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Pakistan: Islamabad has categorically rejected the US State Department’s “unilateral and arbitrary” decision of keeping Pakistan in its 2019 annual blacklist for religious freedom violations. Pakistan was kept in the list for a second year while India was ignored, despite its targeting of...

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan will make a trip to Pakistan this coming Thursday, sources privy to the government quarters reported. The Minister for Saudi Foreign affairs is likely to spend a day in Pakistan, sources claimed. The trip is being...

Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has been banned from bowling in English domestic competitions because of an illegal action. He was reported by the umpires after a T20 Blast match between Middlesex and Somerset at Taunton in August. The suspension was imposed following a Bowling Review...

Three days of mourning declared as General Ahmed Gaid Salah, 79, dies of heart attack, state media reports. Algeria's army chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah has died of a heart attack at age 79, state television reported on Monday. "The deputy defence minister and chief of staff of the army died...

RAWALPINDI: The government has denied permission to observe Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, according to Pakistan People’s Party leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokar. According to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s spokesperson, the Liaquat Bagh administration denied...

Analyst Dr Shahid Masood said in his show that Ministry of foreign affairs has told media that we send suggestions to PM office regarding Kuala Lumpur Summit but they completely ignored and neither briefed to Prime Minister Imran Khan on it.

Narowal: NAB has arrested senior leader of PML-N Ahsan Iqbal in Narowal Sports City Project case. According to details, he was arrested in NAB Rawalpindi’s office where he was present for investigations. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi had seized the Narowal Sports City...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed concerns over “the recent developments pertaining to both the issue of citizenship rights and the Babri Masjid case”. In a statement issued on Sunday, it said: “The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has...

Islamabad: The Foreign Office has made it clear that there has been no change in the visa policy for residents of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A statement issued today, stated that media reports, which appeared in a section of media, about changes in Pakistani visa for residents of Indian...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country's relations with Pakistan are based on sincerity and solidarity. Speaking at The Necip Fazil International Culture and Art Award ceremony in Istanbul, he said Pakistan is always a brotherly country and a cherished friend for...

Afghanistan's election commission said the president has won a second term, earning 50.64% in a preliminary vote count announced Sunday, but his opponents can still challenge the result. Results for the Sept. 28 presidential polls have been repeatedly delayed amid accusations of misconduct and...

US Congress has urged the Indian government to reverse its actions in occupied Kashmir. A bill passed by the Congress says India abrogated special status of occupied Kashmir on August 5th and since then the territory is under lockdown. The federal government funding package bill which focuses...

Islamabad: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with Prime Minister Imran Khan during the oath taking ceremony of new Chief Justice of Pakistan, held at Aiwan-e-Sadr today. According to details, Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa were in...

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Kuala Lumpur Summit in the Malaysian capital, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan reiterated that the world is bigger than five, as referring to the five permanent UN Security Council members. Erdoğan also stressed that the fate of 1.7 billion Muslims in the...

Govt decides to file reference against Justice Waqar Saith in Supreme Judicial Council regarding Musharraf case decision and especially para 66 in verdict

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General of Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan has strongly condemned the detailed verdict of the special court that pronounced death sentence to former military ruler General Retired Pervez Musharraf in the high treason case, saying that the government will take action against the...

The Pakistan Stock Exchange's KSE-100 index on Thursday plummeted by more than 1,382 points during intra-day trading in the wake of the detailed verdict of a special court in the high treason case against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. The benchmark index opened at 41,603...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s minority Hindu community has rejected India’s offer to grant them citizenship under the new ‘citizenship amendment law’. Patron of the Pakistan Hindu Council, Raja Asar Manglani told Anadolu Agency that this is a unanimous message from Pakistan’s entire Hindu community to...