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Pakistan government decides to introduce radical amendments to laws governing criminal cases. Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem says he briefed PM Imran Khan over more than 600 points. Mobile phone audio and videos will now stand as admissible evidence in courts after proposed amendments are...

Hearing a rumour from few sources that Asif Zardari has died. Will confirm later on.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden visit to the United States has set an example of simplicity and austerity by saving millions of rupees of the national exchequer as he spent much less than the visits of former PM Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Ali Zardari. Imran Khan's...

ISLAMABAD: The leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have agreed to form a new body to replace the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The parties agreed to form National Accountability Commission in place of NAB during a...

Longest Sniper Kill A sniper in the Canadian special forces shot and killed an Islamic State (IS) fighter from a distance of 2.1 miles (3,540m) in Iraq last month. Military sources told Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper that the gunman is a member of Joint Task Force 2, and made the shot from...

ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission, tasked with holding inquiry into Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s allegations of election rigging in 2013 general election, has sent its report to the government, sources said Wednesday. The sources told Geo News that the three-judge commission headed by the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday announced that his party lawmakers would return salaries of the period during which party had staged a sit-in. Speaking to media after Central Executive Council meeting of PTI, Imran Khan said the moot reviewed the preparations...

It has been reported by Iftikhar Kazmi in TV Show "Power Lunch" that Zaid Hamid has been arrested by Saudi Intelligence. How true is that. What could be the possible implication of such a move by Saudia. It is also reported that he has was performing Umrah.

By voting for same industrialists and feudal lords over the history of Pakistan highlights the core flaw in our mentality, behaviour and our expectations from our rulers. Somehow we like to be discriminated by uneducated elite. The problem is so deep rooted that we don't question our leaders...

The future ownership of a planned £100 million London “supermansion” is at the heart of a legal row involving one of Pakistan’s leading political dynasties. Senator Waqar Ahmed Khan, the former Pakistani minister for privatisation, and four members of his family have been embroiled in a...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday issued the detailed verdict in the Asghar Khan case, Geo News reported. The 150-page verdict is written by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Registrar Supreme Court Dr Faqeer Hussain read out the detailed verdict of the case. In the...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan and President Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed held conclusive talks regarding formation of electoral alliance, sources said. According to the sources, the meeting was held in Imran Khan’s residence here on Wednesday...

HYDERABAD: Several people including a policeman were injured when more than sixteen blasts rocked various cities of Sindh including Karachi on Wednesday, Geo News reported. Four persons were injured when blasts targeted the ATM machines of National Bank in Anaj Mandi, Fatima Jinnah Road...

An unmanned American surveillance drone operating from Afghanistan has been shot down by Iran over its territory, reports from Tehran claim. The pentagon said that the Iranians were probably referring to an aircraft that had been operating over eastern Afghanistan late last week. Although...

WASHINGTON: US businessman of Pakistani origin Mansoor Ijaz has come out with new claims regarding the controversial memo. Ijaz has turned a prior statement of his around and now claims that the plan to send the memo was made by President Asif Ali Zardari. President Zardari also gave complete...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of American military officers and Afghan officials had just finished a five-hour meeting with their Pakistani hosts in a village schoolhouse settling a border dispute when they were ambushed — by the Pakistanis. An American major was killed and three American...

KARACHI: The government of Sindh on Sunday decided to launch compulsory teaching of Chinese language from grade six in 2013, DawnNews reported. The decision took place in a meeting led by the Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim Ali Shah. It was also decided that students learning Chinese will...

KARACHI: Waking up to the ongoing unrest in Karachi which has claimed lives of over 60 innocent people during span of 72 hours, the Sindh government has issued orders of ‘shoot-at-sight’ to law enforcement agencies upon seeing miscreants in Karachi, SAMAA reported late Thursday. Meanwhile...

At a meeting in Kabul, Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, told Hamid Karzai that the U.S. had failed them both. By MATTHEW ROSENBERG Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its...

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Saturday agreed on the formation of a joint commission to carry forward the reconciliation process, following the withdrawal of foreign troops from the insurgency-torn country. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who held...