani Hindus celebrate Holi under the free and open sky of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hindus across Pakistan celebrated Holi, the festival ...
A woman and her daughter were arrested for killing the man who allegedly blackmailed them, officials reported. Police found the body of the man 25 days ago in Mansoorabad and were on the lookout for ...
Even before Joe Biden romped in another big primary night on Tuesday, Democrats were already talking about the next move: how to get Bernie Sanders out of the race. More than two dozen political operatives ...
An 11-year-old Ahmadi boy was allegedly killed by his neighbours on February 27 in Shahdra. According to the Ahmadi community’s monthly report on its persecution, the victim’s dead body was found in a steel trunk ...
Dubai’s sheikh was allegedly lining up his 11-year-old daughter to marry Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who is 22 years her senior, a UK court heard yesterday. Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum reportedly discussed the ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. Earnings of major global companies could fall 10% this year, Citigroup ...
Two more coronavirus cases reported in Sindh, taking Pakistan’s tally to 18. The Sindh health department confirmed the two cases on. The cases are from Karachi and Hyderabad. The patient in Karachi has a travel ...
Employee of an anti-terrorism court in Lahore was shot dead while he was travelling to work, according to the police. “Muhammad Hanif was going to office on his motorcycle when unknown men opened fire at ...
Claimed to be a first time for an initiative like this in Pakistan, the portal will provide the public open access to estimates regarding poverty for every district in Pakistan, along with over 120 development and ...
A group of men have been caught beating a woman and occupying her land in Khanpur. A video of the incident was shared with a reliable media source aswell. The video shows a group of ...
A 48-year-old professor of a government college was killed by two unknown men on a motorcycle in Lahore. “Just like every day, Zulfiqar was leaving the house in the morning for college,” his brother, Syed ...
Officer of the Pakistan Army was martyred as security forces foiled a terrorist attack in Dera Ismail Khan, the ISPR said in a statement. The martyred officer, Colonel Mujeebur Rehman; was a resident of Bunji in ...
WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has set a disclaimer that “the threat of a pandemic has become very real”. He told reporters that “even if we call it a pandemic, still we can contain it ...
Three men killed and four injured over a property dispute in Faisalabad The police have filed a case against ten suspects including Faisalabad Lines Area ASI Aijaz and Constable Ajmal. None of them, however, have ...
The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 114,000 across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries, causing greater economic damage. The European Parliament considers calling off this week’s plenary session, two ...
A man has returned home after a drug addict misidentified as him was buried in a village near here. Local officials said that Mohammad Aslam, resident of Chak 3-14 L, was a drug addict and ...
Almost 200 North Korean soldiers have been killed by coronavirus as the killer virus sweeps the isolated regime, according to reports. The secretive state has not recorded a single case of coronavirus since it surfaced in ...
A dunkin donut factory was temporarily sealed after being caught using substandard and expired products in Karachi’s SITE Industrial area. The Sindh Food Authority conducted a raid at the Dunkin Donuts factory and found expired ...
PM’s Special Assistant on Health Dr Zafar Mirza confirms that Pakistan has detected nine new cases of the coronavirus. He said that the new cases are contacts of an already confirmed case and have caught ...
The police registered a case against three men on charges of attempting to rape a seven-year-old child in Shujabad. The child has been shifted to a hospital and is said has started healing. The Saddar ...
Italy has extended its emergency coronavirus measures, which include travel restrictions and a ban on public gatherings, to the entire country. On Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered people to stay home and seek permission ...
Sindh’s fifth case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the metropolis, a spokesperson for the provincial health department said on Monday, as reported by Geo News. Who is the patient? The patient, a 53-year-old man, ...
TRIGGER WARNING: Warning: This article contains references to rape, sexual assault and revenge porn. An online petition accusing Pornhub, the UK’s biggest open access porn site, from profiting from videos of rape and sexual abuse has reached ...
Stock markets in Europe and the US are bracing for their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis after the trading week began with panic amid the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an ...
United Kingdom’s main opposition party suspended membership of Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, after Islamophobia allegations surfaced against him. Phillips is being investigated over his past comments, including ...
