ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan is strengthening security for Chinese nationals working in the country as Beijing pressures Islamabad to do more to protect them from militants.
The Pakistani Interior Ministry held a high-level security meeting late last week and decided that strict protocols for Chinese personnel working on Belt and Road...
Caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar stated the obvious when she stressed that Pakistan will remain dependent on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for some time. Still, it is better than empty promises of never going to the IMF again, though those sweet nothings are expected from those who wish...
Islamabad , November 20: The Islamabad accountability court has ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to record the statement of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif in the Toshakhana case.
The court asked the authority to record Pakistan former premier's statement until November 30.
The case alleges that Nawaz, former...
On September 27, 2019, while speaking at the annual United Nations General Assembly meet at Geneva, Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Imran Khan passionately spoke on Islamophobia. While his particular concern for what he perceives is persecution of the ‘ummah’ should have won him accolades but it didn’t,...
Pakistan's Lahore on Thursday topped the global pollution ranking with an unhealthy air quality level during the whole day, Dawn reported.
The second-largest city in Pakistan continues to suffer from a smog crisis that has affected the health and livelihood of millions of people.
According to Swiss air quality technology company,...
Islamabad , November 18: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warned political leaders not to join Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) as they will lose their "political weightage" if they enter the party's fold.
He made the statement on Friday while addressing a workers convention in Mardan. He stressed...
Islamabad , November 18: A woman and her minor son were killed after a high-speed Suzuki pickup crashed into a motorcycle near Aga Khan Jamaat Khana on Shahra-e-Pakistan in Karachi on Thursday. The woman's brother was critically injured while a three-year-old girl riding with them remained unhurt.
According to details,...
Islamabad , November 18: An accountability court in Lahore on Saturday acquitted Pakistan's former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and others in the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme case.
Accountability court judge Ali Zulqurnain announced the verdict and acquitted Shehbaz Sharif, senior bureaucrat Fawad Hasan Fawad, former director general of the Lahore Development...
The version of “Game of Thrones” currently being enacted in the Pakistani political theatre is no less exciting and unpredictable than what the original HBO blockbuster offered viewers the world over.
The fortunes of the dramatis personae—two former Prime Ministers and a general and the supporting cast—have changed dramatically in...
United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said he is “alarmed” by reports that Afghan refugees are being abused in Pakistan as the country carries out its policy of forced mass deportation.
In a statement Wednesday, Türk expressed concern at reports that “the arbitrary expulsion of Afghan nationals from Pakistan...
