Punjab , May 10: Army troops have been deployed in Pakistan's Punjab province to maintain law and order following protests triggered by the arrest of the country's former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, Dawn reported. "Federal Government, in the exercise of the powers conferred under Article 245 of the Constitution and...
Islamabad , May 10: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday appeared before a special court in Islamabad for a hearing in a graft charge, a day after paramilitary forces arrested him from court here triggering widespread protests in the country. Meanwhile, Pakistan's interior ministry today requisitioned the assistance of the army to maintain law and order...
Islamabad , May 10: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar was arrested from the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) premises a day after the country's former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested. The Secretary General of PTI was apparently arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Islamabad police today. Umar was taken into custody while waiting...
New Delhi , May 5: A rights activist has slammed Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is in Goa to attend the SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting, over the killing of seven school teachers in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region on Thursday. Condemning Zardari over the mass killing of Shia teachers in Pakistan , Shujaat Ali...
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) , May 5: People of the Shia community in Kashmir held a protest on Friday here against the target killing of Shia teachers in Pakistan. Several people from the Shia community staged protests in Alamgari Bazar, Zadibal area of Srinagar expressing anger against the targeted killings of the Shia community in Pakistan. On Thursday, Tehreek-e-Taliban, an umbrella group of several Sunni Muslim terrorist groups, claimed responsibility for killing the Shia teachers in a...
Islamabad , May 2: Members of the anti-corruption division along with the police conducted a raid at Chaudhry Parvez Elahi's Gujrat home, the former chief minister of Punjab and current president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The raid comes two days after they conducted a similar operation at his house in Lahore....
Kabul , May 2: A total of 211 Afghan migrants have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan through the Spin Boldak crossing point in southern Kandahar province, the Taliban-led Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced on Monday, Khaama Press reported. According to reports by the head of Spin Boldak refugee department, some 24 families, including 55 people have...
Islamabad , May 2: A shocking report has revealed that Pakistan yearly wastes food worth USD four billion. As per the report by Pakistan's Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan wastes 26 per cent of its food production i.e., 19.6 million tonnes yearly, the report revealed. The report further revealed that most...
New Delhi , April 28: Pakistan will be attending the conclave of the defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Delhi on Friday in virtual mode. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be chairing SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting on April 28th and Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif is set to attend...
Islamabad , April 25: Poverty in Pakistan and inflation in these months have made life extremely difficult for poor people, Pak vernacular media reported. The majority of Pakistanis are living below the poverty line and 80 per cent of unskilled labourers are not getting a salary of (PKR) 25,000 minimum announced ten months ago. Director of...