Five employees arrested during a raid at a cement factory by officers of the district government. The factory located on Peshawar’s Inqilab Road has been sealed for manufacturing sub-standard cement. Considering recent cases of poorly ...
21 killed while four others injured on after a passenger coaster fell into River Sindh in Rondu tehsil of Skardu district. Gilgit-Baltistan government spokesman Faizullah Faraq said the dead include two children. Faraq also stated ...
A case was filed at the Kohsar police station on behalf of City Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza. The FIR mentioned offenses of sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence ...
A Pakistani student’s visa has been cancelled by the Royal Holloway University despite the fact that student met attendance requirements of the University after a warning on attendance was issued to him. Shafay Shoaib, a ...
Four people murdered, including a woman and children after two men broke into their house in Lahore’s Green Town. A woman and a child were also injured. They have been shifted to a hospital. And ...
At least 19 people were killed near Gilgit Baltistan’s Rondu district on Monday when a passenger bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ravine, reported Geo News. A spokesperson for the ...
Five bodies have been found in a house in Thatta’s Jhampir. The police have identified them as a woman and her four sons. Who are suspected to be forcefully poisoned or had committed suicide. According ...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has ordered the lockdown of the country’s northern region of Lombardy and 14 provinces in an attempt to halt the spread of a novel coronavirus. The move, announced on Saturday, places ...
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday said he would self-quarantine after he had contact with a CPAC political conference attendee who tested positive for coronavirus – reporter Reuter’s. Cruz “briefly interacted” with the person at ...
The government is set to award scholarships worth Rs. 12 billion during the current year, Science & Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry said. While addressing participants at the Global Development Workshop, organised by the UK-Pakistan Science ...
Activists of rights organisations, political and religious parties and other civil society organisations on Sunday arranged parallel events in different cities to mark International Women’s Day in an unprecedented show of strength though also exposing ...
The Supreme Court has declared that a husband has no “right” over his wife’s property without her consent. The fundamental rights in the Constitution include the ‘right to acquire, hold and dispose of property’ and ...
After the scriptwriter Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar’s verbal abuse and misogynist comments against activist Marvi Sirmed on live television, her phone number and email address have been leaked online. Sirmed stated that she has been getting rape ...
The right-wing Hindu pogroms against Muslims erupted in India’s capital city of New Delhi on February 23, after months of tension and protests over two anti-Muslim policies supported by the national government. India has a ...
50-year-old prisoner passed away at Chandka Hospital, Larkana after he was admitted in a critical condition on Friday. The man identified as Gulzar Ghanghoro, was found unconscious in his cell at the Larkana Central Jail. ...
Civil society and Aurat Azadi March organisers on Friday rejected what they called religious and rightwing political parties’ propaganda and threats against the march and reiterated to continue their struggle for basic rights. At a ...
Two drug dealers arrested for supplying drugs to university students in Islamabad, according to the police. More than one kilogramme of hashish was confiscated from them, which was ordered by a student of a reputed ...
Following the outbreak of coronavirus in China and reporting of a few cases in Pakistan, the demand for hand sanitisers has increased dramatically, which is feared to spark price hike as the supply of raw material ...
Two children were killed and five people injured after the roof of a house collapsed in Badh Bir, Peshawar. The rescue team immediately arrived the scene after the neighbours called following the incident. They had ...
A 60-year-old doctor has been accused of attempting to rape a 10-year-old girl at a clinic in Bahawalpur, according to the to police. The doctor had bribed the girl with chocolates to have her come ...
The government announced its support for Aurat March on the occasion of International Women’s Day and expressed the hope that the participants of the march would not harm the honor and dignity of the country, ...
Peshawar’s historic Sunehri Masjid on Friday opened its doors to female worshippers for the first time since 1996, a move warmly welcomed by women of the neighbourhood. Nearly 15-20 women offered Friday prayers after the ...
PEMRA has issued advisory guidelines to all media channels about the kind of content being aired to cover ‘World Women Day’. It has been instructed to be “mindful” of the content being televised. The guidelines ...
