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A member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Dr Noshad, was shot dead in a targeted attack in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Police officials said the attackers, riding a motorcycle, shot at Dr Noshad’s vehicle near Rasheed Bhayya Park within the limits of Gulshan Halinagar Police Station...

Pakistan unveils plans for social media monitoring framework Pakistan plans to introduce new framework to monitor social media and prevent it from being used as a tool used to either malign national institutions or spread anarchy or extremism in the country, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal...

Pakistani passport is third worst for international travel, according to a new ranking, with its citizens able to travel to 26 counties without a visa. Pakistan tied with Iraq for the 93rd position on the list, followed by Afghanistan, the least powerful passport. Afghan nationals can travel...

Security has been tightened after intelligence agencies issued a warning of a possible terrorist attack at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and adjoining National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Karachi. According to Express News, police have been warned about the threat...

Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Shaikh Rasheed predicted on Friday that the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) faced mass desertions by its ranks and said that entire party leadership from southern Punjab was ready to leave. Addressing a rally outside Lal Haveli in Rawalpindi, Rasheed...

LAHORE: Hearing multiple petitions challenging the Elections Act, 2017, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah said on Friday that voters had the right to elect a defaulter or a disqualified person. “The verdict of voters is always supreme in any democratic system,” the chief...

Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday that the Dolphin force has been formed for safeguarding the China Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in the province. The CM Punjab was addressing the passing out ceremony of the Dolphin force, where he said that the idea of the force...

Kabul, Oct 21 (IANS) Nearly 70 people were killed on Friday in a two suicide attacks on mosques in Afghanistan’s capital and in the western province of Ghor, officials said. A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a mosque in a neighbourhood of Kabul predominantly populated by the Shiite...

Turkey can take a leading role on economic and political fronts during its two-year presidency of Developing-8 (D-8) states, Pakistan’s foreign minister has said. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency at the D-8 meeting in Istanbul, Khawaja Asif said Turkey's economic influence was greater than other...

Chairman National Accountability Bureau Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal slammed Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif over latter’s comments regarding corruption in the organisation. “People who call NAB corrupt have finally opened their eyes to corruption. Why couldn’t they see the corruption when...

Mr Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan called on General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) at the General Headquarter on Friday. According to a statement from the ISPR, General Bajwa strongly condemned recent terrorists’ attacks in Afghanistan, including the...

Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman has said that the commitment of the Pakistan Air Force to fight the terrorists down to the last man is absolutely clear. Addressing the concluding session of the international seminar on air power at the Air Headquarters, he thanked participants...

Pakistan has extended the detention of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed by another month yesterday. Saeed has a $10 million US bounty on his head and has been under house arrest since January following a government crackdown on the outfit. "Hafiz Saeed's detention has been extended...

Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) head Syed Chief Mustafa Kamal on Friday expressed his dismay over no action or review of the initial census results that had been criticised countrywide for “inconsistencies and blatant” anomalies. He appealed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to look into the matter as...

PPP MPA booked for alleged assault of Karachi corps commander's protocol Karachi police on Tuesday registered a case against PPP MPA Tariq Masood Arain and more than 12 armed guards over charges of attempted murder as the lawmaker's guards allegedly assaulted a security squad protecting the...

Two militant commanders killed in Dera Bugti shootout QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel killed at least two militant commanders during an operation in Dera Bugti on Tuesday. The militants were identified as Thango and Kaleri. The paramilitary force also destroyed two camps during the...

The Gilgit district administration has banned nine clerics from entering the territory during the sacred month of Muharram. According to details, the move was made in an attempt to assure the maintenance of law and order. The news was initially reported by local Gilgit newspaper ‘The Pamir...

Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa appointed Lieutenant (Lt) General Javed Mahmood Bukhari as the Colonel Commandant of Corps of Engineers on Tuesday. In the ceremony held at the Engineers Centre in Risalpur, the COAS pinned the badges of rank. Lt General Javed Mahmood...

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif Tuesday met former interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan at Punjab House and discussed with him the overall political situation in the country and the way forward for PML-N to manage the turmoil created by the disqualification of prime minister Nawaz Sharif...

Raddul Fasaad: 2,000kgs of explosives seized in Balochistan's Qilla Abdullah Security forces have seized at least 2,000 kilograms of explosives in Qilla Abdullah area of Balochistan on Monday under Operation Raddul Fasaad. Frontier Corps (FC) held two suspects and seized 2,000 kgs of...