Pakistan

LAHORE: On the appeal of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar, the lawyers community called off their strike for Monday.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), the Lahore High Court Bar Association, the Punjab Bar Council, the Pakistan Bar Council and other lawyers organisations

RAWALPINDI: Two paramilitary soldiers  were martyred and five others injured in a cross-border attack in Kurram Agency, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Sunday.

According to the ISPR, the troops were carrying out routine surveillance

HARIPUR: An American woman travelled all the way to Pakistani city Haripur to marry a man who she became friends with on Facebook almost a year ago.

Mary Kathleen, now Maryam, embraced Islam for her love Adeel Awan and the couple tied the knot

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan discussed the met  on Sunday, in a third meeting  since   younger Sharif was elected as  president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

According to Geo News, the  meeting between the PMLN

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh has authorized new uniform change effective April 30 2018.

According to a statement issued by the paramilitary force, the pattern of uniform is being changed for all ranks deployed in Sindh province and its capital Karachi.

The statement also carried

PARIS: Hepatitis C is easily cured. Yet, about 400,000 people die of the liver disease every year as only a smattering get the medicine they need.

On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments to attack the problem with

LAHORE: Shots were fired at the residence of Supreme Court judge Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan on Saturday night and Sunday morning, according to Geo News.

The TV channel reported that Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has reached the residence of the

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan on Saturday conducted a successful test of an enhanced range version of the indigenously developed Babur Cruise Missile, said a statement issued here by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).

Babur Weapon System-1 (B)

KAKUL: Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Saturday that the route to peaceful resolution of Pak-India disputes, including the core issue of Kashmir ran through comprehensive and meaningful dialogue.

“While

LAHORE: Marvia Malik made headlines when she debuted last month on a private television channel in Pakistan, becoming the country´s first transgender news anchor.

Opinions are mixed about the slim 21-year-old who appears regularly on the Kohenoor News channel in

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronics Media Regulatory Authority  (PEMRA) on Saturday warned TV channels against airing live speeches, media conferences and media talks of difference politicians wherein hate speech and aspersions against the judiciary and armed forces of Pakistan

SIALKOT: Hours after The Supreme Court's judgment, declaring Nawaz Sharif and other lawmakers in the case disquieted for life, the daughter of ousted prime minister Maryam said that the court’s verdict will only last until the retirement of the five s

Lahore: Condemning barbaric inhuman acts of rape and murder of minor girls Zainab of Kasur and Asifa Bano of occupied Kashmir, former Pakistan skipper Shahid Khan Afridi has demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits.

In a

MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Friday inaugurated the much-awaited Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project to inject 969 megawatt of electricity to national grid as a historic milestone to meet country’s growing power needs.

After unveiling the

Karachi: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has stated that PTI and PML-N have forced the judicialization of politics.

Bilawal said this in a reaction following Supreme Court verdict in which the apex court on Friday ruled that

JHELUM: An unmarried girl on Thursday was killed by her family on her audacity to marry the man of her choice in Pind Dadan Khan, a city in Jhelum district.

According to Police, a resident of Jalalpur Sharif, Shagufta, had fled from home and landed at her

ISLAMABAD: Responding to Supreme Court verdict over petitions seeking duration of disqualification under Article 62(1)(f), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen said he knew that the disqualification would be for life.

Tareen tweeted: "I always

ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister Punjab and President Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif strongly defended his elder brother and the quaid of his party Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, who has been disqualified for life in a verdict by the Supreme Court of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday passed the bill extending jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and  the Peshawar High court to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

The Supreme Court and High Court (Extension of Jurisdiction to Fata) Bill 2017 was presented in

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the disqualification under Article 62(1)(f) is for life thus ending the political  future of former prime minster Nawaz Sharif  and several other lawmakers including Jahangir Tareen of Pakistan T

State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday PMLN's opponents should fear the era of Nawaz Sharif's politics that has just began with the Supreme Court verdict that declared the disqualification of Sharif and other

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that disqualification of lawmakers under Article 62(1) (f) of the Constitution disqualification is permanent.

Nawaz Sharif and Jahangir Khan Tareen were also disqualified under the same provision of the

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court   on Friday ruled that disqualification of lawmakers  under Article 62(1) (f) of the Constitution   disqualification is permanent.

Nawaz Sharif and  Jahangir Khan Tareen were also disqualified under the same provision of the  c

KARACHI: Police  and intelligence agencies on Friday arrested another member of Rao Anwar's team during a joint raid in Karachi, according to Geo News.

Shakeel, a policeman, was part of former SSP Malir's shooting team, the TV channel reported.

Rao Anwar  is

SRINAGAR: The latest revelations in the horrific case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old Asifa Bano, belonged to the nomadic Muslim Bakarwal community who was abducted on January 10 and held captive in a temple and raped before being

PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa interacted with notables of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including senators, members of National Assembly, businessmen, lawyers, academia and others at Peshawar.

The COAS shared his candid thoughts

ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice, Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday took notice of the molestation and murder of an eight-year-old girl, Noor Fatima, occurred in Chichawatni.

She was burnt alive after allegedly molestation and she was taken to the hospital but