Pakistan’s first patient of the novel coronavirus has recovered, Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab confirmed as the global number of individuals with COVID-19 passed 100,000. The Sindh health department spokesperson said the patient had been ...
Saudi Arabia’s two most prominent royals were suddenly detained on Friday morning reportedly by masked royal guards and face up to a lifetime in prison for alleged treason. Go Deeper: Even by Crown Prince Mohamed bin ...
The Lahore High Court has banned the use of polythene bags in hotels and shops in Lahore. During a hearing on Friday, the court gave shops and hotels two weeks to phase out plastic bags ...
A three-member committee has been formed in Malakand University to investigate the allegations of sexual harassment brought by a Chinese student against her professor, The News reported Friday. Quoting unnamed sources, the report said a Chinese student who ...
A woman allegedly slapped a nurse at Okara’s District Hospital for stopping her from filming inside the hospital premises. The police say that the nurse had stopped the woman from making the video inside a ...
The threat of coronavirus is growing globally and six cases have already been reported in Pakistan. To help people who feel like they might have the symptoms, Dawn reached out to health officials to understand the process through which one can be ...
According to the police, the friend’s body was found floating in the canal. And upon investigation the three other friends were immediately arrested. The person was a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, and had been missing for ...
Nearly 90 percent of the world’s population — of every gender — holds some prejudice against women, according to a UN study published Thursday, ahead of International Women’s Day. The United Nations Development Programme studied ...
Responding to a query about the Aurat March, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said he has little knowledge about the objectives of the Aurat March. “However, the slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi is indecency,” he said and ...
TikTok claims another life in India as a young guy was killed while shooting a video on railway tracks. Vikas was electrocuted by the railway tracks, killing him instantly. In a desperate attempt to make ...
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has placed a ban on employees from greeting each other with handshakes and hugs amid Coronavirus fears. ICT administration has issued several other precautionary measures for its employees that ...
Three residential buildings in Karachi’s Golimar area collapsed on Thursday, killing 11 and wounding more than a dozen people, officials said. MLO Abbasi Shaheed Hospital informed that bodies of seven women, three children and one ...
Pakistan’s sixth case of novel coronavirus was reported in Karachi on Thursday. The patient was identified as a 69-year-old male residing in the city’s District East. Taking notice of the case, Sindh Chief Minister Murad ...
Pakistan ranked as the 76th out of 100 countries on the inclusive internet index 2020 released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), placed into the last quarter of the global index overall. They ranked Pakistan ...
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari told Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the cabinet has approved a bill to ban corporal punishment for children, adding that the same would be introduced for debate and ...
Around 290 million students are out of school right now as the intensity of the coronavirus grows everyday. Over 95,000 people are infected and over 3,200 have died to the deadly disease that is now ...
The United Arab Emirates warned its citizens and their foreign residents not to travel anywhere abroad during the ongoing worldwide coronavirus outbreak. There are now over 3,150 cases of the virus across the Middle East. ...
The Matric board issued announced that the exams would begin March 16. However, private schools in Sindh have a major problem with that as the schools had been closed due to coronavirus and are to ...
A man doused his wife and mother-in-law in acid allegedly over a domestic spat in the district’s Ahmedpur East city, police confirmed on Wednesday. According to police, the women sustained burn wounds and were immediately shifted ...
The Senate on Wednesday approved by a majority the much-awaited Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Act, 2020, while Jamaat-e-Islami voted against the legislation and PML-N senators wanted amendments to it, questioning the haste in passage ...
Indian Prime Minister Modi’s government imposed a communications blackout in August last year and stripped the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) of its special autonomous status. The IOK administration has reached out to a US-based multinational software firm Cisco Systems in order to prevent fixed-line internet users ...
Two separate groups of women from the riot-hit areas of north-east Delhi, one of which was present at the Chand Bagh protest on Monday, and one which was present at the violence perpetrated at Shiv ...
Former US envoy to Pakistan Cameron Munter said on Wednesday that in his opinion, India and Pakistan are likely to fight a war in future over sharing of water resources. The former US ambassador was ...
According to sources, the government will help low-income families in purchasing wheat, oil, sugar, pulses, and other basic commodities. The cabinet also decided to allocate a significant amount of funds in the upcoming budget for ...
