NOWSHERA: Rejecting the result of the PK-63 by-poll, Federal Defence Minister Pervez Khattak on Sunday claimed that he had confiscated 6,000 fake votes which he would present before the Election Commission of Pakistan to get the results nullified. Addressing a public gathering here, he claimed that he had collected facts and figures from different polling stations. He claimed that 6,000 …

NEW DELHI: India said on Sunday that its troops, along with their Chinese counterparts, had completed a pullback from a disputed part of their Himalayan border after months of heightened tensions. Thousands of soldiers have been facing off since April on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), or the de facto border, including at the glacial Pangong Tso lake. The …

ISLAMABAD: After remaining in the limelight over the last few months due to protests and criticism by politicians and the medical fraternity, the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has taken some crucial decisions, claiming these are in the best interest of public, students and health professionals. It said that for the first time in history a fund of Rs250 million had …

LAHORE: A mega operation against financially corrupt officials has been launched in the Pakistan Railways, that has been suffering billions of rupees deficit each year since long and the minister, Azam Khan Swati, has also deployed ‘volunteers’ to gather information about the ‘black sheep’ in the organisation, besides targeting those facing inquiries, to bring them to task. “I have spread …

KARACHI: As a close fight is expected between Pakistan Democratic Movement’s candidate Yousuf Raza Gilani and incumbent Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on an Islamabad Senate seat, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Sunday formally approached its coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan to seek its seven votes in the National Assembly. Rumours are doing round that former president Asif Ali Zardari …

  jThe Supreme Court on Monday announced its decision on whether the present six-judge bench or a larger bench would hear a set of petitions seeking review of the court’s majority judgement in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, sending the matter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed. Justice Umar Ata Bandial, who was presiding the six-judge bench, announced …

  ISLAMABAD: Following the directive of Speaker Asad Qaiser, the government is set to lay the controversial Senate open vote ordinance before the National Assembly on Monday (today) when the lower house will go into session after a two-day recess. The agenda issued for Monday’s sitting by the National Assembly Secretariat shows that the 26th Constitution Amendment Bill, 2021, which …

The PPP defeated the PTI in the by-polls for Tharparkar’s NA-221 seat, according to unofficial results announced on Monday, retaining the seat for a third consecutive time. PPP’s Pir Ameer Ali Shah Jilani trounced PTI’s Nizamuddin Rahimoon, according to the unofficial results announced by District Returning Officer Mian Mohammad Shahid, receiving 102,232 votes against Rahimoon’s 52,522 votes. The National Assembly …

PPP leader Yousuf Raza Gilani, who has been fielded as a joint candidate of the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) for the upcoming Senate elections from Islamabad, side-stepped a query regarding the establishment’s alleged support for Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he believes that the establishment is “totally neutral”. Gilani was speaking to the media on a visit to …

After a cloudy and cool sunday morning, the sun broke through. And combined with a southwest breeze, the temperature skyrocketed into the 70s by afternoon! A weak Pacific cold front moved into North Texas late in the afternoon, and it will turn colder again, with a light freeze expected for an hour or two Monday morning. But with full sunshine …