ISLAMABAD: Days before its belated meeting, the president has reconstituted the Council of Common Interests (CCI) by inducting Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar and Power Minister Omar Ayub as its members. As such, the ministers for finance, revenue & economic affairs and industries & production have been replaced by the planning and power ministers. The prime minister has convened …

RAWALPINDI: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Friday sought a reply from the ministries of defence and interior on a petition seeking recovery of a lawyer, retired colonel Inamur Rahim, who was picked up from his residence on Dec 17. Justice Tariq Abbasi directed the the Rawalpindi regional police officer (RPO) to trace Mr Rahim and file a report …

Remember when people started predicting Mansha Pasha and Jibran Nasir getting hitched? Well, it looks like it’s finally happening! An invitation card has started making the rounds on social media which details an engagement lunch for the two happening tomorrow, December 22. Mansha’s manager confirmed the news to Images but the engagement has already become talk of the town as …

A district and sessions court on Saturday sentenced Junaid Hafeez, formerly a university lecturer in Multan, to death on blasphemy charges. Former a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Hafeez was booked on blasphemy charges and was arrested by police on March 13, 2013. The trial of the case started in …

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from Karachi have asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to resolve the water crisis in the city by giving the control of the water distribution system to Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, which is at present the sole mandate of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) that falls under the direct control of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led …

SWABI: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser inaugurated several projects, including expansion of Swabi-Mardan road, here on Friday. Speaking at a gathering held to inaugurate the projects, the chief minister said that the previous provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had delivered according to the people’s expectations and that was why they voted the party to power …

ISLAMBAD: The Nat­ional Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for a second time this month in the fake bank accounts and money laundering case. According to NAB, Mr Bilawal had 25 per cent shares in a private firm, Opal-225, a joint venture of the Zardari Group. Mr Bilawal’s spokesman Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, in …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As you enter The Eagle in the heart of Montrose, you’re greeted with smiling faces for a great happy hour, but you can also learn a great deal about Houston’s LGBTQ history. Pooja Lodhia ✔@PoojaOnTV How much do you know about Houston’s LGBTQ history? We’re working on some fascinating stories today. It’s all part of our …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Just like the hidden gem that University of St. Thomas has become for the Montrose neighborhood, the school’s basketball team is a winner, and that all comes down to the family atmosphere built by fifth-year head coach Anthony Medina. The 2019-2020 roster boasts all players but two who are homegrown talent, which creates a home crowd of family, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — George Komar has a lot of experience with stereotypes. “I was gay when it wasn’t cool. I was gay when it was cool. I was gay when it was dangerous to be gay, I’m still gay when it’s cool again,” he said. So, why not spend some time breaking stereotypes? Komar opened a gay country sports …