Saudi Arabia has extended the ban on the entry of Umrah pilgrims and tourists hailing from coronavirus hit countries including Pakistan till 31st March. Considering the ongoing situation following the global outbreak of Coronavirus, people ...
New Zealand police arrested a 19-year-old man over an “abhorrent” threat made during the week against one of the Christchurch mosques targeted in a mass shooting last year. As New Zealand prepares to mark the ...
Delhi has been in absolute turmoil since the past few weeks. Muslims are being subjected to extreme violence and though many Indians have spoken up against the riots, the few number of killers however, feel ...
It’s no new news that Khalil ur Rehman has said something controversial again, but after yesterday’s panel discussion on a recent show where he degrades the fellow women panellist Marvi Sirmed, it’s safe to say ...
Jalila Haider, a human rights activist from Balochistan, will receive the International Women of Courage award from US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday, said an official announcement. The US State Department’s spokesperson’s office ...
Facebook and Telenor launched a joint programme to train 1,000 Pakistani girls and women in digital skills to help them achieve financial empowerment and society independence. Facebook would train the women and girls through its ...
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah informed his cabinet on Tuesday that he had ordered the purchase of 5,000 coronavirus testing kits and released Rs100 million for adopting preventive measures against the deadly virus ...
Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has imposed a ban on display of cigarettes at sale points. Dr Mohammad Zia, Technical Head of ministry’s Tobacco Control Cell said that shopkeepers will now have to keep ...
Everyday something harrowing happens and women are reminded of their oppression. Yesterday, on Tuesday, a mural which was being painted for Aurat March was vandalised by clerics from Lal Masjid in Islamabad. In a post ...
Body of an 18-year-old student was found from the washroom of a private academy on Lahore’s Wahdat Road. His family had filed a missing persons report at the Muslim Town police station on Monday night. ...
Amid fears of a looming pandemic, scientists in the US and across the globe are scrambling to develop vaccines – including in Israel, where one group of researchers says it could be ready in just ...
The US Congresswoman from New York called out US President Donald Trump and said “We must not enable this rise in sectarian violence.” The Narendra Modi government attracted more criticism over the violence in Delhi with US ...
Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) showed its support towards the Aurat March and condemned the threats being hurled against the participants and organizers. They stated that march and peaceful protests are part of the human rights ...
Pope Francis has been tested for coronavirus after he fell ill and was forced to cancel a religious retreat near Rome. Reports say he has tested negative. The pontiff had been due to go to ...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted Monday evening (local time) that he was thinking about giving up on his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Modi, whose 53 million followers on Twitter make him one of the most popular figures ...
Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed its fifth case of the novel coronavirus in the country. According to National Institutes of Health (NIH) the patient is a 45-year-old woman from the northern mountainous region of Gilgit Baltistan, ...
The Taliban are to resume attacks against government forces, just days after signing a deal with the US aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan. Blast hits football ground in eastern Afghanistan. At least three people ...
A Pakistani man’s arrest uncovered a gang that was smuggling drugs to the United Kingdom in lehengas. The suspect identified as Najam Rafique was arrested in Dadyal. Najam was caught in possession of several packs ...
The execution of four men convicted of the brutal gang-rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus in 2012 was indefinitely postponed by a court on Monday. The special court last month ruled the ...
Thousands of Muslims from China’s Uighur minority group are working under coercive conditions at factories that supply some of the world’s biggest brands, a new report says. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute said this was ...
The licenses of 25 private education institutes in Karachi that were open on Monday — despite the Sindh government’s order a day earlier to close in light of the coronavirus outbreak — have been suspended. A press ...
Global death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 today after dozens more died at its epicentre in China and cases soared around the world, with a second fatality on US soil. The virus ...
Popular turkish writer and Author of the famous The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak shared her admiration for education activist and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousufzai, in an Instagram post. She mentioned that she was ...
Karachi Police arrested four suspects and recovered a huge stock of surgical masks, which were apparently hoarded to be sold on higher prices amid the coronavirus outbreak scare in the country. Police said that more ...
