ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the National Assembly staged a walkout on Friday over the assault of Oil and Gas Development Authority (OGDCL) workers.
KARACHI: There was a heated debate between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahuida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers in Sindh over the formation of new provinces.
HARIPUR: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief, Dr Tahirul Qadri has called for the Lahore High Court’s tribunal report on the Model Town tragedy to be made public.
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-eIslam-Fazl (JIU-F) Chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Thursday’s attack in Quetta was the third to target him and it is the responsibility of country’s institutions to take serious notice of such attacks if they consider him a Pakistani.
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan has announced concessional re-finance scheme of Rs 10 billion for the revival of economic activities and to facilitate the flow of fresh credit in the flood affected areas of the country as reported by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
SHEIKHUPURA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters celebrated lead of their candidate in PP-162 by-polls vote count with aerial firing and openly displaying the weapons,
MULTAN:
MNA-elect from NA-149 Multan, Amir Dogar has started what will be a
welcome trend in Pakistani politics. The victor of Thursday’s
by-election called on runner up Makhdoom Javed Hashmi at his residence
on Tuesday.
KARACHI: The
Sindh Assembly on Monday approved the Local Government (Amendment) Bill
2014, after which the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will have
the authority to carry out delimitation of constituencies in the
province,
KARACHI: The
provincial ministers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) submitted their
resignations to Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan and Chief Minister
Qaim Ali Shah on Monday,
DUBAI:
Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez said Sunday he was confident about
his bowling action despite being reported during an Indian domestic
league game last month.
KARACHI:
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is holding a massive rally at thrtye
Bagh-e-Jinnah in what has been termed as the launch of party chairman
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s political innings. ..
SARGODHA:
Awami Muslim League chief, Sheikh Rashid said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will announce a nationwide shutter down and
wheel jam strike after Muharram.
MULTAN: Amir Dogar is leading in the vote count for by-election for National Assembly constituency NA-149. According
to unofficial and unconfirmed results from 75 polling stations, Amir
Dogar has bagged 14,441 votes while veteran politician Javed Hashmi has
secured 9,222.
ISLAMABAD: A
three-member special bench headed by Justice Faisal Arab resumed
hearing the treason case of former President General (retd) Pervez
Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD:
President Mamnoon Hussain has sought a report from the chief secretaries
of all the provinces about the measures taken so far to cope with Ebola
virus.
PESHAWAR: Five
Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) commanders including the militant groups
spokesman Shahidullah Shahid have announced their decision to join Daish
also known as Islamic State (IS).
KARACHI: Sindh
Minister for Prisons, Manzoor Wasan said Monday the house in Ghousia
Colony through which a tunnel was being dug to carry out a prison break
at the Central Jail was sold by a policeman four months ago.
ISLAMABAD: The
Supreme Court on Monday sought report from the Registrar regarding the
missing alphabets from its signboard outside the boundary wall of the
apex court in Islamabad.
KARACHI:
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has
once again stressed on the resolution of Kashmir dispute and said there
is no peace in the region due to this issue,
MULTAN:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan visited Multan on
Sunday to offer condolences to the families of those who lost their
lives at the PTI rally on Friday.
MULTAN:
Senior politician, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has called for a judicial
inquiry of the Multan stampede in which seven people were killed after a
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rally.
MULTAN: The
initial report of the Multan tragedy prepared by the district
administration and police states that the stampede during the Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rally at Qasim Bagh Stadium was a result of the
crowd exceeding the expectation of organizers.
ISLAMABAD: The
Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Oil and Gas Development Authority
(OGDCL) government shares to be presented for auction. However, OGDCL
cannot auction these shares until the court issues its verdict in the
case.
MULTAN:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that the
only mission of his life is to unite the nation and to make Naya
Pakistan,
ISLAMABAD:
Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif said Thursday Pakistan was fully capable
of responding to Indian aggression at the Line of Cotnrol (Loc) and
working boundary.
LAHORE: The
guard of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's son who shot and
killed a youth here on Wednesday night has recorded his statement to
the police.
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has summoned meeting of National Security
Council on Friday at 10:00AM to review Indian aggression at Line of
Control (LoC) and the working boundary,
WASHINGTON:
Stargazers in the Americas and Asia were treated to a lunar eclipse
Wednesday, a celestial show that bathed the moon in a reddish tint to
create a "blood moon".
SUKKUR:
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has
asserted that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) policy of reconciliation is
unchanged as his party believes on it,
RAWALPINDI:
Pakistan has registered its protest with the United nation’s military
observers group for India Pakistan (UNMOGIP) against India’s continuous
firing at the Line of control (LoC).
LAHORE: Chief
Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Shairf took notice of the death of a
55-year-old woman who died due to alleged police torture in Sargodha,
Geo News reported on Saturday.
DUBAI:
Pakistan and Australia look to build up their squads in the shortest
format of the game when they meet in the lone Twenty20 international in
Dubai on Sunday, but both are missing key men.
SINGAPORE: The
cost of oil rose in Asia Friday ahead of the latest US jobs report and
after hitting multi-month lows a day earlier in response to key exporter
Saudi Arabia cutting prices.
MOUNT ARAFAT,
Saudi Arabia: Mufti Azam Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah
delivered Hajj sermon in Masjid-e-Nimra at Mount Arafat and said that
murder is a great sin and ‘haram’ in Islam,
LAHORE:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said
on Wednesday that his party believes in the supremacy of the
Constitution and did not aim to derail democracy.
PESHAWAR: A
female teacher was killed and two students injured in hand grenade
attacks at the girls section of a private school in Shabqadar Tehsil of
Charsadda.