Around Rs 24 billion will be spent on the four-year programme meant to support 200,000 students, half of them girls, from low-income backgrounds. As part of the Ehsaas scholarships policy, two per cent scholarships will ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has been an advocate of peace for quite sometime now. His contributions to not just inner state conflicts but also conflicts with neighboring countries have been commendable. From the beautiful gesture ...
Pakistan has confirmed four cases so far but all of them had a travel history to Iran. Afghanistan has also reported coronavirus cases. And has not taken any strong precautionary measures. The Pakistani authorities sealed ...
Pete Buttigieg, the former Indiana mayor who made an ambitious run for president, has announced he is ending his campaign for the White House. The 38-year-old became the first openly gay presidential candidate from a ...
PPP leaders Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari and Farhatullah Babar lent their support to the upcoming Aurat March 2020, issuing statements to show solidarity for the rally on International Women Day. PPP leader and party chairperson Bilawal’s ...
The Sindh government on Sunday decided to keep all educational institutions in the province closed until March 13 in view of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus. The decision was taken by Sindh Chief ...
Last year, 50 cases of physical harassment were reported, whereas the number of complaints of uploading inappropriate content on social media platforms reached 1,500. According to cybercrime officers, several people arrested have confessed to robbing ...
Sindh Rangers on Saturday carried out a raid in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal locality in Karachi and recovered more than 70,000 surgical masks, reported Geo News. The raid came a day after the Supreme Court ordered the government to ...
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has issued a strong statement against the Aurat March saying that his party would not allow ‘vulgarity’ and ‘obscenity’ in the name of human rights. While addressing a ...
Four people were arrested today on charges of robbing houses of different people in Karachi’s Defence with the help of maids working there. They say that the maid would work as intel and let the ...
In his plea, Rizwan Nawab, a resident of Lahore, said that the release of what he termed was a new song for the ongoing Pakistan Super League “will damage the rating and popularity of PSL ...
The European Union will provide a grant of €13 million for improving public sector financial management in the federal and provincial governments of Sindh and Balochistan. The financing agreement on ‘Public Financial Management Support Programme-II’ ...
A Christian labourer, who was brutally beaten up by local landowners in Kasur three days ago on accusations that he had ‘polluted’ their tube-well water by bathing in it, succumbed to his injuries on Friday ...
Saudi Arabia on Friday barred citizens from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from entering two of Muslim’s holiest cities amid fears over the new coronavirus, the foreign ministry said. The decision to halt access ...
The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) comprising global digital media giants have banded together against the government’s newly-introduced social media rules, threatening to suspend services if the laws were not amended. In a scathing letter written to Prime ...
Indian poet and activist Aamir Aziz on Thursday became an internet sensation in Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan shared a video of British songwriter Roger Waters reciting verses from the poetry of Aziz to ...
Hong Kong’s government announced it will give permanent residents 18 years and older a one-time payment of $1,284 as well as tax breaks for companies, as part of relief efforts to combat the economic havoc ...
It’s taken 120 years, but the U.S. government has finally made lynching a federal crime. On Wednesday, the House passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, named for the black teen who was lynched in Mississippi ...
Indian police have arrested 514 people for deadly Hindu-Muslim violence that broke out in the capital. Police said the toll from days of blood-letting stood at 35, but local media, citing unnamed sources, said it ...
In second such decision, an anti-harassment ombudsman has found two officers of the Sindh health department guilty of harassing their female colleague. Official sources said on Thursday that the Sindh Ombudsman for the Protection against ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted a video of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters speaking out against the “fascist, racist citizenship law” introduced by the Modi government. Talking about activist Aamir Aziz’s poem at an event in ...
Azhar Siddique, who had moved the Lahore High Court against the Aurat March 2020, changed his stance in the court during Thursday’s hearing. He said that he never wanted to stop the march from taking ...
China recently reported 29 more deaths from the hands of the widely and rapidly spreading coronavirus, raising the death toll to 2,774 according to the National Health Commission. The commission reported 433 new cases, with ...
Upon the visit of US President Donald Trump to Ahmedabad, India. 27 people were murdered in riots that took place in Delhi. The clashes in Delhi left at least 27 people dead. Protests against a ...
At a White House briefing, Trump defended his administration’s handling of the crisis and said health experts were “ready, willing and able” to move quickly if the virus spreads. The rumors of coronavirus reaching the ...
A nation that was once proud of Imran Khan, has today made Imran Khan proud of them. In February 2019, Indian Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman’s plane was shot down in a fight over Azad Jammu ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing a ceremony being held on the eve of first anniversary of ‘Pakistan’s Responsible and Resolute Response to Indian Aggression of 26th February 2019’. A few weeks ago, the news came out that Pakistan ...
An episode of John Oliver’s show that criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been blocked in India by Hotstar, the local platform run by Walt Disney Co. The comedian was previewing President Donald Trump’s visit to ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the international community to take action against the deadly violence against muslims in India’s capital, New Delhi. 20 people have lost their lives in the clashes between anti and ...
Wednesday afternoon – The body of an 18-year-old has been discovered inside the lion’s cage at Lahore Safari Park. The victim as been identified as Bilal, who was reported missing by his family two days ...
Imran Khan tweeted earlier talking about the riots of delhi and warned the Pakistani’s to not get involved in any discriminatory activities. The Premier said that his predictions about fascism in India have be proven ...
The Punjab government denied former Prime Minsiter Nawaz Sharif’s bail extension. The government then also declared him an “absconder” for violating the bail requirements. “After Nawaz Sharif failed to submit his medical report of any ...
“Another update of the disgraceful act, vandalising a mosque!” the president said in a tweet posted hours earlier. “It seems to be a reminder to Muslims of the Babri Masjid episode.” said the President in ...
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh had threatened Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shikarpur Dr. Muhammad Rizwan, who sanctioned a written letter to Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Dr. ...
Malala Yousafzi and Greta Thunberg — two of the most iconic young women in activism of the last 10 years — got to hang out. Malala, who began her career advocating for girls’ education in Pakistan and ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said they ultimately expect the novel coronavirus to spread in the United States and are urging local governments, businesses, and schools to develop plans like canceling mass ...
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attempted to gag media amid deadly violence in New Delhi that has killed nearly 20 people in the last three days. The move came as 17 ...
Three men allegedly raped a teenage girl continuously for three months after they filmed the ordeal and blackmailed her with the video clip, police said Tuesday. According to police, one of the three alleged rapists ...
A mosque in Ashok Nagar was set on fire late on Tuesday afternoon. A mob shouting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Hinduon ka Hindustan” paraded around the burning mosque, and a Hanuman flag was placed on ...
Iran’s deputy health minister has tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, as it struggles to contain an outbreak that has killed 15 people. In a video, Iraj Harirchi said he was self-isolating and starting ...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak – ousted by the military in 2011 – has died in Cairo at the age of 91. Mubarak spent three decades in office before a popular uprising swept Egypt. His ...
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was denied on extension of his bail by the Punjab Government. \Stating that the PML-N supremo has failed to provide the required medical reports. “The committee has decided that Nawaz’s ...
Ahsan Iqbal was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for his alleged involvement in the Narowal Sports City project case and was accused of corruption. The former prime minister was arrested by the accountability watchdog for allegedly ...
Qatar has invited Pakistan to attend the signing of US-Taliban peace deal to be held in Doha on February 29, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. The invitation was extended by Qatar’s ambassador to Pakistan ...
British comedian John Oliver has slammed Indian prime minister Modi over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that triggered deadly protests across India for the last two months. In the latest episode of his famous ...
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh Monday issued notices to the federal and provincial governments on an application seeking a permanent ban on the upcoming Aurat March for being “anti-state” and “un-Islamic.” “Aurat ...
Karnataka agriculture minister BC Patil has said that there should be a shoot at sight law brought in the country for those who raise pro-Pakistan slogans or speak ill of India. Speaking to media on ...
There is quite a lot of commotion on the eastern side of the Pakistan-India border about Trump’s raving statement made about Pakistan in a stadium full of 100,000 Indians as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked ...
The Aurat March, has faced much backlash from the masses, with massive trolling on social media and incidents where their murals have been covered or torn down. The movement faces another blow as the Lahore ...
So there may be many ways of looking at the President of the United States but to look at him as Bahubali is quite honestly ridiculously funny. Trump has arrived and is in the midst ...
United States President Trump flaunts relationship with Pakistan upon arrival in India. Addressing a gigantic Indian crowd Trump mentioned that the US and Pakistan have a very good relationship and that Washington was working with ...
Fawad Choudhry, the Federal Minister for Science and Technology has applauded the courageous Indian female activist, Amulya Leona. But who is this girl? The courageous activist is Amulya Leona, that chanted “Pakistan Zindabad” on stage ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced his resignation, making the way for a possible formation of a new government. Mahathir said in a two line statement that he had informed the king of his ...
Saudi Arabia has introduced one-year multiple entry visit visas for Pakistanis and all other applicants who have a valid UK, US or Schengen visa stamped on their passports, foreign media reported on Sunday. The new ...
Pakistan on Sunday closed its land border with Iran, while Afghanistan suspended travel to the neighbouring country as fears across the region continued to grow over a jump in new coronavirus infections. The latest Pakistan ...
India has suspended mobile Internet in Aligarh, a city in the Uttar Pradesh state, for at least six hours, according to NDTV, after violent clashes broke out between authorities and activists protesting a controversial citizenship law. ...
Although, Trump has zero credibility to talk about religious freedom. Considering the horrid incidents that took place in the US, all part of the toxicity of Islamaphobia. But it is calming to know that someone ...
Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that Pakistan was closely involved in the process that led to the announcement of the upcoming peace deal between the United States and Afghanistan. Calling ...
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has discovered gold deposits estimated to be around 3,000 tonnes and worth Rs 12 lakh crore in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, almost five times India’s current reserve of ...
Imran Khan does not believe that any solution for the Kashmir problem will reach consensus during the present government in India as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-led Narendra Modi regime is bent upon ethnic cleansing of ...
In a recent article written by the Global Citizen, it was claimed that Pakistani courts have the law that child marriage is justifiable if the minor has had their first period. However, this is false ...
Amulya Leona, who made headlines for raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans yesterday at Owaisi’s Bangalore rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act, has been disowned by her father over what he called her insensible, shocking misdemeanour. Her ...
College students living in a hostel in the western Indian state of Gujarat complained that they were made to strip and show their underwear to female teachers to prove they were not menstruating. 68 young ...
A Chinese diplomat on Thursday backed Pakistan’s decision not to evacuate Pakistani students from the province at the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, a day after parents confronted government ministers demanding their children be brought ...
The Taliban’s deputy leader has said that despite mutual distrust, the group will soon sign an agreement with the United States to reduce violence for seven days, while reaffirming that they are “fully committed” to ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan will launch the Rs 15 billion “Ehsaas Amdan (income) Programme” – one of several programmes under the Ehsaas umbrella, in Layyah today. What is the Ehsaas Programme? The programme is aimed ...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a central London mosque. The victim, who is in his 70s, was found seriously injured after emergency services were called to ...
Ahmer Khan, the Kashmiri reporter has been declared the winner of the 2019 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for his exceptional reporting during the ongoing lockdown in Indian occupied Kashmir. What is the award? The ...
Attorney General of Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan decided to step down from his office, tendering his resignation to President Arif Alvi. The resignation comes after the Pakistan Bar Council demanded Khan’s resignation following his contemptuous comments ...
Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration laws that will end the era of cheap EU labour in factories, ...
Visibly perturbed and emotionally-charged, the parents of students stranded in China’s Wuhan city and Hubei province on Wednesday served a three-day ultimatumto the government. “If you fail to get our children repatriated within the next ...
Eight people are dead following two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau. At least five people were injured after gunmen opened fire at the innocent civilians. Police added that they ...
Stephen Sackur, host of the popular TV and Radio programme HARDtalk, took a swipe at an Indian journalist Deepak Chaurasia on Tuesday after a video of his shouting match with a guest went viral. Chaurasia’s ...
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